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The Saw Of Contention.

so. Frank, come and see how hot my
saw gets when l rub it. When 1 draw
it through the board awhile, it's almost
hot enough to set fire to it."
"That's the friction" said Frank,
with all the superior wisdom of two
years more than Eddie boosted.
"Yes," said sister Mary, who was
passing, it's the friction 1; but do you
know what it makes me think Of 2"
"No, what ?" asked both the boys at
once.
"Of two little boys who were quarrel
ing over u trife this morning, and the
more they talked the hotter their tenn
pers grew, until there was no knowing
what might have happened, if mother
had not thrown cold water on the fire
by sending them into separate rooms"
The boys hung their heads, and Mary
went on.
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4 FAITHFUL
went on.

Metcalfs grocery store III our place
has been closed for a week or so. Met
calf Was perfectly willing to have it
open, but circumstances rendered it
necessary for him TO suspend business
for a while. There had been a good
many burglaries, and Metcalf bought a
dog to keep in his store at night. The
man that sold the dog said that its one
strong peculiarly was vigilance. That
dog would watch that store closer than
the Genius of Liberty watches the des-
times of America. So the man turned
the dog loose in the store, and Metcalf
locked up and went home. When he
can down IN the morning the dog flew
at him as Dol as he opened the door.
and attempted to breakfast on Mr.. Met
calf's legs whereupon Mr.. Metcalf sud-
denly shut the door and sat down to
think. Then he went after the man
who sold the dog, but he had gone out
VI ttNH W ste Ills duLt, anu "cuiuu L
be back for a month. Metcalf then I'M
dertook to coax the deg through the
crack of the door, but the animal still
manifested Il resolute determination to
chew Metcalf's legs, and so Metcalf
closed the door again and began to wish
he had bought n dog less attentive to
business. Then be procured a double
barreled gun, and spent the remainder
of the week shooting slugs and bullets
down the chimney, and through the
doors and windows, and up through the
cellar ceiling, and still the dog held
out until finally Metcalf got a section
Of wire fence, placed it across the door
way, opened the door, and banged the
obnoxious animal into eternity. Then
he entered and found that he had shot
holes through the mOlasses a n and
the coal-oil barrels, and had blown all
the chinaware 10 atoms; so that the
store looked as if a fifteen-inch shell
had burst in it. Metcalf cleaned up
and resumed but he is anxiously await
ing that mans return from his visit to
his aunt's. He wants to see him about
something.-Danbury News.
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Blind Billy.

We have a c%anary-bird in our house
that VT are all very fond of. We call
him Billy. He is a very sweet singer !;
but he cannot see.
A long time ago he was in a cage with
other birds and, in a quarrel, poor
Billy got his eye pecked SO badly that
he became entirely blind. The chill
dren have to take great care of him for,
if his perch is not put in the same place
every time, he cannot find his food.
But 1 believe Billy sings more than
birds that are not blind. When he
hears the twitter of sparrows in the gar
den, or the singing of the tea-kettle on
the stove, he seems to think it his duty
to sing. And when his cage hangs in a
window on a sunny day in winter, be
sings although he thought summer had
come.
Whenever l hear Billy sing, it makes
me think of the two great poets, Homer
and Milton. They were blind ; but like
our Billy, they sang sweet songs. 1t is
said that Homer had to beg for a living.
Our Billy sings for a living /; but he does
not beg. Two kind little girls, Lena
and Lu, are careful to keep his seed
cup full.-Nursery.
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HINTS TO COMIK LEKTURERS.

