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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1876.
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CPIAS. KXICrllT,
CAXBV, OREGOX,
PHYSICIAN AND DRUGGIST
Prencilrtions carefully filled at ohort
Post-Mortem L.ove.
If you arc ever joins to love me,
Ixve me now while I can know
All the sweet and tender feelinss
Which from real affection flow,
joe me now while I am living
Do not wait till I am gone.
And then chisel it in marble
Warm lQve;wordg on ice-cold stone.
If you've dear, sweet thoughts about me.
Why not whisper them to me?
Don't you know 'twould make me happy.
As glad as glad can be?
If you wait till 1 am sleeping,
Ne'er to wake here arain,
There'll be walls of eart h between us,
And I couldn't hear you then.
If you knew some one was thirsting
For a drop of water sweet.
Would you be so slow to bring it?
Would you step with lajrsard feet ?
There are tender hearts all 'round us.
Who are thirsting for our love ;
Shall we begrudge to them what Heaven
Has kindly sent us from above ?
I won't need your kind caresses
When the grass grows o'er my face ;
I won't crave your love or kisses
In my last, low, resting-place ;
o, n you uo love me any,
If it's but a little bit,
I'd rather know it now, while I
Can, living, own and treasure it.
A Philosopher's Ileligion.
A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to
Cieorge AVhitelield.
To the Editok of tiie Sun Sir:
I semi you for i)iiblieation the fol
lowing letter of Benjamin Franklin,
addressed to the great and eloquent
Methodist and revival preacher of
the last eentury, George Whiteheld,
who addressed and electrified audi
ences of from 10,000 to G0.000 people.
This letter seems to be applicable to
the present time of revival preach
inj? and praying.
The kindness alluded to in the
letter as done by Franklin to White-
held, referred to the fact that I rank
Iin had relieved Whitetield in a par
alytic case by the application of elec
tricity. The prayer of Dr. Franklin, which
I send, I find is hardly known at all,
and I think a republication of it
might be welcome to many:
FKANKLIX'S LETTER.
Philadelphia, June G, 1753.
Sir: I received your kind letter
of the 2d inst., and am glad to hear
that you increase in strength. I hope
you will continue mending till you
recover your former health and firm
ness. Let me know whether jou
still use the cold bath and what effect '
it has. As to the kindness you men- !
tiou, I wish it could have been of
greater service to yon. But if it had,
tho only thanks I should desire is,
that you would always be equally !
ready to serve any other person that
may need your assistance, and so let
good oftlces go round, for maukind
aro all of a family. For my own
part, when I am employed in serving
others, I do not look upon myself as
conferring favors, but as paying
debts.
In my travels and since my settle
ment, I have received much kindness
from nieu, to whom I shall never
have any opportunity of making the
least direct return, and numberless
mercies from God, who is infinitely
above being benefited by our ser
vices. Those kindnesses from men
I can therefore only return on their
fellow men, and I can only show my
gratitude for those mercies from God
by a readiness to help his other chil
dren and my brethren. For 1 don't
think that thanks and compliments,
though repeated weekly, can dis
charge our obligation to each other,
and much less those to our Creator.
You will see in this my notion of
good works, that I am far from ex
pecting to merit heaven by them.
By heaven we understand a state of
happiness infinite in degree and eter
nal in duration; I can do nothing to
merit such rewards. He that, for
giving a draught of water to a thirsty
person, should expect to be paid
with a good plantation, would be
modest in his demand, compared
with those who think they deserv
heaven for the little good they do on
earth. Even the mixed imperfect
pleasures we enjoy in this world, are
rather from God's goodness than our
merit! how much more such happi
ness of heaven! for my part, I have
not the vanity to think I deserve it.
the folly to expect it, nor the ambition
to desire it, but content myself with
submitting to the will and disposal
of that God who made me, who has
hitherto preserved and blessed me,
and in whose fatherly goodness I
may well confide, that he will never
make me miserable, and that even
the afijictions I may at any time suffer
snail tend to my benefit.
iue faith you mention has certainly
its use in the world. I do not desire
to see it diminished, nor would I
endeavor to lessen it in any man.
