Year: 1877

A BROTHER of cold John Brown F"
! died recently at ReedsburgP, Wis, aged
| seventy. If John Browns soul is still


." marching on" that of his brother viii
/ have to move lively to Overtake it.
A SUDDEN draught of hot air passed
| through a cotton field and peach orchard


in western Texas 4 few days ago, scorch-
| ing and killing every green thing 1t
touched for a spaceof one hundred yards


long.


ANOTHER day has come and gone,


leaving US all older and wiser, but as yet,


no communications have been received


indicating that any one has discovered


man who can drink out of spring with


out getting the end of his nose wet.


a HOLLTDAYsBURG man recently OBJ


tained a divorce and declared "Once


more l stand erect, and assume the god


like attitude of free dom and a single


man" Then he went home, got into


bed, and in an hour woke up with bad


case of cholera morbUs, yelling Quick,


Maria Quick Get a mustard plaster
or I'm gOner."


A CHICAGO young mans wife enter
tanned him with selections from Wagner,
after which he expressed himself as
resigned to go to bed, where he slept
very sOundly. Toward midnight cats
assembled in the back yard and yOwled
frightfully, The sleeper did not get up
and throw bOotjacks at them, but turned
on one elbow and whispered in his dreams,
" Sing it once more, Elvira sing it once
more"


FROM 1900 to 1870 the population of
England increased from ten to twenty
eight millions, and that Of the United
aF fiNro An h ~ cS0 0rE1f
and it is moderately estimated that among
civilized nations the population now
doubles in each period of fifty-four years.
The advances made in hygienic science,
and the comparative mildness of modern
warfare are mainly responsible tor this
rapid increase, frightful in view of future
1t is a subject of not
little anxiety among prOvident English
men to-day, how the filty-six millions of
mouths which, in a short half century,
will be craving for food within the narrow
borders of that country, can be satistacto-
rily filed, and it is enough to keep phil
anthrOpist perpleXedly awake O. nights,
to reflect on the difficulty of feeding the
dense population of the earth a couple OF
thousand years hence.


THERE is a boy hero now at the Hot
Springs in Arkansas. He lived in A Atlan-



there, squalid and starving, and suffering
from an hereditary and incurable disease
transmitted to him by vicious parents.
He was obliged to suffer the amputation
of one Of his feet; but, as soon as he
recovered ,-he signitied his determination
to depend on charity no longer. Having
received Sf0as capital by borrowing from
the agent of the Benevolent Home, he
soon made money with which to pay this
back and put a snug $3.50 In bank. Then
disease overlook him again; his remain
ing foot went like the first ole his
money was soon spent, and he was
reduced to deaths door. Is soon as lie
recovered, he went bravely to work, and
repaid all his benefactors. Now he has
gone to the Hot Springs for his health
with some money in his pocket, and an
unconquerable will never to submit or
yield even to circumstances.


EACH man is created a sociable being,
and we find him to-day (without stop
ping to inquire into the why and where
fore of said creation) an atom of a vast
social system. As such he has his duties
and responsibilities. They are multiplex
and varied, and upon the manner in
which he discharges them depend his
own happiness, the happiness of those
closely related to him, and, to some ex-
tent, the peace and comfort of society in
general. In this wonderful social com
pact, it would seem that one individual
is of little significance. It would like.
wise seem that one pipe or reed or key
of the grand organs which make melody
in our churches from week TO week
might be spared, without the loss being
felt, and yet their disarrangement would
have the most serious effect upon the
desired harmOnies. It is thus in the
life of men. 4 single person can create
social discOrd, whether he has an adj
mitted influence or not; but there are
very few men who do not posses a direct
influence to some degree, and while this
IS the case there Is no use Of attempting
to escape responsibility to avoid onr
moral obligations our duties to our fel.
bowman.