The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-06-13

II you had worked for A. T. Stewart
twenty years for SO a week, you would
receive present Of 81 900 now.
1t is cheering to see O veteran fighter
Of wrong as William Lloyd Carlson
standing up aud declaraing his belief
that "the nation is purer to-day than it
has ever been before" Bilious young
that. ''A 'A' A 'h '.
According TO Dom Pedro the people
of Brazil say "by-and-by, by-and-by;"
the Americans say "to-day, to-day"
As for Dom Pedro himself, he says
out of town, forgetting to send his re-
grets to the Mayor.
Theatricals at Boston have not been
at 30 low an sbb in point OF profit to
the managers since the earliest days of
the war The Boston Theater closed
prematurely because it was not posi-
BILE to pay expenses with any sttrsc-
ton attainable.
A woman is imbued with feeling Of
Joy and kindness second only TO that
Of the angels, but she eau never wash
out pair OF mems cashmere pants aud
have them set as we'll as they did be-
fore.-Fulton Times. No, nor rs well
as they did behind, either. r.-Vicksburg
Herald.
Dean Swift has found an imitator.
An advocate OF Colmar has left one
hundred Thousand francs TO the local
mad-house. II got this money" says
| the candid lawyer in his will, "out OF
those who pass their lives in litigation;
in bsquesthing il for the use Of luna
tics only make restitution"
James, my love, psrhaps--what do
you think?-perhaps, maybe you know
| dear--it Just occurred to me that it
might be cheaper to get couple more
silk dresses this summer--becauss, You
see, the mulberry has blighted the silk
in the south Of France, and the crop
will be short anu dress goods awful
high next year"
The Rochester Union poetizes thus
! ly:
oh could stand where Adam stood,
! Aud with the tempter grapple,
| Not Satan's wilcs nor womans smile
Could make me bite that apple"
Pshawl were that girl consigned TO you,
To greed you'd sacrifice her;
You'd eat the whole and lose your soul,
You reckless gormandizer.
The Baltimore Gazette is moved by
the death OF Astor and Stewart and the
illness OF Vanderbilt TO remark:
avoid being q millionaire at all haz-
ards. The true way is to lay up treas
urss in Heaven, as Daniel Drew did.
By endowinQ q theological seminary
with an unsecured note. That is q
treasure which neither moth nor rust
can corrupt"
One OF the citizens Of Danbury,
Conn, who had just returned from the
west, was telling in Melrill's grocery of
q narrow escape he had from a terrible
death. he was crossing a long rail-
road bridge Oh foot, when he was sur
prised to see a locomotive coming
around tho curvo and tearing toward
him 90 terrific speed. The bridge
was too narrow to allow OF escape nt
either side, and he did not dare TO Jump
into the yawniug abyss below. In a
flash he took in the situation and form
el his plan Of action. He started on q
swift run toward the oncoming loco
motive, and when within few feet Of
it he concentrated oil his nerve and
muscle into one effort and lsaped
straight up in the air. The fearful
monster shot under him, and he came
down on the bridge, safe from death,
but seriously shaken up by the de-
scent. There was moment OF deep
silence upon the close Of this nara
tion. Then one Of the company sighed,
aud shut his kuife. and unexpectedly
said whats the use Of presence OF
mind when man can lie like that p