But I wish "it. were more iiroductire
SO""- works than 1 have generally
seen it. I mean real good works,
works of kindness, charity, mercy
and public spirit; no holy-days keep
ing, sermon hunting or hearing, per
forming church ceremonies, making
long prayers, filled with flatteries
and compliments, despised eveu by
wise men, and much less capable of
pleasing the Deity. The worship of
God is a duty. The hearing and
reading of sermons may be useful;
but if men rest in hearing and prayr
ing, as too many do, it is as if a tree
should value itself on being watered
and putting forth leaves, though it
never produces fruit, Your great
Master thought much lass of those
outward appearances and professions
than many of his modern deoiples.
He preferred the doers of the word
to the mere hearers; the son that
seemingly refused to obey his father
and yet performed his commands to
him that professed his readiness but
neglected the work; the herietcal'but
charitable Samaritan to the unchar
itable though orthodox priest and
sanctified Levite; and those who gave
food to the hungry, drink to the
thirsty, raiment to the naked, enter
tainment to the stranger, and relief
to the sick, though they never heard
of bis name, be declares shall in the
last day be accepted, when those who
cry Lord, Lord, who value them
selves upon their faith, though great
enough to perform miracles but have
neglected good works, shall be rejected.
He professed that he came not to
oll tbn rifrli Iam. X i. - .
i5uicuus, hud sinners, to
repentance, which implied his modest
opinion mac there were some in his
time who thought themselves so good
that they did not hear ptpii liim for
improvement; but now-a-days we
nave scarce a little parson that does
not think it the duty of every man
within his reach to sit under his pet
ty ministrations, and whoever omits
them offends God! I wish to such
more humility, and to you health
and happiness, being your friend and
servant. B. Frankxik.
PRATER OF DR. FRANKLIN.
Merciful God! Wonderful Power!
Increase in me that wisdom which
discovers my truest interest ; strength
en my resolution to perform what
that wisdom dictates, and accept my
kind offices to Thy other creatures,
as the only return in my power for
Thy infinite goodness to me!
Ancient Newspapers.
At the Centennial Newspaper Ex
hibition at Philadelphia it has been
decided to display copies of antique
journals and other curiosities of
newspaper literature. To this inter
esting collection all persons having
ancient, qnaint, or curious specimens
are invited to contribute; and should
the response be as hearty and general
as we hope to find it, this gathering
of time-worn publications will jjrove
to be not only a leading trait of the
Newspaper Department, but also one
of the salient attractions of the Ex
hibition as a whole. All having the
ability and the will to aid on the
project should transmit their consign
ments without delay to the Pavilion
of the Centennial Newspaper Exhi
bition, Fairmount Park, Philadel
phia, addressed to the care of Mr.
Geo. P. Rowell, who has the matter
in charge.
While on view, these exhibits will
have attached to them labels designat
ing by whom they are contributed,
and all consistent care will be taken
to preserve them from damage. Af
ter the close of the Exhibition they
will be again at the service of their
owners, or, in the absence of different
instructions, will be transferred to
some historical society or museum.
During the late war there were
mauy newspapers issued which illus
trated the straits in which their pub
lishers found themselves. Pink,
blue, and yellow sheets, wrapping
paper, and many other substitutes
were pressed into the service. Spec
imens of these now possess a curious
interest.
The advantages to the public of
such a gathering are manifest to a
degree which renders elucidation
unnecessary, and the opportunity to
do a very useful act is placed within
easy reach. A single copy of some
senile broadsheet may not be of
much worth to its proprietor, yet in
conjunction with others it will make
up a worthy collection. Many people
there are who, having preserved
such curiosities for years, can turn
them to little or no practical account,
and it is not to much to hope that
the response given by such will be
ready and general. Without loss to
themselves, they can materially bene
fit visitors to the Great Centennial
Exhibition and appreciably advance
a patriotic movement.
Rabies' ICr".
