Year: 1876

EVERY one is the son of his own
works.


If there is one thing a small boy can
not comprehend, it is how to play trick
on crosseycd man without being dis
covered, drawn, and quartered.


HOPE is said to be. the brightest when
1T dawns from fears. This is beautiful
thought, but it seldom occurs to man
who has just got up off his wife's new
hat.


BE as the little child who eats and
sleeps and grows. God gives you the
best nourishment, although not always
the sweetest to the taste.-Madanse
Guyon.


A GUSHING but ungrammatical editor
says: We have received basket of fine
grapes from our friend -, for which
he will please accept our compliments,
some of which are nearly an inch in di-
ameter.


AN Illinois girl couldn't secure Ger.
ti6cate as school-teacher because she
couldn't tell the committee why the
hind wheels of wagon were the largest.
All the answer she had was, "'Cause
tuCy dICs


THERE is a time, and justice marks the date,


For long-forbearing clemency to wait


That hour eapsed-the incurable revolt


Is punished, and down CONES the thunderbolt.


Cooper.


The Woman's Journal asks, "Should
women be self-supporting ?" We don't
know much about the merits of the
question, but if they ever should be man
would be deprived of half the pleasure of
long walk home from spelling-school.


New ORLEANS Bulletin: He now
thinks it is unsafe to leave blotting paper
around the office. His wife found this
on piece:


:euS tseraed


sevolg 70 xob dnes lliw


.EILLIW


The Pictorial World complains that
the author of that irrepressible lyric,
Tommy, make room for your uncle"
only got two sovereigns for his share of
the work. The London World thinks
he should have got, at the very least, five
years.


TALK to the point, and stop when you
have reached it. The faculty some have
for making one idea cover quire of pa
per is not good for much. Be compre-
hensive in all you say or write. To fill
q volume upon nothing is credit to no.
body, though Lord Chesterfield wrote a
very clever poem upon nothing.-John
Neal.


WE should not be too hasty in bestow-
ing either our praise or our censure on
mankind, since we shall often find such
a mixture of good and evil in the same
character that it may require a very ac-
curate judgment and very elaborate
inquiry to determine on which side the
balance turns Fielding.


CHANCE is term we apply to events
to denote that they happen without any
necessary or fOreknown cause. When
we say thing happens by chance, we
mean no more than that its cause is un-
known to us, and not, as some vainly
imagine, that chance itself can be the
cause of everything-C. Buck.


81 ALWAYS did love to gaze on the
children in their sports" said Potter, as
he pensively contemplated crowd of
urchins. "Pm carried back to -"
Just then the base ball came over his
way and tried to get in his vest pocket,
and doubled him up. When his teeth
came back he shouted: "You young
ragamuflins, you, if catch you playing
ball on the street again I'll get the police
after YOU" And he moved away and
forgot all about his youthful days.


NORWICH Bulletin: One of the maga-
zine writer's asks: "Did you ever hide
some sacred thought beneath your pill
low and weave web of tender hope
about it p We never did, and we doubt
If any one else ever did. In the first
place most people never hide anything
beneath their pillow unless it is a hand
kerchief when they have cold, and
then, if it is under the pillow, how are
you going to weave anything around it
without lifting the pillow up? The
seem to be asking very fool
ish questions.