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At
. A Pair of Snorers.
He Tarsed oat Old Man Ballard and
then Tnrned i n Himself.
From the Virginia Enterprise.
After the fire oUl man Ballard
found lodgings on South C street.
He was a huge, fat, good-natured,
and very entertaining man. The
proprietor of the lodging house was
much pleased with Ballard, and
laughed at his jokes the first evening
of his arrival at his place till tears
ran down his cheeks. The men who
were to be Bullard's room-mates also
thought well of him that evening.
The next morning, however, they
went to . the landlord and told him
that he must find some other place
for Mr. Ballard, as he was such a
terrific snorer they couldn't stand
him.
The landlord's rooms were all oc
cupied, and he had no place for Bal
lard but just where he was. The
complaining lodgers left, and in two
or three days two other men were
put into the vacant bed. Bnllard
made short work of them; one night
let them out. The landlord sought
an interview with Bullard, and re
monstrated. Ballard stoutly asserted
that he did not snore had never
been known to snore. The landlord
found men to take the beds, but
again Bullard cleaned them out in a
stugle night.
Growing desperate, the landlord
agaiu went to Ballard. He told him
he must either leave the house or
pa3- rent for all the beds in the room
45 per month. Ballard sitid a
bargain was a bargain; he had paid
$15 for his bed, and he intended to
keep it till the month was up, and he
didn't propose to pay for beds he
had no use for; he didn't snore, and
the man who asserted to the contrary
was a liar and a horse thief. The
landlord felt very much depressed
after this last interview with Ballard,
as he saw he was determined not to
remove from his quarters. A morn
ing or two after, as Ballard's land
lord was going down town, he saw
standing in the door a brother lodg
ing house man.
'"Thank heaven, he's gone!" said
the man as Bullard's landlord came
np. "Thank heaven, I'm rid of him
at last!"'
"Hid of whom?"
"Why, of the big fat nun you see
yonder waddling down the street."
"What of him?"
"En
on
.rh
i f)l mm I lie tlrove neaviv
every man out of my house before
he left. They wouldu't stop in the
same block with that snorting Fal
stafSin porpoise, sir."
"He's a good one, is he.'"
"A good one! He's a perfect ter
ror! lie's more different kinds of a
snorer than any man I ever heard,
and every time he changes his key it
is for the worse; While I had him
here crowds were gathering in front
of the house-nightly, wondering what
was the matter within, and toe police
came in one night, thinking some
one was being murdered. My dog
ran away, and all the cats left the
house, sir."
"And the man you pointed out to
me is this snorer?"
"Yes, sir, he is."
"Good day, sir," and Bullard's
landlord, hastened dowu the street.
The next morning, with th first
peep of day, Bullard rushed into the
preseuce of his landlord.
"What are you trying to play on
me?" cried he; "I never slept a wink
all night. Of all the infernal noises
I ever heard, that man in my room
got off the worst. Is he going to
stay there?"
"Stay? of course he is. Hain't he
got the bed for a month?"
"Then I leave!" and Bullard was
as good as his word.
An hour afterward, the man who
had ousted Bullard arose and wad
dled serenely into the presence of his
landlord.
"you've cleaned him out," said tho
landlord. "Yon raised him; he's
gone for good!" and the landlord
gleefully rubbed his hands. "Now."
continued the landlord, "I'll give
you a good square breakfast, and
then you can go.
"Go, said the fat man: "not much
I don't. Didn't you sav last nisrht.
in the presence of Bullard and half a
dozen othhers, that I was to stay here
a month?"
"But that, you know, was only
to "
"I know nothing of the kind, and
I shall stay here! Iam human: I
a
must have some place in which to
repose."
The landlord is now trying to get
some, man to set no some kind of
machine in his house that will oust
this snorer, who now has the whole
place to himself, except a small room
in the Corner of tho tl.ir.l tf,rr
where he and his wife spend their
nights in a miserable way.
Fretting. One fretteroan destroy
the peace of a family, can disturb
the harmony of a neighborhood, can
unsettle the councils of cities and
hinder the legislation of nations. He
who frets is never the one who
mends, who heals, who repairs evils;
more he discourages, enfeebles, and
too often disables those around him,
who, but for the gloom and depres
sion of his company, would do good
work and keep up brave cheer,
llie effect upon a sensitive person in
the mere neighborhood of a fretter is
indescribable, I U to the soul what
a cold, icy mist i3 to the body more
chilling than the bitterest storm.