Bow-legs and knock-knees are
among the common deformities of
humanity; and wise mothers assert
that the crookedness in either case
arises from the afllicted one having
been put upon his or her feet too
early in babyhood. But a Massa
chusetts physician who has watched
for the true cause thinks differently.
He attributes the first mentioned
distortion to a habit some youngsters
delight in of rubbing the sole of one
foot against that of the other; some
will go to sleep with their soles
pressed together. They appear to
enjoy the contact only when the feet
are naked; they do not attempt to
make it when they are socked or
slippered. So the remedy is obvious;
keep the baby's sole covered. Knock
knees the doctor ascribes to a differ
ent childish habit, that of sleeping
on one side, with one knee tucked
into the hollow behind the other.
He has found that where one leg has
been bowed in more than the other,
the patient has always slept on one
6ide, and the upper member has al
ways been that which has been most
deformed. Here the preventive is to
pad the inside of the knees so as to
keep them apart, and let the limbs
grow freely their own way. All of
which is commended to mothers who
desire the physical uprightness of
their progeny.
Dom Pedro was in the Senate
chamber during the delivery of
Judge Black's argument, and ap
pears to have been very much im
pressed by this remarkable man.
"Nevaire pefore," he said, "vas mine
eyes to see a man who coot use so
mooch fine worts and bo mooch fine
she wing-tobacco at ze same time."
Brooklyn Argus.
A person of an inquiring turn of
mind asks- "Does the Lord love a
man who spends at a church festival
the money he owes bis washwoman?"
We pass the conundrum to the jiext
man.
Suggestions to the Editor.
Persons outside of a printing office
have no idea how many pleasant
suggestions an editor gets which
makes newspapers work a great deal
easier than people generally imagine.
'I just dropped in," says No. 1, 4,to
give you a little hint that you miffht
work up. You know Dom Pedro,
the Emperor of Brazil, is in this
country now, and as Brazil is in the
Torrid Zone couldn't you get some
thing off about him being a Tor (rid)
Pedro? See? Chance for a fgpod
thing there," and he smiling leaves.
No. 2 slides into the vacant chair
and remarks: "Looks like spring
again, don't it? Talking of spring
reminds me of a jokejthat occurred to
me in the postoffice to-day. Why is
Dom Pedro like the voice of a sick
mule? Give it up? Because he's an
Empy-roar and Brays ill. It's asv
tonishing how these things will strike
a person ain't it?"
No. 3 takes his place, and with
a modest cough commences; "Your
pajer always has racy comments on
passing events. That's the style of
paper I like; but there's something
about Dom Pedro that I think has
escaped your notice. He's gone
West now, and when he was passing
through Ohio he must have been a
Dom-in-O. O stand for Ohio, don't
you see? I thought also about some
allusion to velocipedro," he added
as he rose to leave, "but I hadn't
time to fix it up."
"When I was in the car this morn
ing," began No. 4, "the following
conundrum Hashed through my
mind: WThy is Dom Pedro like
England? Eh?"
The editor gave a hopeless look at
the door and replied, "Because he's
a Tor-Pedro."
"Oh, no."
"Because he Brays ill."
"Why that's no reason. I said
why was he like England"
"Because he's Domino."
"I guess you don't understand
much about riddles. The answer is,
because he's a Kingdom."
"Oh, that's it, is it? Well, I'm
glad lie's a kingdom. We had it
that he was an emperor; but we'll
make the correction. Y'ou see, I'm
agricultural editor, and these news
items are hardly in my line."
Just before No. 5 came up the ed
itor put a placard on the door in
scribed in large letters Dom Pedro,
with the middle letter of his iirst
name changed. The punster looked
at that and went down stairs again.
Dying iVords A Miscalculation.
