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Hotfai.l, ( .nod ni(ht . 1'tvt ,nt the !or,
M) Iri'iiiblin fingera ho'tly nqu,'zing ;
I tlioushl liu in lull t du Hnmtltiii more
itut biinhful luvi-Di nrt,' no ti'tisitiK!
My waint wit ucur cnouirli: hi t rut li
Mix rout mU'cvc toiii hi'ii tlu-l.clt iliHt Uiiiud it;
1 u nited, but Lhu focli-H.i you ill
Nu'i-r Irlutl to put hU unu around It.
I n.niy ii;lh'il, I btlliK my Iii'ihI :
l( 'luiin I'lllolirrfPIHrlit llf Wiltiti-d,
1 viivh-i) It never hhotild tit; xaid
Tlmt 1 m dliliii liiii-d to Kriml It,
llf Ilfl'llcd Hot III)' K. llllf rSllitlN,
.My t,'luiifrH tender, tnitilii'ntiiiK :
Tlie nimiy ! Oid lie ixd lui ve cy t'c '.'
Tlie 1' nielli of it r itiantlliiR !
HiIfjiiduiK wlieii Iio.i-'.ii,. my tiuu .
1 iiii-t Imn Willi mi ituiUFt riiit; prt:.iHiirt ;
Tlie hint hit did not Hi.derMaiid,
My dir)ii)iKiiiiinieiit w lio utn tiiciiKim'?
I tltoiixlit: aiKillier in bis lwe,
A lover iimrt tlin.'eriniu', Inilder.
Would Imve uni' f.nl n hi eiubriiL'u
I if fur i' I huh ti in In u If ol'ltr.
H il why I'omi'lahi? In life It seeira
We ean t liitve wtTythiiiK i' isli f. r ;
We sihloiii realize ntir Hieaina,
Un ati'li tlit: kind td ' tlsli we tlsh fur
Ik- merely kMt'd my linger lip,
I tliiigh: How c.-l-l a piirliug tliU U ;
Ti le-ive uiitoiielie tw., r f-y 1 ps
That never knew u h.r Lfea !
I'll keep biro f.r it mo ith or mo,
And then to jilt 1 i n find a rettm :
He II never muke hmiuikkt heun.
In sMiiiiiier mulls are out of sens n.
DIAMONDS.
Mrs. Clrvfluml if ilttvi'lniiiiig a ''fail,''
u Hully line, ii'i'luiis, hut uno full of
coinmiiii si'tiM'. It t untiling 1cim than
it cuilt-itiuii of diauiuiiil. si-t and unft't.
T hi',mj;h lh': luvi; an,l giiirrii.-ily of lu-r
husliamj, Mr C!i'Vi'!auil is alrraily the
h:iy iiuAM'ssur of a ran: oullit of Jia
iiioikI i malm-UK Kr wcilding gift.
Iior Imili'lay pri'iits, ami, iml Til, on nil
ovniM iii" h, n Mr. I'lrvi'l.iuil uViiri'il to
git.' Ii.t a .lea-ant ?iviiv Mi,' gifts havi:
tarn always iliaiiinmls ni'i-klat'c, rings in
tirul'iisiiiii, soliiairo ami uth'Twise, brat-e.
Iris, pi'iid.inls an J Ih'oulIii's. Ill a w,T,l,
tin1 jt-w.l iraso of til,; l'rosiili'tit's wilt'
holJsa I'l'iinvly fortune in rarj iliaiuuinls.
Hut the uiiiuounteil .liainonils alii of Mrs.
Clovt'lanil's own fiilleeting. Xever a
triji to Xev hut she return ivith
some very pretty unset stones. They are
nut very large, of course, ami s'jine ate
uU'enlur. it is tru'i. Sho has arranged
lliein iu little uahinets of inlaid wooi!