And when the fretter is one who is
beloved, whose nearness of relation
to us makes his fretting at the weath
er seem like a personal reproach to
us, then the misery of it becomes in
deed insupportable. Most men call
fretting a minor fault a foible, and
not a vice. There is no" vice except
drunkenness which can so ntterlv
destroy the peace, the happiness of
a home,
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAyTfEBRUARY 18,
The French Parliament.
A Brief History.
The Parliament of France, which
was elected in the winter of 1870 '1
to make peace with the Germans and
get them out of the country on any
terms, has at last adjourned sine die
In view of the Dissolution, the"
Journal ties Debate, of Paris.giyea the
dates of the election to tho various
Legislative Assemblies in France
from 1789. The States-General
were summond by Letters ltoyal
dated the 24th of January, 1789, and
they met at Versailles on the 5th of
May following. The Legislative
Assembly was established by the
Constitution decreed on the 3d of
September, 1791, and accepted by
Louis XVI. on the 14th of the samo
month. The National Convention
was summoned on the 10th of August ,
1792, and its members were elected
during the first ten days of the fol
lowing month. The Council of Eld
er and tne Council of Five
Hundred, created by the Constitu
tion of the 5 Fructidor, year, 9 (the
22d of August, 1795) , were elected
during the last fortnight of October,
1795, and completed by the National
Convention at its sitting of the 2Gth
of October. Elections partially to
renew these Councils were held on
the 11th of April, 1797, 1798. and
1799. The day after the establish
ment of the Consulate, Nov- 20, 1799,
these two Councils appointed two
Legislative Committees, composed of
twenty-five members, and chosen
from their own bodies. After the
promulgation of the Constitution of
the 13th of December, 1799, which
established a Senate, a Corps Legis
latif and a Tribunal, the first
Senators were elected on the 21th of
December. 1799, and on the follow
ing day the remaining Senators and
the members of the Corps Lo-gislatif
and Tribunat were elected. The
first renewal of the Corjis Legislatif
and Tribunat occurred on the 27th
of March, 1802. Later on the Tribu
nat was suppressed on the 19th
of August, 1S07. Under the llestora
tion, thefirft nomination of Peers by
Louis XVIII. in conformity with
the Constitutional Charter occurred
on June 4, 1814. During the Hun
dred Days an Imperial decree, dated
Lyons, March 13, 1815, dissolved
the Chamber of Peers, and on April
22, by an additional decree, Napo
leon I. established a C lamber of
hereditary Peers appointed by him
self, and a Chamber of llepresenta
tives elected by the country. The
electoral colleges mettoelect Depu
ties on the 10th of May 1815, and the
Emperor nominated the Peers on the
2d of June, just before the battlo of
Waterloo. At the second Restoration
a Iioyal decree, dated July 13, 1815,
dissolved the Imperial Chamber and
established a chamber of Deputies,
composed of 402 members, who were
elected on the 21st of August. On
ti e 17th of the same month Louis
XVIII appointed aChamber of hered
itary Peers. On the 5th of Septem
ber of the same year the Lower
House was dissolved, and re-elected
on the 4th of October. Partial
elections were held on the 11th of
September. 1819, April 21 and Nov.
13, 1820. The Chamber of Deputies
was dissolved on Dec. 23, 1823.
The Electoral Colleges of Arrondis
sements met on Feb. 25, 1824, and
those of Departments on March C.
On Nov. 5, 1827, the Chamber was
again dissolved, and re-elected on
the 17th and 24th of the same month.
A decree of May 1G, 1830, again
disolved the Chamber,and summoned
the electors for June 23 and July 3.
12, and 19, Scarcely elected, the
Chamber was once more dissolved
oir July 25, and tho colleges
were summoned for September
G and 13, but Charles X had
meantime fled, and Louis Philippe
ascendod the throne. On Aug. 9.
under the Monarchy of July, general
elections for the Lower Honse were
held on July 5, 1831, June 21, 1834,
Nov. 4, 1837, March 2, 1839. July 9,
1842, and Aug. 1, 184G. Under the
Republic of 1848 general elections
for the "constituent" Assembly were
held on April 2 and June 4, 1848,
those for the Legilative Assembly on
the 13th and 14th of May, 1849.
