Year: 1876

A MACON man says he calls on the


girls in this weather Just to see them


padding in the air with their fans.-Sd-


Udnnoh Neoos.


THE world will never be in any man


ner OF order or tranquility until men are
| firmly convinced that conscience, honor


and credit are all in one iuterest.-,SteeLe


ONE fellow, when he saw a female wo-


man step into the Bu1alo's car, said


they'd better change its name to Shecar-


go. The wretchl-Ph5IadetphiG BULlc-


tin.


IT is just as hard work to get any kin
ding wood split as it ever was but
over sixty young men of Rome are ready
to go west and avenge the death of Gus
ter.-Ron7e Sentinel.


WHEREVER CO." said an elderly
traveller the other day, @ find men wear
ing out their old clothes and hats; but
the ladies, almost without exception,
have brand new and expensive dresses"


WHITTIER are we drifting7 The first
apple spoken of in history was accompa-
MED by large serpent, while nothing
but a contemplate little worm can be
found in our favorite fruit to-day
Whitehall Times.


A FASHION exchange says that Z" the
jabon is now generally used by married
ladies'" This would indicate that a
harmless but incorrect method of spell
ing jawbone is now prevalent in polite
society.-Nori1ich Bulletin.


THE brain is the palest of all internal
organs, and the heart is the reddest.
Whatever comes from the brain, carries
the hue of the place it came from and
-loA 81 -
the heat and color of its birthplace
Holmes.


oh for some spot where a svelteriny mortal


Form this hot world Of ours might pautingly flee
Oh that I some kind of a "torte a


Nine fathons deep in the Caspian sea
Oh for fan ike On aimOTer bellows


Blowing cold blasts on my hfistering soul,
Oh to be sandwitched in ice, as they tell ms.


Franklin is. somewhere not far from the pole


In an article on the habits of the fly
the New York Tribune ably says:
" Great care has to be taken in eating
huckleberries, because nothing pleases a
fly so much as TO be mistaken for one
and, ifhe can be baked in a cake and pass
himself off in the unwary as a current,
he dies without a regret"


PERFECTION is immutable; but, for
things imperfect, change is the way TO
perfect them. 1t gets the name of will



ful change 10 the better. Therefore,
without knowledge cannot be
always good. In things i'll it is not vir-
tue, but an ABSOLUTE vice.-Fslthdm.


IT is an error common to many to take
the character Of mankind from the worst
and basest amongst them; whereas, as
an excellent writer has observed. nothing
should be esteemed as characteristical OF
a species but what is to be found amongst
the best and the most perfect individuals
Of that species.-Fielding.


WE do not know either unalloyed
happiness or unmitigated misfortune.
Everything in this world is a tangled
yarn we taste nothing of its purity;
we do not remain tive moments in the
same state. Our affections, as well IA
Dur bodies, are in a perpetual flux.-
Rousseau.


THE authorities took poor man from
Happy Hollow one day this week, and
ent him out to the poor house. The
parting between the old man and his
eleven dogs, which he distributed among
lis sympathizing relatives, was affecting
n the extreme We believe the man
lad few children, too, but not enough
o make a fuss about burlington Hdl0k-
Eye.


ACCORDING to Cologne newspaper
here is in that city booth in which is
"bearded lady" At theen-
rance IS stationed a girl to take money.
Recently a visitor, having feasted his
yes on the strange phenomena think
ng on his departure to have joke with
he little money taker, said to her, fond
ing her under the chin the while;
{ Well. little one, suppose the bearded
woman is your mamma, ?' mo, sir,
eplied the child, "she is my papa"


QUITE an excitement was created in
few days ago by the appear
nee of an uncommOnly seedy couple
n dry goods store The woman or
erred a large stock of " "fixings," for
hich tho maTi paid. She then asked a
Jerk TO go after a parson, and upon his
rival the rustics were married amid a
lie of mslins, caicoes and linen goods,
nth grinning group Of Passers-by for
illnesses.