Year: 1877

You can't sell Tweed suit of clothin


in Detroit, even though the salesman de-


clares it a Boss suit.


THE popular road to a suffering people


heart in this Ted-hot weather leads


through fifteen-minute sermon,


No man can see fashionable lady


make a wild dive for the bottom of her


dress without fearing for the moment


that she is going to use her train to knock


a fly off her bonnet.


YOUNG people, this is a good time to
get married. A new kind of bracket is


made out of paper, looks exactly like


walnut, and only costs S1.S0 a dozen.
And you don't need anything beside
! good assortment of brackets to go to
Housekeeping with.


IT was at a party, and another fellow
had marched triumphantly off with his
girl. "That's the way" said he sadly;
/" it isn't merit that wins in the world
it's brass watch-chains and paste dia-
monds and dyed moustaches." And he
swallowed down his Adams apple fully
three times before it would stay; such
was his grief.


"MY DEAR" said an affectienate wife
to her husband, as she looked out of the
window, "do you notice how green and
beautiful the grass looks on the neigh
boring hills ?'' "Well," was the un-
poetic response, "what other color would
you have it at this time of year,"


A PLEASANT item for persons who
don't like smokers is published in Paris.
OF twins, one was given a pipe and
taught to smoke in infancy. 1t kept up
the vice to the age of manhood. It's
brother, on the other hand, acquired the
tobacco habit. The unfortunate smoker
now has the appearance of a puny child,
and is stunted both in mind and body,
while the uncontaminated twiE is a
large, strong, healthy man.


The safety-board of the town of Ca
naan, Conn, in 1776, sentenced Hannah
Capron to be publicly whipped; 20 lashes
on the naked body, 10 be branded on
her forehead, wear rope around her
neck during life; and to be whipped 20
lashes every time she was seen with the
rope off, because she had left her husband
and taken up with Joseph Lincoln. The
safety-board of the town of Canaan did
nothing whatever TO Joseph Lincoln.


New YORK Mail: Sunday morning
Miss May Murphy, after preparing her
self for church, called to her father to
accompany her. Scarcely were the words
out of her mouth when she dropped TO
the floor in fainting fit, and in less
than a quarter of an hour she was
corpse. Physicians were summoned, but
their services proved useless, and Miss
Murphy's death resulted from heart dis
ease, superinduced by tight lacing


TUE rainfall is measured by means of
an instrument called a rain-guage, which
consists generally of a funnel opening
for collecting the rain as it falls, and a
smaller tube below, into which the cob
lected water runs. Suppose the funnel
opening be ten inches diameter, then,
because the areas efcircles are proportional
to the squares of their diameters, the
part of an inch of rainfall
would fill the tube to the depth of one
inch. and very small quantity of rain
could be measured accurately. In prac-
tice the ratio between the dimensions
is not generally so great as above stated,
but the principle is the same. The rain
is collected into a smaller area of base
than the area on which it falls, and this
has the double advantage of
permitting accurate measurement and
having a small surface from which the
water can be lost by evaporation. The
rain-gauge should not, be placed in a
sheltered locality, and its height above
the ground should be no greater than
sufficient for due exposure and safety.
Strictly speaking, the average rainfall
IF whole county will seldom be exactly
equal to that of any one spot in the
county; but unless the location of the
be improperly chosen, the diff
erence will be small. The gauge is
Usually examined at the same hour every
lay, and the water emptied out after
laYinp been measured.