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t WIT AND HUMOR. ESSAY ON CATS COFFEE same notion three months from \YM. C. BRYANT Worth makes the man. ir Y amhill R eporter , the now I won't say nothin’ more agin The coffee berry grows wild in Worth make# the dress he |)rcji1 them Abyssinia, where a beverage has been Their ualoubted Fond«»» »nd protection mau. **• “But it’s my business to see they The Ambir <>f "ThinUipii»" a Truthful and prepared from it from time imme S mtum A W xbun , PltorUKTUKM. inmy Instance» of Littlo Children- Thorough Man. First small girl - “ I know whan ain’t both in the same notion. I must rnonal. It was introduced into Per ■ ... .1 going to lie when I grow up!" «1 go and call on Miss Fenny Petti sia 875 A. D., and thence iuto Arabia M c M innville , OREGON [ditto “What are you goi’nj.T' whatever the name is and try to fix HIS GREAT CONHIDEKATION MIK some six hundred years later, where when you grow up?” w THIS FEELINGS OF OTHERS. it up somehow or another.” it was used mainly by students to girl -“k widder.” CALDWELL AT SPRINGFIELD- Ti> tell the truth, it was more the keep them awake nights. William Cullen Bryant was a plain No member of the family has suf In 1621, Burton writes, "The lurks A boy's tool chest only costs W Here's the spot. Look around you. Above meddling of the women folks than anything else which hail set Mr. Sput man and disliked pretentious people. have a drink called coffee, as black as fared the abuse that the family -cat j if the lad is anyways bright, n, on the hight Lay the Hessians enoamped. By the church terdock against his nephew’s choice. "How is it that you can make Mr. soot and as bitter, which they sip up .saw the legs oft' every chair ia on the right “Real common sort of folks they Bryant talk?” asked a lady of un as warm as they can gaffer, because receives at »ho hands of the general house and Imre holes through n Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here world. We do not speak of those are, ” declared Mrs. Ruhama Chickpea, ran a wall— other, with whom she had seen tile they find by experience that that who starve her, who turn her out door in a week’s time. You may dig anywhere and you will turn up “and nobody knows where they come kind of drink so used helpeth diges A Brooklyn grocer put (5.250 u a ball. | from nor what they’ve b’en. I poet conversing. “Simply by not tion and promoteth alacrity vi doors at night, who go away for u Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run, | shouldd't ’low it, Mr. Snatterdock.” in a glass jar»and the guessing ran no trying to be smart and making vacity of spirits. flowers blow season in the country and leave her all tie way from 550 to 2,500. j But as Mrs. ChicKpea’s eldest effort to talk well,” was the reply. About 1650 it was introduced into Pretty much as they id ninety-three years to forage for uerself. but of those who one thing to know beans ao<] m.ii ago. daughter, Rebecca, was knwon to be England and France against much Many sought the poet whose works to estimate numbers. Nothing more did 1 say? Stay one moment; “setting her cap” for Rob Greenaway, they admired. Some used to call opposition. It will be seen that our simply slander her by injurious re You can buy grapes and |IWm perhaps her testimony should be taken you’ve heard Pilgrim Fathers were acquainted port. When she sutlers little children Of Caldwell, the parson who once preached with some allowance. him cold and unsympathetic. They with the drink. Probably no bever to .ift her by the tall and carry her winter, but tile small boy wj||. the word feel happy until he can go out» “Poor as church mice, too,” put in were mistaken. The man they age is now more extensively used. Down at Springfield? What! No? Come, the Widow Smilax, who was supposed [ sought was modest in h's estimation The essential principle of coffee is round by the heels, dress her up in bis skates on and buy green am that’s bad. Why he had All the Jerseys aflame. And they gave him to have an eye on Mr. Spatterdock of himself, and therefore shy. He caffeine, a poison capable of produc caps and aprons as a doll, and inflict on the street that will 1-end him A the name himself. “Of course, it’s Rob’s money disliked to bo lionized, and would not ing paralysis of the great nervous upon her a thousand well meant an alligator in-ide of half auh» Of