Old Entwizzle, says the St. Louis
Republican, (this isn't the name,
of course) was an enthusiast, and
what most excited his enthusiasm
were the dying words of some of the
great men who have lived on the
earth. He had stored up in his
memory tho last words of all the
great philosophers, statesmen, war
riors and other celebrities that had
ever been reported. He was addicted
to quoting "Head of the army,"
Napoleon; "Don't give up the ship,"
Lawrence; "This is the last of
earth," John Qniney Adams; "I
still live," Daniel Webster, and so
on. At length his own time came to
die and he felt it incumbent upon
him to give utterance to "last dying
words," such as should reverberate
down the coming centuries and echo
to the end of time. As he had never
been a warrior, or statesman, or nav
igator, nor filled any position in life
more eminent than that of a ward
politician, he mourned to feel him
self circumscribed by the narrow
limits of a commonplace experience
for a selection of words. For weeks
he had lain on his back, slowly
sinking, sinking, thinking,' think
ing, but never a word worthy of be
ing bequeathed as an heirloom to
posterity came to his mind.
For days he had not spoken; he
did not wish to mar the effect of the
words he should utter as his last, by
speaking others of less import short
ly before. As he lay revolving the
matter in his mind in silence, the
absurdity of a man of his gigantic
intellect being unable to evolve from
his inner consciousness a few words
that should become immortal pre
sented itself vividly to his mind and
inadvertently he exclaimed: "How
ridiculous I am." The unwonted
effort brought on a fit of coughing
which ended in a gasp, which ended
him. His aged wife, who had been
inconsolable at his supposed uncon
scious condition, taking comfort from
his having spoken before his depart
ure, remarked: "Well, it is a great
satisfaction at any rate, that the old
man died sensible at last."
An Enthusiast in Hugging. A
couple from the country came to the
city, procured a license and were
married in due form. They left on
the afternoon train for home. They
attracted the attention of every pas
senger by their lavish display of af
fection. The young man kept his
arm tight around the bride's waist,
as if he was afraid she would vanish
before he knew it, and she didn't
seem to care if he hugged her right
along for half a day. She was so
terribly homely that everybody won
dered how he could love her, and by
and by he seemed to think an expla
nation would be in order. He bor
rowed a chew of tobacco of a man
near the door, and remarked: "I'm
going to hug that girl all the way
home, though I know she isn't 'pur
ty." "I wouldn't," briefly replied
the man. "And that's where you
fool yourself," continued the young
man. "When I'm huggin' a hun
dred acres of clean, nice land, with
forty head of stock on it, I can make
the homeliest girl in the world - look
like an angel to me."
If men would set good examples,
they might hatch better habits.
Personal Complications o" Euro
pean jlonarchs.
The London correspondent of the
New York Tribune has afresh budget
of precious gossip about royalty.
The rumors of a separation between J
the Duke of Edinburgh and the Czar's 1
daughter drew space, and it is loud
ly asserted that the visit of theDuch
ess to Petersburg,for which the death
of her aunt furnished a convenient
pretext, was really a polite means of
effecting a separation between the
Duchess and her husband. The
Czar has got his daughter back again,
the Duke of Edinburgh has return
ed to England, and Clarence house
is shut up when to open nobody
pretends to know. The Czar's love
for his daughter is one of the strong
passions of his life; what may he not
do to avenge the fancied slights
which she believes she has had to
bear? If these seem too contempti
ble reasons for hostile feelings, turn
to any history on your shelves and
see whether the first war you find
recorded sprung out of circumstan
ces less insignificant. In connection
with this may be mentioned the curi
ous reluctance shown by the Emperor
of Germany to pay his expected visit
to the Queen of England at Baden
Baden. First it was said that his
Imperial Majesty had no cold, it was
the weather that was cold, and the
Emperor only feared that he might
catch one. Nobody is taken in by
court fictions of this kind. The
tough old Emperor who bivouacked
six months in France not long since
is not a man to decline a railway
journey for fear of drafts through
the windows. There is a quite diff
erent reason from that for his shutting
himself up in his stuccoed palace at
Weisbaden. Berlin and St. Peters
burg are fast friends, and why, it is
asked, should not the Kaiser pay his
ally of llussia the compliment of
snubbing the mother of the unman
nerly husband who had ill-treated
the Czar's daughter.
Sympathy not Censure.
Sometimes a citizen standing high
in society and possessing the confi
dence of all who know him falls from
grace and shocks the community by
his crimes. Yet what reasonable man
would hold the community responsi
ble for the shortcomings of the fallen
man ?