After the coup (Vetal of Deo. 2, 1851,
and in conformity with a decree of
Feb. 2. 1852, general elections for
the Corps Legislatif were held on
Feb, 29. Under the second Empire,
general elections to the Corps
Legislatif were held on June 21 and
22, 1857; on May 31 and Jnne 1,
18G3; and for the last time on May
23 and 24, 18G9. The elections to
the National Assembly decreed by
the Government of National Defense
were held on Feb. 8, 1811, the
greater part of the complementary
elections comiug off on July 2d of
the same year. If the present As
sembly dissolves on March 8, 187G,
it will have lasted five years and
twenty-five days.
I believe the world is getting so
bad now that everybody swears at
slight provocation, too, I am sorry
to say and even ladiss. I heard one
do it the other day. She missed the
ferry-boat by about 6 feet, and as
she gazed at the fading structure
ejaculated " it 1" Having missed
it mvself I felt grateful to her for
having expressed my feeling and tha
wickedness it saved me, for the case
demanded special notice. I smiled,
because I conldn't help it, and so did
the lady: but immediately frowning
at me fearfully, she said, "Why
didn't you do that, sir?" and flouted
herself into the ladies' room with an
impatient mapner and both hands
full of pin-back -San tf-ancisco letter.
Mrs Slate, of Iowa, pan't be mark
ed on and sponged off like some
slates. Her husband tried it the
other day, and the shot-gun blazed
a streak of death tbrpugh him-
The Same Old Story.
From the Detroit Free Press.
When the Captain at the Ninth
Avenue Station returned from din
ner yesterday he found a lady await
ing him. She had a half-fierce, half
sorrowful look, and as the Captain
hung up his overcoat he said to him
self that some one had been killing
that woman's only cat, or the boys
had been clubbing her boss goat.
'You wanted to see me?"he asked,
as he sat down.
She leaned forward until her sharp
nose almost touched his cheek and
whispered:
"I did 1"
"Has your husband been abjsing
you?" he inquired.
"No; I haven't any husband it's
the same old story!" she whispered.
"What old story?"
"Breach of promise."
"Let's see!" mused the Captain,
"didn't you have a similar complaint
about three months ago ?"
"I did," she answered.
"And a similar one about three
months before that ?"
"I didl I told yon it was the
same old story. Now, let me begin
at the beginning and tell the story
right through, and then see if you
don't think I ought to have help
from the Police."
"Well, be brief."
"Don't tell a beart-broken woman
to be brief," she said, and then wip
ing her eyes she began: "A year ago
now I was in love. I was a promised
bride, I was happy. In the midst
of my happiness the base rascal mar
ried a girl in Windsor."
"That's No. 1," said the Captain.
"Yes, that's No. 1. I was broken
hearted, but I loved again. He
seemed like a nice man, and wo were
to go to Port Union and live in
grand style, and keep servants and
all that. He turned out to be a liar
aud a wretch. He borrowed 15 of
me and ran awav!"
"That's No. 2"" said the Captain.
"I loved again," she sighed. "It's
curious how often people can love.
I didn't let. him know that I loved
him until I found he was worthy,
and he said he didnt know what love
was until he saw mo. He went
down to Toledo to see his dying
uncle, and he never came back. He
wrote me, though wrote me that he
could never marry a woman with
false teeth. Some one had deceived
him. I haven't false teeth at all. I
was going to take poison, but I didn't.
I was going to find him aud shoot
him, but I concluded that a mau
who would find fault about false
teeth would be a mean hiibband, and
so 1 let him go.
"And now for No. 4," said the
Captain.
"Turned oat like all the rest,"
she replied, with quivering chin. "I
loved him and he loved me, and all
was bliss until yesterday. Then I
found out that he hadn't money
enough to board him a week, and
when I began to question him he
grew mad and started for Chicago."
"And what do you want me to
do ?" asked the officer as she bent
her head and sobbed.