The rahiiiMM an! provided with liny litllr
net., liiled with t.,'ii, and in them the
diamonds rests. F.ach lift i iiumhered,
and a memorandum book tells, after every
number, the time and plaeo of purchase,
and, practical women that she i, the
value of the stone. Mm. Cleveland's
total collection of diamonds, sot and un
mouutud, are. estimated an being worth
certaiuly $."0,IMIU. There is less "fat'
disui" and eapriee about such a collecting
spirit than it seems. Mr. and Mrs.
Cleveland are eminently practical. Pres
idential honors and salary eomo and go.
stocks rise and fall, real estate may rise
and fall, but the market value of a dia
mond is esseutially the same always.
A I1 ..I I It Fllll Till-: VlltVII MAN
Titl Bi'x
Ui.s HuLirv was a tliuuKiad tlollurs a
year and ht- hud just j.rnpowd to Mihj
I 'lure IJlithtjatl ami tecD accepted, and
tlu'y wore both cxiiH.tey Imppy until
she ftitid:
"And you dt. n't Win.w how Invcly our
unne will be, (jcri;j. It fhull bo a
houic indii-d for yuti; a place f rent and
joy ait J cuaifort! I'll call the hou-o-
kct pcr up t'Tery tutirnin;, and "
'The housckcfptT?''
"Yon, yes, dtar. Now don't inter
rupt, you naughty boy. I'll tell the
boU!HikiH'H'r tti toll ihc cook to "
"The cook?"
4,0f course; and I do hope wc can gel
a Trench cook! I luvc French ct okinjr.
And I'd like thediuin;;rooni:irlto "
'The diuinnioin pir!?"'
Yei. yen. I'd like a brisk, tidy,
ruy chct-ked Knulbh dininroum rirl.
I doo't care mo tuueh ubtittt the chamber
maid." "Why. my darling. I'm nfruid "
'aoW, now, ynu I'ail ohl boy; you
limit lot your little uirl have her own
way when it euiu- ! to tli.: h"Un M rvant
Yuu can eniiie lh- hmlrr il' ytu like
;ind of course you'll p-t the enaehmaii
but wheu it ei ih tie laundrirvi atil
ne,untii'w and why, to'1 ri ; what n
(irnuituiiy loll ' i.itv u ban I J.di'l
like it.
It looked longer an he Kit in hi ten
by twelve room an hour later trying to
"tiute out" how the waeso! the eon!
I hius,.keept r and butler and all tin
rest of them, Were to be paid oil $lli.-'!
per week. He hasn't toured it out yet."
Mm mom Liver HruUlor
ii what the name indicates a " Itegulittor'
of that uiiwt important organ, the Liver.
Ii Tour Lifer out tt order: 1 hen w
your wholosynteni derancl, the breath
offensive , you have headache, ftHul lan
guid, dispirited, and nervouK, no apH
titr, alcrp ia troubled and unrefrobing.
Simmona ,rct Regulator roitort the
healthy action of the Liver. St tuat
you get ihf genuine, prepared by J. H.
Zcilin k Co.
mar 1-1 m.
f liC5 worth of sample jewelry just
opeicd. Solid (old and gold plated jew
elty of til kinds, it prime wholesale coat
it T. L. EMHT'g.
MEN'S TEMPERS.
The Jtruftnn Why Kuiite Husbands An
yulrt, Mild and ilnp.
The ndniixture of (HllVrent tempers
among the brothers and sisters of tho
same family is ii notable fact dun to
various causes which net in different
directions. It is best to consider them
hi'foro we proceed to colb'et evidence
and attempt its interpretation. Ii U
fie iir enough, and may be taken for
granted, llie tempers of progenitors do
not readily blend in tlio olVspring, hut
lliat some of tlie children take mainly
after one of them, Home after another,
but with few threads, ns it were, of
various 'tncesUul tempers woven in,
wh icli occasionally manifest them
selves, If no oth'T iitlliienccs Inter
vened the tempers of the children In
the same family would uu this account
bo almost as varied as those of thoif
ancestors, who married at haphazard,
so far as their tempers wore concerned;
therefore the numbers of good and bad
children in families would he regulated
by the same laws of chance that apply
to a gambling table. Hut there are
other influences to ho considered.
