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Willies Ride.

Willie was visiting his grandmother,
who lived in the country. He thought
he was quite a man, but he was only
seven. His grandmother had q very
wise horse named Dobbin. Sometimes
John would put Willie on the horses
back while he led him TO water. He
was never allowed to ride him alone,
though he often wanted to do so.
One day every one in the house was
busy, and no one thought of Willie. He
thought of himself, the naughty bowl
and this is what he did. He went to
the stable just to look at Dobbin. John
was not there. Willie thought he would
take little ride. He managed to unite
the halter and climb upon Dobbin's
back.
Slowly he walked the horse out ofthe
stable, in the yard, and to the road.
No one saw him. He wanted but one
thing, whip! just then he saw tree
with a little branch growing on it
that would do. He rode up, and with
some trouble broke it off. Then he
struck Dobbin a sharp blow-harder
than he meant to. The good old horse
was much surprised. He kicked up his
heels and started at a quick pace down
the road. Willie could not stop him.
He did his best, but the old horse was
too much for him. The poor little bow
was very much frightened He dropped
his whip and chung to Dobbin's neck.
Soon they came to large mud-pud-
die in the middle of the road. Willie
could hold on no longer. He slipped
off, and fell with splash into the mud
dy water. Dobbin turned and trotted
home.
Willie's mother happened to look out
of the window as Dobbin came into the
yard. She ran to see what it meant.
Willie was missed, and his frightened
mother and grandmother ran down the
road to find him. They were much re-
lieved to see a muddy little figure COM
ing toward them. He was too muddy
and too much ashamed to look at them,
but he was not hurt.
Not very much was said; but for one
month Willie, the seven-years-old, al
most man, had to be followed about
by a nurse, because he could not be
trusted OR Lutte Ones.
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country post Office the face amount of
the note will be paid to bearer. the
bothersome old system of Identification
and Endorsement having been aban-
doned. Thus for the three months dur
ing which the note is good it will be a
ready substitute for legal tender in the
towns both of the issuing and receiving
offices. The decrease in revenue from
the money order department by lower
ing the price of small order from ten
to three cents will doubtless be large.
The firms that are obliged either to
take postage stamps in payment for
orders by mail or else lose many of
their country customers will doubtless
receive the greatest financial benefit
from the postal note.
The law under which the note goes
into operation was passed at the last
session of Congress. When, last year,
the English Postmaster General, Faw-
cett. proposed the shilling postal note
to Parliament, its members laughed at
him as it had at Rowland Hills penny
postage. The ministerial majority,
however, passed the bill, and the de-
spised note became such favorite that
it is now proposed to have note for
fractions of shilling The system has
been found to be of particular benefit
to small tradespeople, farmers and
Others who have small sums to transmit.
philadelphia Times.
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The First Public Prayer in Denver.

Father Dyer, a Methodist minister,
now living on the Divide, was the pio-
neer preacher in Colorado. He will
probably offer the opening prayer Of
the approaching quarter centennial. 1t
is related of Father Dyer that when
he first landed in what is now Denver
he saw before him large tent, and to
that, supposing a camp meeting to be
in progress, he wendell his way. To
his establishment he found-not a camp
meeting but very extensive series OF
games. such as faro, poker, keno and
the like, going forward. He remained
about the tent for forty-eight hours,
looking very intently upon the progress
of the games. AT the end of that period
he stepped upon table and said, in a
voice loud enough to be heard all about
him: Boys, L have looked at your
game now for the past eight and forty
hours. Now / ask you to give some
attention to mine. Let us pray" They
had not before known that the solemn.
looking man was minister, but at the
invitation hats were taken off, chips
were dropped and all bowed their hSads
in prayer, with Father Dyer leading.
And that was the first public prayer
uttered in the Pixies Peak country.
After the prayer had been concluded
the games were resumed. DenUe,
Nc,re
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HUMOROUS.

