Year: 1877

To aid him in breaking off the habit of
tobacco. chewing, an Onondage County
man had all his teeth extracted.


To worship is to woman always
sweeter than to be worshiped. To wer-
ship one must look up; to be worshiped,
one must look down.


WE should always be very careful on
whom we confer benefits; for if we be-
stow them on the base-minded, it is like
water into the sea.


AN old bachelor seeing the word
families supplied" over the door of
shop, stepped in and said he would take
a wife and two children.


"Ho, all ye dyspeptics!" says patent
medicine advertisement. If all the
dyspeptics would hoe regularly their
number would be reduced.


DANBURY Neaus: Professor Proctor
says the earth is growing larger. We
are glad to hear it, for real estate has
shrunk fearfully in the past three years.


AN Irish guide told DR.. James john
son, who wished for reason why echo
was always in the feminine gender, that
"may be it was because she always had
the last word"


CHARLES KINGSLEY said he did not
see why we should not be as just to an
ant as to human being. Human beings
don't get up your trousers leg when you
are at picnic and scare you within two
eetof eternity.


The following epitaph appears on
tombstone in Connecticut: "Here lies
the body of Jonathan Richardson, who
never sacrificed his reason at the altar of
supersIion's god, and who never believed
that jonah swallowed whale"


LA CROSSE Sun: If the girl that bor-
rowed our ulster overcoat to be Queen
of May in, and our buffalo overshoes,
will return the same, nothing will be
said about the red flannel bandage she
wore around her neck.


The best way to keep out wicked
thoughts is always to be employed in
some good ones. Let your thoughtsbe
where your happiness is, and let your
hearts be where your thoughts are;
so, though your habitation is on earth,


your conversation will be in heaven.


DANBURY Nears: There is a peculiarly


subtitle influence to peanuts. Even the


man who is sure he doesn't like them


will reach after them as long as there are


any in range, and will even look around


in some anxiety. after the last one is


consumed. to see if there is not another


left.


A BLACKwELL's ISLAND prisoner es-


capped in this way: He took lager beer


keg, knocked out one of the headings,


and bored air holes in the other. Then


he stuck his own head into the keg and


Jumped into the water. Those who saw


the keg in the water had no idea that


there was a man under it.


A JoNEsBoRo, Pa, paper is RESPONSE


BILE for the statement that, few days
ago, while the sun was shining brightly


and the sky was clear, lump of snow
weighing one hundred and fifty pounds
suddenly fell to the earth and remained
unmelted for several days, during which
time it was visited by curious crowds.
IN the absence of any political excite
ment the New Hampshire newspapers
are engaged in trying to discover the
person who has the largest hand in the
State. At present the distinction rest


with the citizen of an interior town, wht
, has performed the interesting feat o
> holding twenty-eight eggs in the palm o
his open hand.


q In the light of a recent event the Bos
e Traveller says: Better give the baby {
: rattle. He can get lots of fun out of {


revolver, but it is apt to go of, and hur


somebody. When you see the baby il
the back yard with revolver, and a re
y porter looking over the fence an'
l whistling, I" 1 hear an angel calling" it
as we'll to go out and take the weapol
:. away from the child.


Dom PEDRO does not always "applau
e in the proper places" He attended
y lecture in an Italian city recently, bu
q fell asleep while it was in progress. d
, was awakened by Storm of applause
. and thinking it was in acknowledgment
# cf some wise or brilliant saying of th
n lecturer, he joined heartily in th
% demonstration, at the same time endea,
a oring to give his face an intensely inte
" ested appearance. The general applaus'
# however, was invoked by a tribute
K the Brazilian Emperor, and Dom Pedr
v just woke in time to applaud himself.


THERE is said to be a paper churc