There is a well known tendency to
family likenes among brothers nnd
si-ders which is nut due to the blending
of aiicctntl peculiarities, hut to the
prcp'dciiee of one of the progenitors,
who has stamped more than his or her
faiv share of qualUios upon the chil
dren. It in :iv also he due to a familiar
occurrence that deserves hut lias not
yet received a distinelive name
namely, where all lhi children are
alike and yet their common likeness
can not be traced to their progenitors.
A new variety has eotne into existence
through the process iml of individual
but of confraterual variation.
The most strongly marked family
type that I have personally met with
first arose simultaneously lu the three
brothers of a family who transmitted
their peculiarities with unusual tenaci
ty to numerous descendants through
at least two generations. Other in
tlueiiei's act in antagonism to the fore
gning; they aro the events of domestic
life, which, instead of assimilating
tempers, tend to accentuate slight dif
ferences in them. Thus if some mem
bers of a family are a little submissive
by nature, others who are naturally a
little domineering aro tempted to be
come more so. Then the acquired habit
of dictation in those reacts upon the
others and makes them still more sub
missive. In the collodion I made of
histories of twins who were closely
alike, the statement was constantly mot
witli that one of the twins was guided
by the other. I suppose that after thnir
many childish struggles for supremacy,
each finally discovered his own relative
strength of eharaeUM and Iheueeforlh
llie stronger ilevelopetl into tne leader,
while the weaker contentedly subsided
tuto the position of being led.
Again, it is sometimes observed that
a member of an oasv-going family dis
covered that ho or sho may exercise
considerable power by adopting the
habit of being persistently disagreeable
whenever ho or she does not get the
first and best of every thing. Some
wives contrive to tyrannize over hus
bands who are mild and sensitive, who
hate family sennes and dread the dis
grace attending them by holding them
selves in readiness to tly into passion
whenever their wishes aro withstood.
They thus acipiire a hahit of breaking
out, to use a term familiar to the ward
ers of female prisoners and luuutlo
asylums, and though their relatives and
connections would Uesenbo their tem
per! by severe epithets, yet if they had
married masterful husbands their char
acters might have developed more fa-vorabh'.--VitVif,y
Uevicw.
THE CANADIAN FRENCH.
Extraordinary liiTtNft In Ilia ruiuUllo
ttf Tli.lr rroMjron, loluiiLs.
A gentleman from Scotland, who
silent last summer ill llie l'loviueo "I
Qucliec, gives a Glasgow paper an in-
leresiing account of Ilia lecunility ot
the French population, and of its prob
able effect on llie. fului'o of IheDw
minion, lie states that families of
from sixteen to nineteen cluhlivn aro
by no means uncommon. Jloriii" a
century the French population i f Can
ada has Increased from nhout 70.0(10
to 1,22a 000. This remarkable increaso
has not b 'vit duo to immigration, as
the proportion of French settlers sinoo
the country passed under llriti-li 11110
has been very small. In fact, a hun
dred French families have, moved into
the United Slates for everv one that
has come from the land of Lafayette,
Many of these expect to return, and a
largo iiioiiorlioii of the ruling men anil
women who come to this country send
homo much of their earnings. Tlio
priests nr.- reluctant Wi liavo them go
aw lie for f ar I hey w ill lose their re
gard for the church.
Tlio French in Canada aro gradual.
Iv extending their possessions west
ward, and I hey liavo already ahsorlicd
many townships that wera once eio
lirely occupied by the I'riiteslaiit El
gllsh. 'I I. ey have divided up the largo
farms, b ill! numerous collages, and
placed the cross on the spir.i of many
old Ki seopaliao cliinclic Their
gain iu territory Is steady and by no
means slow. They cli'iisli 11 disliko
townrd tli.i K.iudisli, bcciiuso theycou.