The good dye young-if their mus
rache happens to be white.
"A clergyman said that he addressed
his congregation of ladies and gentle
men as brethren, because the brethren
embraced the ladies.
There is tied in the affairs of
men which leads on to fortune" re-
marked young man after marrying
an Cincinnati Merchant and
Trdrcler
"A four-year-old child. visiting, saw
bellows used to blow an open fire, and
informed her mother that "thev shovel
wind into the fire at Aunt Augusta's. +"
The household.
"A Boston schoolgirl can not be
made to speak of overalls. She prefers
to call them super-Omnes. Now let
some of those wild Western sheets again
sheer at our culture, if they dsre.-BoS-
ton Transcript.
One of the loveliest spectacles in
this world is to watch the expression of
rapture that passes over the face of the
dude as he sucks lemon up through a
straw, roll his eyes and r,lbs his ears to-
gether at the back of his Golden
Days.
The fair thing: Now, Mr. Over
charge, what will it cost to have hot
and cold water put all through nv
house" "Well, can't give very
close estimate until the job Is COM
pleted. / will do the fair thing by YOU,
though" So the plumber went to
work and three months latter he owned
the house. Detroit Post
A musical journal discusses Emusic
as Healing Art" If man were TO be
treated to n serenade by couple of
bagpipers, he would have to be pretty
Ill if the inspiring strains didn't infusE
enough strength into his system inside
of five minutes to cause him to iump
out of bed and look around for a shot
gun.-Scotch Fun
John Bull (who is asked toward
the Cottage Home for Over-worked
School Board Children): ..Confound 1T
my hands never out of INV pocket
First have to pay for their education.
and because that has made EN- so queer
| am now asked to pay the doctors
oillr'-Fnnny Folks.
Ella Wheeler says, in a poem. that
i was :" at the twilight hour'' when "a
iream came to my stern hearts bolted
door-a sad-faced dream. ROBBED in the
garb of Woe" If she eats ice cream
and pickle just before RETIRING. as
many girls do, such dreams will surely
come loafing around her stern hearts
oolted door, and she's lucky if they don't
crawl about her head and brighten
the wits out of her almost. -NorrtStoCn
Herald.
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Foreigners In Paris.

From the "Annuaire de la Vile de
Paris" for 1881, recently issued, we
learn how comparatively few residents
in Paris are Partisan born and bred.
Indeed, out of every 1000 inhabitants
only 322 are born in the metropolis.
while 80 come from the other communes
of the department, SOS from the vari-
Gus departments or colonies, and rs
from foreign countries. Other CONT
mental capitals do not contain so MANY
foreigners as Paris, Berlin only pos
sessing Ii out of ], 900 and Pesth but Il.
AT the time of the census of 1881 there
were in Paris 45, 2Sl Belgians. 81 100
Germans, 21,577 Italians, 20,SlO Swiss.
1879 English, $3.50 Dutch. 5927
Americans, 5,7S6 Russians, 9s2
Austrians and 1916 Spaniards. The
German element has very largely in
creased since 1876, at which period thew
only numbered 19,024. II is most
abundant in the outer ACCOMPLISHMENTS of
the city, and particularly in the Nine
teenth. The Dutch and the Beloians
1.-THE latter numbering but "a. 100 in
1879 are found indiscriminatelv
throughout Paris; the Swiss are power
tul IN the commercial localities: the
Italians, who have almost doubled
since 1876. in the Eleventh and neigh-
boring embellishments, while the En-
glish chiefly inhsbit the Eighth. Sly
teenth and Seventeenth. FOREIGNERS
as whole, increased from zig. 40 in
1876 to l64,03S in 1881, and formed
nearly fifth part of the total increase
OF the clty.-Lon7on Times.
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Picked Up a Meteor.

Mr.. Gordon, druggist at the High
lands, has in his possession one of the
latest arrivals of those mysterious visi-
tants from interstellar space known as
meteors. At about IL o'clock last
Thursday night, as he and a friend
were walking at the corner of Oriole
and Rill streets, West Roxbury, his at
tention was called to Kissing, hustling
sound. like that of same projectile pass
ing rapidly overhead. Before he could
ascertain what it was there came a
cracking of the boughs of some pine
trees close at hand, followed by a.heavy
thud on the messy ground. a5fN
He found an iron-like STONY slug.
about the size of an egg, weighing
nearly pound. It was quite deeply
imbedded in the springy bed of moss
and pine spills, and, as it bore marks
unlike those on any terrestrial pebble,
and was the only object of any kind in
that vicinity that could possibly pro-
duce such sound, he feels sure that it
is a small-sized star that has been
stopped in its fight.
1t is an irregular slug of partially
oxydized iron, and its surface is covere |
with small openings. making it look
like rusty, worm-eastern coal clinker
Boston Globe.
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A Theory Concerning the Niagara
Whirlpool.