Comik lekturing IL an uncommon
pesky thing few do.
1t IL more unsarting than the rat
ketching Dizziness az a means of grace
or az a means ov LIVELIHOOD.
Most ennybody thinks they can do it,
and this is jist what makes it so bother
sum tew do.
When it IL did jist enuff it il a ter
rifick success, but when it IL overdid it
IL like a burnt slapjak, very imperti-
nent.
Thare amt but phew good judges ov
humor, and they all differ about it.
Whenever a man haz made up hiz
mind that he liz a wit then he IL mis-
taken without remedy but whenever
the publlk haz made up their mind that
he haz got the diseaze tnen he haz got.it
sure.
Individuals never git this thing right;
the publick lever get it wrong.
The puDIck never cheat themselves
nor other folks when they weigh out
glory.
Thare IL Just 16 ounces in a pound of
glory, and he more, that IL by the pub
lick's steelyards.
No man kan be a helthy phool unless
he haz nussed ut the brest ov wisdom.
Those who fail in the comik bizziness
are them who have bin put out to nuss,
or bin fetched up on ID bottle.
If Il man IL a genuine humorist he liz
superior tew the bulk ov hiz audience.
and will ofteHtimes hav tew take hiz pay
for his services In thinking so.-Josh
Billings. .
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POLITICS.

The whole number of Parliamentary
electors in the German Empireis $780,
600, but of these only $3.50, 900 went to
the polls at the last election. The
Bismarck party is known as the party
OF National Liberals, hut out of the s.
3d. 900 men who voted, only 1000, 900
supported National Liberal candidates.
Next in strength to them come the
Catholic voters, the members of the
center party, and these ut the last cleo
ton polled 1850, 900 votes, or within
30, 900 of the numbers of the Bismarck
ians. The Progressists polled $780,
600 votes; the Conservatives (who on
many questions ale as one with the
Catholics) amounted to 375, 1000; the
Socialists and extreme Democrats
numbered 10000; the German I'm
perialists and the Liberal Imperial
lists together polled 400, 900; and the
Particularists and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Danes, Alsatians and Lorrainers-had
400, 600. Some of these are also Cath
olics.
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The Ants Monday Dinner.

How did I know what the ants had
for dinner last Monday? ha, it is odd
that l should have known, but I'll tell
you how Il happened.
I was sitting under a big pine tree,
high up on a high hill side. Tie hill
side was more than seven thousand feet
above the sea, and that is higher than
mountains which people travel hun
dreds OF miles to look at. But this hill
side was in Colorado, so there vas moth
ing wonderful in being so high up. I
had been watching the great mountains
with snow on them, and the great for
est of pine trees-miles and miles of
them-so close together that it looks
as if You could lie down on their tops
and not fall through and my eyes We're
tired of looking at such great, grand
things so many miles off so ! looked
down on the ground where 1 was sitting
and watched the ants which were run
ming about everywhere, as busy and
restless as if they had the whole world
on their shoulders.
Suddenly l saw, under a tuft Of grass,
a tiny yellow caterpillar, which seemed
to be bounding along in a very strange
way. In a second more l saw an ant
seize hold Of him and begin to drag him
of. The caterpillar was three times as
long as the ant, and his body was more
than twice as large round as the biggest
part Of the ants body.
"Ho! no Mr.. Ant" said 1, you
needn't think you're going to be strong
enough to drag that fellow very far"
Why, it was about the same thing as
if you or I should drag off a heifer,
kicking and struggling for dear life all
the time only that the heifer hasn't
half so many legs to catch hold of
things with as the caterpillar had.
Poor caterpillar how he did try to get
away But the ant never gave him a
seconds time to take q good grip of
anything and he was cunning enough,
too, TO drag him on his side, 50 that he
couldn't use his legs very well. Up
and down, and under and over stones
and sticks; in and out of tufts Of grass ;
up TO the very top of the tallest blades,
and then down again over gravel and
sand, aid across bridges of pine
needles from stone to stone; backward
all the way-but, for I'll / could see,
Just as swiftly as If he were going head
foremost-ran that ant, dragging the
caterpillar after him. / watched him
very closely, thinking, of course, he
must be making for his house. Pres
emily he darted up the trunk Of the
pine tree.
"Dear me !" said /, "ants don't live
IN trees. What does this mean?"
The bark OF the tree was all broken
and jagged, and full of Seams twenty
times as deep as the height OF the ants
body. But he didn't mind /; down one
side and up the other ne went. They
must have been awful chasms to him
and to the poor caterpillar, too, for
their sharp edges caught and tore his
skin and doubled him up a dozen ways
In a minute. And yet the ant never
C stopped or went a bit slower. !
had to watch very closely, not to lose
sight OF him altogether. 1 began to
think that he was merely trying to kill
the caterpillar /; that, perhaps, he didn't
mean to eat him after all. Perhaps he
was merely a gentlemanly sportsman
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BRIEF MENTION.

