Year: 1877

VIII Idke Hlckle.

 Because we love and trust ye know something of God

 The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.

 Sinful pollution is much easier communicated and spread than holi- ness,

 The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proyerb.

 "Spare the rod and spoil the house," is the motto of the light ming rod agent.

 The way people are looking after the pennies makes this the age of continent.

 People seldom improve when they have no other model than themselves to copy.

 What lovers swear-To be true unto death. What husbands swear Unfit for publication.

 No pains will be spared" as the quack said when he sawed of a patients finger to cure ielon.

 Why is coffee like an ax with q dull edge? Because it must be ground before it can be used.

 The chief aflliction of George Francis Train, is two many ideas and too much English language.

 If Augustus gives Angelina a pair of earrings, need they necessarily be called beau-Gus jewelry?

 Sleeping in church, when a con. tribution box is being passed round, is an offense which ranks high.

 When is a candle like tomb stone? When woman puts it up for her fate husband.

 A dog fight is not noble spec tacle, although it is undoubtedly a display of outrage.

 The woman who is resolved to be respected, can make herself to be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

 Our natures are like oil. Con- pound them with anything, yet still we strive to swim on top.

 Why is q rose like a barrel of flourG Because by any other name it would smell as wheat.

 A war map fell into the hands of q Chicago woman. She thought 1t was a pattern and tried to cut a chemise by it.

 A Boston man has listened to fifty-one Fourth of July oratlons. He can still sit up by leaning against something, but he is delirlous at times.

 Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week to see what mean on the seventh.

 There is this of good in real evils they deliver us while they last from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

 Many men profess to hate another, but no man owns envy as being an enmity for no cause but goodness or felicity.

 The old saying is expressed with depth and significance Ion the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm"

 We do not know of how much a man is capable, if he has the will, and to what point he will rise if he feels free.

 Any work, no matter how humble, that man honors by efficient labor, will be found important enough to secure respect for himself and credit for his home.

 ''It is we'll to leave something for those who come after us," as man said when he threw a barrel in the way of constable who was chasing him.

 A Yankee editor wishes no bodily harm to hls subscribers, but he hopes that some of them in arrears will be seized with "remittant" fever.

 lc CuccIlui arc tuC puoy. W hSh trouble knocks at your door, or rings the bell, he will generally retire If you send him word you are engaged.

 A loving spirit, in order to feel a joy himself, readily discerns the little joys of the poor, malignant heart spies out their miseries, not to lessen their amount but that he may grumble at the rich.

 "Don't show my letters" wrote a Rockland young man to q young lady whom he adored. Don't be afraid" was the reply; "fm just as much ashamed of them as you are"

 "Thought I'd leave my measure on your floor" said a man who fell down in bar-room. "No necessity for that" said the bar-keeper, "we know exactly how much you hold"

 Great uprising of the Poles" was the startling news sent from Russia the other day. A telegraph compa- ny had been recently started and the poles for the wires were just being erected--that IS all.