Year: 1878

Florentine will organize free singing class in Mr..
Hepworths church on Thursday evening.


CHAT BY THE WAY. :


Laziness travels SO slow that poverty can
easily catch and keep pace with it.


1t is easy teach virtue by theory and difficult to
teach it by example.


Happiness closely resembles very popular
diseaseone bright day with day Of chill and fever
on either side.


You can get with man Of hasty temper by
keeping out of his way when he is rufied. His
mania may be dangerous. but it is spasmodc. and In
the intervals Of ucidity he may be kind and friendly
But sullen had better be let alone. He was
taken i'll when he was born and he won't get 1t
till he dies. ~


Some Of the socalled pleasures Of life arc like
piper who plays badly. You give him dime to be-
gin and you would gladly give him quarter to stop.
but he won't do it.


II a man is too fluent with his promises to pay.
you may well put down the loan to profit and loss.
He spends much time in talking about his debt
that he has none left to the money to pay 1t.


Men generally get what they give. Love me and TIL
love you, is good old rule but it is no more true
than its converse-Claw me ana I'll claw you.


An instance Of the ruling passion strong in death ia
afforded by who used to bet at every opportu-
nifty The doctor and told him he could not live
two hours. The poor fellow thought moment, and
then Frightening up said, doctor, I'll bet you
bottle of champagne that I'll live three hours; and
summoning his strength no just the bet by Ave
minutes, and then died.


Some emotional people think they have religion.
and ready and willing and anxious to die when in
reality they don't even know how to live WELL When
ever we see one of these daft folk. who have bad
habit Of rolling their eyes toward the ceiling and say
ing that they wish the Lord would come right away
and take them we begin to have our doubts. It may
be carnal mindedness which induces this state Of
incredulity it may be that do not appreciate the
situation the individual. but still we have
doubts. We always recall the words Of the poet who
wrote Little Billee:"-


Oh Billy we re going to kill and eat you,
So undo the button of your chemie.
When Bill received this information
He nsed his pocket handkerchief
and we more than half suspect that when man
says he is Just good enough to die and is anxious to
flee like bird from this wicked world he really
thinks he is just good enough to live long while yet
and hopes to do it.


People ought to be careful how they ask questions
gentleman who suffered terribly from the heat died.
His minister not Of the catastrophe, and
meeting the daughter Of his former friend an
August day and thinking to have little banter.
said dwell. my dear, hope your mother is WELL
and your father-by the way how does he stand the
heat nowadays?' She was compelled to confess the
truth. that he dead. and then the question
seemed to the clergyman to be singularly inap-
proprate one
good Scotch answer is generally worth remember
ing. A little company Of Englishmen who went for
hunt to the northern moors said to the guide, John
"Are there any pheasants here ?" "They just in
thousands he replied. ANY partridges. John r.
"They just in thousands" he again replied
WELL John. are there any gorillas p mo. there is
not many gorillas here They comes and goes in
twos and threes-just like yourscls" William Black
adds "And IL was ferry good answer to the young
man.


Somebody Who signs himself Indignant" takes ex-
ception to statement that "thcre is hardly .
church in Europe that has carpets the floor any
other seats than rough pine benches coarse
straw-bottomed chairs" and would like to know
what part Of Europe was visited" since he
himself never walked on bare floor" We
proceed to give the necessary information. II he
never walked bare floor in European church
cathedral he never visited the Madeleine or Notre
Dame in Paris; never went into the Cathedral Of
Cologne, where the accommodation Ia simply execra-
ble into that Of Strasbourg; nor into the
Duomo at Florence; into st. Marks in Venice.
In England he visited the cathedras Of Chester
Durham. went into st. Pauls or Westminster,
not of which Is carpeted and not one of which
has any other than what American would call very
rude accommodation. Perhaps Indignant will, in
turn, give q few illustrations Of well upholstered
cathedrals in Europe The truth remains that no
country in the world careful to make ts religion
like sugar-coated pill pays greater attention to
the means Of an easy Sunday morning nap, than
America


The manner in which chickens will most persist
emily home to roost il very instructive at times
II is also curious fact that the little instrument
known the boomerang is 80 ingcniously contrived
that when 1t is thrown at enemy it not only hits
him hard blow, just expected, but is very apt
to fly back and hit the thrower blow. which is not
expected. England is pondcring these two facts.
and Disraeli is growing grim than he re-
calls them Russia has not. IL seems, kept her part
of the Berlin Treaty. AS member of the Greek
Church. in good standing. she ought to be ashamed
of this However she is not very unlike the rest
Of the world that any Of us need pick up the first
stone to throw at her. England suggests
that the Powers of Europe combine and
pei Russia to do her duty. which, in
sderaton of the general European rumpus that would
ensue the Powers rather hesitate TO do. But, like
bit Of magic, Gortschakoff. all clothed in Russian
sable. rises in his place and tells England that he
himself asked the Congress of Berlin TO demand
guarantees of faithful fulnlment but that Dsrae
fear they would injure his precious pets the Turks
scowicd upon and defeated him. Now. however.
when 1t is not Turkey but Russia that is ut fault,
Disrel is having attack of hystera and wants all
Europe TO combine and just wipe Russia of the map
Of the Continent In determining to make every
thing easy for Turkey, right wrong, he unwit
tingy made everything easy for Russa. So the little
chickens homeward fly, and the boomerang returns
the hand that flung 1t, with right hand rap on the
knucklcs.


Woman is Of course the of all the trouble in
the world. This is fact which every man in the
world and no woman in the world will admit. sur
geon in the United States army discovered that nine
tcnths of the in his regiment enlisted in conse-
qucnce Of female difficulty. II was not patriot
ism; II the allpcrvadng fact Of domestic trouble
that won our battles The army made mp Of re-
jccted lovers and unhappy husbands The English