2fe dJIhaJhnm Record. T? ATE8 or ADVERTISING. , On square, one Jnirrtlon, . l.ot Oueiqntro.twoliitprtlnui, .... LM Jnetquare.oiiomnnili, 3.5 H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AXD rnorRtETon. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Onocopf ,rlx iiioiitliii m m i,oa Om eopj , tbra months, Ml VOL. V. riTTSBORO CHATHAM CO., N. C, NOVEMBER 30, 1882. NO. 12. Tnr larger tilvcrtlncmeuU liberal coutracts mitt To-Pay. Be glad to-dny, my heart ; to-morrow's nun May never shine for you ; The fragile thread of life mny all be spun And heaven'B burnished bluo Bend o'er a sylvnn pnthwny winding on Where feathery fronds of fern Tiny with the breer.es, with my footsteps gone Whence there, in no return. O soul of nunc, how often hnvo you missed, A blessed vvuty, While gazing toward tho hills of amethyst Tbiit ever flit and flee? And lift their folded summit far nwny, And farther evermore 1 I'p from the past a long, glad yesterday Come echoes, nothing more. Strength for to-day, to bear iis bliss or bane, Is all onough to Reek, A longed-for Joy mny siuito the Birres to pain We croatures are so weak. Tho passing hours, roscued from emptiness By chisel, brush, or pen, Or homely toil, or tears, or mute caress, Will bud and bloom again. A fraction of tho infinite garnered whero 'Twill never fudo awny, Nor moth nor mildew fret, nor cark nor enre, Too bounteous to deenv. Huston 7'ninsi'i ii't- SELFISH JOHN CLARK. The meeting was a good one in spite of the intense heat, and that then- was more singing done ly mosquitoes than by the human species. John Clark wit by an open w indow, whero what breeze, there was camo in and kept him comparatively comfort able, and then he had on a clean linen suit which his wife had washed and ironed that day, notwithstanding the. in-Ten rj' mounted liigh in the nineties, and its freshness was an additional comfort. His first crop of hay, much larger than usual, hail that day been put in his spaeious barns without damage by so much its a drop of rain. He was well, strong, prosperous, therefore happy. The ride home was charming, and as the new horse took them through Cairnley woods, with sure, licet feet, he felt that that life was very bright ; and, as he thought of Brother White's remarks about "weary burdens," "feet tired with the march of life," he con cluded that the aforesaid brother was not in the enjoyment of religion. John's wife sat hack in the carriage, resting her tired body and turning ovur in her niiiul the remarks her John lufl wade at the meeting. "Hear ye ono another's burdens," had been the sub ject of the evening's talk, and John's speech had been listened to with evi dent relish. "Your husband has the root of the matter in him," said the pastor as she passed out. "I hope we shall all take heed to his well-timed words." "I think of hiring Tom Kirch x a sort of spare hand and call-boy gciuer ully. VI And this hot weather takes the starch out of me," John said, ;i the horse trotted through the cool pine grove, ainid flickers of moonlight. "Will you board him?" asked Mtiry Clark in a const rained voice, with the memory of her husband's exhortations still in mind. "Of course. I want him evenings to take the. horse w hen we come from meeting, or if I have taken a friend out. It is rather hard to have to goto work directly one gets home." "You are to hire him to bear sonic of your burdens," said Mary, in tho tumo hard voice. "Just so, wife. It stands mo in hand to practice, if I preach ; don't you say so?" "1 do 1 I sun glad you are to have help; us you say, it is hard to go to work the minute you get home. I have Ven foolish enough to have this rido r.jwiled by thinking of bread to mix, two baskets of clothes to fold before I sleep, for the ironing to-morrow, and dinner to get for four hungry men, and baby to care for." "Don't crowd to-morrow's burdens into tins pleasant ride. And it seems to me that it would lie better to get all your housework done before meeting time." "If I could, but that Is impossible; milk to strain, dishes to wash, Benny and baby to put to bed idl these duties come together, and then I am tired enough to go to bed myself." "Take it easy, Mary; keep cool, avoid all the hot work you can." "I wish I could havo a girl, JohnP "Mother used to say girls were more hindrance than help. I guess you would And them so, and then they wast and break more than their wages. I don't see how I can afford a girl. Do what you can, and leave some things undone; that's tho way to work It," and John sat back with a satisfied air, nnd Mary thought of her husband's glowing words in tho prayer-meeting. "I will do all I can," said Mary in a wear Toice. "What I am obliged to do is much beyond my strength. The three- meals come near together, wash ing and ironing must bo done, baby shall not be neglected, and of course I must keep the clothes well mended." "One tiling at a time is the way to think of your duties. Tick up all the comfort you can as you go along. I have made up my mind to do so in the future." "So I see by your thinking of having an extra hand." "Yes. I feel that I must take euro of my health for your sako and the children's." "Certainly." Mary answered in a sarcastic tone, "how thoughtful you are for us !" John made no further comment, but inwardly wished that prayer-meetings lid Mary the good they had done once, and wondered why Ids wife had so changed. "I am going with Squire Towne to see a new reaper; he says he hardly wants to buy without my opinion." This was next day. John left his wife ironing, with the half-sii-k baby sitting by the table in the company of an army of flies; and in spite of the home scene en joyed his ride along tho pleasant, shaded road, well-pleased to be seen so much with the great man of the town. At sup per time he came, home with tho new reaper behind the wagon. "Hy taking two we made a handsome saving; and, as I intended to buy one, I thought I might as well take it now," he remarked by way of explanation. "It will save time and strength, and pay for itself in a year." Mary made no comment, but set her teeth tighter together