fO~ NS
disc .ntented never rich.
CAsTLEToN, n. H., is turning out
$1,000 slate pencils a day.
LONDON is happy with 1000 ticket-of-
leave men roaming around.
IT cost the Viceroy of Egypt $4OO, 600
to bring out Verdi's aida"
THE government will pay $3.50, 900 to
Vermont pensioners this year.
WHEN a widow sets her cap for a man
she has got him as surely as if she held
four aces.
THE Christian at Work attributes the
infection of long prayers to an inability
to wind up.
A A begins to suspect the judgment
of his wife the moment she asks him for
more money.
A MEMBER of the junior class of Dart
mouth College is a clergyman so years
old and married.
THIRTEEN tons of barnacles we're taken
from the hull of one iron ship after q
SIX months voyage.
The European steamers from New
York city take out on an average 100, 900
letters per week.
HARRY H. Brown, a Chester (Pa.)
swimmer, wan nearly four miles in
forty-eight minutes recently.
BAYARD TAYLOR, in the course of his
recent lecture on ancient Egypt, before
the students of Dartmouth College, al
luded to the story found among the n
cient records concerning a difficulty be-
tween a young captain and the wife of
the monarch, which might have been
Joseph and Potiphar's wife, and took
occasion to deny the absurd report that
he had found and translated the CORE
spondence between those persons, add
ing, Even if l had found the corre-
spondence, would certainly never have
published it."
THE influence of the imagination in
disease is strikiugly illustrated by some
experiments recently tried with magnets
in France. A nervous patient was
thrown into commissions simply by be-
ing shown a piece of unmagnetized iron,
which he believed to be a magnet. An
other became greatly excited when q
magnet was placed in his hands, but
was not at all affected by several large
and powerful magnets hidden in the
chair which he occupied. In this case
the sight of the magnet appeared to be
the sole disturbing aus
THERE is a boy living in Newport,
Va, who will drink kerosene oil by the
quantity whenever he can get it. He
Graves it to such an extent hat the fam
lily are compelled to hide not only the
can which contains it, but even the
lamps. He has been known to drink
half a pint at a time. The effect of it
is similar to mean whisky it produces
a wild ~intoxication. When under the
influence of it he will light matches and
hold them within his mouth, talk IDIOT
ically, mimic men and beasts, and act
like a frantic baboon generally.
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they would lay him out straight OF the
floor, and all stand in rows each side of
him and nibble across, and whether
they would leave any for Tuesday ; and
then I went home to my own dinner
II. H., IN 81. Nicholas for November.
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STURGEON recently performed, in the
presence of a large congregation at the
Tabernacle in London, the interesting
ceremony of baptizing his twin sons,
who are both destined for the ministry,
and addressed them with great solem-
nifty on the profession Of faith they had
made.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-11-13

Ir was in q Massachusetts village that
an old scissors-grinder, calling on a
minister, made the usual query, "AEy
scissors to grind?" Receiving a mega
tive answer, it was the minister's turn,
which he took by asking, Are you a
man of God?" 81 do not understand
you" care you prepared to lie ~
The question struck home. Gathering
mp his kit and scrambling for the door,
he exclaimed, terror-strIcken 40
Lor' !! o Lor'! you amt Il going to kill
me are you?"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-11-13

A FARMER in Oregon has had a field
of sixty acres of grain eaten by rabbits,
and all of his other fields have suffered,
although to n less extent, from their
d~epredations. Hundreds are shot every
day, but hundreds more come out from
the sage brush and take their places.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-11-13
PEETENTYON OF MISTAKES
ENINE MEDICINES.


