Till; OLD SCIIQOL BOOK.
.LoiiMm IukjI book, in its rurJy i:k
HI
rXuUt l, lor an hour w. I
-Bpriid' . i ' 'I , '
i .' one; more, st-s in days of 01
1 Tm tlw task tunt v-xl te brain;
. . b-ssoii done, an.l victory won.
And I ffd I'm a child again.
vn l lMHitoKtand with iv youthful blind
i.rfnl I rV.e'
I
! 1.,'tr th; fun pre the school beym:,
nd 1 )'in in the gladsome wen-.
I t ik in' v place with a fsoler face, I
n or tho well carved ile.sk I I Kind.
MiVi hourly pore oer tbennti.,uo Mt.
, ,i thy wonderful iige, old fru-nd.
.,:i:j rnros were few, and our ffh-::ds j
"" ' Vcr.k true, j
.'. ..i ...!i in-ii.f wpw rare ana Imlii.
, v..i ll wnsnauKlit(Hi we fondly though!,
Kill a rcuion ol pure delightJ
,,, - has MHd, and our jiath ha Kd
Thiuu-h a dark and tearful wciic;
w ius-l awav are the nooxl and say,
' UlA- ihe old house on the arete n.
liuf vv lUlhS no ore of the days of n ,
I or the tear drop dims the eye; '
..oni old Uk, in Hie dusty nook,
s Hi vears that have glided by.
', Midi we trae in thy honest tace,
1!,":! amlneofKold witliiil
, -hed the vmith.a-they souj;ht for truth,
,1,, the M house on the green.
MOON SHINE.
il.lttlui i-itcliers -ion t hold inlicli.
, ;ll lv- citu't l,o g.rls.
iTht-rc ' many a sun pu a hkatmg
rink.' ! j V- !
It's an ill wtti'l th.i'.-r-Uuws yuiir i.at,
u.'f. j i
A hir-1 'n haiiJ will ,11 away uniessa
i.d.a tight.- - :
Jmlgoihot a man by the coat '.hat .he
' V' tt can't m..ky, a silk lmrsj out; ol
.'un''!cacfi!.'il calico. '
A tic vUc when both parties vote yes,
ff-aiit the preacher tics th3 knot.
The man who appears "stuck up'' am
".starch v! ! in his cum position'' c.ito" too
hi.iihy potatoes, ol course, and .sn mtu t nc
m.'vii diet.. "
A lacjhook is entitled "Half Hours
v.hh lnxlts." j What a lively half hour
...no can luve with a bee !
Mtc wf:s telling a female friend how
.Mary Jane quarreled witli her "fellow,"
aii-1 saidlishe, "Why, if you heard 'em
t,i!lc, you'd think the were married."
The Alabama' Argus editor is reported
' have knocked down a wandering gla
cier fur offering to put in missing window
pa.'a iu the sanctum, and asking il'sjven
t tight yo.u!d do. :
A comprehensive school inspector asked
,Ui Aberdeen, chiss if any one Could tell
Siim anything remarkable iu the life of
Mose.s. Hoy: ''Yes, sir; he wir the only
la n who broke all the coiimmaudnu'r.t.s iit
nee. ; ! - .
JiOILED DOWA.
I - Tpe Lei&Iutiue of Virginia h:is passed "ill have a prominent place, wbilefthe latest
Jii'i act paying t lie members $540 per Mt-I productions of AmericAn humori5ts will ap
1 . ...I : pear lrom month to month. The list of short
f'"nJ I ....:.., i 1 ...i
I : .
Tlio total' emigration'. iVotli the I'uited I
ungdoni during 187G was l'o 8. 'J and
iiiinii'Titioii Oli C, IT i
i A copy of the first edition of the lur-
1 ii.T i . .. .
Iiioii l.iu e is nwneil In- Mr I'lirv ( J! I
Tucker of the Troy Times. ' '
. " , i- , I . "
I 'Miss THonipsou's (picture of Inkcrmau j
iai bec:i purchased by an eminent Lou- :
don publishing art firm l6r th3 sum of .V- ;
fiMi n " v. . .
, J0uincas. I
A huge rhinoceros got louse in the ;
fleam -r Colon in a storm off Cape Hatter-
iug recaptured.
There U a growing demand in France
r till' vritili"' nf inmlerii liit i iri 1 1 , 1 i t-
.r.t ...
y u.,1... iCiinow popuiiruy was M.p-
i KM t ) haVC bOCU 0U the declined.
The complaint against the ueV fctcain
,eet car iu Philadelphia i not that they
JJ noisy, j l.ttt that they .rua .pucliy for August, September, and October, con.
b it cdestrtans are cudangcred. taining the opening chapters of "That Lass
Iceorgia paid last ye; r $3,500,000' for 'lrifi' wiH be given to ejery new sub
I' ? . .... , J , r 1 , 1 , 5cnbor (who requests it), and whose subsenn-
j.Ueuat to Icrtihze her land, and the av- tion bejriuif with the November number.
iie proluct of her cotton Tier acre is j Subicription price, 54 a year 35 cents a
ip Ttevl as a. little less than i.30 per cent.'
..... . 1 ' ? i
l ue woman who personated; Katie King ,
the l'hiladcl phia materialization sjanccs j
is gone on the stage. She apprars in a :
uiy called "Katie King; or, bpiritua'.is n !
L ! ..
posed
ilVoin
pre (
80,000 to 100,000 ii.-n
e weekly fised in Aberdeen for cuinb
Aiog until the importation of cattle va
thibittl. The stoppage of Supply lu
itscd great stagnation.
