Year: 1876

/ but he may learn mucH II ne VIII oHiy
listen.


The great art is not to know how to
make money but to know how 10 use i
after it is made.


It is often quite as fatal for q man 90
have too poor an opinion Of himself as to
have too great one.


St. Joseph HlraId: The Maidens
PRAYER is offered in q standing position
nowadays, on account Of the pih-backs.


Gentlemen contemplating matrimony
will please remember that the 29th Of
February would save a great deal in the
way of anniversaries.


Serious objection is made to the new
style of stockings in which the stripes run
lengthwisc. It takes too much mud to
show the full pattern.


Mrs. Wiehaus, German woman living
in Lawrence, Mass. recently became the
mother of five children Of one birth, and
at last accounts mother and children rcre
all alive.


Everyone has some private sorrow of
their own which they think can't be beat,
but they would hardly be able to swop it
off with any of their neighboIs without
getting cheated.


} Booklyn is the home Of a charming
girl with face so sunny and allurina that
an old gentleman recently said Of her,
''If kisses had been entirely unknown, she
would have invented them"


s'I-wish might die, said a sentiment
al maid as She stood rubbing the shonl-
der of her dress with bcnzine; ard yet
the very next time he came she let him
/ lay his head in the same spot.


What's the difference between a profane
man and an old topper? Only that
the one swear. oftentimes in the course
of a month and the other swears oil ten
times during the same period


A writer in Fraser remarks that a man
/ is a man, whether he be bachelor Or benz
edlct; whereas woman may only be
properly so called when she has fulfilled
her destiny as wife and mother.


IF there is anybody under the canister
of heaven that have in utter cNcrescence, '
says Mrs Partington, lit IS the SANDER
going about like boy constructor, circu-
lating his calomcl upon honest folks


The young French ladies do not iu
skating time exchange a word with their
pardncrs. When they fall however,
they are permitted to mention the French
for ouch in the presence Of a gentle
man.


The German woman is described as 'ab-
Il
the frivolitv Of the French, the freedom
of the English, and the fearless strides
and absolute independence Of the Ameri-
can women


self-respecting young ladies now wear
very narrow bracelets, and great many
of them on one arm, covering il up almost
to the elbow. Indeed, the more discreet
maidens say that less than seven brace
lets is hardly modest.


Here is a sample of the way an Amerj-
can local tells that a Young Frenchman
killed his father: "a young man was re-
Gently sentenced to he executed in France
for eXemptng himself from military ser
vice by becoming the son of q widow.


Philadelphia papers claim that the
=
sition will present the entire range of
womens achievements from the fig leaf
era down to the last holT bcforc the
grounds are thrown open to the public.


doctor" SAID a sick man, what is the
matter with me-" "Ccrebro-spinal men
ingitis, said the doctor, solemnly. "0h,
cried tile patient, With a sigh and instantly
tell back and expired No man could be
expected to hold out against such disease
as that. lie died of dictionary.


Did it ever occur to YOU kind mammas,
asks tie thoughtful Boston Trfaser. pt,
while trotting your babies on your laps in
such vigorous way, that il some giant
about ten times your size, We're TO trot You
in n similar style, the breath would nc
very apt to be jounced out of YOU:


Wilkie Collins is said to be the author
of this valuable hint No other pursuit
is 50 hostile to the influence Of the female
sex as the pursuit of athletic sports No
men are so entirely beyond the reach of
women rs the men whose lives are spent
in the cultivation Of their own physical
strength.


/ An old Baptist minister, says the reli-
oious Herald, enforced the necessities of
difference Of opinion by argument:-
Now, if everybody had been Of my
opinion they would all have wanted my
old woman" One of the doacons who
sat just behind him responded. "Yes:
and if everybody was OF my opinion, no
body would have her"


In letter to his friends at home, an in
telligent foreigner states that when Il
great man dies in the United States, the
first thing done Is to propose fine statue
in his honor; next, TO raise part of the nee
cssary money; next, TO forget to order
any statue and last, to wonder what be
came of the money" The remark shows
close observation and clear judgment


"Whcre are YOU goiug." said young
gentleman to an elderly one in white
cravat, whom he overlook few miles
from Little Rock Il am going to heaven,
my son. | have been on the way eighteen
years" "Well, good bye, old fellow, if
YOU have been travelling toward heaven
eighteen years and got no nearer to ii than
Arkansas, I'll take another route.


4 crossing sweeper was trying to get Il
gratulty from an excessively dandiied
individual, who, in resisting urged that
he had no change, nothing but 4 twenty
dollar bill. Il can get it changed for
yer" said the youngSter, On seeing the
dandy hesitate as if from fear of trusting
hlm with a twenty-dollar bill, he put it
again, IF yer doubts my honor, hold
my broom


Mrs John Adams was m early advocate
for woman's rights She wrote to her
husband at Il critical time, as follows:
DO not put such unlimited power into
the hands of the husbands. Remember
all men would be tyrants if they could
If particular care and attention is not
paid to the ladies, we are determined to
torment rebellion, and will not hold our
selves bound by any laws in which We
have no voice or representation"


The Hartofd Times tells of smart
Connecticut stump speaker who was
haranguing a crowd in Fairfield County
when the effect of one Of his strong
points was terribly broken by a hawling
exclamation from half-drunken fellow
in the crowd who sung out: oh, you're
demagegue!" The orator fixed his eye
upon the fellow. and pausing just mo
ment to fix the attention of the audience
and give his response the more effect,
merely answered. with one of his own