Year: 1876

The reputation of man is not safe
until the man is dead and he has nc
further use for it.


LACE is what ruffles the men nova
days.-Exchange. You are wrong
Lace ruffles the women, as usual. 1t il
the paying for it that ruffles the men,
Norristoton Herald.
| THOUGHT is deeper than all speech;
Feelingdeeper than all thought;
souls to souls can never teach
VIVA. unto themselves was taught.
Crunch.


THEY have pair of scales in New
York which weigh the millionth part of
grain. A Detroit grocer breaks a
cracker into thirty-eight pieces to make
weight, but he must take back seat
now.


SYDNEY SMITH says marriage resem-
bles a pair of shears, so Joined together
that they can not be separated. They
often move in opposite directions, yet
always punish any one who comes be-
tween them.


EAsTON Free Press: 1t is said that
education is constantly leading onward
the march of discovery; but education
will never discover what becomes of all
the dogs and gold watches when the as
sessOr is around.


FULTON Times: Several persons who
were in the Lewis House yesterday were
surprised to see stranger, who sat near
the wlnGow, suddenly lay aside his
paneSIr, haul up his breeches, cut tooth
pick from a wooden leg, and then quiz
city resume his reading.


The heroes who make the most show
are in general those which advance the
least. 1t is the same with men; and we
ought not to confound that perpetual
agitation which exhausts itself in vain
efforts with the activity which goes right
to the end.-Baron de Stassart.


TIME, THE MOWER.
Where is thy sire thy loving mother where?
Where are the friends who in thy youth did share
They bloomed with thee like trees hard by the
The stream still flows, but they bloom there no


more.


So Time, the mower, cuts his fatal swath,
And mortals see him not across their path.


-Atgier's Poetry ofMe Orient.


THE lawyers of ireland are indignant
at a barrister who advertises in the
newspapers. The ancient etiquette Of
the legal as of the medical profession is
to starve rather than publish ones busi-
ness in the same column with announce
ments of dry goods and groceries.


The Legislature of Texas has Just
passed law by which it is made mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine of one
hundred dollars, for any person to use
profane language within the hearing of
the occupants of any private residence.
Not very oppressive law, considering
the amount of empty space in Texas


ST. LOUIS Republican This practice of
ridiculing Chicago feet has been carried
to extremes, else mention would be
made of the fact that small boy in Chi
cago, sent out to hunt up his sisters lost
shoe, claimed black lumber-barge in
the river, and wouldn't be satisfied it
wasn't what he wanted until they'd
chopped into the side of the boat to show
that it wasn't leather.


THERE are few who do not remem-
Der the childish wonder they once felt at
hearing the resonance produced by
placing sea-shell to the ear, an effect
which fancy has hkened to " the roar of
the sea-" This is caused by the hollow
form of the shell and its polished surface,
enabling it to receive and return the
beatings of all sounds that chance to be
trembling in the air.


THE graceful writer who, Though she
has changed her name, still appends the
modest initials III. III. to her various con-
tributions, gives the following poetical
welcome to June in the New York Lnde.
pendent:


Oh, month whose promise and fulillment blend
And burst In one II seems the earth can store


In all her roomy house no treasure more,
OF all her wealth no farthing have to spend
On fruit, when once this stntless towering end.
And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before


1t hath made ready at the hidden core
Its 1.-THE Of seed, which We may count and tend


Till harvest
Joy Of the blossomed love- for thee,


Seems II no fairer thing can yet have birth?
No room Is left for deeper ecstasy
Watch well IL seeds grow strong, to scatter free
Germs for thy future summers on the earth.
A joy which Is but joy soon comes to dearth.