Year: 1872

He who serves well need not be afraid
to ask his wages.


TO be at once in any degree loved and
praised is truly rare.
Although fishes have no voice people
have been known to make fish bawl
A new color is called "Paris in
flames.''


Life is now supposed to decrease in
the same ratio as kerosene increases.


In England it is not permitted to
marry after twelve O'Clock in the day.


Money is a great lever in the affairs
of man; so great leaver that some of
us can never keep any of it.


Life is contradiction. We send to
our butcher for sweet-bread: and if
we want swect-meat we send to our
baker.


The follies of youth become the vices
of manhood and the disgrace of old
age.


The world would be more happy il
persons gave up more time to an inter-
course of friendship.


All is hollow where the heart bears
not a part, and all is peril where prin-
ciple is not the guide.


As the flint and steel stricken togeth-
er produce fire, so the conflict of men s
minds elicits truth.


The man who ran away from his
creditors resolved to stop and take ar
rest.


Imagine the distress of the milliner
who forgot OH which side of the plume
to put the hat.


There is boy down East so bright
that his mother has to look at him
through piece of smoked glass.


A batchelor has expressed his opinion
that be prefers slim ladies because he
can be nearer their hearts.


A Boston widow wears with becom-
ing pride massive gold ring made
from the plate of her deceased husbands
teeth.


There are about as many black men
as white in the Florida militia, the num-
bers being respectively 12,06G and 49,
297.


Emerson says: SIN the great house
hold of nature the farmer stands ut the
door of the bread room, and weighs to
each his loaf"


1t was an Irishman who wanted to
find place where there was no death,
that he might go and end his days
there.


Some people are always Dragging of
their ancestors, and their great descent,
when the fact is, their great descent is
what is the matter of them.


A man is in no danger as long as he
talks love: but when he writes it, he is
impaling himself ON his own pothooks,
most effeetually.


A man in love is man who wishes
to be more amiaDle and agreeable than
he can be, and this is the reason why
almost all men in love are ridiculous.


'Old age is coming upon me rapidly
as the urchin said; when he was steal
ing apples from an old mans garden, ,and
saw the owner coming, whip in hand.


The total liabilities of the Erie rail-
road, as given by the new management,
are 1895, ,210; the total assets exclu-
sive of the value of the road itself, S.
SO6 400.


Twenty-eight cents per hour is the
very moderate price for hack hire in the
beautiful italian city of Milan, where
other facilities of boarding and living
generally are exceptionally cheap.


Every column of 4 newspaper con-
tains from ten to twenty thousand dis
tinct pieces of type. The displacement
of single one makes an error. Is it
strange that errors occur?


A white garment appears worse with
slight soiling than do colored garments
much soiled; so little fault in a good
man attracts more attention than grave
offences in bad men.


At an auction of miscellaneous arti-
cles in the open air it began to rain,
when a by-stander advised the auction
eer that he had better ''put up" his UNI
brella the next thing.


"NIy friend, don't you know that it is
very dangerous to take nap while the
train is in motion?" "Why, no." ex-
claimed the astonished individual, wax
ing up; "why so?" Because this
train runs over sleepers.'


A drover who sells cattle by live
weight, always gives them as much
water as they will drink before driving
them into the scales, "Tl,at is what !
understand by watering stock" he
says.


A young wife on being lately asked
what she would do in the case her hus-
band should fail, replied, ''Live on arms
to be sure. / have two and he has two,
with hands at the end of Them" We
will venture to say that couple will nev-
er fail.


Dexter Hayes says the most beautiful
wild flowers he has ever seen, he found
in the valleys of the Artic regions,
where the summer is so short us to be
counted by hours. These simple but
lovely blossoms were but a short hours
walk from the field of eternal snow.


a youth visiting quaker family was
invited to remain to dinner, but declin-
ell. Finding his stay very agreeable, ,he
resolved to change his mind, and so ad-
vised his host, who replied. "Nay,ver-
lily, l cannot permit thee TO tell lie in
my house, The boy dined at n tav-
ern."