Jamestown alert., 1878-11-07

they didn't meet any on the streets. %$
Love impresses its tender ina e on3aN
its environments. Even the scattered
penaut shells at the front gate Monday
morning are silent witnesses Of It's all
embracing sway. Boston Transcript.
Probably the mild-eyed goat is the
,onl animal ever invented that can eat
twenty four hours day, and then get up
IN hour before day and devour q four
barrel and seven old fruit cans for lunch.
In the state of Alabama the negroes
chew the tssselD Of the fir tree )nsread Of
tobacco, and seem 1uiet "pleascu witt, the
substitute. Well, does not the old adage
say, "Be fir-chewers and you viii. be
happya" >n >4.', 49,. -"
The Indianapolis Herald has discovered
that the number OF fools is to tho number
Of wise men as the number Of times one
gets nothing for something is to the num-
Der of times one gets something for moth
ing.
Ask Nv ho'll go after water?" at a base
ball match, and fifty urchins will poke
their heads over the fence, while, it a
gang of men at work on the street ask the
question, the silence is as thick as,
molasses in cold weather. ~
In these times of trouble it is we'll to
recall the philosophical remark of the old
lawyer, during the war, who, when t-ld
by an alarms, that every thing was going
to HI, replied, "Well. we should be
thankful we have HI to go to-"
A Michigan woman says she hopes
never, to 60 to heaven unless there are
post-ottices there. She can think OF
nothing nicer than to be handed a tat let
ter in brown envelope by the general
delivery clerk. '"''
"What fine dark hair you have got,
Miss NJ! nv wife, who is much
younger than you, ,haAher hair quite gray"
Indeed" rejoined Miss NJ, IF l had
oeen your wife my hair no doubt had
been gray too.'
The Nation thinks tnat part of the
drill! :f every girls school ought to be
the reception by a wife in an old gown
to dinner Of corncd beef and cabbage of
an unlookcd-for guest, thoughtlessly
brought home by reckless husband.
The exclusive influence Of the mother
over the son for the most part ends in
positive disaster or comparative failure;
and licentious self-indulgence, efeminacy
or piggishness is the almost sure result Of
the Observation-Disclosures Truth.
The Philadelphia Times has a depart
ment; t;headed ."Men and Things" 1t is all
right to give tho man the first place,
but does the Times consider it the most
gallant thing in the world to snub wom-
an by calling them such name?-RocA-
ester Erpress. ! it5TE II IA : g.. =
NJ. Labouchere in London Truth re-
marks: Il found the wifi. of a Hampshire
blacksmith working at the anvil the 9TH
er day, the hammer rising and falling
with ease in her practised arms. pit
led her husband, should she ever, like Joe
Gargary's wife, 60 on the rampage"
There are some days when it is impos
sible to think, and when it is unwisdom
% try to do so. The mind, ike the maid,
has whimsical spells Of wishing to be let
alone and having its own way. Only on
certain days are the oracles to bs consult
ed.---.A. w. Ste0ens. r.
It is better for ordinary boys to be
hungering after the world of inedpend
ent action for which they are not as yet
mature enough, than to be tossing, about
on the ripple of small susceptibilities and
emotions, without either great ambition
or high aspiration to guide them.
don Spectator. -
If l should marry Eliza Jane" said a
prospective son-in- law, II should frankly
confess one thing in advance-I am OF
rather hasty temper and ap: to get mad
without cause" ""Oh, thatll be all right,'
blandly replied the dear old lady; II
shall go and live with you, and Ill see
that you always do have cause"
Marrluye.