Year: 1878




hole for spell, and the busy spelling bee
comes forth for another spell.


If the money spent for alcohol and to-
bacco was given to the poor. there would
be no suffering because of hard times"


A cat finds IFS own tail by looking
around for something to play with. From
just such trifling causes the greatest dis
coveries of all ages have been made.


A clergyman asked some children.
"Why do we say in the Lords prayer,
who art in Heaven since God is every
where?" a little drummer hoy answered,
Because its headquarters.
1t is our duty to confer all the happi.
ness we can on those about u.s. Where
fore it is incumbent upon every father
10 give his boy n three dollar pair of
boots, Il twenty cent knife and circus
ticket.


lie lives in the country, and wanted to
get married, but his remark was applica-
bic even unto the youth of the city / can
almost support myself now, and it must
be mighty poor sort of II woman who
cant do the rest. Is there n father and
mother who wish to take another boarder?


Dnrng the present year four of the rich
est men of San Francisco or of the Pacific
slope have died, and through their death
money to the amouot of $4,000, 900 has
been distributed into other channels.
These men were Mark Hopkins, William
5. o Bricn, Michael Reese, and David d.
Cotton.





Within II few years there has been dis
covered the exact canon of Egyptian art
applied to the human figure, described by
Dlodorus, based on II division of the human
body into twenty parts. Figures have
been found which served as models and
rules for artists, with the divisions of
length carefully marked out. 1t is not
strange that such rules utterly ruin the
freedom of art and produced the stiffness
of Egyptian sculpture.


WHEN PARENTS STAY AT HoME-When
parents themselves stay at home on the
sabbath owing to fatigue, or because they
can not anticipate very spicy entertain
ment, and prefer the stupidity of sleep, the
vacuity Of idle thoughts, or the columns
Of the story paper, they can not wonder
that their children are Indifferent to the
house of God, and spend the Sabbath in
play, or perhaps in roaming the streets
and learning the lessons of wickedness
which are taught there Watchman.


A man met n burlington boy walking
toward town on the Agency road eating
an apple. How many apples have you?
asked the man. The boy replied. One
half as many apples rs have eaten, add
ed to twice as many as am going to eat,
less five that II bigger boy took away from
me, divided by two-thirds the number |
dropped in the orchard when | saw the
dog, plus six which ate on the orchard
fence before the man saw me, will equal
one,ffth of I'LL that tried to get How
many apples did he have?


THE FINGER NAMs-Thc growth of the
nails is more rapid in children than in
adults and slowest in the aged; it goes on
faster in summer than in winter, so that
the same nail which is renewed in 1872
days in winter requires only ll6 in sum-
mcr. The increase Of the nails of the right
hand is more rapid than those of the left;
moreover it differs for the different fingers,
and in order corresponds with the length
of the finger, consequently it is the fastest
in the middle finger, nearly equal in the
two on either side of this, slower in the
little finger and slowcst in the thumb.
rhc growth of I'LL the nails on the left
hand requires eighty days more than those
Of the ri ght.-N Y. Graphic.