Year: 1867

| OBTAINING HUSBANDS FOR YOUNG
LAADIEs.-Three young men were be-
fore the Chicago Police Court last
week on the charge of being vagrants,
when one of them made the following
defence:


"These two gentlemen and myself
are the firm of Edwards & Griffin
We are proposers. By that mean
we propose to young ladies and help
to get them married. We are bene-
factors. When we see young lady
who is not, and never has been enga-
ged, one Of US says to her: We will
get you married for s., payable
after marriage OF course she says
yes. For the time being, one of us is
considered as engaged to her. We
trumpet the fact abroad. Whenever
the other two of US meet young man
who is not engaged, we say: What
lucky dog Griffin is! He has won
Miss x And we praise her. We
encourage the young man to 60 in and
cut Griffin out, for the fun of the
thing. Being a fool, like most young
men, he does it. He proposes to Miss
K, knowing that she is engaged to
Griffin, and hardly expecting that she
will accept him. But she always does.
And he can never cut loose from her.
He must marry her or be tried for
breach Of promise. l myself have
been engaged twenty five times during
the last year. We are doing so we'll
that we think of hiring clerk to do
part of the work for US. should not
have told you this but for your afro
cious threat about Bridewell. But as
we have given false names it does not
make much difference"


Wendell Phillips made the follow
ing good point in a speech at the New
York Academy of Music recently:


"One man with a conviction and
God on his side is majority [ap-
plause, and one man with convic-
tion on the devils is not to be despis-
ed. Laughter. They had Dam
ascus blade dozen years ago in Lon
don at the great exhibition there which
you could move into the scabbard like
a corkscrew, without breaking. So
with the Secretary of State Laugh
ter and applause.] Now to take that
trembling jelly which we call VIM. FL.
Seward-[laughter and APPLAUSE
and fling him at Jeff Davis is like pei
ting the Rocky Mountains with Co.
logne water"


A Practical COMMENTARY. .-Thel-
wall thought it very unfair to influence
a child's mind by inculcating any opin-
ions before it had come to years of
discretion to choose for itself. |
showed him my garden and told him
it was my botanical garden. How
SOP" said he, " it is covered with
weeds" "O," replied, /" that is be
cause it has not yet come to years of
discretion and choice. The weeds,
you see, have taken the liberty to grow,
and | thought it unfair to prejudice
the soil towards roses and strawber.
ies."-CoLeridge.


An INHUMAN PARENT.-Alexander
Lachane, living about thirty miles be-
low Quebec, has been arrested for in
human treatment of his child, dumt
cripple six years old. The child-a
girl-died lately; and the coroner's in
i, vestigation showed that its death was
: accelerated if not caused by the or
ders of Lachane, who habitually kick
ed it out of his sight and beat its mo
ther for giving it food. During th'
| inquest the prisoner got into warn
discussion with those present, main
J tanning his right, if not to kill th'
: child, at least to break all its bone


if he saw fit to do so, without the righ


of molestation by any person. Th
e poor little atom of humanity was a
e ways kept out of sight, in box stow
: ed away under a bed in the small: il


ventilated hovel of its brutal parent


and whenever the father on comin
! home found the starving child out O
! the black hole he had allotted to il


he was in tie habit of at once kickin
p the box and its dumb inmate unde


the bed and out of sight again.
GoD IS OUR FATHER.-Said littl


girl, as she arose from her knees afte


listening to the prayer offered by he
e father at morning family WORSHIP


"Papa, what makes you talk SO


God when you pray? You talk
y him just as l do to you. You tell hi
IL just what we want"


is "Yes, my dear" was the reply


q God is our Father. We may go


him as lovingly as you come to m
le and may tell him all our wants, lit
le and great, and ask him to bless US al


forgive our sins for the Savior's SAX
!, and, if we do so, he will hear us al
-, bless us"


- 1 heard the question and answer;


saw that pleasant and precious tho
r. had been awakened in that your
IS. heart. May they be cherished the


till that heart shall be filed with 10
10 to the blessed God, "Our Father r
l5
IS. An unfortunate man, who had ne


er drank water enough to warrant t


disease, was reduced to such a sta
lat by dropsy, that consultation
ma physicians was held upon his case.
They agreed that tapping was nee
ne sary, and invited the poor patient


suhmit To the OperatiOn. which