The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1908-08-07
Saying the Wrong Thing.

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"That is very true" answered Sen
ator Sorghum.
81 suppose, even as cautious as you
are, that you regret some Of your ut
terances."
Eyes. On several occasions / have
said 4 raise you when L ought to have
said Il pass. Washington Star.
Economical Ingenuity.
There was a traveller in Arizona once
In the long ago days who displayed
some wonderful economical ingenuity.
You have heard, no doubt, Of the feat
The traveller and his dog were lost
and hungry on the plains. Night fell
1t looked as though both must go sup
PEERLESS to bed. But the ingenious trav-
eler cut of the dogs tail, made a nu-
tritious soup Of it and gave the hungry
animal the bone.
Buddhist Charity.
Buddhism and charity are synony-
nous. Charity is the very soul OF
Buddhism. In the Pitakas is found the
saying, Charity, courtesy and unself-
lshness are to the world what the
linchpIn Is to the rolling chariot" Ac-
cording to the teachings of the eastern
faith, the six virtues. or 'paramitas,"
are charity, morality, earnestness, con-
centration. wisdom and prudence.
A Story Of Beau 5rummel.
He was encountered In Calais by an
old friend. my dear Brummel." ex-
claimed the Englishman, Il am SO glad
to see you, for we had heard In Eng
land that you were dead! The report.
assure you. was in general circula-
ton when l left
Quick as lightning the Beau replied.
Mere stockjObblng. my dear fellow;
mere stockjobbing Melville's
''Beaux OF the Regency"
The Well Bred Chicks.
Fife on her first visit to the country
saw a number Of chickens from the
front porch OF a farmhouse. The child
watched the fowls for some time as
they industriously scratched around
Finally she turned and ran to her
mother. "Oh. mother" she cried e1-
citedly, "come out on the porch and
see the chickens wiping their feet on
the grass!'-Harper's Weekly.
When the Long as" Was Abolished.
In the latter part OF February, 1900.
London publisher instituted a trifling
though welcome Improvement in print
Ing His name was Bell, later the
founder of the well known Weekly
| Messenger. and at the date mentioned
he caused to be submitted the short for
the long IS" in the setting Of certain
works he produced. His example was
generally followed a year or two later.
st James Gazette.
But the World Went On.
In 11SG astrologers said the world
would be destroyed by the conjunc-
ton OF the planets. A few years later
another alarm was raised. and in 1J32
Simon GOuart claimed mountain
had opened in Assyria and a scroll had
been shown him on which was writ.
ten the prediction that the world was
coming TO all end. He frightened ev-
erybody.
The Parsees and Their Dead.
The ParSees refuse TO burn or bury
the bodies of their dead because they
consider dead body impure, and they
will not suffer themselves TO defile any
of the elements: hence their towers
OF silence" fifty or sixty feet in height
on which the bodies of the dead art
left TO be devoured by the vultures
the bones afterward being thrown into
receptacle and covered with char
coal.
Her Tongue.
| Doctor politely, but looking at hi.
watch with visible impatience,-Par
don me, madam, but my time is not IN!
own. You have given me all YOU
symptoms in sufficient detail. and now
perhaps you will kindly-er-ah-
Husband mot 80 cOnsiGerate,-M Maria
be doesn't want TO hear your tongu,
any more. He wants TO look at it,
London Mail
Up to His Tricks.
Lord ROsSlyn at dinner in New
York said of notorious London spend
thrift:
When he was at oxford he wircC
once tn his uncle. whose heir he was:
IF you don't send me a hundred il.
Saturday III blow my brains out
His uncle wired back:
lyon teleEraphCd ne that before
and when ! forwarded you my best re