que red I lie i i' fitilicrs. Still Ihey hare
no love for trance 1 r her people. All
their knowledge of France is tradition
al. mid they know nothing of the conn
try as It Is to-day. '1 li" villages on tlio
lower St. l.awftcnco him like thoso in
Norniimlv and Mritlnny two Imn
dred yean ago. Tho language
looked by the people is ol
French, and tlio modern Parisian
would Hi d great illlllciilly in under
landing il. They ci iiiinit few great
crimes, have no disgusting vicca anil
no striking virtues. A poor soil,
aerero climate and largo families have
made them economical. Men liloi'ally
"without a eounlry," cuing lilile for
either tlio F.nglish or Fienvli, tliev are
nalriolie. To stale il ditloreiillv, they
believo in tliennelvos and are proud ol
their race. They think that the Fionc
in Franco have degenerated, whilo
they liavo iireservod all that was glo
rloiis in tho viuoclad land beyond tlio
ea.
The population of the I'rovinco of
Quebec li almost entirely French, who
havo no lentirucnt of loyalty to tno
hnlisli t'roun and very iittlo townrd
the Dominion Union. In case the con
federation should bo broken up. Que
bec would control the Hi vor
St. L.twrence and could tfe
privd Ontario, Manlloba and
the entire Canadian Northwest of their
natural outlet. It could, if it choose,
exact tribute from every craft that
passed up and down tlio river. Tlio
seprtralbm of the Province of Quebec
from the Dominion would not imply
any likelihood of forming a union
with the United States. The experi
ment has more than once been tried
oftndueing the I'Yenoh-Canadiaus to
cast their lot with us. Inducements
for thorn to revolt were hold out dur
ing 1h" revolution and during the war
of 1H12, ami the soldiers that were
sent to capiure Quebec expected to bo
.welcomed by llie French inhabitants
They soon found out their mistake,
however. The priests thought their
flocks safer under the, rule of England
l!i a ii llie United States. To their
minds there was quite too much talk
about tree religion and no religion iu
this country. Chicayo Tribune
A church pew thai looks like a pew,
but has comfortable arm-chairs with
in, is the latest.
Philadelphia eats 11 tuns of
every day in the yo.tr.
pie
OPPOSED THE STRIKE.
AN KNUINKKU H
II I M KTAV Wl
1'UKTTV W1KK .MAKKS
II II IS I.OCOMOVIVK.
The great strike on the ''Q" road re
minds me of a romance. In one of the
towns on the main line lives a man who
fur years has been in the employ of the
corporation which is now having trouble.
I'Vuiti an apprentice boy in the workshop
he worked his way up until he became
engineer. One night he was called up
and sent 011 an extra, lie had not gone
far , m his run when something daucid
b.Ti.re the glare of u'h headlight, and as
ijuiekly did lu; reverse his engine. Leav
ing the pilot he walked down the Hack
and I'uiind a child neatly wrapped and
wide awake. II'1 took it back lo the pi
lot, made a cot for it and proceeded mi
i run. On his return home the waif
f llie road was taken to his home, adop
ted, nar.:! alio eilueateil.
She became one of the beauties of the
little town and urow into womanhood.
The engineer, although nearly thirty live
years older than the pretty faced eiealurc
loved her and lln'V were luarii d. The
or day when there were rumors ofa
strike the old engineer appealed to his
hild wile fir advice and she bogged
him to lemain vtiih the fui.p.iny and
notde.-eit theronden whiih he found In r
and from which he rescued her. lie
consented, ami th.'re is one of the oil
engine' r who is nu to the throttle. I
jve this little story from a gentleman
ho lives in the town where the old cn-
guiFcr makes his liome.
