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Sweet home-A beehive.

chasing hose.
The man who disclaims pride, pro-
claims it aloud.
: Health is the soul that animates all
the enjoyments of life.
A fool always finds one still more
foolish to admire him.
The university of Padua in its palmy
days had $4,000 scholars.
The finest carriage in the land may
be but One-hOrse affair.
When the leader of a choir gets the
right pitch, he sticks to it.
lie who labors for mankind has al
ready begun his immortality.
The man was buried in business
who went in head over heels.
1t may seem strange, but those who
do not kneed bread, are those who need
it.
However things may seem, no evil
thing succeeds, and no good thing is
failure.
The undertaken is eager to let
man down just as soon as the doctor
gives him up.
Mr.. Love was married the other day
in Ithaca at the age of S3. 1t was an
old Love affair.
'Ts with our judgments as our
watches-none are just alike, yet each
believes his own.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we
journey toward it, casts the shadow of
our burden behind us.
Mezzo-tinto engraving was invented
by the celebrated soldier and admiral,
Prince Rupert, in 1850.
You can't make pancakes out of the
baseball batter, although the pitcher
Of ten catches the batter.
When an Arizona man needs a pair
of boots he looks around to see who he
shall kill to secure them.
A Boston man has nose that can
smell music when he can't hear it; a
musical scenter, as it were.
The ancient proverb says "silence
gives assent" The modern balloonist
says ascent gives silence"
Man has here two and half min
utes-one to smile, one to sigh, and
half one to love; but in the midst of
this minute he dies.
Truth and love are two of the most
powerful things in the world; and
| when they both 90 together they can
not easily be withstood.
Christianity means to the merchant
that he should be honest; to the Judge,
| that he should be just; to the servant,
that he should be dilgent.
Chaucer was a courtier and diplo-
matst rs well as poet. He was
sent to France and Italy in the capacity
Of his kings representative.
Although the Chinese had gunpow-
der many centuries before it was known
in Europe, they did not employ it in
war, but used it only in fireworks,
There is joy in good fortune. There
is a far higher joy in the minds gain
OF truth and knowledge. But there is
no joy like the joy Of resolved virtue,
The Leaning tower of Pisa was built
in the twelfth century. 1t is one hum
drcd and ninety feet high and leans
thirteen feet from the perpendicular.
The inclination was caused by the set
,iing Of one side of the foundation.
The work Of printing John Eliots
translation of the bible into the Indian
language was done by an Indian lad
named James. Some of his descend
ants We're living at Grafton, Mass, in
the early part of this century. They
were surnamcd Printer.
a scientist says: "The whole globe
contains 100000 inhabitants If each
man, woman and child could pull with
Il force of 100 pounds, to move bar Of
steel $3.50 feet wide and as many thick,
it would require the united efforts Of
1000 such worlds as this"
A girl asked a druggist friend to tell
her an easy way to take castor oil. He
invited her to take Il glass of soda
water eXclaiming after she had drank
ii: "Therc, you have taken it in that
glass of soda water" 'Oh, dear" she
replied, 81 am sorry, for it was for
mother | wanted it,"
"Seventy-iive cents per gal" eX-
claimed Mrs. PartingtOn, on looking
over the price current. "Why, bless
me, what is the world coming to when
the gals are valued at seventy-five
cents?' The old laay pulled off her
spectacles. threw down her paper, and
went into brown study on the want
of a proper appreciation of the femi-
nine gender.
The size of some of the largest
churches in Europe is shown by their
seating capacities, as follows:St. Peters
church in Rome will hold $4,000
persons; Milan cathedral, 1000; st.
Paul's at London, $4,000; st. PetrOnio
ut Bologna, 24,300; Antwerp cathedral.
$4,000; st. Sophia's, Constantinople, 23-
600; st. John Lutheran, 22,900; Nortre
Dame at Paris, 10000; Pisa cathedral,
$4,000: st. Stephens at Vienna, l2,400;
st. Peters at Bologna, 1880; Cathe-
dral of Vienna, 1900; st. Marks
Venice, 1000. Very few American
churches have seating capacity of over
1900.
In the crypt of the Capucin church,
Vienna, are buried the dead of the
house of Hapsburg. There are more
than eighty sarcophagi, among them
these of the Emperor Matthias Corvinus,
who died two years before the discov-
cry of America; Maximilian, emperor
of Mexico; Napoleon IL, and JosephI.,
whose coffin is made Of solid silver.
Here also are theremains ofFrancis l.,
whose wife, the heroic Maria Theresa,
is said to have visited his tomb daily
for thirteen years, until she died and
was laid beside him. AS precaution
against premature resurrection, the
hearts and intestines of the royal corpse
are renewed and buried far away from
the Capucin church.
In the middle ages cats, once the object
Of veneration in Egypt, were in France
looked upon as satanic agents, and were
burnt alive. In Paris every st. Johns day
a number Of the abhorred animals were
heaned nm In hashets and hars In the Place