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strength.
Every man is the architect Of his
own character, but good architects
are scarce.
Two Rondout IN. " men have
matched their canary birds to sing
for n prize.
4 Mr.. Powderly says there is 10 be
no moro boycotts. Nobody cares
for boycott now.
4 There are now thirty-seven wo-
mon in the UniversalIst ministry.
ALBANY Argus.
The happy man is the farmer,
who has his farm paid for and
raises what he uses.
II is not the noisIcst work that is
most efficient. Thunder is noisy,
'lbut lightning does the work.
The cyclone blows away nearly
eve ~ything on the farm but tho
mort. age. Hence its unpopulari-
ty.
Tho onI presidents who were
never in co, 'gress are Washington,
Taylor, Gran :, Arthur and Cleve.
land.
Henry Waiter. 7On, of Louisville,
XIV. is IN Lon, ION. He writes
home that he is no. satisfied with
that town.
Beecher has reach, I'd England
and has heard Gladston e. He feels
that his passage money has been
SPENT IN vain.
TulIahoma, Tenn, has q newly
arrived inland that is viii to with
the exception of It's face and neck,
which arc coal black.
The United States Jail at Fort
Smith, Ark, now contains eighty
nine prisoners, twenty of whom
are charged with murder.
An Irishman tells OF fight IN
which there was but one whole
nose left in the crowd, "and that
belonged to the taykettlc."
Fashionable people are now
looking for summer resorts where
they can obtain the least comforts
and most style for the money.
A Kansas farmer, seeing his son
about TO step on q rattlesnake,
rushed up and threw him back with
such force that the boys thigh was
broken.
Two meals q day is a rule of
living recommended by DR.. DIo
Lewis. Two would be much bet
ter than three for persons of seden-
tary habits.
The late David Davis, although
a man of enormous wealth, made
his lunch when in the senate on ap-
pies, ginger cookie and glass of
milk.
A physician who claims to have
seen 10000 cases of small pox saws
he never saw person with red
hair or light faxen hair have the
disease.
Crude carbollc acid, applied ex-
ternally, has been discovered by
ranehmen to be an effec-
tive remedy for rattlesnake bites
among cattle.
Auber, asked which he preferred.
the author of "The Barber of Sc
vile" or he of "The Huguenots,"
replied: "Rossini is a fountain.
Meyerheer a mine."
The Duke of Cumberland once
astonished a congregation, when
The minister prayed for rain, by
enchanting: "No use praying for
rain in a northeast wind"
"Ah John !" she SAID, Just before
marriage, 81 fear 1 am not worthy
If you. You are such good man."
Never mind, Martha; Pl change
I'll that after the wedding"
Tom Pittman says the first time
le went counting, he felt as if a
pink angel had hauled him down
rainbow with a piece of chain
lightning right smack into a pile
If down.
Cardinal Gibbons awarded the
diplomas at Rock Hill College.
sllicott City, Md. Among those
Who received the degree of Master
# Arts was Edward Dwyer, San
Antonio: Texas.
There is general belief that the
'ennsylvanIa mugs have decided
lot to wump this year. Wisdom
Doesn't cry aloud to the streets
Without accomplishing something.
Press.
A Kingston, N. Y, lawyer has
the local authorities to
AXE an assessment of $1,000 off his
Ieighbors property and place 1t
m his own. The millennium will
10 doubt begin at Kington.
City Guests-"These eggs don't
eem to be as fresh as they ought
o be-" Farmer Great gosh
What kin yer expeotI Jest see the
istanee they cum; New York's
fly mile from here."-Judge.
While Charles Rasch, of Sprague
V. T., was taking a bottle of soda
iater from an Ice chest the bottle
EXPLODED and the patent stopper
7as thrown into his face with
nough force 10 tear out one of his
yes.
"Where are you goingr she said,
s her husband started to 20 out
t the end of the first act. "Oh, no
lace much," he replied, nonchaI-
ntly. al notice the curtin has
AIKEN drop, and l thought little
f doing the same thing myself"
Ma, has auntY got bees on her
louth" "No; why do You ask
UGH . question: "Cause that
title man with heap of hair on his
ace, catchcd hold of her, and SAID
e was going to take the honey out
heT lips /; and she said: "WelI,
lake haste"
John Barker of Ottumwa and
iva Jones of Glcnwood, Iowa.
Dated Gown the Des MONIES River
! small fiatboat until they reach
d keOSaunua and thew tiad M