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
Farmers are deeply interested in all
hor movements. They are pre-eminently
the "laboring class." The census of IsSII
gives the total number of farms as a little
over I.IIIMI.IIIIO. Till' lllltlllii'l employed ill
igrieulture was 7,li"0.000, in profession-
and personal service, 4.1171,1100. In
this last class the "labort rs" arc put at
8,"'.',000 with the romaik that many of
these ale agricultural laborers," and
should be added to the class of those en
:cd in agriculture, which would, at a
reasonable calculation, carry lhat number
above S.OOO.OOO, 1 r about one half of all
the employed. The unions and sub ties
formed by those who labor are mostly in
cities and towns, and arc largely recruited
from the classes engaged in mechanical
manufacturing, mining, Iraii'.portation.
and trading, and allied pursuits. The
riculturtsts, as a body, are not "organ
ized, in this way, partly owing to their
comparative isolation, an 1 partly to lie
fact lhat a definite uumher of hours for
day's work is hardly coinpitible. with
the
e ceaseless toil of the farmer. Xcv
thclcss farm-workers mu-t loci an inter'
est in other labor, rs. pailieularlv us it is
an axiom w-ith the specialists iu the la
hor problem, that sn incr, aso in the prof
its of labor on the farm will cause it im
rovement iu wages gen.r.illv. The
true mission ot Ihese unions will bi
mud iu the evolution of the benefit
svstem. which is steadily increasing
impotHiiee. The whole system bocnin
apian of mutual insurance, iu which the
return, ale di'.IJ.d a;u,.:ig the un!'ortu
nate, while all the members bear theii
liare in maintaining the fund out of
which bcnelils arc derived. In the very
nature of the Ciise the tendency is towaidi
accumulation. The system invites and
rewards iudustry, and looks with less ami
less lavor upon "strikes that iu most
cases fail of tin ir object and prove disas
trous to those who recklessly bring them
about. Wcll-maiiagiil labor unions and
tanners alliances have a better armament
lor protection an 1 f r progress ihau the
ili adiiscd luelhisls lhat have been in
vogue. A merit-tin Agriculturist.
liurklen's Arnira ssalve.
The Best Salve in tho world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, ('leers. Salt lllieum, Fever
Soies.Teltor, t'hapud hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all skin eruptions. nnd positive,
ly cure Pill's, or no pay required. It il
guaranteed to give perfect satis! action, or
money ref uuded. Price 25 cents per box .
Fur sale by druggists it Weldon, Brown
itCarraway, Ualitai, Dr. J A MeClwigao,
Enfield.
DILEMMA OF TWO GIRLS.
AN A WK W AUIt I'H EMf'A M KNT AND AN
ADVKNTI'ltK IN HI lU'UUAN Ml b.
From si. liiiis l'.,'. IHsi.ilr)i.
A story is going llie rounds about llie
trials ami tribuLili itisof a couple of young
ladies well known in society. O1111 is
the daughter of a prominent wholesale
merchant and iheolln r a luciuher of an
old I'Vciich family. The latter was one
of the prettiest of the brides maids at a
fashionable wedding this week. It was
oil a blight slu-hy day within the past
fortnight, that the fair maidens set out
to visit a friend who resides beyond
Cabaiine place. They had ahorse and
the surrey to go with him. On this
bright, particular day, however, the sur
rey appears to have been obstreperous
and tiot disposed to go with the horse.
It moved along nicely enough until they
got some distance out, when the vehicle
formed a sudden attachment for iheuiud
in the road and decided to remain with
it. The hetctofore obedient surrey n
fused In be S'-paratcil from its m.w found
love, lu vain did ibe hoise endeavor to
win back the vehicle's affections. It ol
dtirately clung to the mud. That the
animal might press his suit umh r more
favorable auspices, as 11 desperate meas
ure, got out into the mud ami mire.
Hut I he tickle surrey slili remained iu
the mud's fond embrace. X tug at the
wheels resulted in naught but tlie soiling
of kid gloves. This left the young ladies
iu a sad predicament. What should
they do'.' They cogitated 011 the knotly
problem, but could thin!, of only one
way nut nf the dilemma. That was to
unhitch the horse and ride lo their
friend's house for assistance. It was 11
d, sp. rate resort, but there was nothing
else tobedoiie. (In attempling to do
this they discovered lhat lin y bad sunk
to iheir ankles iu mud. A fid-a desper
ate lllssel they released their feet, but
their rubbers remained deep down iu tho
mire. Finally th" horse was unhitched.