"Oh! I don't know. It seems
hard that I should have to bear all
this, while other women don't
have any troublu at all! How long
how long, Captain, can a woman
stand such conduct before the grave
will hide her !"
"It's hard," he sighed.
"It wears on me, Captain. I
can't be loving all the time. I'm
getting old, and I want to settle
down and know where I am. It dis
turbs my peace of mind to love a fat
man, then a tall man, and then a
short man, and to bo wondering
whether we will have a cook and an
up-stairs girl, or whether we'll make
the cook do all the work."
Xiliilists in Xew York.
Not long ago reports were spread
regarding a communistic Russian
sect termed Nihilists, who gave great
umbrage to the Russian Govnrnment
and caused a despotic banishment
by the Czar, of a large number to
the bank or the Volga. A number
managed to escape over the frontier,
and among them one Beresy Feodoro
witsch with his wife, two married
sous and their wives, and three
daughters with their husbands and
familes. They came to New York
and are living in a tenement house
in Third street, where they manufac
ture cigars. The men dress in sheep
skin coats and wear heavy top boots,
and the women wear the brass tiaras
frequently seen upon the heads of
female Russian peasantry. They
are learning to speaka little English,
and say their sect wishes all fortunes
perfectly equalized, inasmuch as
there is qnitea sufficiency of riches in
the world to" enable all to live in
abundance. Thrones and class dis
tinctions, they say, must be abolish
ed, and all should be practically free
and equal, socially as well as polit
ically. All persons, they consider,
over the age of ten should do a
certain amount of daily work, and
the State should be ruled by repre
sentatives of the communes. The
Nihilists believe in the coming of a
Messiah, who is to bring about the
desirable state of things they look
forward to. They pray to Him every
evening from 4 to G o'clock. pe
cuiiaritjrof these people is that they
never buy for money. They pay
for what they purchase with cisrs.
.
When a widow presses yonr hand
and tells you ho she has made four
dozen clothes pins last her twelve
years, and she droops her eyes and
says a paper of pins lasts three years,
and she looks up and smiles a rosy
smile, how on earth is a feller to
break away and leave that house and
convince himself that she loves him
only for his wealth ?
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
Wrestling-, Ancient and Hodeni.
The recent introduction of the
Grteco-Roman style of wrestling into
this country has revived many of
the historical incidents connected
with the art. One of the most
strongly contested matches upon
record was the one between Ulysses
and Ajax. The poet nomer de
scribes the event in Lis Iliad. The
struggle continued for some time
and was witnessed by many thous
ands of spectators, including the
army which had besieged Troy.
Finally Achilles, who was acting as
referee, bade them cease their ef
forts, and both were crowned as vic
tors. Androgens, a son t of Minos
and Pasiplue, was famous . for his
skill in wrestling. He overcame
every antagonist at Athens, and be
came such a favorite with the people
that the King grew jealous and
caused him to be put to death. The
wrestler's father declared war against
the King to revenge the death of his
son, and peace was at last estab
lished only on condition that seven
boys ana seven girls should be sent
yearly from Athens to Crete to be
devoured by the Minotaur. It was
Theseus who delivered his country
from this shameful tribute by kill
ing the monster. Theseus, who was
himself skilled in all the athletic
games, subsequently established
rules for the government of wrest
lers, and which are comparatively
the same as those now in use.
Another great wrestler was JEgles,
who was born dumb. Of him it is
said that, seeing some foul wrestling
in a contest, he broke the string
which held his tongue through the
desire of rebuking the offender, and
ever after spoke with ease. The
name of Anheus is perhaps more
familiar. He was the son of Nep
tune and Terra, and was of immense
size. Hercules wrestled with him,
but he received new strength each
time he touched his mother earth.
The god then lifted him in the air
and squeezed him to death in his
arms. Diagoras, an athlete of
Rhodes 4G0 years before the com
mencement of the Christian era, saw
his three sons crowned on the same
day at Olympia, and died through
excess of joy. Pindar celebrated the
father's merits in a beautiful ode,
still extant, which was written in
letters of gold in a temple of Miner
va. Then there was Cejcyon, a
King of Elensis, and said by some
writers to be a sou of Neptune, and
by others of Vulcan. He obliged all
strangers to wrestle with him, and
as he was skilled in all the science of
the sport they were invariably pnt
to death. He challenged Theseus
who has already been mentioned, by
whom he was fairly thrown, and was
put to death. Sometimes the same
person gained prizes at all these fes
tivals. Aristides, an Athenian, was
thus successful. The list might be
continued, but enough has been
written to show how important these
games were considered by the Greeks
and Romans.
