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A close shave-Two per cent. month.
The Astor library now has 10000
volumes.
There are $50 butter ard cheese fac
tories in Iowa.
You can see seven states from the top
of Roam mountain, n. c.
The cultivation of rice is a great and
growing industry in Louisiana.
Whittier believes all the statements
in his Barbara Fritchie' are true.
A household with baby is founded
ON rock.-[New Haven Register.
Both Tennyson and Thackeray left
Cambridge without taking degree.
Run if you like, but try to keep your breath;
Work like man, but don't be worked to death.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"Comb and brush my heir" as the
fond parent said to the barber Koko-
mo Tribune.
Money cannot supply young mans
| wants if he happens to want good sense.
New Orleans Picayune.
There is computed to be over 100, 900
girls not yet ii years of age, already
wage workers in the United States.
| When whisky gets the better of man
he may be sure the devil is forclosing
his mortgage South Bend Herald.
| We like to see man who can take
joke. But we respect him more when
he gives credit for it Yonkers States
| man.
They tell us matches are made in heav-
en-; but somehow they never smell that
way when you strike 'em.-Lowell Citi-
| zen.
A writer in Lippincott's Magazine
says that of the $4,000 words employed
by Shakespeare, about 5000 appear but
| once.
| How wisely Nature, ordered all below,
Forbade beard on woman chin to grow,
| For how could she be shav'd twhat'er the skilD
| Whose tongue would never let her chin be still.
| Glass eyes for horses are now made
with such perfection that the animals
| themselves cannot see through the de-
ception.
If you can approve of yourself, it
makes but little difference whether the
world approves of you or not Detroit
Free Press.
Miss Mary ID. Brine has written some
verses for St. Paul paper. 1t is very
gratifying to run across one poet who is
not fresh.-[Ex.
An Italian writer says that 10000
operas have been written since 1900, of
which 10000 have been produced by
the sons of Italy.
Experience is not so much school
where man learns wisdom, as he learns
what confounded fool he has been.-
ISouth Bend Tribune.
The names of towns and settlements
in Arizona possess the air of originality,
Here are some of them: Good Enough,
| Tough Nut, Contention, Family Fuss,
and Discipline.
1t costs $32 apiece per annum to edu-
cate the forty thousand pupils of New
York at the public grammar schools and
the seventy thousand primary school
pupils cost SIS apiece.
"Where there's will there's way"
murmured the protligate youth, as he
went around paying up his bills after
the receipt of a legacy from rich and
doting uncle Lowell Citizen.
In making "pure ground coffee" the
rule in Boston is to mix one bushel of
beans and one of roasted peanuts with
one bushel of cheap coffee. The package
is then labeled: "None purer-beware
of limitations"
The Galveston boy is progressive. He
was standing in crowd of boys on the
| sidewalk. when his mother called him to
go down town and bring her demi john
of whisky. "Send the old man. I've
got considerable confidence in him.
[Galveston News.
Tim, | want to borrow your black
Sunday pants to attind a funeral" said
one Galveston Irishman to another
"And whose funeral is it We are SO anx-
ious to attind in me black Sunday
pants?" Your own, be dad, eff you
don't lind 'em to me-"
In the worlds broad field of battle,
Where so many dangers lurk,
| Always try to shun hard labor,
Pass It by with pleasing smirk;
| For the money always goes to
Those who all eaertion shlrk.
| While the men get next to nothing
| Who do all the hardest work.
One of the earliest cannons was merely
a cylindrical hole dug in the ground, the
earth barrel being strengthened by rods
or sheets of metal. The charge was fired
by means of touch-hole at the lower
end. AS may easily be imagined, such
a weapon was more formidable to its
owners than to the enemy.
Slightly sarcastic was the clergyman
who paused and addressed man COM
ing into Church after a sermon had be-
gun, with the remark: "Glad to see
you, sir; come in; always glad to see
those here late who can't come early"
And decidedly surprised was the man
thus addressed in the presence of an as
tonished congregation, as he responded
Thank you; would you favor me with
the text?'
Professor Phelps of Andover, Massa-
chusetts, thinks by our law of divorce
and our tolerance of social evil we are
doing more, tenfold, to corrupt the ma
tons heart than mormonism is. "Nice
avowed and blatant and organized" he
declares "to large extent nullifies it.
self, SO far as self diffusion is concerned.
But vice, lurking and still, trickles into
all the crevices of society. A nation of
Mormons is impossible--not so nation
of libertines."