1t seems to me big hole in the bot
tom of the river, running off into sub
terranean channels. The volume OF
water in the river fills it up for min
ute or two, and as the water rushes into
the basin it makes these high waves.
The hole in the bottom lets the water
out, and it begins to circle round and
round till it comes to the pit, just as the
water runs out of a wash basin. We
built log raft some twenty feet square,
and showed it out into the pool. When
the water caught it, it began to circle
round, and then it tipped up as it gave
a dive, just as Webb raised his hand:
and that was the last we ever saw of the
logs Why, that same winter the Mag
ara River was frozen over below the
Falls, and the ice was piled up sixty OF
seventy feet high. saw great bergs as
big as whole house go into the pool
that spring when the river broke up,
and it swallowed them up as easily as
it did our raft. What chance do YOU
think Capt. Webb would have theref
He would be like a fly. When he raised
his hand he felt it sucking him in like
an undertow, and he knew his time had
come.-J0hn p. Hdthorsl.
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THE FLAG or THE PRESS.

10 Il not Of silk or Of bunting.
This faR that Ill tyrants abhor;
II has no hcraldic devices,
or sanRiiino. gulcs, azure, vert, or.
lt- colors are sable and argent;
lie elements paper and ink,
The spirits ~ knowledge and freedom,
And whatever such spirits may think.
And w. heruldry's simple enough;
Just 80 many columns per page;
Hut in them 4 fought without ccasinR
Tho battle that FrCcdom must wage.
Tho warfare OF good against evil.
Of weakness IN suit against might,
or Ignorance seeking for knowledge.
OF wrong In contention with right
n futtors in senate and palace:
l. found in the worklnRmRn'E hand.
More FREE than the emblem uf freedom,
II darCs every wrong tO Withstand;
n cares not for King nor for Kaiser,
No ukasc can fold n away:
When u urges the conflict Of Freedom,
Then kingdoms and Kings pass away.
Fly over the world. paper Hammer.
IN thy sable and arucnt dress
For the banner Of Freedom Il frccst.
when ~ HES with the Flag Of the Pres.
Flv over the armies Of knowledge!
60 forth with the armies OF right!
In cottage. iu palace. IN senate.
Fly Hammer 81 Freedom and Light
Lille ?. Burr, ut y. 4. IHdcIsndsn'.
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Still Too Young.

Father" he asked with boyish sim.
plicity, '.were you ever loadede'
Loaded? What on earth do YOU
mean?'
why, You must have been loaded al
some time or other, guess. or else how
could you have unloaded?"
boy, come here! Now, what is it?''
fWhy, heard some men talking a.
about you to-day. One of 'em said YOU
was rich, and the other said you made
your start by unloading a lot of some
thing or other on somebody he knew .
HE did, eh?' F'sss 72"
= ''Yes; and wanted to ask YOU what
you was loaded with. so as to see if il
killed him stone dead"
IF / meet the scoundrel who has ira.
duced me I'll make it hot for him, and
you can run upstairs now. You aren'i
old enough to understand things vet:
That's what one of the men said
when the other told him you ought tc
be behind the bars. Wall Street News.
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Living to Purpose.