Large quantities of marble aro bring
ipjed ironi Khoxville, Tcnn. to San j
farcisco to 'build a Stock Kxchange which 1
s claimed will be the finest structure of
kiml'm the United States.
ln emineat Frcach ihvsiolot:ist dh.-ld '
It the munerical proportion .of tativ in
ri generation is the same, and that tak-.
J a hundrcil iif the tallest men of any j
deration they will present just th? same '
fifties of stature as the hundred idlest
?ti of the preceding one. 1 '
sfortune; and; Fortune Aear
; I Neighbors.
A. few in'j'nths ag a paragraph"- in the
ndo i papers described a melancholy ;
Meat vvhich befcU a young nuu while's
ish.tingr Astraysiut entered one !
b.s eyes and cxtinguishevl it.
pi
,
;tlcmau was highly educate, and
Jiwt d, tloUgh w.tlo t for "Une. an Iho
t only twenty-three years oge. tie was I
tljht to his lod 21 mi-house in.i, ndja !
Sre he
1 iv sufrerin- lint l w...ihl,u
lay SUlltriUg. but a wealthy
omo youusr widow. tn whso cs -
1 huulome
be happend to be shovjfiug whe:l-jhe i
..: lent. occurred, c-muiauUtwk up her
h 9 in the same house in order to imrtC ;
1 .'J Htr tare was extended through
ral weeks, but alas! the other evel
..1.: i i i i . i
p mi .en wuii mat uiiicn nau been i
i'Ut,.and it, lot, was cxtii.-guishcd, j
ang the youth and holar hopelessly
totally blind. Uut the pretty widow
equal to the occasion. She proposed
him-marriage. The result was a
ndid company alighting at the dojr
fashk.uable church, a beautiful dame
thirty; attended by her two little
Men, leading a blind youth of twenty
to the altar, there to endow him with
r exVnsive worldh "ools. an-1 the
tv.n ie now. enioying their Iioueyiucwju ou
he fine estate,, where the gentleman may
meditate I on the anebnt say iogs.-,wbiJi
dtl i?e. misfortune and fortucc to be nci
11 hi'.'h'Kkrs. . ' . ' ; -;
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SOB
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A a I :
a;.: I i.i.i i ;;atkl il aoazinl
Wlitii ' Sriuner lisjied its fiuiou3 Midtum
uicr I!(iliJay Nuriiber in July, a friendly
cr iiic- said rt it : "V e are not sure Dut that
.Scribnor hia touched hiffh-watermark. . We
do in it sn' jwhat worlds are left to it to con
quer." but the publishers do not consider
that they have reached the ultima thole Qf
exct-lleiice-thQv believe "there ar . other
worlds to conquer, and they S propose to
conquer thcra." , ,
'i he prospectus for tie new volume gives
the titles of more than fifty paper (toofitly
illustrated), by writers of the highest merit.
Under the head of
h,,Foreia:n Travel,"
we have "k winrfr on the Xile,"br Gen. Mc
L'lellan ; i.Saunterings About Constantino
p!.'," by C'harles Dudley Warner; "Out of
My Window at Moscow,'' by Eugene Sehuy
Icrj "An American in Turkistan' etc. Three
serial btoiioa are announced: .
Nicholas EVJinturn,
Dr. llollamb the Editor, ;
w luie-e story of "Sevenoaks" gave the hrgbes
tatisfactioi to the readers ot the Afonthlr.
The scene of this latest norel is ' laid on" the
banks of the Hudson. The hero is a young
man who has been always "tied to a woman's
anion strings," but who, by the death of his
mother, is left alone in the world, to drifton
the current of life, with a fortune, bat with-
out a purpose. ' ; ".
Another serial, ''His Inheritance," bj Jflsa
Traftoiij will bepin on the completion ot ''That
Lasd'o' Lowrio'f-," by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.
Mrs. Duxhett's story, begun in August, has a
pathos andldramatie power which liave been
a surprise to the public.
There is to be a seriog of original and ex
quisitely illustrated papers of ' "Popular
.Science," by Mrs. Herrick, each paper com
plete in itself.
There arje to be, from various pens, paper's
on ! ; .'
"Homo -Lifa'and' Travel;"'
Alio, practical suggestions as to town and
country village improvements, etc., by
well-known. specialists.
.Mr. H:irnard'3 articles on various indus
tries of Great Britain include the history of
".Some Kxpriments in Co-operation' "A
Scottish Lat Factory" in the November
number, and "Toad Lane, liochdale, ' in De
comber. Other papers are, "The British
Woikingman's Home," "A Nation of Shop
keepers," "Ha'penny a Weck for the Child,'
etc.
A richly illustrated series will be given on
"American Sports by Flood and Field,'rbj'
various writers, and each on a different
theme. The subject of t
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ii 5i"i un'i aju.itui iuu oiucr e&eicnes,
etc,' is a long one.
The edit rial department will continue to
employ the ablest pens both at home and
I abroad.
There will be a series of letters on
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If.!
lorn. .
, Th; "V-. 't'h - r will be open, as
lieietof.ire. m t.ir as 1 run ted space will per-
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t,u' and religious life of the world, and
rlucii'!'. to the frhest thought of the Christ-
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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE,
. AN 1LUSTBATED MONTHLY OF
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Announcement for 1877.
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powerful story. It began in the November
number, which issue, with the December part,
will be f urnished graits to all new subscribers
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