Year: 1876

ARE you going 10 give thanks Thurs
dayH


lF you have no turkey, don't you Kill
your rooster for Thanksgiving.


SHAKESPEARE in horticulture-"Thsi
which We cauiaower, by any other name
would smel! as sweet"


YoUNa ladies, The new shade ID
antique purple" 1t is about the tint OF
AL election eye two days old.


RID rs rose is she,' applies now 8.
| days, Ia every woman on the street
that is, every woman who goes in for
| dress.


A YOUNG woman being asked by a
politician which party che was in favor Of
replied, that she preferred wedding
party.


SOCRATES says that "the hottest love
has the coolest end" Xantippe had
probably made the old man sit on the
door-steps all night.
NOTHING in the world will more
quickly inspire boy with desire Tor
Bible teachings than the approach of the
Christmas tree season.


WHEN you see young man is mis-.
anthropic, and vows he'll live y life of
solitude, depend upon i. some young
LADY has given him hermit.


A YALE man, accidently struck with
base bail club the other day, did not even
sustain brulse from it. He must be an
unusually hard student.


GRANT and Chamberlain are feeling
the public pulse 10 see how much the
people will stand. Tweed tried it once,
and he found out


You can never tell what boy will
do within an hour after you lose sight of
him, but you can sately bet he will not
do what you want him 10 do.


IT is perhaps true, rs the belief goes in
Boston, that women do more reading
than men, but it is also true that men do
more listening than women.


The result of the Presidential election
may be clearly visible to politician
with glass eye, but the impartial and
apprehensive patriot only sees 1t IS
through ksleidscope.-BrookLyn Argus


The facial evoutions OF skinny
woman in the agony of suspended
sneeze are something that distances even
the corrugations of an old leather trunk.
Brooklyn argus.


CHAMBERLAIN paroxysmsl declsra-
tions that he was elected Governor Of
South Carolina show conclusiyely that
hydrophobis is disease of the imsgina
tioL - Brooklyn Argns.


THE mince pie season has finally set
in, and now deceased relatives peer over
the foot of the bed, and seem TO reach up
under the clothes and seiZe a man under
the waistbsnd of his pants.


The founders OF the Constitution for
got to plug up the knot holes in their edi-
fee, or never suspected that there would
be statesmen small enough to crawl
through them.-ChicGgo Times.


SOMEBODY remarks that Young ladies
look upon boy as nuisance until he
ID past the age .. sixteen, when he gene
rally doubles up in value each year until,
like n cOlored meerschaum pipe, he Is
priceless-BuFGto Eruress.


The American. no matter what msy
be his station, is determined to rise.
Tweed went away in common schooner
and returns in r great ship, the guest OF
the greatest nation the sun eer scOrched.
N. J. Post


\ NERVOUS temperament doubtless
has its wise use in the vital economy of
the universe, but perhaps it is carrying
the thing little too far for man who
has been bitten by lobster to deiiber-
ately die OF Observation-Disclosures
Journal.


A MAN speaking Of pIace.out West
in a letter which ne wrote home, says
il is perfect para lie, ard that though
most folks have the fever'n sger yet it
is a great blessing, for it is the only
exercise they take.


The Country Gentleman has an article
on breaking up Sitting Hens y The
most effective method OF breaking them
up is with an snyil and sledge hammer.
It's warranted TO cure the desire 10 sit
Commercial Advertiser.


A PRUDENT man advised his drunken
servant to pat by his money for rainy
dsy. In a few weeks bis master in-
CURED now much Of his money ne had
saved. Faith, none, at ali, said he, lit
rainsd yesterday, and it sll went


A party of young men dined sumptu-
ously at n restaurant In A A.lanta, and each
one insisted on paying the bill. To de-
eide the matter, i. was proposed to blind
Id the waiter, and first the one he
caught should pay the bill. He hasn't
caught any of them yet.


"FRAEK," said an sfectisnate mother
the other dsy to promising boy, "a. you
don't stop smoking and reading so much
YOU will get go a ter awhile that you
won't care anything about work
Mother, replied the. e.hopetul, leisurely
removing very long cigar, II have got
So now


The New York Erening Post recently
said: We do not believe that Governor
Hsves will accept the Presidency, il it
snail be secured for him by any question
able means. He has said that he would
scorn TO gain the office by trick. We
have no doubt that if il should be ward.
ed to him by fraud in Louisiana, or
anywhere else, be would, without the
loss of day, MAKE known his refusal TO
sccept it," 1t has been day and more
since the action of the South Carolina
Returning Board; why does not Gov
ernor HAYES speak out?