Everybody ought to have an honora-
BILE ambition and a supreme desire to be
and do something in life. 1t is better
to aspire and fail than to have no aspira-
tons ut all. There are far fewer who,
having laudable ambition, fail to make
their mark than of those who drift
through existence aimlessly, with no
definite purpose in view. There are
persons who devote half their lives in
trying to solve the problem of their ex-
istence and the other half in longing for
some friendly hand or propitious cir
cumstance to give them a shove in tho
right direction. Much has been said
and written of wasted lives and neg
lected opportunities, and yet the subject
is by no means threadbare. 1t is one of
those accommodating matters that will
admit of line upon line and precept
upon precept." To live to purpose
high and noble purposes an ambition
worthy of all men, and women, too.
How to work ont destiny so that it NAV
inure to our own and the well being of
others is one of the most profitable
themes of contemplation. Men like the
stars move in different spheres and
orbits, and to keep in place is highly
important. Fidelity to duty and station
will enable any individual to become
hOnored and useful Should one of the
small and comparatively insignificant
heavenly bodies attempt to usurp the
place of one of the brilliant planets, it
would doubtless suffer for its pains and
become the ridicule of its associate
twinklers.
So with individuals. They often miss
the accomplishment of any grand aim
because of failure to apprehend the
plane on which they are best fitted to
move and shine. 1t is not necessary to
an honored and useful life that one
should be President, or Senator, or
Minister Plenipotentiary. A man
might be either of these aud yet possess
no extraordinary intellectual or moral
weight. Yet, if he adorns the place by
eminent fitness for it, he will certainly
command the respect of his fellows,
and make the best of his opportunities.
A Constable might be a better and
more useful man than a. King; so-we
see that place and power are not always
attended by the characteristics and
principles which .entitle humanity to
love and respect. To make the best Of
the position in which one is placed,
whether that position be high or low, is
the secret of wise living. 4 clown and
a preacher may be the very ant;podes of
character and calling, and yet man
may be honored and useful i'm either.
The palpable fault with most of as Is
that we fail to make the best of our
opportunities and aspire to conditions
for which we are not fitted. An inn
portant thing to be remembered IL that
character is everything, and that with,
out the foundation of good character
to build upon, all efforts to inspire the
confidence of others in our capacity fol-
honorable distinction will become pain.
fully abortive.- Columbus (Ga.>' In
guirer.
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Noisy Army Worms.

The leaves on some of the horse.
chestnut trees in front of the Parker
House have recently. been devoured BY
canker or some other worms, only .he
nervous framework being left. One OF
the guests of the house the other night
heard, as he supposed, a noise in his
room, which he thought might be occa-
stoned by some animal in the room, and
he arose TO see what it was, but could
lind nothing within. As the noise con.
tinued he sat down ut the window 10
ascertain whence it came, and traced II
to the trees, being. in fact, the sound OF
the worms deyouring the leaves. We
have been told by one of our physicians
that, being called out one nfghS to at
tend a patient, the owner of the hous,
where he stopped asked him to steu
out about two o'clock to listen to the
army--worms in an adjacent field. He
was incredulous, but, on going out.
heard distinctly the continuous noise
made by the devouring army as it con-
sumed the farmer s crop.-Net0 Bedford
(AaSs.) Standard
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THE NEW POSTAL NOTE.
Description Of the New Currency nm,
How 1t VIII he used.


All persons who have occasion to
send small amounts of money through
the United States mail will hail with
delight the advent of the new postal
note. fac-simile of which is printed
below. The date of deliverance from
the alternative annoyance of enclosing
small coins and bills, sent at the immi-
nent risk Of loss or theft, or the practi-
cally useless postage stamps in an en-
yelope for transmission by mail will be
October 1.
The Government has heretofore sol
emnly warned the public not to put
their money in envelopes. Under the
new system the country cousin can
visit her postoffice with S4.99, or any
lesser sum, and deposit the same with
fee of three cents. The country post
master will then punch three holes, as
above indicated, to the right of the
order, showing the dollars, cents and
dimes deposited, and two more holes to
the left through the month and year.
He will then affix his stamp and sigma
ture and hand over the note without
requiring, as at present, the horoscope
and pedigree of the sender and receiver
At the Philadelphia Post-office upon
the receipt of duplicate from the
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Our Young Readers.
NE LITTLE MAIDENS.


I'll tell you a story. I'll sing you a song
OF six little maidens: in white they were
dressed,
And each was the sweetest and each was the
best.
Invited for four-well. now, let me see:
Waiting was duh, so they got there at three.
There were little Miss Katie and Nellie and
Sue,
And little Miss Bessie and Polly and Prue.
1t might have been June, IL it hadn't been
May,
The first of the month. and a beautiful day;
They kissed when they met, as the ladies all
Kate, Susie and Men; Bess, Polly and Prue.
They danced and they skipped. and thcy sang
and they played,
And they formed pretty groups in the sun
And said, when they asked me of which I
was fond:
" Brunettes are the dearest, and so are the
blonde"
And that night, as bade them adieu at the
Bess, Polly and Prue, and Sue, Nellie and
Kate
How l wished that .'good-byer' could have
been how'd " do.
And ] said: Come at three!" so as TO get
them at two!
-R. w. Loioric. IN St. Nicholas.
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AT the great fishery celebration in
London the stall for the sale of Ameri-
can inventions and American drink was
presided over by Lady Waterlow. wife
OF Sir Sidney Waterlow, NJ. p. for
Gravesend. Governor of the Irish So
ciety. and Lord Mayor of London in
lSI2-IS. Lady Waterlow's maiden name
was Margaret Hamilton. and she was
reared at Napa. Cal. She was Assisted
ny Mrs Puget. Miss Chamberlin. and
several other Americans.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24

