, 1876-04-23

hme-1ot moment Of it; alw.y. ua,to Bame
When you hear Of u.n'a owning hundred
thonsaod-doAar hons5 On Brooklyn Heights,
don't 1t strike you - being = rather HeIehr-
| owned place Of re6idance ?-lYe,o YORK. cornmer-
| cial 00''''''S'
An exchange remarks that lone drawback Ia
| having money is, that everybody wants 10 knov
What you are going to do with It," Ne hayt
deserved this ourse1f they usually want II
Know about the first OF the month. and hare ~
unpleasant way Of coming around and sitting o1
your front steps mornings ii you don't toll shem
-Noft1leh Bulletin.
4 Cincnnatian, who had purchased an oil
painting at private sale, called IN an artist t.
consuis Gin as to how ho should hang it. Thu
atsist Looked A. it long and curiouslY, aud then
saag Won,a1,. ~ wouldn't bang it, If were you
-, "oaant s.a: hanE u! Why not7" - Becsase
eas sentiment Of the aga is rather against cap
isal punishment. would commute lis sentence
to sonta1y imprisonment Tor ltfa!'
A boy-raformer, in q speech . few eyoninos
since, made this remark: II have three cood
reasons foF Keeping the pledge not to use to-
oacco; d1st, because am to have 6vo dollars At
the end OF gear; second. because / hnya
pledged myself not to use il; and th,rd-,hs
strongest motive Of ail-because I'll get 4 l,ok-
ing II don't keep it!' 1t is unnecessary to sav
that tha speech was spp1audeu.
The ways of DiE1ue Providence are mysterious.
The last illustration is the case Of = lightning.
rod and pump man. He Was attempting to tell
q farmer that there wasn't q caao on record
when building or anything else mad been struck
by lightning that had rod on it wheu, horrors
there was fash, followed By clap O. thunder,
and that man fell from bis wagon. which had on
it rods sufficient TO furnish just fourteen CON-
mon-sized dwellings. They buried him, puttDa
IL pump at his head and = rod st his feet
Brooktyn Jrgus~
A Co'leec-Profesaor tells the foIloytpe;
During tho after-dinnsr tals, the rough speci-
men for Wlom I VAS surveying remarked TINT
mathematics had always seemed ! very wondoE-
ful thing 70 him. Thinking to inleres: him
somewhat. began to illustrate some oF the
"oaders among others. tr1od to show hun lhs
way III *hicl Neptune was discovered. Afte1
aomo twenty mloutes at elaborate explanation,
! wae some~hat taken abaok TO hear him say:
les, yes; It is very wonderful, very but [with
u s1ghl there's another thing that's alle,s
troubled ne. and that Is. why yon have 70 carry
como out right"
pIoEs SMILES.
Living in Tais False s:alos.
A little boz, whose conduct naie 'h;s mother
say that sne feared he did not pr.r, replied:
!" Yes, do; pray. every night, thas COD vii
make you aud pa like my ways better"
An Illinois preacher. SAW thu Detroit Free
Press, wbo believed that fire insurance was DO
fslng tho Lord, Is TOW living IN barn until his
congregation can find him another house.
Tie Rev. Dr. Blackia Of Edinburg says that
the modern sermon "is like toddy uade Of QUE
tenth whisky and nine-tenths water" Brother
Bfacke's idea OF toddy ia correct at least.
A Southern bookoinuer bound up eighseea
carried tho book seyen miles under his arm to
read some consoling passages to dying woman.
In the old record book Of d Connecticut
church, dated 1909. is this i:am: "For making
, noise in church. Ann Bolton, spinarer, is to
sit three days in the poor pew, and pay dno
II five ahil1iugs-"
On warm, bright Sabbath afternoon in June,
what halloWed thoughts arise st the spectacle OF
hundreds OF pious Yankees emerging from the
American Chapel in Paris. jumping into the!1
,arragee aud driving ont to the races 1t tho Hoia
do Bou1oGne.
"Eliza," said clergyman to oae Of bis pa-
whom be saw With her hair in carl
ng papers, Iii God had designed your hair ia
:urL He would have cu1ied it for you" "Hs
lid, air, when wss q Child" WAS the reply;
but Hs thlnks no" am old enough 70 do it
nyEe!t."
It IS perhaps impossible for two women ba-
ween whom rivalry Tor precedence in tho
ateet fashions exists to appear simultaneously
n the same style Of spring bonnet and still be-
ievo in the Universalist doctrine. Each feela
hat thera must be soma sort OF punishment
hereafter.
It takes long time to finish a nsw building in
Toledo A man up there advertises ITO clergy
OF the Gospel desiring rai-
Lble type Of eternity for illustrating their ser-
uons will please call at my new building, uow
n course Of completion u. This IL not rars
opportunity. but it ia good one."
During recent revival excitement in the out
kirts of this country. request Was made for
Il who desired the prayers Of the church to riso.
| shaggy old miner. burning with desire to do
lis cart. arose, and putting his hand down into
lis buckBkin rneekly inquired s'Hou much will
be, boss7 7"-0anon Guy {coL) Aualanehe.
Nor1istown Herald: Prot. Tyndal! Was nar-
led On the % INST Ana now be will know
that's the "1ostter," and some night when ha
nd finds Mrs. Tyndall in teazs, and getting
eady to 60 over to have talk with her mother,
he Professor will have IN opportunity to test
is "pIay ar gauge"
L veteran aplnster Of South Brooklyn, IT,
,aEkab!e Tor her tacturuitg, crcated good deal
surprise last Sunday BY pausiug in the Iobh.
I the church after services aud chatting and
ughine quite gayly with the retiring members
the congregation. It WEB subsequently 49,
artalned that she had just come into posses-
on OF q new set OF teeth
4 Portsmouth, N. f., young man who WAS
enough to scoma in" after ha
I'd escorted girl homo from prayer-meeting
'e other Sunday evening. was obliged to atop
J family prayers, WHICH came On very soon, hut,
hen the plous hoasehoder prayed that "the
,ung man who, for the time being. is one Of
IT number. may be directed towaid his Faith
"a house" he took bis hat and lefs Without
FAMILY SUPPLIES.
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