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lyour children,s ehiidrea shah be blessed
Without ityous soldentreasHsss with bsa6
curse; but with il they can bs;fcmgertedi
into sources Of comfort end asdysrcemepss
Ito yourselves and TO mankind" We
learn that one Of opr pu6Iic-spirited felloy.
Ici.izenS has already iPaeked up Z wei.
sized bell for the 4aEst schooEhsuss u San
francisco Who viii lhelpsoai he pgejset
lof; sending an, appropriate frame hpikatAE
tfor this purposeEBosEon TrGhseript
~t bas0st al a1lg ...oi.s9pP eSis 80
eOaa dKt1sh4tosa sfsa t.
The sea coast iof de United ssisss sseordiss;
Ito q recent report tbf the land eaees ia dSs
Thousand one hundred and twenty miles,
including The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific, Or .
"shore! Enep' following ths irregularities 1af
1.-THE sunerigtehdsIk Of the ecast esuryefsief I23s
loss miles. The territories Of The United States,
Including those recently acquired, contain
two millions, one Kindred and eighty-seven
thousand, four. hun1fedi and Iineiy-six rsqnass
miles, or i,O23, SIS, $50 acres, which . eufieient
10 give ~fiffy-one acres, without including ths
states, to every one Of the twenty millions 6f
inhabitants in the country. Thisb tsrTinrpb
ditrihuted a, follows:---Northwest Territory
west Of the Missi<tippi river, 723,24S square
miles; Wisconsin Territory, q, 1885 square miles;
Oregon, 34l ,463; Upper California and New
Mexico, 527 ,O7a; Texas, 325,520.F Ths
newly acquired territory lying NORTH Of sc
deg. 80 min. Is l,642, 1911 south 544,7l2.alf
l., ...o s,- -efr~f.; .Ai Z: .r.cIe
A Great iurserps-Perhaps the largest
nursery in the world is Booths in Holstein,
one Of the Danish provinces. 1t consists
Of one hundred and eighty acres, and
u, ,aa a,aIo-a ANA hsnHppA anh
thirty men and twenty women to cuitivste
1t. Eighty packers are employed during
the packing seasUus The sversge profit.
for the last thirty years, has ben $4,000
annually, though at one time for twelve
years, the sale Of dshlias alone netted
800, 900 per annum, and to which eleven
+ acres are still devoted. Some rare Or
chideous plants sen for $500 each. OF
this family of plants they have two thoas
dahlia. The cole stion Of ornsmentaEtFs
is enormous CuKirat0r.s rae
!. BA POOR, starving, solitary rat, walked
lover the floor of . broken bank at mid
might, and remarked, 10 deep dssPondsncy:
81 feel like one who treads alone -
Some ASKnurr hall desertsdp'7 .elf:.i
Juvenile P,ecocay.9-A mother admon-
: ishing her son; Ca lad about seven years
! old told him he should never defer III
Tomorrow what he could do to-day. The
j little urchin replied: "Then, mother, let's
. eat the remainder of the plum pudding
J tonight" ss q. ,,sms.s,,
: A Judge IN one Of the new counties
dIin Western Virginia, inquired of the .shsF+
lif, whether he had made Mp . lrryS H!he
= sheriff replied that he had ~empanneliea
!, eleven, and expected to have the other
! soon, as they were running him with dogs.
-, 5o3 iAL-... I'D Il beIoii13G
"Nhat under the sun can be the GAUSS OF
r that bell ringing to-day?" said young Sam 70
his friend, as they approached a country WI
lage.
7.IfI was to express an opinion on the ssb-
o iect," returned Isaac, solemnls 81 should. Say
1T is my delibsrste conviction, that somebody
was pulling tie rope"
A Young lady who was rebukedi by her
mother for kissing her intended, justids4
herself by quoting The passage: Whatsoever
e We would that men should do unto you, do 70
: Ieven so unto them ,t3astl u
She was some! ta9-!a"
II 80, - .--Ga4.z4aoE
: A very amusing affair occurred in BALI
= more p week o. two ago.. A DR.. Murphy
Twas to deliver an Grafton Of the dedication
of the Temple Of the Sons Of Temperance,
end a Mr.. Thomds H. Stanford was to de-
d liver q lecture ah1nt the same time upon
: another occasions Each feeling himself
rather united for his peculiar task, il was
d agreed between them that Murphy. should
write Stanidford's lecture, and that Stand
ford should write Murphy's oration.-
1.-The lecture and Grafton wsrs afurnished
and duly delivered, when lO!l it turned
out that Stamford had stolen ihs whole
. writings Of the "Milford Bafd;s'a ana iMa.
murphy had stolen the whole o the lee
ture for poor Stamford from the writings
Inf Sddiaon.E . ~ s-t9eaza,t &saF~.-c. .FfN