A girl at Long Branch speaks with
an acquired London accent. "Me
cawt, me cawt, at five O'Clock" she
said to the family coachman. in a voice
loud enough for veranda full of peo-
pie to hear. Caught what, msss?''
the man inquired. A repetition of the
order did not make him understand il,
and she had 20 say. in plain American
pronunciation, though she lowered her
voice and stepped closer in doing so:
my cart, stupid; my village cart, at five
o'clock. IN y. Sun
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The Squatter's Daughter.

"Light and look at yer saddle" said
the squatter's daughter, as man
| stopped at the fence. The man who
had been several weeks in the neighbor-
hood, and who had become so we'll &C
quainted with the girl that her hand
some face was ever before him, add
vanced to where she was sitting, and
lingeringly shook the hand which she
extended him.
chow are you, Emily?"
"Fust rate; never felt better nor had
less"
where's all the folks?''
Scattered. Dads gone to the still
house, MANS gone to a quiltin'. Bob's
lyin round loose, somewhar, and
Dicks drunk, speck.
Emily" said the visitor, seating
himself in the doorway, don't you
know that dressed in anything like a
stylish way, you would be one of the
handsomest girls ever saw?''
wall, Lor', l hadn't thought about
it?
Wouldn't you like TO wear fine
dresses?"
Now, you're shoutin'."
"And have good educatiOn?"
Il don't kere so much about the ed
dycatiOn, cause I'm sorter 'spicious
bout book sense. Real old boss sense
is the kind to have, an eff persons
got the boss sense he can't take book
larnin to any great shakes"
You are mistaken. Education ac-
cOmplishes wonders, and without our
great colleges and schools this entire
country would soon be worse than it
was when first discovered"
Il know jes' what I'm er talkin'
about" she replied, IAN thar amt no
usen you tryin' ter talk book larnin'
agin' me, case Use got the figgers. A
mighty eddycated Teller come to see me
fur a long time an folks lowed we'd
marry, an l reckon we would eff it
hadn't er been that his eddycation
proved to be failure. One day at a
log rollin, Tony Diver, the runt of the
neighborhood, arter hearing my eddy
Gated man blow a powerful chance
went up to him an said. Look a
hear, Cap'n, you've been talking about
your eddycation for some time, now l
want to show you that it don't amount
to nothin.' and tellin' the smart man to
cut his capers, Tony grabbed him.
finally Tony flung him. Tony don't
know letter in the book, an when it
was diskiyered that the feller's eddyca-
ton didn't amount to anythin', pap he
come home an sez: Emily that smart
man o. yourn was flung down jes' now
by Tony Diver. Eff yer marry him I'll
drive yer from under my roof an you
shan t come back no mo- Pap says
/, Il amt agorn' ter fling myself
away"
Emily, do you think that you could
live happy with me?''
Look here. If Gabe johnson
knowed that yer was a talkin' ter me
that er way, he'd chaw yer NAME
What, are you engaged to him?"
ut hits me that ere way"
81 must say that I don't think he's
Hole on right thar. Didn't he whip
the preacher at Dry Fork t'other day,
an didn't he slap the jaw often the
County Judge? Yer can't sit here and
T. about a man with such 'compiish-.
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The Mikado of Japan has decorated
Prince Bismarck with the Order of the
Chrysanthemum, y making the fifty-ffth
bestowed on his princely nibs by vari-
Gus potentates. ALI these honors, and
yet be gets blood in his eye when a
Berlin butcher names q new vintage of
sausage after himl He is not COM
PEELED to wear the sausage on State
occasions either.--Eorrist0Un Herald.
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A new State flag of Kentucky is
being made for the Adjutant-General's
Department 1t will bear the coat-of-
arms of the State. the figures being cor
rect portraits of Daniel Boone and
Dick Iate-boon companions of the
early day.
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John Rafferty, walked up to the
priest in St. Bernard Church, Cohoes,
n. T.. the other day. and announcing
himself rs Pope Plus TX. ordered the
priest to stop the service. A police
sergeant escorted the Pope to the lock-
up.-Troy Times