the “rebel high priest.” He »tuck in , they’re after.” One hotel in Albany has a knot be patronized. But bis apparent centres, but mainly affecting the pains, it looks as though she loved their gorge, And Mr. Spatterdock had gone coldness of manner, arose from his soinal cord. The same is true of them. There are innumerable in I rope at every wiudow for gnesti For he loved the Lord God—and] he hated King George! ! home thoroughly convinced that it truthfulness—he was unwilling to ex tlieiiie, the essential principle of tea. stances on record of the aflection of let thomselves down by. The, He had cause, you might say, when the Hes ■ was his duty to save his nephew from press a greater degree of interest Such drugs are not necessarily harm cats for children, and entirely contra | prietor has been offered" £100 u, I the snare that had been spread for than he felt. sians that day fill. Phosphorus is a violent poison; dictory of the outrageous old notion scend this way from the third » Marched up with Knyphausen, they stopped him of their sucking the breath of babies, window, but he declines with tha: to those but it is found in fish. No mau was more cordial on their way ****** Persons who drink coflee freely eat l’uss, indeed, often makes her nest in he knew and esteemed. As the edi- At the “Farms,” where his wife, with a child A Chicago man who flogged "And this is Miss Pettigil? Miss tor of the Evening Post, he was dis- less food. The Gallae, an African the cradle, but not because she loves in her arms, daughter because "she had too n Bat alone in the house. How it happened Penny Pettigil?” tinguished for his frank and easy tribe, often, in their long wanderings, the little milky breath, nor because fellows and they disturbed hisi none knew “Yes.” manners with his subordinates. His live solely on coffee and butter—a she loves the warmth, but because But God—and one of the hireling crew Mr. Spatterdock glanced sharply commands were put in the form of bagful of coffee a day of the size of she loves the baby. She lias been and also kept the lamp and the Who" fired the shot. Enough! There she burning all night,” was lined | around at the home like appearance requests. If he wished to see one of a billiard ball. lay. known to fly at the biggest and most Parents in Chicago have to beta of the tiny room in which he was the staff, he never sent for, but went ferocious dog entering the room where It is better adapted to the warm And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, standing, and looked curiously into who is boss. away! to him. He never was ostentatious ' than to the other climates. Many, her little friend lay sleeping: to jump Dr. Schliemann, it is stated, i Did he preach—did he pray? Think of him, I the elfish brown eyes fixed on his own, of himself, or of his position. from the cradle when tile child cried and an increasing number, at the as you stand If this was Penny Pettigil he was Consideration for others and a de North are injured by it, while it is and run for the mother, returning anil dig northwest of Athens in searc] By the old church to-day; think of him and I in a deuce of a pickle! Why, the little sire to avoid the infliction of pain used much more freely at the South standing with her fore-feet on the Pericles' grave. We suspect ai that band Of militant cowboys! See the smoke and witch was a beauty, out and out—and were prominent traits of Mr. Brv with no harm. cradle’s edge, nervous and anxious picion has got abroad that the] the heat a lady, too! till the mother took up the child; Mr. Pericles was poisoned, and il There are thousands of people who ant ’ s character A literary editor of Of that reckless advance—of that struggling Buy her off? Mr. Sriatterdock would the Evening Post once had a bad cannot use tea and coffee without in and one belonging to Mrs. \\ ilson, proposed to hold a post mortem retreat! Keep the ghost of that wife foully slain in as soon have thought of -of—of any case of poetic idiocy to deal with. jury even in their mildest dilutions. ol' Cults, near Aberdeen, Scotland, amination on the body. The gt thing else in the world! your view— Mr. Bryant had said to him, “1, When strong and in large quantities once accosted liis mistress with pit should be brought to justice. And somehow or other, he could wish you to deal very gently with [ they may impoverish the