A banking company have in their
employ a confidential clerk. He is
believed to be the very soul of- honor.
He has been tried and found true.
He handles millions of money, and
for years has retained the unlimited
confidence of his employers. But of
a sudden a defalcation is discovered,
traced to this honored clerk, and the
company are shocked by the revela
tion that the man they deemed hon
est has been robbing them through a
series of years. What fair-minded
man would think of condemning tho
company for the sins of the unfaith
ful employee.
A church reposes confidence in
one of its leading members. He is
foremost in the works of charity,
seems to be the incarnation of good
ness, sets an example for others to
follow, and is looked up to as one of
the pillars of religion. But he iroves
false. A groat temptation overpow
ers him, and lie is discovered to be a
whited sepulchre, and is cast out as
unworthy the association of upright
men and women. The chnrch may
keenly feel the disgrace, but wrho
thinks of charging the hypocrisy
discovered upon the chnrch which
has been deceived and wronged?
An official, holding the confidence
of the administration, tried, and be
lieved to be true, suddenly falls from
grace, and is quickly deprived of
position and brought to the bar of
justice. Can any sane person saddle
the faults of this man upon the party
that ho has abused? Would it be
right or just to charge his crime
upon a party that had every reason
to believe him to be both honest and
strong? No! The rule which ob
tains among individuals should apply
to parties. Punishment should be
meted out to those who betray the
confidence of their employers, and
sympathy should be extended to those
who have suffered from the betrayal.
Gilt-edge Butter. The Phila
delphia Ledger says that there are at
least two dairymen and butter-
makers in tho neighborhood of Phila
delphia who always sell their butter
at l a pound, and cannot supply
the demand even at that price. One
of them attributes his success to
three points: Good food to his cows,
uniform temperature of 58 degrees
in the milk-room, and neatness,
cleanliness, and dainty nicety at
everv step from the time when the
milk is obtained until the dollar ia
paid for the pound of butter. He
feeds his cows often, and not much
at a time, on white clover and early
mown meadow hay, which he cuts
fine, moistens and mixes with wheaten
shorts. Pastures and meadows are
kept free from weeds. The milk
room is kept at a temperature of 58
degrees by flowing spring water.
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New Use tor Poodle Dogs. A
lady who kept one of these curly
abominations lately lost her pet,
and called up a detective to find it.
The next day the officer came with
the dog, which was very wet and
dirty. The lady -was over joyed, and
asked forty silly questions, among
others. "Where did you find the
dear darling?" "Why, marm," re
plied the officer, "abig fellow had
him tied on the end of a pole, and
was washing windows with him.
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A landlady in a first-rate boarding
house up town finds it necessary to
post up the following notice, which
leaves a margin for meditation: "Do
not fool with the girls while they are
lighting the coaloil lamps,'
Patrick Henry.
Henry had already received the
name of the "Alan of the .feopie. -
He sprung from what may be called
the middle class, and his personal
appearance was plain, almost humble.
JJuring his early manhood he was
noted for idleness and failure in all
that he undertook. He failed twice
as a small country merchant, giving
his time and attention to hunting,
fishing, and playing the violin, in
stead of his business; and, as a last
resort, read law for six weeks, barely
receiving a license to practice, and
seemed destined to starve a little
more rapidly even in his new profes
sion than in trade. The moment was
near, however, when his wonderful
powers were to reveal themselves.
The clergy of the colony, who were
not a popular class, brought suit to"
recover their salaries, resting their
claims on a royal order in council,
which was in direct opposition to an
act of the Burgesses, and Henry was
employed to oppose them, though
the law was completely in their favor.
The result was remarkable. The
awkward youth rose to speak in the
midst of derisive smiles from the
clergy, who were present in great
numbers. His head hung down, and
his voice faltered. But soon an as
tonishing transformation took place
in his appearance. The head rose
erect, the voice grew vibrating and
imperious, and he denounced king,
clergy, and Parliament in terms so
violent and overwhelming that he
was interrupted by cries of 'Treason !"
and the parsons left the court house
in bitter indignation. Henry's tri
umph was complete. He had plaved
on the chords of the popular heart
with the hand of a master. The jury
decided in his favor in open opposi
tion to all law; and the crowd, yield
ing to jiassionate admiration, caught
the young orator up on their shoul
ders, and bore him, in the midst of
shouts and outcries, around the yard
of the court house.
