Year: 1878

cat" by Mercadante. will be sung. and Rev. G. 7.
Olmstead will preach.


CHAT BY THE WAY.


There is q very suggestive proverb which declares
that There great many with short ears"


Every man roof Q little of Paradise.
unless he has a scolding wife. in which the
climate changes.


1t is easier for a tipper to go by adramshop when
he is thirsty than for Christian to go out into the
rain without taking some ones umbrella.


One active tongue can keep two ears full all the
time and only feel that it is taking healthy exercise


The dying words of President Raymond ought to be
written on the sky:-"How easy-how easy it is to
glide from work here to our work there"


One half Of the misery of human life comes from
the imagination. and half of the other half may be
overcome by strong will, and the whole Of it by
faith.


1t was Wordsworth who sang Of


That best portion of good man life,


His little nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness


and of love.


It is not true that women make better firemen than
men simply because they wear longer hose


There are three lights. First, the sun; second the
moon and third ourseves and the greatest Of these
in our judgment. is ourselves


There some dcluded people in the world. not Of
the blue ribbon Sort who seem to think there is q
close connection between q laugh and ''smile.'' A
little practical experience. however. in of the
ways Of life teaches them that while the man who
laughs is very jolly. the man who "smies" is very
apt to wake up the next morning with bad head
ache


Sermons, 1t is sagely said when they effective.
like the eyes Of portrait the WALL which
to be looking at everybody in the room. Let add
what is equally true, that bad is like the
eye Of who squints, for wherever you stand it
is always looking the other way.


Mr.. Talmsge says that If he could only convert all
the telegraph operators and all the editors the whole
earth would hear salvation's call in twenty-four
hours. He simply means by this, of course, that
every telegrapher would take his religion on tick
tick. and that every editor would issue an extra
with account Of Tamages little expedition to New
York in it. illustrated by diagrams. anything can
reconcile to the total depravity which prevails
among newspaper and the telcgraphc corps it is
this statement Talmage taken in still larger doses.
the slime of New York spread all the country is
too horrible to think of.


The Baptists at of their late meetings came TO
the conclusion that ministers ought to read the Bible
lesson dramatically If they had said that the
Bible oslght to be read more understandingly they
would have hit the nail the head. We have heard
ministers read it though they neither knew nor
cared the meaning Of the text 1t is necessary
to put airs in the pulpit to strike attitudes,
to roll up the eyes, or to mouth q sentence in
the tones Of basso profondo neither is IL necessary
to take quite all the sense out of passage by reading
It badly. The Bible must be of Divine origin or it
could not have stood the awful strain Of ordinary
clerical cocution during the last nineteen centuries
But the criticism applies to the sermon as well.
II should describe horse which he has to sell
in the utterly Indifferent tone in which he talks about
his religion he would have to keep tho animal until
he died of old age


Neal Dow, the great temperance rcformcr Of Maine,
had narrow escape the other day. For whole gen.
Grafton he has been regarded consistent tectotal
ler. But tramp solcmnly sworc that he and Neal
Dow stood at the counter and imbibcd brandy
and water. Things looked little serious for while
and the temperance folk in that far-of region felt
that even the greatest of will in while have
q fall. The tramp, however. on the cross-cxamina-
ton explained that he drank the brandy and Neal
Dow the water and the whole STATE of Maine breathcd
freely once more.


What is commonly known In good society as ..pop-
ping the question is proceeded with in large va
riety Of ways according 20 temperament and oppor-
tunity. Sometimes it seems to be very easy Of ac-
complishment, and then again very difficult. Tho
shadow Of n cypress tree or moonlight walk or
sleigh ride is eagerly seized by lovers az aorling
them the chance 10 get over bucir trcmulOuS uncer
tainty The Scotchmans method. however, was more
unique than any we have heard of. The kirk was
out and he said. Mary, wal yc TAX n turn ?" They
walked through tho graveyard inspecting the various
Inscriptions until at last they stood by the lot where
Sandy = family were buried lie took her hand in his
and said. my fowk lie there. Mary wad yc like to
lie there yersc p She concluded that was az good
a rssting place any and 40 married into the family
and In due time buried among Sandy's "fowk"


History Is bent on repeating ITSELF and wo shall
find out by aud by that it is safer to let IL have its
own way. Several thousand years ago-or, according
20 the gospel of Huxley, several million years agoit
was the custom when warrior died TO bury his bow
aud arrow spear in the grave. We never quite
dcrstood why this done. but recent events have
taught us that pliocene forcfathers saga
cious and wise, and that IL expect to lie
quietly In tho cemetery had better reinstitnte the
old custom. II has become absolutely necessary to
deposit in the grave of every who dies nowadays


revolver all primed and cooked. that body may de-
fcnd itself from burglars.


The sweet soprano in your church choir who alb