nervous eous meaows, running repeatedly to A now idea, that of photograph And what oould you—what should you—what never tell exactly how it happened, poets, especially the weaker ones.” force, and prepare the way for the the would you do? me door, uuwi, and uuu endeavoring to fetch -■— employes is being adapted by ti Why, just what he did! They were left in | but there he was, sitting in a little, The editor was embarrassed—on one inroads of all forms of nervous her with him, and finally succeeding, ' at the East. This is done so th» the luroh, chintz covered rocking chair, chat when the lady found her sick and i an employe skips out he can be fou For want of more wadding. He ran to the ting of Rob, and everything else un side was the injunction, on the other diseases. was the book of poems, without a | church, feeble child "rolled from the sofa If the employes will now insist m der the sun. while Penny Pettigil ’ s ONE ON THE BARKEEPEK- Broke the door, stripped the pews, and line to praise. where it had been left, and so envel having photographs of their ampE • --------- dashed out in the road . wonderful, elf-brown eyes flashed and Just then Mr. Bryant came in, and A few evenings ago while a half oped in the rugs and wraps that it ers, the thing will be all right. Ei With his arms full of hymn-books, and threw sparkled, or dropped their dusky the editor, stating his embarrassment, dozen gentlemen were standing at a would presently have suffocated if ployers are as apt t» skip out i down his load At their feet! Then above all the shouting | lashes over cheeks that glowed like read some of the stanzas to him. bar of one of the most fashionable help had not been brought by the leave employes to mourn, as theufii | crimson coral. and shots “No, you can’t praise it. of course,” “H’m! Rob’s a lucky fellow, after answered Mr. Bryant; "it won't do up town saloons, a well-dressed, good cat When, moreover, the cat con [ way. Bang his voice: “Put Watts into ’em, boys’ Ellen Foster confidently m J all,” muttered the uncle, as he walked j to lie about it, but”—turning the vol looking stranger entered the room quers her hereditary attachment tc give ’em Watts.” places, and follows persons about in that “by the year 2,000 there will) And they did. That is all. Graases spring, | home with his head in the clouds, ume in his hand and inspecting it,— and walked straight to the bar, and addressed the barkeeper in language their peregrinations, it can not be be a rum-sliop in the land.” Lrtl flowers blow, metaphorically, his hear» beating, because she loves to travel. Dr. see, that is 117 years hence, L-l Pretty much as they did ninety-three years meanwhile, in a way he had never “you might say that the binding is like the following: ago: securely put on and that -well, the “Stranger, I am in a very, very bad Stables, a surgeon of the British before that time all the saloon hl You may dig anywhere and you’ll turn up a known it to beat before. binder has planed the edges pretty condition. I want a drink; I must navy, tells us of his cat, which, have relink retired^ --- ,17 --- Li al- f ers now living will win iiuv« ball, “Throwing himself away, indeed! But not always a hero like this—and that’s It’s her that’s a-throwing herself smooth.” have a drink, but I am compelled to though at six years old the mot her of millionaires, and will care very lid Journalism demands rapid work. make the humiliating statement that a hundred kittens, yet found time to wilether the business be kept upl all. away, if anything. Poor girl! She'll Topics must be shot on the wing. —Bret Harte. be lonesome while Rob’s gone. I must The haste is fatal to the style of I am unable at present to pay for it. accompany him on all his travels, | their 8QCCes8or8 or not. If you will be kind enough to favor having journeyed over 20,000 miles [ Three Georgia girls each dn drop in often.” MB. SPATTERDOCK'S MISTAKE. journalists. But Bryant's style was Tlie villagers held quite aloof from marked through his half century of me in my extremity, you shall be in his company, usually bestowing several eggnoggs and a win ie judged ltuigeu that mtn n ° t 1 herself, when she it was i I , . . . | the Pettigil’s, but Air. Spatterdock editorial work by purity and elegance. paid, sir.” “It’il never do—never.” the little basket that , s then got in a buggy i “We don't keep whiskey