Year: 1873




"What changes - as Aunt Fanny


says. applies to the weather.


Tell us why it is vulgar to send


telegram? Because it is making use of


flash language.


What is the difference between a
jailor and ieweler? One watches cells,
and the other sells watches.


Chas. Hall has been appointed Vice
Chancellor of Great Britain, in place of


Sir John Wickens, deceased.


The new cantata on words from Long
fellows 'Evangeline," by George Car
ter, has met with success in England.


ats really very odd, my dear" said
an old lady one very hot day to a friend,
II can't bear the heat in summer, and
in winter l love it."


The family eseutcheon is displayed
in cOlored embroidery on the hutterlng
wells of Partisan bellies. This is to keep
the men at arms length.


Said a woman to physician, who was
weighing two grains of calomel for a
child, '.Dinna be so mean WI it !; it is
for poor fatherless BARN."


Why should a gingham umbrella
never be lent? Because those in the
habit of borrowing umbrellas are not
given to brin-gingham back again.


\ robust, elderly gentleman of North
Newbury, Me-, has had a handsome
monument erected to the memory of
himself and his still living wife, leaving
the dates of death blank.


A merchant of Shanghai, China, has
actually sent a draft to this country to
purchase tickets in a lottery. This
Shanghai will crow small and beauti-
fully less for his money.


Princess Louise, daughter of Queen
Victoria, and wife of the Marquis of
Lorne, is said to be Ornamenting her
London residence with busts and statu-
airy from her own chisel.


The Young Mems Society of Cleve-
land, who kept the gas turned low dur
ing recent lecture, evidently thought
they had every prospect of a full supply
from other sources than the meter.


The diamonds in rock-drills are usu-
ally from three-sixteeuths to five six
teenths of an inch in diameter, and are
very scarce and costly. They come
from Brazil, and are used without being
ground.


Detroit street cars are afflicted with a
ghost, in the semblance of beautiful
lady, richly dressed. The peculiar
thing about her is that when conduc-
tor appeals to her for the fare. she sud-
denly vanishes-a very pleasing and USE
full performance, indeed, and one which
would naturally be looked for in any
sensible ghost.


An angler on Trout Lake, Ontario,
lately had his hat blown away, and
while rowing hard to recover IT, was
surprised to see it spinning across the
water at tremendous rate. On over
taking it he found that large trout
had taken an artificial fly affixed to the
hat, but the line broke before the troat
could be secured.


An exchange tells us that a negro
stole carpet from a Tennessee church
and cut it up into horse blankets, and
the congregation thought person who
would do such thing was bad enough
to require immersion. So they took
him over the river to immerse him, and
all the people turned ont to see it. And
all would have gone well but for little
incident-he was held under the water
one minute too long. -


Open your watch; your eve falls on
the jewels there. But the sparkling
jewels cannot say to the modest coil of
steel beside them, eve have no need
of thee" for that is the mainspring.
And the handspring cannot say to the
tiniest cog wheel, ''We have no need of
thee" for without it the works stand
still. 1t is Just so in the Church of
Christ. One little worker can mar the
whole by failing to fulfil his Office.
There is a place for each.


The steps being taken toward the
complete union of all the musical socie-
ties in the United States for participa-
ton at the Philadelphia Centennial
seem to have n significant bearing on
the future of art. This early provision,
if matters are wisely administered, will
insure us against the repetition of the
gigantic Gilmore attempts at Boston.
Something like unity of purpose in the
choral organization of the musical ele-
ments, scattered through the country,
has long been needed, and it is well
that a sufficient motive power is now
furnished. There is no reason why a
magnificent musical festival = fully
equal, superior, indeed, to those Of
London and Manchester-should not
be one of the most remarkable attrac-
tions of the Philadelphia Exposition.


1t is curious to read, in Mr.. Mills
autobiography, that, when the manu-
script of Carlyle's ''Slrtor Resartus'
was put in his hands, he thought
slightly of it. He says: 81 did not,
Judge of Carlyle. l felt that he was
poet, and that | was not that he was
man of intuition, which L was not and
that as such he not only saw many
things long before me, which / could,
only when they were pointed out to me,
hobble after and prove, but that it was
highly probable he could see many
things which were not visible to me
even after they were pointed out. 1
knew that | could not see round him,
and could never he certain that / saw
over him; and L never presumed to
Judge him with any dehniteness until
he was interpreted to me by one greatly
superior to Us both-wh0 WIS more a
poet than he, and more q thinker than
I-whose own mind and nature included
his and infinitely more" In this last
sentence Mr.. Mill refers TO his wife, ''to
whom" lie says, ''the world can never
know how much am indebted for what
is best in my writings"


Some of the hill tribes in Northern
India, have a peculiar way of sending
their babies to sleep, which is thus de-
scribed by a correspondent of a Bombay
paper: "Near q hollow bamboo which
served as a spout, through which the
cool water of the mountain stream
poured forth in jet, was disposed the
head of an infant, who was lying COW
cred warmly and fast asleep. The bam-
boo spout was so placed that the water
played upon the croSn of the babys
had nuf,. n 1nart which scanned hal1 of