Reports of the enthusiasm which
these Gneco-Roman games are creat
ing in this country have reached
France. It is stated on what seems
to bo good authority that several of
the greatest of French wrestlers are
arranging tc?si$ the United States
aud exhibit their- skill before the
American public tho coming year.
Aktifioul Leatheh. A substitute
for leather, of English manufacture,
was displayed at the recent Maritime
Exhibition in Parts, and received
with much favor. It was composed
of a layer- of oork between two lay
ers of textile fabric, the whole being
gummed with India-rubber, and
welded together. The process by
which it is manufactured is as fol
lows: Thin sheets of cork are paint
ed upon one side with two successive
coats of a solution of India-rubber.
Jappanned cloth-canvas is treated in
the same manner, and when dry, its
gummed surface is applied to that
of the cork-sheets. The clean side
of the cork is now treated with two
coats of the India-rubber; and a linen
or cotton fabric, after subjection to
the same process, is laid upon it, the
coated surface coming together.
The compound sheet is then submit
ted to heavy pressure between roll
lers or under a stamper or press, un
til it is, in effect, a simple substance,
having strength, durability, and
flexibility. It is adapted to nearly
every use to which leather has been
applied, as to tho manufacture of
bass, harness, boots, etc. Moreover,
being throughly water-proof, it may
be employed as a material for buckets
and other vessels for holding water.
Scentless Roses. Arnulph was
the son of a physician. He was pre
paring himself for the calling of his
father. One day he came to his father
and said, "Father, let me go into the
cloister and serve God. But his
father said, "Thou dost well to wish
to serve God. As a physician, thou
mayest serve him, and serve thy fel
low men also." "To serve God is
better than men," answered Arnulph.
"Pray this night for God's guidance,
O son! To-morrow I will do as thou
wilt." So Arnulph went and prayed
God to receive him as his servant.
And his eyes were opened, and lo! an
angel whose bauds were full of roses.
"Behold," said the angel, "the offer
ings pf those who servo God." "And
can I offer him anything?" asked
Arnulph. "Lo! here in my left hand
is thy ftffering also," said the angel.
Arnulph asked again, "Why are the
rasps in thy left hand scentless?
those iu thy right hand are full of
fragrance." But the angel answered,
"In my left hand are their offerings
who serve their heavenly Father, but
care not to serve his - children. In
my right hand are their offering who
serve God, and serve man also."
Dayspring.
1876.
Snow Shoes and Sliding Parties
at (Quebec.
The Conadians are enjoying any
thing but an open winter like ours,
A Quebec, correspondent, describing
the sports of tin winter season, says
if you contemplate visiting Quebec,
especially you girls the boys are
usually - warm enough clad you
must dress for the occasion, for the
mercury is way -down at zero, and.
the moon is shining out on a field of
snow two feet in depth, and bringing
out myriads of frosty diamonds, and
footsteps fill the air with loud creak
ings from the crisp snow. So put
on your warm fur jacket, take off
your stiff linen enffs, take off your
long dress skirt and replace it with
a short quilted one, pull on heavy
over-stockings aud arctic shoes, and,
with a fur cap well pulled down
over your ears, arid a cloud wrapped
around and around your neck, you'll
loot like a Canadian girl ready for a
frolis in the snow, aud ready to fol
low anywhere her escort leads. Snow
shoeing and sliding parties are the
rage just at present. The tologgin,
on which the coasting is done, is five
or six feet long and eighteen or twen
ty inches wide, made of a thin birch :
board, perhaps half an inch thick, 1
strengthened by little crossbars and
turned up at the front iu a graceful i
curve. UI course, as they have no
runners, they are made very smooth,
and on this account an old worn
toboggin is better than a new one.
