Year: 1875

AsLOW match-A wedding after long
courtship.


NEVER waste your time waste some-
body else's.


The most striking feature about some
men are their fists.


THE boy who was kicked out of time
by gun said he fired and fell back in
good order.


WHEN man is ready to 60 where duty
calls, he should 60 home, if nothing more
serious offers


PEOPLE who complain that there is no
pleasure in this world, should join base
ball club and see player killed.


The goose that was struck by light
ming in ST. Louis does not believe that
feathers are a non-conductor of cleo
tricity.


To prevent her lover from "going
back' on his promise, a Detroit girl al
ways introduces him to her friends as my
intended husband"


A WOMAN may so far forget herself as
to allow a man to lace up her boots be-
fore they are married, but after mar
riage she attends to the lacing herself.
To darning-needle once exclaimed the Kitchen
| sieve,


You've hole right y through % your body, and won
But the needle twho sharp replied, too have
| wondered


That you notice my one hole when in you there are
hundred"


A CALIFORNIA hunter, who went ten
miles to where game was plenty, and then
found that he brought box of pills in
stead of percussion-crops, returned home
in disgust.


THERE is one consolation in being bald.
When a policeman strikes you on the
head with his club the doctor doesn't
have to waste any time in cutting hair
away from the wound.


A PARTY ofnaturalists were very much
amused, one day last week, by the
spectacle of Wisconsin potato bug jerk
ing an ox-cart around ten-acre lot in Or
der to get up an appetite. :
ALL bachelors are not entirely lost to
the refinement of sentiment, for the fol-
lowing toast was lately given by one of
them at public dinner: "The ladies'
Sweet briers in the garden of lifep
The Morristown Herald: They talk
of building monument to John Smith
in Virginia. We have a vague recollec-
ton of seeing that name before, but we
didn't know the gentleman was dead.


PITCHER WICKER BRINsoN FRANK
LIN LEE BEAUREGARD JACKSON SWAIN
ESTES RABUN, isa young man who lives in
Georgia, and has the good sense to re-
duce the forepart of his name to simple
Estes"


THEY say if you want free fight while
travelling in the far West, you must find
a Granger whose fields have been devas-
tated by grasshoppers, and congratulate
him on having disposed of his crop with
out the intervention of middleman.


SOME months ago, an Oregon named
his girl baby after Queen Victoria, and
wrote to the Queen to that effect. Not
hearing from Her Majesty he changed
the child's name to Hannah, and went
out and pounded the first Englishman he
met.


STRONG gales keep the clouds from raining
Work lulls the sad hearts complaining;
Through the task and the toll runs the yearning


ache,


Yet duty grows dear for her own grave sake,
And muscles are stronger for straining.
Each life has some prize for gaining
Each woe has a balm In its paining;
So we seek for II long In faith and prayer;
For the finger of God is everywhere,
When the days are dawning and waning.


WHAT is character? 1t is the moral
mark by what we distinguish one man
from another. A mans character lies
within him. 1t is true his reputation
may-nay, does, depend upon public
opinion but the formation of his charac-
ter depends upon himself


PEACE does not dwell in outward
things, but within the soul. We may
preserve it in the midst of the bitterest
pain, if your will remains firm and sub
missive. Peace in this life springs from
acquiescence even in disagreeable things, I
not in exemption from suffering.