Henrys next public appearance
was in the debate on the Stamp Act
in the House of Burgesses. We have
seen him on that occasion rise in the
midst of the crowd of planters, and
break down all opposition by his im
mense eloquence. He had thus car
ried with him the first men of Vir
ginia, as he had carried with him the
rustic crowd when he spoke against
the parsons. He was thenceforward
the mouth-piece and leader of the
extreme revolutionists, and his own
fiery spirit pervaded the whole fabric
of society, moulding public senti
ment and spurring the people to
resolute resistance. JoJin E. Cooke,
i?i Harper's Magazine for June.
Save The Straw.
Farmers are beginning to discover
that burning straw in the fields is
not by any means the best use to
which it can be put. For a long
time it was the almost universally
prevailing practice to reduce it to
ashes shortly after harvest, but
more recent experience has convinc
ed practical and economical farmers
that it can be used to great advantage
in feeding stock during the Winter
months. Illustrative of all the pro
fits to be derived from carefully pil
ing up straw for future use instead
of applying a match to it and send
ing it off in smoke, we will relate the
experience of a farmer two years ago
on the French Camp plains. Previ
ous to that time he had used fire as
a most ready means of getting rid of
his straw and clearing the land of
what he considered utterly worthless
material. For some reason scarcely
known to himself, he concluded to
stack it, and went to an expense of
about seven dollars to accomplish
the work. Some time afterwards the
owner of a herd of fine cattle made
inquiry as to the willingness of the
straw to sell it and permit the cattle
to eat it on the spot. At first he con
cluded that if it was good for another
man's live stock it was eqally good
for his own, and so intimated to the
party proposing, to purchase, but
the latter offering the sum of $250, a
sale was at once effected. This far
mer, at an expenditure of about
seven dollars, not merely preserved
material which brought two hundred
and fifty dollars in cash into his
hands, but he considered that he
was benefited in at least double
that amount in having his land en
riched by the cattle remaining upon
it until all the fodder was exhausted.
The field thus enriched exceeds one
hundrod acres, and he considered it
the most fertile land on his entire
farm. He now views straw in a
very different light than he did a few
years ago, and has concluded to pre
serve every pound produced in fu
ture for use during the Winter
months or when other feed for cattle
is not plentiful. Harvest will soon
be at hand, and farmers everywhere
will doubtless find themselves gain
ers by stacking their straw carefully
as the work of thrashing the grain
proceeds. Burning provender in the
Fall and cattle starving in Winter
are not to be accepted as evidences
of sound farming economy. Save
the straw. Stockton Independent.
Wakefulness. If you find your
self inclined to wake up at a regular
hour in the night, and remain awake,
you can break up the habit in three
days by getting up as soon as you
wake, and not going to sleep again
until your usual hour for retiring;
or retire two hours later and rise two
hours earlier for three days in suc
cession, not Bleeping a moment in
the daytime. Dr. Hall.
The young ladies of La Grange
(Ga.) Female College have unani
mously resolved to wear no kind of
dresses but calico at their next com
mencement. Too late! All the men
in search of those kind of girls were
married last year.
Stolen Fruit.
Beans it's spring, lettuce have pea.
Intoxicating music: " 'Ale to the
Chief." ' " '
Old bells can be made as good as
new ones. Od belles can't.
If a man wants to know what
"true inwardness" means, let him
try some early cucumbers.
"Astonishing cure for consump
tion," as the old lady said when she
sprinkled snuff on the victuals of her
boarders.
One way to be happy and to study,
angles at the same time is to hold a
sunshade oyer a pretty girl while
the plays croquet. '
A lively nrchiu accosted a drug,
store man the other day: "Mister,
plenso gimme a stick of licorice, your.
clerK goes with my sister.
