Year: 1876

WITHOUT content we shall find it al
most as difficult to please others as our
selves.


BEFORE the middle of the seventeenth
century tea was not used in England,
and was entirely unknown to the Greeks
and Romans.


AFAMILY in town have a dog twenty
five years old. He was originally hound,
but he stayed with them so long that
they call him tarrier.


REMEMBER" said trading Quaker
to his son. " in making thy way in the
world, spoonful of oil will 60 further
than a quart of vinegar"


"PATRICK, where's the whisky gave
you to clean the windows with 7" "Och,
master, just drank it and thought if
I Ibreathed on the glass it would be all
the samew


SOME persons are capable of making
great sacrifices, but few are capable of
concealing how much the effort has cost
them, and it is this cOncealment that
constitutes their value.


BEAUTIFUL, yes; but the blush will fade,


The light grow dim which the blue eyes wear;


The gloss will vanish from curl and braid,


And the sunbeam die in the waving hair.


Treasures Of loveliness still to last;


Gather earth's glory and bloom within,


That the soul may be bright when youth Is past.


OUR life, like the harmony of the
world, is composed of contrary things, OF
various tones, sweet and harsh, sharp
and fiat, sprightly and solemn. And the
musician who should only effect one of
these, what would he be able to do?


The newspapers are. making fun of q
Grand Rapids reporter because he said
that Mr.. Colfax began his lectures with
a peroration. That's nothing. A Mis-
souri, man recently spoke of lecture in
his town as being full of eloquent perora-
tiOns.


IT is said that when clergyman in
Western Massachusetts, recently inquired
of certain lady if she was ready to give
up worldly pleasures" she answered by
asking him If he was ready to give up
chewing tobacco in the presence of Ia,
diesp


ICLAspED her tiny hand in mine; 1
clasped her beauteOus form; vowed to
shield her from the wind, and from the
worlds cold storm. She set her beaute-
Gus eyes on me the tears did wildly
flow; and with her little lips she said,
".COniound you, let me CO."


A YOUNG minister who once officiated
for Robert Hall was much chagrined
that no notice was taken of his sermon.
Anxious to obtain the great orators
opinion, he said, "I don't think wearied
the people by the length of my sermon"
"NO," said Robert Hall, nor its depth


BISMARCK is relentless enemy. He is
now moving to have Won Arnim tried for
treason, and the prosecutor has already
moved for the sequestratiOn of the estate
of the ex-Minister to France. The Ger
man Chancellor plays bold game, and,
it must be said, generally plays it we'll.


A CONNECTICUT lady was attacked by
a rabid dog the other day, and saved her
self by dropping water from pail she
was carrying before the dog. Always
carry pail of water around with you as
a protection against mad dogs. Or per-
haps q fire extinguisher, neatly polished
and strapped to the back day and night,
would serve the purpose as well.


INNOCENCE and ignorance are sisters,
but they are noble and vulgar sisters.
Vulgar innocence and ignorance are
mortal; they have pretty faces, but
wholly without expression, and of a
transient beauty; the noble sisters are
immortal, their lofty forms are un-
changeable, and their countenances are
still radiant with the light of Paradise.


STICK to your trade, boys, and learn to
work, it, you would be truly independent.
There is not more pitiful sight than
halflearned mechanic applying for work.
He is always at the foot of the hill, and,
labor as he may, unless he has attained
the years of his majority, he will never
be perfect, and can calculate on poverty
as his portion with good deal of GER