They determined to bath ride him to the
h uno of their friend. To hold on th y
bad to straddle the animal, one silling be
liin 1 the other. An out of the way road
was chosen to avoid observati m, As
the fates would have it. 11 bend in the
road brought them ratio r suddenly upon
a pally id limit, rs returning home. They
I i on d lo bo a party of gentlemen frii ml.
One might have thought a party of gen
llem. u friends would be a godsend to a
C 'liple ot maidens 111 such a might, but
the 011ng ladies did not so regard them.
They were llie last people mi earth
they wished to uieot al such a moment.
glances of mutual surprise and recog
nition passe I a litter atoss tncnthe hun
ter', while deep crimson blushes sulTase 1
th faces of the maid, lis. Their clothing
was ina very dilapidated condition. The
bottoms of their dresses and the whole
of their shoes were covered with uiud,
and all told they presented a most forlorn
ight. Then their position astraddle a
arnesscd horse was nol graceful, to say
the least. It made their dresses strike
(hem decidedly higher than well man
nered dresses are generally supposed to
This was decidedly awkward.
It was some lime before cither party
recovered from their surprise. When
they did the young men brought the
young ladies their vehicle and sent them
011 their way, hut not rejoicing. Before
departing they extracted solemn promises
lioiii each man iu the parly lhat he
would never li-p a word of what had
occurred a promise which every moth
er's son of I hem has been assiduously
violating.
:n;it ii.iis.
Pli11tyrelatesth.it a tomb at Cypres
bore a lion carved with eyes of eiuerahls
so bright they frightened away the fish
in the sea. Nero woie an eyeglass of
emerald which was supposed good for
the sight, and il is said that lapidaries
who cut emeralds have good eye sight
because the hue of the stoii " refreshes
the eye. The Orientals believe that
wearing an emerald imparls courage and
averts disaster. If was ground down and
taken as a medicine ill doses of six grains
as a cure for various disorders. At tin
conipiest ot Peru the Spaniards captured
hundred Weights of cue raids, and one
dedicated to the goddess Esmeralda was
thesixe of an osliich egg. Cortex gave
his linden large emerald carved liko a
rose, which roused the ijuecn's envy and
lust him the court favor.
"Iteally, girls, I'm too badly rattled by
the lion ir conferred upon nu1 to give you
much of niv L'tifT. lt'sthe lirst time I
ever tumbled to iinylhing of this sort,
and 1 hardly know just how to catch on.
However, 1 11 try to be sufficiently up to
snuff not to let any flies light on me
while doing the ire.-ident of this society
act. 1 111 with you in this move, and
don't any of you forget it. All over our
land slang words and phrases are multi
plying like flies in sorghum time, and it
is our duly 1 1 help knock this crving
evil as silly as possible. Let our motto
bo "Shoot tho Slangist I"
A beautiful line of cation from 13 t.
f6. V, N. 8lAtMA0tt & Co.
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS
1'opular super-lions, if n it indestrm ti
blc,ivnt least very hard to kiil. Wc
know full well that the miracle-working
pagans of auliipiily were seientili.' jiii.'
gh rs. who imposed upon an ignorant lai
ty, and that llie supi riialiirali-uis ol the
middle ages were tri.-ks that any aieoio
plisbed luouiil.haiik, witli the aid of a
smattering of natural philosophy, can
now exhibit to admiring audiences w.th
out llie slightest as-i-tauee from the oth
er world. And yet. even in this era of
general education, half the people one
knows have their pet superstition.
Set 11 ladder up on any public tin ro igh
fare in Sew York, 11 ml maik how many
ol'the wayfarers will step into the mud
to avoid passing umh r it. Thousands,
who would be ashamed, perhaps, to own
ii, would much rather see the new luoou
over the right shoulder than the left.
The howling of his dog, or the accidental
stopping of a funeral bclorebis donr, gives
many a brave man an unipiiet feeling, and
journeys and serious enterprises are often
"held over" lor a day, ill orb r that their
comnieiicemi at may not fall on Friday.