Spilkins says there are two ways
in which "fair, fat and forty" makes
itself conspicuous, viz: its waste of
sighs, and its size of waist.
Prof. Swing still sticks to it that
lace has ruined more persons than
wine. Does he refer to the way wo
men tighten the corset strings?
A-lass! a-lass! as the old bachelor,
said when he felt a desire to marry.
lie made the saae exclamation after,
marriage, but spelt it differently.
A colored brother's opinion! "De
women ougLter work; dat's so; for ef,
hadn't ben for Five o wouldn't none
of us ha' ben "bleeped to work 'tall."
When Mr. Parton visits Massa
chusetts novy he Stops, with bis step
daughter; but white he is at home
in New York he lives with his wife.
It is now settled that Satan's ad
dress to the fallen angels, after being
driven out of heaven was in German.
He began by saying, "Nicks, come,
arouse."
Andrew Gunn, of Portland, Me.,
has petitioned the Legislature to
change his name, because the street
gamins call his little boy "a son o
A. Gunn."
"Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer ?"
was recently v?ry ably discussed by
the members of a debating society.
The conclusion arrived at was that it
was not wroLg, but impossible.
An inebriate recently fell and struck
his nose against a barber's pole. On,
being raised from the ground, he
asked : "What's zat woman wi striped
stockings on got agin me?"
A man in Michigan swapped hi
horse for a wife. An old bachelor,
acquaintance said he'd bet there was
something wrong with the horse, or.
its owner would never have fooled it
away in that reckless manner.
A skating-rink accident is thus de
scribed by a Kentucky reporter: "She.
struck out; couldn't turn; started for
the ceiling; shouted, 'Don't look;"-
turned a handspring, and then sat
down. The stripes were brown and
red."
Jones asked his young hopeful iost
from the Sunday school why Pharaoh
killed the boy babies and did not
touch the girls. " 'Cause he wanted
to get rid of the Hebrews, but wanted
to keep the She-brews," the young
hopeful replied. Jones gave him
two cents for the missionary box.
A woman is imbued with a feelinz
of joy and kindness second only to.
that ol the angels, but she can never
wash a pair of men's cassimere pants
and have them set as well as they
did before. Fulton Times. No: nor
as well as they did behind, either.
ieksmirg Herald.
A Trenton editor makes the state-:
ment for the good of correspondents
that they need not commence their
communications, "I take xay pen ia
hand," as he don't care whether they
write with their toes or with their
pen in their mouth, so they send
the news.
Two Council Bluffs (Iowa) girls,
school-mates, who were "awfully
smashed" over each other, as they
say at Vassal, in a gush of affection
went before a Justice of the Peace
last week and demanded that he
should unite them in marriage. They
left in tears when informed that no
such ceremony could be performed
in their case,
A Louisville chap thought he had
found something nice in the shape
of a laughing sunny little witch of a
girl, and was on the point of propos
ing marriage when she scattered his
fond hopes to the winds by remark
ing one evening: "Yon hug and kiss
me more than any gentleman I am
acquainted with, except Bill Wallace,
and he is a steamboat clerk, and ondy
comes here once a month."
The Taris fashion inventors are
determined to make woman's life a
burden to her. One of the journals
of that city says that no glove will
be tolerated in good society this sea
son with less than twenty buttons,
while another declares that in less
than five years knee-breeches and
six-inch skirts will be the fashionable
street dress for ladies.
For the extreme of naivete com
mend us to the Princess Borghese
(Napoleon's sister Paaline).whor hav
ing stood to Canova as what the
schools of art would term an "nn
draped model," and being asked by
a lady how she had felt, replied that
the had not been at all cold, as there
was a ftre in the room!
Mr. Moody said, in his famous
inquiry meeting, in answer to the
question, "Would you encourage
women preaching?" "I should say
it is a complicated point, and we will
leave it. I don't care about my wife
p-oinpr around and preaching." Mrs.
Van Cott is now "going around" and
praying for Mr. Moody. Chicagq
Tribune.
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