to give flitting-time, in tb„ made ample amends for their neglect. ' started off in high spirits for a pa Mr. Spatterdock shook his head ar degenerated. away here” was the blunt reply of the carried her, but on one occasion, Mrs Pettigil, Penny’s mother, was It “ never Bome imaginary auditor, us he Btood l'rom the fact that they were snt How do you manage to retain the barkeeper. The stranger begged but having taken so long an airing ■ before before obl'iXd Tleli >y asleep*, in a if warming himself with his back to the a sweet faced old lady, and Penny purity of your style?” asked a friend. the barkeeper was inexorable and starting that her master was <' herself was as piquant and change mirnor wliil«» n lilnnVumit li was rm fire. "If my style has fewer defects even rude. lvclvt“ without W1L11OUL Llt ‘1 » ollt , I was sci to leave her, she ‘ xlclllv7vl hailed 111II1, him, corner, .. while a blacksmith The mild-mannered able as an April day. The blazing hickory logs snapped than you expect, ” answered the poet, he walked along the railway plat- , ln K up the remains of the buggy * ♦ ♦ ' * * * stranger turned to the gentlemen as] and crackled, sending a cheerful I a hoe, it is fair to infer that the pi “it is for the reason, I suppose, which “And so you sent Rob off to git him Dr. Johnson gave Boswell for con who had been witnesses to the con form, from a first-class carriage that, passed off without their presence. warmth through the snug room, with she had thought it best to take to versation, and said: “ Gentlemen, j away from that girl, Mr. Spatter- its heavy mahogany furniture, fresh versing so well; I always write my you are all strangers to me, but would save time. An exchange says: “Oscar ffi ingrain carpet and gaily-flowered cur dock?” best.” But when people say that Puss is will lecture in England on ‘Imp one of you be kind enough to loan The Widow Srnilas, after lingering tain. “But,” rejoined the friend, "there the price of a drink? Iwil) pay cruel they forget that all carnivorous sions in America.’ The only imp “Rob's a likely young fellow, and j i on the way home from church until are daily emergencies when there is me it back. ” ' animals, and man among them, are sion he ever made was when he vis | Mr. Spatterdock overtook her, was if he must get married, there’s no rea no time to choose words and be cruel too. Yet Puss is sometimes a bakery and inadvertently sat i One of the party addressed handed i making the most of the opportunity son why he should throw himself dainty, when the alternative is a the stranger 15 cents. more virtuous than man in this re in a pan of dough.” There must ' thus afforded. away on a poor girl, with nothing to hasty article or none at all.” He stepped to the bar and said: gard, and will live tor years with the some mistake here, and we doubt "That kind of girls is so artful, to bless herself with but a pair of cherry “I would sooner,” replied the tempting morsel of a bird playing Mr. Wilde ever made an impress cheeks and coal black eyes, or what be sure! But it seems most a pity painstaking editor, “the paper should “Now, can I have a drink?” “Yes.” said the barkeeper; “any about hr r, disputing her dinner, and under those circumstances. Ev« evor color they are -I ain’t never sot that you took so much trouble, now go to press without an editorial arti he had sat down in a pan of dot eyes on the girl. But Rob Greena ! that the girl has gone away herself.” cle than to send to the printer one I body can get a drink for the money, alighting on her very head. Dr. as alleged above, the impressiunn here.” I Good told, long ago, of one that had “Gone away—herself?” Mr. Spat was not satisfied with.” way’s my own nephew and it’s my "I thought so,” said the stranger. lived at peace with a tame canary would have been in Mr. Wilde insS dooty to look after him. Marrying, terdock stared. Perhaps another cause for the The bottle of “red licker” was suddenly, to the horror of the family, of the dough. “Why, yes, to be sure!” Didn’t you purity indeed! What the dickens does he [ of Mr. Bryant’s prose may be take Bcch a silly notion in his head ! know it? She went the week before found in his habits of reading. He placed on the bar; the stranger filled seizing it in her mouth, and spring A patent medicine man wrote Lis glass liberally. j Rob diil. Went to visit her married ing to the