Year: 1878




! now beats gong for hotel.
: Lord Palmerstone once said, speak.


ing of the Turks "What energy can
be expected of people with no heels


TO their shoes ?"


, The prejudices of ignorance are more
: easily removed than the prejudices Of
interest; the first are blindly adopted,
the second willfully preferred.
! Some one seeing two or three emf
! nent lawyers gathered together on the
site OF the New Law Courts said that
they had met to view the grounds


where they must shortly lie.
, An elevated purpose is a good and
J ennobling thing, but we cannot. begin
at the top OF it, We must work up to
il by the often difficult path of daily
duty always carefully performed.


"Does our constant chatter disturb
you ?" asked one of the three talkatlvc
ladies of sober looking fellow passen.
ger "No, ma'am I've been married
nigh on thirty years. was the reply.


We never can tell what's going to
happen in this world. The girl who
this year is working zephyr dogs on a
young mans slippers may next year
be working half soles on the old mans
pants.


An Irishman on board a vessel when
she was on the point of laundering be-
ing desired to come on deck as she was
going down, replied that he had no
wish to come on deck to see himself
drowned.


country clergyman, seeing a young
man standing IN the doorway of
church and looking hesitatingly about
paused in the middle of his sermon, and
exclaimed "Get out, young man she
is not here r.


The toast master who delivered the
following is dead now "Old bache-
lors like sour cider they grow more
grabbed the longer they are kept, and
when they sec little mother they turn
vinegar at once.


Common sense has been defined TO
be the average intellect and conscience
of the civilized world-that portion of
intelligence, morality, and Christianity
which has been practically embodied
in life and active power.


"A pain forgotten is pain cured
is proverb we have never heard, but
we think il would be good one. We
know more than one person who cher
ishes ailments, and of them makes
neveriailing topic of conversation,
which is never agreeable, and ceases to
be interesting to others after a time.


Radcliffe attended an intimate friend,
declaring that he would receive no fee.
When the cure was complete the pa
tent said 81 have put every days fee
in this purse, my dear doctor; nor
must your goodness get the better of
my gratitude" ''Well," said the doc
tor, "single could have refused the
guineas, but altogether they are ire
sistable."


1t was at the funeral of family. A
neighbor in the ohurchyard while the
service was going on inside, was speak.
ing of the deceased, and took advan-
tage OF the opportunity "An' be had
just got in his coal and potatoes for the
winter. Ii is q sad case.p


"Can you help me a little 2" said a
tramp, poking his head into a little
shop, "Why don't you helpyourself2"
said the proprietor angrily. "Tbank
you, will, said the tramp, as he
picked up bottle of whisky and two
loaves of bread, and disappeared like a
lightning streak, followed by half q
dozen Jumps of coal.


A certain physician on the public
square has large card hung up in his
Office with these words printed there.
on "Book agents and peddlers charg-
cd S. an hour for conversation" The
other day book agent came, and was
just beginning rigmarole about "the
latest and pest work on" when the
physician pointed to the card. lie
read the words over but once, when
he handed the physician a s5 bill, and
was about to commence operations
again, when the man OF medicine said
"Take q chair, please, and keep your
money Hand me your subscription
Derrinpers





There is, to our thinking, great
difference between religious experience
and experience in religion. The form
er may exist in one who has made but
little progress in the divine life, and
whose profession is far in advance Of
his possession. But the latter is the
life OF the true disciple of Christ. The
entire body of believers falls into these
two classes, the mere professionals, and
the people OF severe and self-chosen
discipline. The former are dead
weight upon the church, and are so
deiiclent IN the cardinal qualities of
true Christian life that they cannot
even see their own weakness and for
maiity the latter are the horses Of the
present living church, its standard-bear-
ers, its noblest spirits, who are today
all the great triumphs OF
Christendom, and from whom are to
come all the vitality and power and
beauty OF the church of the future.


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IN tnis Ine, our helps often harden
IN ,n'o nlnurancos Iirn france & but we are coming