Year: 1878

Here is mOTe IdllSue III ldZlneSS Inau
in labor.


Actions that express good will to man
kind in the highest degree, have the
highest merit.


1t is the heart that makes the home.
whether the eye rests on potato patch
or flower garden.


"If it wasn't for hope the heart would
break" as the old lady said when she
buried her seventh husband.


Never spend your money before you
have it. This will save you from many
difficulties and some temptations.


Here's toast to be drunk at the next
railroad celebration. Our mothers, the
only tenders who never misplace switch.


The Russian empress is good seam
stress, and could make Alexander a
pair of pantaloons if he were to ask her
for them.


There are beautiful warm soda springs
in Colorado, and people who 90 bathing
in them at once exclaim: "Oh, but this
is soda licious %


Many people put up fancy sign in
their parlors asking God to bless their
home, and then they themselves do all
they can to curse it.


The vain abhor the vain, but the gen.
tie and unassuming love one another.
1t is the effect of sympathy in the latter.
and want of it by the former.


There are few sights in this world
more interesting than to see young
man with Christian fortitude struggling
against an inclpieRt mustache.


An English magazine having written
exhaustingly upon Water as Bever-
age" an exchange thinks the scheme is
feasible and should at least have trial.


Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about courage or hon.
osty. The sun has no reason to boast of
his brightness, nor the moon of her
efulgence.


Men often appear to lie when most
truthful, and often seem to tell the truth
when most false; the most terrible Of
lies is not that which is uttered, but that
which is believed.


"Anna, dear, if | should attempt tc
spell cupid. why could l not get beyond
the first syllable 2" Anna gave it up
Whereupon William said: Because
uben | come to u. of course l cannot
go further" :"


'Musing on the infinite, eh % SAID &
facetious chap to melancholy looking
individual who was walking along the
roadside with bowed head and serious
countenance. well, yes; same thing
thinking of my debts


1t is said that the instinct of cats
gives them sure intelligence of the com
ing of an earthquake. That must hav,
been what Huntington street cat wa'
talking about the other night, but no on,
understood her. Rome Sentinel.


If the marriage service could only b,
SO modified and amended as to includ,
the lighting of morning fires among othe
obligations assumed by the bride. ther,
wouldn't be so many old bachelors jab
bing their fingers with darning needle
and shivering around in the cold.


John" said poverty stricken maj
to his son, "l've made my will to-day.
"Ah! you were liberal to me no doubt.
"Yes. I've done down handsomely. Nv
willed you the whole State of Vernon
Ito make living in, with the privileg
of going elsewhere If you can do better.


Coerced innocence is like an imprison
ed lark-open the door and it is off for
ever The bird that roams through th
sky and the groves unrestrained know
how to dodge the hawk and to protec
itself but the Gagged one. the moment
leaves its bars and bolts behind, j
pOunced upon by the fowler or vulture.