There is not a prettier or more pic
turesque sight than to see a rosy girl
flitting swiftly but silent as a shadow
down the long hill. You seat your
self on the toboggin with your feet
under the curved front and your
clothes carefully tucked under yon,
while your pilot jnmps upon the
toboggin, back of you, after giving
it a start. With one foot dragging
behind, like the rudder of a bovt, ha
guides your craft. After the first
start you might as well be Hying, as
far as motion goes. Y'ou rush and
bound onward and downward in your
mad career, a shower of dry snow
rising in your wake. The ropes you
hold serve to steady you, and you
clutch them with the grij) of desper
ation as you skim aloug, setting your
teeth, aud bracing yourself against
any stray "bump" you come to. A
bump can be better imagined than
described. But they do not spend all
their evenings in these romps in
Quebec; an coutraire, they are very
formal at times, and highly proper
young ladies and gentlemen at balls,
parties and receptions, though tliis
winter Quebec is unusually quiet in
a social wav.
The Possibilities vf the Kuture.
Sir. J. Hawkshaw, in a lecture be
fore the British Association, gives
tho following hint to those seeking
new inventions and discoveries:
The marvelous progress of the last
two generations should make every
one cautious of predicting the future.
Of engineering works it may be said
that their practibieauty or impracti
cabilitv is often determined by other
elements than the inherent difficulty
in the works themselves. Greater
works than anv y&t achieved remain
to be accomplished not, perhaps,
yet awhile, Societv mav not yet re
quire them; the world could not at
present afford to pay for- tuem. lhe
progress of engineering works, if we
consider it, and the expenditure up
on them, has been prodigious. One
hundred and sixty thonsannd miles
of railway alone, put intp figures at
20,000 per mile amounts to 3,200,
000,000 sterling; 40,000 miles of
telegraph, at 100 per mile, and
100,000,000 more for sea canals,
docks- harbors, water and sanitary
works constructed m thesame period,
and we get the enormous sum of 3,
30,000,000 sterling expended in one
generation and a half on what may
undoubtedly be called useful works.
The wealth of nations may be impair
ed by expenditures on luxuries and
war; it cannot be diminished by ex
penditures on works like these. As
to the future, we know we cannot
create a force; we can, and no doubt
shall, greatly improve the applica
tion of those with which we are ac
quainted. What are called inven
tions can do no more than this, yet
how much every day is being done
by new machines and instruments!
The telesCOpw cxtcudetl our vision to
distant worlds. The spectroscope
has far outstripped that instrument
by extending our power of analysis
to regions .as remote. Postal de
liveries were and are able organiza
tions, but what are they to the tele
graph ? Need we try to extend our
vision into futurity further? Our
present knowledge, compared to
what is unknown even in physic, is
infinitesimal. We may never dis
cover a new force yet who can tell ?
Ci-eveh Jcckjlebt, During the
visit of the Prince of Wales to India,
a troop of jugglers appeared before
him at Parell. Two old fellows as
tonished lrim with a number of curi
ous feats, one of which was turning
two wicker baskets up side down
which contained cobra capellos when
righted. Another was to put a man
go seed in the ground and cover it
with a cloth, and to uncover on the
spot not long after a green, fresh
mango tree, eighteen inches high,
growing in the ground. Then he
put a living boy into a bag, crammed
the bag into a basket close in front
of the Princp, and fastened down the
cover. Very soon the cords and bag
were ejected from the basket, when
the juggler sprang on the basket and
kicked it in, when it was fonnd empty.
When the mango tree was again un
covered, it appeared hung with tiny
iruic.
.Reverdy Johnson, the Maryland
statesman, aied suddenly at Annap-
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NO. 17.
AH Sorts. '
Soft Hearts often harden, but soft
heads never change.
True affection grows stronger as it
grows older. The same ruay be said
of an egg.
Did you know that there was gold
in the Black Hills under thirteen,
feet of snow ?
At a recent fair beW in Baltimore
a chair was voted to the laziest po
liceman, but he was too lazy to ac
cept it.
It is said there are more lies told
in the sentence,. "I am glad to see
you. man in any other six words, in
the Lnglish language.
"a "The editor whoVas told thuX Ms.
last article' was' as clear as mud,
promptly replied, "Well, that co vera
the ground, anyhow."
