Year: 1870

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to husbands of hurried business habits.


If the people knew beforehand
how much misery it brings" says q
Japanese poet there would be less
going out with young ladies to look at
the flowers by moonlight"


Aunt Mile says if all the men were
in one big country and all the women
in another, and big river between,
good gracious, what lots Of poor wo-
men would be drowned.


At Ottumwa, Iowa, a nice young
man put a sheet around him to scare
a Dutchman. Some one asked the
young man afterward what allied his
black eye, and he said he had received
bad news from Germany


Let me put my finger on the wrist
Of my purse, and feel how it throbs
calmly and regularly when cash is 60
ing in, and with what hutter il is
affected if any is drawn out for the
service Of my owner.-Rcr. DR.. Pat
ters0B.


A little boy in the infant class Of
a Sunday School out west, was asked
by his teacher if he had learned any
thing during the past week. "Oh,
yes" said he. "What is that you
have learned ?" "Never to trump
your partners ace," was the reply.


WASHINGTON exclaimed a member
of the Nashville debating club, in stem
tOrian tones, Washington was a great
man; he was good man; his mind
had powerful grasp of the future if
ever man was non cOmpOs mentts,
Washington was that man.


Fashionable lady going out Of
church :-"What powerful sermon
| was never before so impressed with
the duty and privilege Of giving freely.
am determined to do better, and to
send, this very week, another new silk
dress to my daughter"


A good story is told US ola diminu-
tive mercantile gent of a neighboring
city, who, it is said, recently proposed
to young and beautiful damsel, with
the following result: "Oh, no." said
she, Il can't think of it for a moment.
The fact is, you're little too
big to put in a cradle, and little too
small to be put in bed"


There are four good habi:s-punc.
tuality, accuracy, steadineSs and dis
patch. Without the first of these,
time is wasted; without the second,
mistakes the most hurtfnl to our cred
it and interests and that of others,
may be committed without the third
nothing can be we'll done; and with
out the fourth, opportunities of great
advantage are lost, which it is impos-
/, sible to recall.


An interesting scrimmage occurred
in West Cornwall, last week in which
one mans whiskers were pulled and
anothers head was made sore by the
application of the handle of pitch.
fork. Justice Simmons who presided
at the trial of the hero OF the pitch
, fork thought there was an application
of So worth more of power than was
necessary to repel the attack on bis
whiSkers. Hence the pitchfork hero
was fined So and costs for breach OF
the public peace.


SAGACITY OF THE ANTs.-Dr. Ebrant
keen observer of the habits of the
black ants, relates the following sto-
ry of an ant that wanted material
to use in supporting a portion Of her
house. Not finding anything that
would answer the purpose near at
/ hand she left her work for a moment
and went to a cornstalk a little dis
tance off. She ran up and down sew
eral long and narrow leaves, then
choosing the leaf nearest her. she
fetched wet earth, which she fixed to
the upper extremity. She continued
this operation until, under the weight
of the earth, the leaf inclined gently
toward the spot it was to cover. This
inclination took place unfortunately
/ near the top of the leaf which seemed
inclined to break off, The ant MOTTO
, ing this new inconvenience gnawed
the leaf at the bottom so that it fell
over the spot desired.


DIsAGREEABLE CHILDREN.-No child
can be agreeable that is not natural.
Let all mothers understand that to
, teach a child to "show Off is to 1en-
der it a pest and a nuisance to their
friends and acquaintances. Polite
ness may prevent the parties annoyed
from openly expressing their disgust
but if a mother could read their
thoughts, she would hereafter leave
r her darling to follow out its own SIM
pie instincts, and not endeavor to pa
e rade it as an infant prodigy. We


have enough artifciality in the grown
I up world without cultivating the nur-
sery.


The more natural parents are, the
more natural their children will be-


Let US avoid putting on airs, and max
ing ourselves disagreeable. The char
acter of the parent is mirrored in that
l. of the child.


BAD BLOOD.-Of bad blood, Halls
! Journal of Health says:


Draymen about breweries drink
, quarts, if not gallons, of beer every
t day, and by the time they are forty


five, the commonest scratch of a pin
on the hand will not get well for
months; if the skin is abraded or
scraped off by a misstep or other ac-
cident, running sore is sometimes
established for the remainder OF life /;
it is because the blood is bad; it is