Year: 1877

MUCH of the charity that begins at


home is too feeble to get out of doors.


As you cannot avoid your own COM


pany, make it as good as possible.


PHILADELPHIA is the greatest Ameri-


can city in its line. Its line is borning


marrying and dying.


ALL other signs may fail; but when


you see a woman with q straw hat on her
head, a drop of whitewash on her nose,
and an expression of great executive
ability on her features you may bet that
the season of ethereal mildness is at
hand.


"LET me see," says the nurse of a
sick man, "the doctor said one teaspoon
full every ten minutes; that makes six
every hour, say twenty-five during the
night. l shall give seventy-two spoon
fuls right away, and have a chance tOget
little sleep myself.


A WOMAN recently entered store and
sat down in front of an iron safe TO warm
her feet. After sitting some twenty or
thirty minutes, she remarked that she
"neVer did like them kind of stoves,
they don't throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas burners don't"


The first thing young man does on
seeing friend with new hat on is to
take it of and serenely try it on his own
head. When young lady sees an ac-
quaintance with hel new bonnet on, she
just lifts her nose and serenely wonders
:" where the thing got that fright"


HERE'S another warning: A man
down town refused TO stay home after an
early supper and help his wife white
wash the back yard fence, and his black
hair turned white in less than a minute.
His wife's painful awksrdness with the
whitewash brush caused the sudden
change.


LITTLE four-year-old Lulu was very
much afraid in the dark, and for that
reason had great dread of bed time.
Complaining of this to friend one day,
she was told that if she would remember
always that darkness and light are
alike to God" she would no longer be
afraid. The next morning, upon enter
ing the breakfast roem, the little one ex-
Well, Mrs. -, l was 'fraid
agin last night" Why, how was thatP'
asked the lady, "did you not remember
what told you ?" ooh, yes, replied
Lulu " 'membered 1t, but the 'fraid is
in me, and can't be got out of me-"


"SUPPosE, says DIR. Siemens, "water-
power TO be employed to give motion to
a dynamo electrical machine, very
powerful current is the result. This
NAV be carried to a great distance
through a large metallic conductor, and
there be made to impart motion to electro
engines, to ignite the carbon
points of electric lamps, or to effect the
separation of metals from their ores. A
copper rod Of three inches diameter
would be capable of transmitting 1000
horse power a distance of say thirty
miles, an amount sufficient TO supply
100000 candle-power, which would be
TO illuminate a moderate sized
own" Some of these days it will not
)e surprising to find the above sugges-
ions carried into practical effect by in
'entOrs in places where the necessary
conditions are favorable.


To BE perfectly natural is TO be well
red and, contradictory as it may seem,


quite believe that natural manner may
,e cultivated Just as well as an artificial
me. Affection and self.consciousness are
.lways displeasing, and, unfortunately,
hey often prevent most estimable per
ons being appreciated, as from their
many good qualities they deserve to be.
f we look around us, and note who are
he most popular of our acquaintances,
re shall find that it is rarely the hand
omest, the cleverest, or most accomp-
shed, but invariably those who have the
Apply talent of being able to forget
themselves. These might be endowed
Nth fairy wands, 80 manifold are their
owers of charming. They make the
ilent talk, the grave merry, and those
yeighed down with sorrow put away
heir grief. Such are ever welcome, for
y their ready sympathy they can adapt
themselves to any society; and in the art
entertaining others they are simply
erfection, for they make their friends
el that they have really come out to
ljoy themselves, and not merely fer the
Ike of fulfilling an irksome social duty.