A. fool in a high station is like a
-man on the top of a high mountain;
everybody appears small to him, and
ho ajpears small to everybody. -
"Yes. I want my daughter to study
rhetoric," replied aVermont mother.
"for she can t fry pancakes nof
without smoking the bouse all np,
Miss Braddon, the novelist, can
bake bread, make pies and build boss,
sweet-. akes, but when it comes to.
wringing a mop she is a dead failure.
Aman in Kentucky was found
dead with 14 bullet holes in his.
head, and a coroner's jury returned
verdict of "death from undue ex-i
citen.ent."
Let a Western Count v Treasurer-
be seen ut the depot about train,
time and forty men will have an eye.
on him, and wiu wQBder how- mucb
he has stolen.
Geueral Sherman, it is intimated.
will go to Europe next year, where
he contemplates a visit to the Pope,
march to the See.
P. T. Barnum has resolved to be a
traveling showman no longer but
when it was announced that New
Haven had a two-legged horse, his.
wife had to hide his hat.
When a skeptic told Mrs. Van
Cott that he preferred Darwin to the
Bible, she left him with the flatter
ing remark, that she wasn't trying
to convert monkeys, but men,
And now three Milwaukie ciaigy
men declare that they can't preach in
clmrebes decorated fter patterns
furnished by the devi and morW
gaged to avarice and man's wors
traits. u
Tmnwcnnmont. f mr will caavi
ue auoiisoeu 111 x luiiuu. jjauuiorus w
are purchasing boots with soles three
inches thick, and if any debtor ex.-
pects to make a gain h.e will be sadly
disappointed.
"Yvrhy don't men swear when they
are aloie?" asks Dr. Talmadge. Pi
Dr. Talmadge ever lay around the
fence-corners and see a lone farmer
pick up a bumble-bee ? What did
that farmer say?
"How are ye Smith," said Jones.
Smith pretended not to know him,
and answered hesitatingly llSir.
you have the advantage of met
"Yes, I suppose so. Everybody has
that's got common sense."
A sailor being asked how heliked
his bride, replied, "Why, d'ye see, J
took her to be only half of me, as
the parson says, but dash me if she
isn't twice as much as I, I'm only a
LUX, UUIl DUG AO- a J.UIM
A subscriber to a southwestern
newspaper died recently, leaving
four years' subscription, unpaid
The editor appeared at the grave
and deposited in the coffin a palm
leaf fan, a linen coat, and a ther
mometer,
o
"Oh. Mr. G rubbles " exclaimed a
young moiuer, suouian t you iiko
al 1j 1-1
to have a family of rosy children
about your knees?" "No,, ma'am,"
said the disagreeable old bachelor
"1 a rather nave a lot of yellow boys.
in my pocket."
"Will you have it rare or well
done?" said an Englishman to an
Irishman, as he was cutting a slice
of roaet beci". "I love it well done
iver since I am in this country," re-i
plied Pat for it was rare enough
we used to ate it inlreland."
A sinmle lookincr conntrv lad. ta
. x 0 .
whose lot fell tuc leading questions,
in the catechism. "What is your
name?" replied "Carrots!" "Who
cava tou that name ?" "All the
boys in the parish, sir," whiningty
replied the red-haired urchin.
The Indianapolis Herald says:
"The man who designed oar State
seal is dead. In the language of the
Dutch poet, 4It is well. Any man
who would try to make people be-,
lieve a full grqwn buffalo bull would
deliberately rush up to a granger
wbo was chopping down a tree at
sun rise ought fo die."
A lady remarked to a popular
divine that his sermons were a little
too long. " "Dpn't you really
think so?" said she "just a little?"
'Ah, dear madam," replied the di
vine, "I am afraid yon don't like 'the
sincere milk of the Word.1 " "Yes,
I do," said she; "but you know the
fashion, nowadays, is condensed '
milk." '0
A few days ago a youthful emis-r
sary from one bookstore entered,
another and made the inquiry,
"Have you 'Cock Tails of Ancient
Greece?'" The gentleman interro
gated, distrusting his ears, required
a repetition of the question, and it
was given: "A copy of iCock Tail
of Ancient Greece ?'" The boo
was pot in stock, but 'JJJ Tales
of Ancient Greece" satisfied the der
sire of the embryo bookseller.
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