Year: 1878

Make little fence of trust


Fill the space with loving work


And therein stay.


Look not through the sheltering bars


Trust will help thee bear what comes


Of joy or sorrow.


A MAN who always hangs up his hat,
puts the bootjack away, hangs his coat
on one particular peg, and lays his socks
on the back of a chair on going to bed,
is not man who will put in ten hours
a day unless watched.


Bob INGERSoLL asked a preacher
whether the fatted calf was male or fe-
male. Female" of course, replied the
preacher, " for l am now talking to the
male" which was considered an excel
lent sell on the wicked Bob.


A MINISTER did wedding ceremony
cup brown" the other day when he
married Mr.. David L. Brown, brown
haired man, clothed in brown suiting, to
Miss Minnie Brown, a brown-eyed
maiden, likewise dressed in brown.


HORNETS have more fight in them
than anything of their size, but there is
no method in their madness; they will
pitch into a meeting house when they
are furious just as anxiously as they
will into sleeping baby in its cradle.
A sALooN-KEEPER, having started
business in building where trunks had
been made, asked a friend what he had
better do with the old sign, "Trunk
Factory" "Oh," said the friend, "just
change the T to D, and it will suit you
exactly"


PRIDE is as loud a beggar as want,
and a great deal more saucy. When you
have bought one fine thing you must buy
ten more, that your appearance may be
all of piece; but it is easier to sup
press the first desire than to satisfy all
that follow it.


A CLAIRvoYANT told woman in
Mankato, Mimi, who had lost a fur
cape, that she had dreamed that neigh
Dor, respectable woman, had stelen it.
The loser, acting on the dream, accused
the neighbor of the theft, but nothing
was turned up except libel suit.


AN exchange has this startling piece
Of intelligence: Nothing will be worn
this spring by the fair sex, except
longitudinal striped hose" We pre-
sumo this attractive though somewhat
picturesque costume will not become the
rage until the warm weather sets in.
A CHICAGO sewing-machine girl went
to Colorado few years ago and married
a man who has since died, leaving her
fortune of 100000 and 10000 head
of cattle, and yet, no doubt, many sew
ing machine girls will remain here in
the smoky city, and marry men who
will live till the cemeteries are all
crowded, and never own goat.-Ct'l-
cinnati Breakfast Table.


OH wish were tiny browny bird from out the
| south,


Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by
| the stream;


would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny
| mouth,


And sing my tiny life away in melodious
| dream.


1 would sing about the blossoms, and the sunshine
| and the sky,


And the tiny wife meant to have in such cozy
| nest;


And some one ne. came and shot me dead why ther


With my tiny life and tiny song just ended al


their best. Charles KINGSLEY.


AN unpleasant way of putting the
thing was innocently adopted by the
New York car-driver, who, blissfully
ignorant that his interlocutor was Mr.
Beecher, replied to that gentleman:
query whether he did not think it posi-
BILE to dispense with running the cars al
day on Sunday: eyes, sir, do; bu
there's no hope for it so long as the!
keep that Beecher theater open in Brook
lyn; the cars have to run to accom-
modate that"