The fracture of n hi iking-glass. the up
setting of a salt cellar, and fifty other in
cidents as incoiiseijiicnt and liiua!, are
looked upon as 'ill mucus" by multitudes
of civilized and Christian folk, and the
horse shoes nailed over the doors of bams
and by res, iu various purls of the coun
try, prove the dread of witchcraft did
not die out with witch persecution in
New I'ngland.
Some of the common superstitions of
the day are, in their origin, as old as his
tory itself, and nio-i of the modirn "spir
itual phenomena" by which the credulous
are a.-tonislie I and bewildered, arc really
only revivals of the humbugs of auli'jui
ty. Superst itiou is, as we have hinted, a
b ird-lived monster. A tcndi ney to be
lieve in what is physically impossible
seems to pervade most of the human spe
cies; Herein education cx terminate, tho'
it may modify ami control, this tendency.
ThesimplisL and uiosl logical explanation
"l'oiirprouenes to credulity is this: theie
are so many things physically impossible
which must be true tin r is so much in
the origin of man, his I'all, his pia ;"rva
tion on tlie earth, bis ri di niplieii. bis c
tcrual dc-iiiiy. which be knows and feels
lo be independent of all tlie principles ot
cause and elf ct nf which in re re ism
can lake cognizance; that be is apt tu
forget his duties have been fixed, h a
course laid down, his life lesson so writ
ten that he who run s may read, and all
the e niscipiences of his departure from
the "straight palli" to hoppiness here and
hei caller, so clearly expressed and deliued.
as to render the interposition of sLns and
woiid, rs iu his In hull or for his guidance
unnecessary and useless. l,ct him rest
assured that (he Mustir of the supernat
ural woild never employs its mighty jam
em for unu icwsary or iisdew purposes
S.IHII; ,'llll M til. II ll N.
Mcissonier, tne painter, is 7.1.
Lord Tennyson is 7S, 1Vh' Leo is 77,
Professor Mommscn. the historian, is
70.
dohn Bright is 7li. Hubert Brown
ing is 7,V
Cardinal Newman is SO. Louis Kos
suth is S5.
Ne-.il Dow is SI. Ferdinand de Les
seps is S'J.
David Dudley Field i.-
Booaray
Price is SO.
Jclferson Pavis is 7'd.
W,
E. C.lad-
stone is 7S.
Cardinal Maiming is 711
Hamlin is 7S.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is
ill hi Fish is 70.
Hannibil
Adniiia! Porter is
composes, is 7d.
P. T. Hal until is 77.
Clarke is 77.
1. Verdi, the
James Freeman
Mar-hal Von Moltke is S7. Theo
dore D. Woolsey is Sti.
(ieerge Ticknor Cuilis is 75. Ki
President Jules (Irevy, of Franco, is 74
A liouisiana negro, near Bayou (ioula
saw a bear' iu his turnip patch aud tried
todiivo him out. The bear resented tho
insult, drove the negro out and chased
him up the railroid track. The darky
stepped aside to let an express train pass,
mid the lour didn't. After the train had
passed, the ucgio took a lot of heat meat
home for sopT.
A lawyer was Buiumoned as witness in
a certain case. Tho Judge, finding that
the witness was lying badly, interrupted
him, saying: 'T beg you to forget your
j'.ilession lor a moment, and tell us the
truth."
Persons deairing Safe and Cheap In
Kuranee will do. well to aec an agent of
ibe Valley Mutual Life Associalion of
irgiuia. It has members in nearly ev
ery county from the mountains to the
sea and they recognise the fact that they
have reliable and safe insurance and are
payingup their asseasmenta promptly aud
willingly. Agent wanted in every
eounty. Liberal toron offered to' live
men. Address
BmKSi.tr 4 Aunaix,
Southern Managers,
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If
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will also keep on band 11 full supply s
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AYOOni.N COFFINS
which 1 will sell cheap, and which can
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