Year: 1876




now in order.


THE second century-now, indeed, are
we ON our good behavior.


PRONOUNCE it as if it were spelt Hurt
zegoveena-accent on the wee"
WHAT is the nearest thing to cat look
ing out of Window The window!


Ir sthe person who does nothing but
loll and pant around that suffers most
from heat.


THERE are more female law students in
Philadelphia than in all the rest of the
country put together.


IF your furs ever get worn down short,
whip them with forty rods, for forty rods
are said to make fur-long.


Those who cannot plant tree this
Centennial year will do equally well by
killing cat in the back yard
| WE should sometimes be ashamed Of
our best actions if the world did but know
all the motives which prompted them.


PROFESSOR" TIcE promised an earth
quake in June. 1t did not come. Folks
will soon begin to lose faith in this man.


AN exchange says that it tries the gal
lantry of Frenchman TO have a Chicago
woman borrow his pocket handkerchief I'd
wipe her poodle's nose with.


II NARROWLY escaped being cut off
with shilling" said a solemn young
man. Chow did you escape ?" asked a
bystander. my father had no shilling"
was the solemn reply.


VINO now is safe? Prof Huxley clearly
demonstrates that the horse is an evolved
form of the orshippus. For what has the
horse been running that he should be
called to such an account ?-P0cheSter
Union.


HEREAFTER when a person dies of scar
let fever, smallpox, whooping cough, or
other contagious disease, in New York,
there will be no church or public funeral,
the Board of Health of that city deeming
such cases dangerous to those who attends


THE Boston Comiioh Council passed a
resolution at a recent session petitioning
Congress for the gift of twenty-five cam
non, captured either in the Revolution
or the war of 1912, to be used IN the
erection of a monument to Thomas Jeffor-
son and John Adams, in accordance with
the suggestions made in Mr. Winthrop's
Grafton.


THE New York General Assembly, at
its session last winter, made law that no
surgeon, physician or other person shall
administer any an9sthetic to patient ex-
cept in the presence of a third party of
a sound mind and over fifteen years of
age, who shall reinaih present during all
the operations performed upon the pa
ticnt under the influence of such an@s-
thetic.


a FINE looking young stranger arrived
in Reading, Pa, the other day, and said
that he was Dom Pedro's private clerk.
He showed roll of grcenbacks, and had
high old time. He got nearly all his re-
freshmcnts on credit, however. He hired
a livery team, and sent boy home with
the team and did not pay for it. In many
places he cut a wide swath and after he
had given dozen or more people fine
Pame he lit out.


Two YEARS ago the inhabitants of the
inning town of Meadow Lake, Nevada
County, Col, finding they could not work
the ores, deserted in body, leaving
houses and mills, $50 or 400 buildings i1ii
all, empty. Recently population has be-
gun TO return, and a correspondent of the
San Francisco Bulletin says: Now
comes company formed for the purpose,
and jumps the entire town site, buildings
included Government patent, it is said,
having already been issued to them there
for. Legal proceedings will probably be
instituted to defeat this movement, and
much litigation will no doubt grow out of
the same. Through this attempted theft
of the town the comfortable practice here
tofore in vogue of each newcomer select
ing and taking possession of a house
suited to his mind, threatens to be serious
ly interfered with, if, indeed, the Com.
munists of Meadow Lake are not hereaf-
ter wholly stopped in the exercise of this
proscriptive right"


The letter of the Captain Of the schoon-
er Donaldson, describing the experience
of the crew and himself in the ice in Lake
Superior, is gloomy enough TO give even
millionaire the "blues." When the
boys were eating the last meal the vessel
afforded says the Captain, " l tell YOU
they were glnm! All knew that supplies
had run out, and that there was no pros
pect of replenishment. We were all
staring starvation in the face (or vice ver-
sa), and we all knew it. Hardly a word
was spoken at this last meal All of us
were subducd and brought to an acknowl.
edgement Qf some of us had never ac.
knowledged il before) that there is Su.
preme Rulerl And | want TO add that
there was praying on board the Donald
son that night. The next
morning we got provisions from a pro-
peller and in the evening got out of the
icebergs. We are all thankful for our de-
liyerance, and believe that the ordeal
has made devout Christians of the crews
of all the vessels that passed through it."


THE Sacramento (Cal) Record Union
re !ates the following remarkable occur
renee; " Passing through the alley lead
ing from Second to Third streets yester-
day the driver of country wagon yelled
to us; Here's something you never sawr
Ever on the alert for the new and strange,
we stepped over to where the groccr's
Jehu had halted and looked upon happy
family outside a cage, for once A large
tin can, half full of water, had identified
over against brick on that brick sat a large
rat drinking from the can, and right be-
side him, with her head in the same can,
squatted cat uncOncemedly drinking
from the same receptacle. Open -mOuthed
wonder kept us still. The cat, having de-
liberately quenched her thirst, licked her
chops, stroked her side, gave whisk to
her tail and trotted slowly off. The rat
continued to drink until convenient
brickbat came his way, when he jumped
from his pedestal and scampered off, with
countcnance expressive of pure con-
tempt for the individual who would dis
turb him, when even his natural enemy
had permitted him to drink in peace"


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