top of a tall secretary, the editor of a religious paper for, anyway? I ain’t never married fond of the old English classics, “A little bitters in there, if you whereupon it was found that a strange closing $5 and saying: "Encl« sister, I hear, a-livin’ out at Sweet was and look at. me!” and often deplored their neglect by please,” said the stranger. Then piease find nnu $5 ior for wnicn which I 1 waui, want And, truly, Mr. Spatterdock seemed gum Holler.” present generation. He believed when the bitters were furnished, he . cat had entered the room, which | please Mr. Spatterdock wondered whether the authenticated fact, from a scientific I to say that my chill medicine is un enviable man, if he was an old there was no worse thief than a bad asked for a larger glass of water, he really had gone crazy or not. But, bachelor, nearly forty. book, and thought a man degraded which was also set up. The stranger authority, must be held to dispose | best in the market.” The editor of ^the^ accusations^ both of cruelty | plied: “I am thankful for J His housekeeper was a model of i of course, there was some mistake! his memory and his reason who used He declined the widow's invitation them to read any book which did not drank his beverage and then turned and of stupidity if there were no"t opinion of my paper as an advent thrift and neatness. Not a crook or a to dinner, much to her disappoint to the man who had loaned him the other instances in plenty to do the medium, but I cannot conscientio1 cranny of the big old farm house but make him better, intellectually or money and said: I same. There is certainly sagacity in say that your medicine is t he I what was swept and scoured and gar ment, and went at once to learn the •tnorrally.—| Youth's Companion. “Stranger, I make it a point of [ the way any cat finds her way across consequently I decline your pro; niahed. Not a pane of glass but was truth of the matter. "I thought you knew it was my honor to pay borrowed money before miles of country to an old home, in tion.” “That’s an honest m A QUA1NTAT0WN. sheer and speckless as a French mir I pay whiskey bills; here is your 15 the cow, museii ........ way -z she often sits by the un, un,, me aoveriiser. ror. And you might dance a jig on cousin that Mr. Gieenaway came to mused the advertiser. nuiue Some i I close to Philadelphia, cents; I am greatly obliged for the and asks the milkman to attend to , would have -------- hello, he didn't any of the carpets and not raise a see,” exclaimed Penny, dropping her is Germantown, a demure old Quaker town. One loan , ;” aim vvcUKeci our. and nu so Buyiig saying ue he walked out. , her wants, in the way she as often turn the five dollars " mote of dust to show in the brightest eyes, bashfully. “Her name is Penny, of its peculiarities is a free library of toctii too, though we generally call her Pen, The dazed barkeeper, seeing he was ■unbeam. fishing: it was sagacity in the One evening recently, while 10,01)0 volumes, from which fiction is sold and that the laugh was on him. goes nndTron^-? meeti4 at the First Pre Wash day came every Monday and to distinguish us. iter sister was rigidly excluded. The works of taken sick, and she went to stay with ran to the door and called to the ironing day every Tuesday, rain or ire « W i e 1Ve »i ‘ T M 1S i ‘ erian Church was in progress Shakespeare, Byron, Pojie, Dryden, her, and so — ” stranger to come back. The stran Iwfn Olv h u"lC y shine, week in and week out. from LC,at “ m congregation was startl«l at hear “And so, Penny -my Penny you Thackeray and Kingsley are among ger returned anil inquired: “What ^ Of ¿or year's end to year’s end. Z mouse an alarm clock in possession of on those that are kept out. "Have you “Look at me!” continued Mr. Spat i are really free, and you do care any of Mark Twain’s works here?” do you want?” The barkeeper re w itch -1 till I ' ' * 1Y’ an< Sat aD< the ladies present go off at a fnn terdock, still addressing his imagin enough for me to I h > my little wife?” a Philadelphia Times reporter ask«l. plied: “That was a cute trick ;ou watched tdl »he conld pounce upon rate It ‘„„„edf that the o» Whatever the answer was, there was played, and I own up that you caught ary auditor. “I’ve never married, and, mouse; it was Snndav sagacity in the cat had 1 i had 1 a watchmaker 1 a u i No; his books of travels, I suppose, me.. The