The many deaths that occur through
the lack of a proper system in the apoth-
ecary business demand a speedy reform.
There will be plenty of ignorant and
careless people among the sick or their
friends, who, without some better warn
ing than they have at present, will mis-
take n drug for another. They have
a stricter system as to this matter in
Germany, and one still more strict in
Sweden. In those countries, the pois-
onous medicines are locked up by them
selves in a special closet. We cannot
see why this should not be done here.
II morphia or any two or three danger
substances are too much used that
they must be handy, let each have its
own place and package, so as not to be
mistaken for anything else. Some have
suggested triangular Walls for poison, so
that nurses and patients, as well as
clerks, may know the danger by the
touch and the suggestion Is a good
one. BIT best of all, we think, is the
plan Of having every proprietor or chief
clerk of a drug store make out a CON-
plete list of poiscns that he sells, and
place it in a conspicuous position on his
prescription counter, and compel every
clerk who waits ON customers to learn
the list by heart. The list must, of
course, include the dose within which
safety lies. If druggists performed
their duties properly, there would be
no need for protective legislation
Scientific american.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS.
NOIlie's Ouble


lam little Mollie,
light years old to-day,
Never have done noflin'
Only just to play;
Gran'ma says that idleness
Worstest kind o'sin;
GJt 10 learn to work, l s'pose
Might as well begin.
So / hemmed a towel
Real wei, mamma said
Had a dreful tine, though,
Losin' ont my thread;
For somefin' allied the needle,
Don't know zsc'ly what,
TIL mamma took and tied it
IL a little knot.
DON'T like hemmin' towels,
faint a bit Of fun;
WIS ore 1uI
When the thing was done.
Cause then l sewed for dolly,
Made a little dress,
And made it just as nice, too,
As You could, l guess.
Made it wiz two rufiles,
Overskirt AID basque!
Now, what more, 1 wonder,
Could ! dolly ask?
Twas much more interestin'
Than hcmmin' towels, too,
wonder how the good things
Are so hard TO do?
Then / pared some apples,
Helpin' Kate, the cook,
Then / read my lesson
In the old spellin' book.
Now. spellin' books are awful
ES'rybody knows;
Jcsi made to try our PATIENCE
Good for that l s'pose.
When night comes, I often
Hear my mamma say;
Didn't s'pect, this mornin',
Such a busy day.
Seems TO me l never had
Quite so much TO do"
Tel You / can sympafze-
Feel jIst that way. too.
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STRANGE

It is an historical fact that Frederick
of Prussia formed the idea of compel
ling unions between the tallest of the
two sexes in his dominions, in the hope
of having an army of giants. The
reader will, in all probability, recollect
the following ludicrous incident. 1t
so happened that, during a rather long
ride, the King passed a particularly tall
young woman, an utter stranger. He
alighted from his horse, and insisted
upon her delivering a letter to the COM
manding officer of his crack regiment.
The letter contained the mandate that
the bearer was instantly to be married
to the tallest unmarried man in the
service. The young woman was some
what terrified, and, not understanding
the transaction, gave an old woman the
letter, which was conveyed to the COM
handing officer, and this old woman
was, in a short time, married to the
handsomest and finest man in the crack
regiment. 1t is not necessary to say
that the marriage was an unhappy one
particularly so to the old woman.
In this connection comes another anec-
dote. A rich saddler directed in his
will hat his only child, a daughter,
should be deprived of the whole of the
fortune unless she married a saddler.
A young Earl, in order to win the
bride, actually served an apprentice
ship of seven years to a saddler, and
afterward bound himself to the rich
saddler's daughter fer life. But the
union vas anything but a happy one;
the bride, neither by birth nor breed
ing a lady, reflected little credit on her
bridegroom's choice; and repeated
quarrels were followed by separation.
So it is with all unequal matches; gold
and brass won't unite. Novels tell us
the felicity following the union of Lord
Fitzgerald to Mary Ann Jones, quite
ignoring Mary AIMS predisposition to
red knuckles and unshapely feet, which
peculiarities finally make my lords life
burdensome. Novels are amusing, but
not to be relied on in matters of the
heart" as a rule. Common sense says,
Young folks, marry within the bound
airy of vour social and religious circle"
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