Year: 1876

Nor every one who has the gift of
speech understands the value of silence.


The difference between a baby and an
overcoat is /: one you was, and the other
you wear.


CRUsrY says that the list of marriages
in the newspapers ought to be put under
the head of" Ring Frauds"


YOUNG swell-a I should like 10 have
my mustache dyed" Polite barber
" Certainly. Did you bring it with your


FoRTY-sEvEN million pins are made
daily in the United States, and yet ifa,
man wants one he has to turn the house
upside down to get it.


WOMAN has many advantages over
man; one of them is that his will has no
operation till he is dead, whereas hers
generally takes effect in her life time.


WE look at death through the cheap
glazed windows of the flesh, and believe
him the monster which the fawed and
cracked glass represents him.


The Lord all creatures, fortunes rules;


None, weak or strong his might defies;
He makes the young and simple wise;
The wise and learned he turns to fools.


-AdhdbhdUdtta.
RossEAU says: "To write good
| love letter you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean TO say and to
finish without knowing what you have
written"


RICHARD GRANT WHITE says there is
no such thing as Gin our midst" but we
would like to know where he locates the
pain that makes paregoric popular
berage among the young


THERE is never a miser who does not
intend to make handsome expenditure,
some day; death comes, and the inten-
tion is carried out by his heir. This is
the history of more than one king of my
acquaintance.


A LADY gave recently the following
opinion of nice young man, according
to her own thinking: ooh, ] think he'd
make an excellent stranSer-one that
you'd never become acquainted with,
you know"


They were talking Of a death when
one man asked What were his last
wurds?' "He didn't say anything" was
the reply. That's just like him." said
the first man with an approving nod;
there was no gas about him. lie was
all business"


AN Irishman went to the theater for the
first time. Just as the curtain descended
on the first act, an engine in the base
ment exploded and he was blown through
the roof, coming down in the next street.
After coming to his senses he asked,
can what piece do yez play mkt"


Miss ANTOINETTE FOLK, a daughter
of the late soldier-bshop OF Tennessee
Leonidas Polk-and niece of the late
President Polk, was a belle, last winter,
of society in Rome. She is "The One
Fair Woman" of joaquin Miller's latest
romance.


KEEP your conscience tender-tender
as the eye that closes its lids against an
atom of dust, or as that sensitive plant
which you have seen shrink and shut its
leaves, not merely nj the rude touch of
finger, but at the breath of a moth.


IN his address, read at her grave.
Victor Hugo said George sand will
be the pride Of our age and our country.
Nothing was wanting in that glorious
woman. She had the heart of a Barbes,
the wit of BaIzac and the soul of
Lamartine."


GEORGE G.. WHITTIER. seventy years
of age, rode into Biddeford, Me-, the
other day, attired in the regimentals
which he used to wear to general train
ing" fifty years ago. Some rude boys
threw stones at his horse, the old man
was thrown off and received injuries from
which he shortly died.