drinks are on me. What the that knew when .. xrt repair - a it i ■ what's more, I’ve never wanted to. a double wedding at the tiny cottage “ we that knew when Sunday came, as Mr. hardly considered reliable will you take?” “Excuse me, sir,” IV byte of Dalltield Terrace. Dundee, was very particular in telling nffl And Rob will get over this notioD, i when Rob camo home, and the village ” the librarian replied, • I replied the stranger, “I drink only relates; it for half-past five o’clock. I too, if only— Let me see. It's no enterions, who had refused to receive enough, and the cat that, threatened set know, though; there’s some with gentlemen; I cannot drink with lady was thinking of a . m . and use argufying with a young fellow the plelieian l’ettigils. now had occa don't with condign punishment, have sud- in them, I suppose- at least you,” and the mysterious stranger dènìv < lismnenrelB„1 watchmaker of P. M. It was set that's as sot ns mule when he takes a I sion to wonder whether Mrs. Simeon truth I've heard it said there was. I heard walked away, leaving the barkeeper wared are’leX T? n.T” TP 5 :30 p . m . and went off on time notion-, and the Greenaways allns was Spatterdock and Mrs. Rob Greenaway it though." said the librarian, look to wonder whether it would not be study in uhilosonliv hv'fl' wan^s '* the prayer meeting, where the or would receive them. obatinate. ing a little dubious, “in a way that better to give a stranger one drink an opportunity ’to’ discriminX “be -toP^on her way home. “I'll send him away awhile—three "A SORT 0’ EXPECTIN' LOOK" didn’t altogether satisfy me. \Ve than to be caught by a trick and have tween instinct and reason, he has . 1 he Chicago HofeZ Reporter, sp months or so, anyhow. There’s sister A New Hampshire countryman last don’t put any plays in, "and Shake to “set them up" to a whole crowd. Roseanna, living over to Sweetgum only to observe anv voting cat on her Ilng in 1110 interest ol young men! stays out on that ground. Of Holler. I’ll send him there for two summer used to do a good ileal of speare first experience of‘a’ mirror, as she 1 C01nPlain that the avenues by W they can earn “ an U honest ‘ living or three months, and lie’ll forget nil obser ’ant sauntering about a house course there are some works on gen B ells .—The invention of bells is tries to put her paw behind’it, pops “ oral literature that contain his quota spectably, are full, calls their at about her in that time. Or mebbe I where boarded some city ladies. One back to see if the foe is still there, attributed to Polonius, Bishop of kin see the gi __ ____ girl herself, and sort of of them, not very young, but of tions. but we can’t help that. \Ve Nola, Campania, about the year 400. and ends by boxing the ears of thè tion to the fact that there is a sc buy her off, like Yes, that’s what I’ll rather attractive appearance, came in hold that the mind should be 1«1 to They were first introduced into impudent creature fonfronting her itv of good hotel cooks, and for much staring, shrewd rather than take up wholesome reading -books churches as a defense against thunder there, and scampers away with her salary a good cook receives is « do. Hillo, Rob! that you?” Mr. Spatterdock's greeting was sus impudent. Once it came in his way on travels or natural history or and lightning; they were first put up tail a« big as ten. profoundly con-1 mous. If the young men of thep piciously warm, but Rob seemed not to do her a service by which he dis biography- something that ‘ will in Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire. vmeed of magic, whether or not she ent day will learn to cook, they 1 to notice it. covere-’ her name and also the piefix amuse and instruct together. Our England, in 045. In the eleventh cen knows the word. Certainly cats are not only stand a good chance “Good morning, under’ he returned, Miss before it.” “Well, I be hanged,” idea is that in reading, a person may tury. and later, it was the custom to to every household where" they are getting paying positions, but U become dissipated, just the same as rather soberly. “You wanted to see he replied, “ef I hain’t puzzled over by baptize them iu the churches before loved at all a part of the Lares and will be considered more available drinking whiskey.” me, I believe.” that a bit. I wouldn’t ask, fur I kind they were used. The curfew bell was Penates, and to such households it is matrimonial partners. No fW “Yes. Roh” o' made up my mind long ago I could Scrap-books though generally use established in 1078. It was rung at no matter of marvel that the Egvp should lie without a head that A rather stormy interview ensued, most always tell. Somethin' about fill have their disadvantages, like old eight in the evening, when people tians deified- them, and laid their cook. in which th« uncle, however, came out you didn't look married, ‘n’ then agin love-letters in a breach of promise were obliged to put out their fires and poor little carcasses away at last with ! A few years ago a clergyman, wk successful somethiu'did." “What was it did?”! suit. A Brooklyn newspaper writer, candles The custom was alxilisheil an honors given to the royal ‘/©cease was recently announced« • •**•• she asked. “Well, a sort a look es ef who contributed a very thorough in 1100. Bellmen were appointed in inuminy. But it was not merely as about to make an exchange “Well. well, and so that's settled, you bed about settled it: was con article on Gambetta to his paper, is London in 1556, to ring the Itells at t he fl lend of the hearth that this was pHed at the railroad ticket office anyhow.” tent«], *n’ done fur, *n’ didn't ask to day a wanderer because the anal night and cry out: “Take care of your done; for Egypt was the land of grain a half-rate ____ ticket, ____ , which it ' Mr. Spatterdock had come home a nothin ’ o' no man!” “Is that look so ysis of the great Frenchman’s career tire and candle; be charitable to’ the and the enemy of rats and mice pre usual to ‘ sell to gentlemen of few hours later, having accompanied unusual ?” “Well, yes; hereabouts originally appeared in a London poor and pray for the dead.” served it from incalculable loss. In I ©loth, He was rather a youti his nephew to the depot and watcheii 'tis; but I've seen thet look afore in daily. A brother journalist found our own country, where it can hardly ’ looking ’ * minister, and the ticket s*- him speed off on the train. women from down your way (B- ston).1 him out told the storv, and actually be denied that such vermin cost many inquired incredulously, “Are y<N 1 lie breaking of a glass in James “Rob's oft safe and sound," he mat I used to s’pose them es h«i it wus produced a copy of the original arti thousand dollars ’ worth of damage Blaine's carriage, as it stood un clergyman?” Quick as thought I tered, punching the fire till it blazed always married, but seems not Well, cle which he had preserved in his G. der the sheil, in Washington, caused yearly the cat is no less valuable an young divine began to open hisg1 like a young Vesuvius. “He didn't I all I hev to say is 'taint natural! A own scrap book. a report to l>e sent ail over the coun animal than she was in ancient Egvpt, sack, saying: “I’ll read you one like the notion of going, at first. woman ought always to hev a sort o' — — » ♦-------- - try that an attempt had been made and if she is no* deified, she should my sermons.” The ticket-seller 1 Reckon he thought 1 was a-goin to expectin’ look about her till she’s Au Eastern journal states that certainly l>e treated with indulgence satisfied, and handed over the b send him clear to Inly! But. soon as hitched. It helps her market. It "paper made from strong fibers can to assassinate him. when the glass and respect. was actually broke bv a bov with a rate ticket with a readiness he found 'twasonly forty miles away, does, no mistake. * *♦» • now be compress«! into a substance i “bean shooter.” The friends of Mr to Sweetgum Holler, be got as chirk Ladies sometimes forget that indicated that he was not in the w* so hard that nothing but a diamond J Blaine, who shows such able ad ver aa a bnll-tarrier. He's promised not He calm in arguing, for fierceness can scratch it." How the editor veri- ! jewelry and profuse ornaments are to hear a theological essay. to let a soul know where's he's gone, makes error a guilt and truth dis tied the diamond part of the story is i tising qualities, should be engaged no evidence of refinement, but rather by a circus as advance agents_ i who would let anything h an'I've promised, if they're both in , courteous. tokens of vulgarity and want of the Those not known. [ Peck's Sun. place of Christianity, must fi , taste. abolish all sorrow from the earth- I 'J