when sho remem bered that she had asked in vain for something to make her work easier. A sewing-nuichino had been pronounced "hurtful; better have fewer changes of clothing than run a machine," John had decided when the subject was dis cussed; a "clothes-wringer would be constantly getting out of order. To bring the w ater intothe house would be j just to spoil the water. Nothing, after all, like the good old bucket. Mother I would never have a pump in her day!" "My mother used to say all men are selfish, and I begin to think she was right," Mary muttered as she went to the kitchen lor the plate of hot biscuit John was so fond of for his tea. Her husband's appetite was good, but from fatigue and overheating herself Mary could not cat. His ride and the society of the genial Squire had acted like a tonic, but there is no tonic in the air of a hot kitchen. "A commonplace life," sho said, and she sighed, as sho cleared away the tea dishes, while John lilted back in his armchair on the cool, draughty porch and talked over things with Neighbor Jones. "Why don't you buy Widder Patch's cranberry luedder?'' asked Mr. Jones; "it's going dirt cheap, and you can afford it." The sum was named, figures that astonished Mary, and she was more surprised when she heard her husband say : "I've half a mind to do it. I've just had an old debt paid in, and, to tell the truth, affairs in the money market are so squally, I don't know just 'where to salt it down." No tears came to Mary's tired eyes, but her heart went out in one mighty sob us sho stood, dish-pan in hand, before the disordered table, and thought how cheaply she had sold herself, really for $ 2 a week and her board, to the man who had promised to love nnd cherish her until death. The beautiful piano she had brought to tho farm was never opened, but looked like a gloomy casket wherein was buried all the poetry of her life. The closed "best parlor" had long since assumed the grimness and uiustinessof count ry best parlors, of which in her girlhood she had made much fun. John was a rich man, and, in spite of his marriage vows and his glowing prayer-meeting talk, was allowing burdens grievous to lie borno to press on her slender shoulders, in order to "salt down" his dollars. Had she not a duty to perforin? Ought she to allow him to preach and never to practice? Had she not rights to bo respected? which were not by her husband; for, she reasoned, if he allowed her to do what could be done UUVnVtl lll l t'J nutlb VAUiU uxt UW11U by an ignorant Irish woman for 2 week, then he rated hcrat that price. "Widder Patch has had a rough time on't," said Ncighlior Jones ; " sho is going to the Westw'rd to Tom if phe sells tho modder, and Jane is going out to work. She's tried sewing, but it don't agree with her, and Dr. Snow recommends housework as healthy business." " 'Tis healthy business," chimed in John. " Now, my wife is a good deal better than when I married her. Why, she never did a washing in her. life until she came to the farm. I think washing and general housework is much iK'tter than piano-playing and reading." "So I say to the girls, who pester ire to buy an orgin, 'lletter play on the washboard, enough sigdit.'" was the ele gant resjxinse. "Are you going to buy the cranberry meadow, John?" Mary asked, as she saw her husband making preparations to go from home. 'Yes why?" "Can you afford it ?" "Wc shall have to uggor n little closer in order to do it ; but it Ls going cheap." "You will have to give up Tom Hirch, won't you, and do the chores yourself ?" " I have thought of it ; but Tom is poor, nnd to give him a home is a deed of charity. No, we will save some other way." "How much do you pay Tom?" "Three dollars and his board. And, by the way, he says you didn't wash his clothes. Washing and mending was in the bargain." " I think Tom will have to go, fur I have hired Jane Patch. She will be here to-night. Two dollars a week I am to give her. You want to practise 'Hear ye one another's burdens' as well as preach from the text, so I will give you a chance. I will take my turn at sitting on the cool piaz.aa after tea with a neighlHir, while you do the chores. 1 think the time has come for some of my burdens to be lifted. Hy exchanging Tom for Jane, you will have one dollar a week for the cran berry meadow. You say strong, active Tom is in need of a home ; he can make one for himself anywhere. It is a deed of charity to give Jane a home, and an act of mercy to give your wife a little rest." Before John could recover from his astonishment, Mary walked out of his sight, and taking the children went to tho shut-up parlor. Throwing open tho windows to let in the soft summer air, w ith baby in her lap, she sat down at her piano and began to play a "song without words," a piece John had loved to hear when he use to visit her in her home, where she was a petted girl. The song crept out through Mie open windows and around to John as he sat on tho porch, and memory compelled him to give tho song words. Not musical poetry, but rather somber prose, where in washing, ironing, hard days at the churn, hours of cooking for hungry men, stood out before his mind's eye in contrast to tho fair promises he had made the pretty girl he had won for his bride. Jane Patch came that evening, and at once took upon herself many of Mrs. Clark's cares, and no one greeted her more cordially than the master of the house. Nothing was ever said about her coming, and Tom Birch did not go away ; so Mary knew that her husband could well afford the expense. She told me how she helped to make one man thoughtful and unselfish, as wo sat on her cool piazza one hot August night ; audi was glad that one woman hail grit enough to demand her rights. If John Clark had been poor his wife would have borne her burden in patience, but she had no right to help make him selfish, and indifferent as to her health and comfort. Huston Watchman. THE HOME DOCTOR. Dr. Foott's Health Monthly advises people not to "attempt to cool off quickly when overheated; many a fatal 'cold' has been caught by so doing." Careful cooking of even tho longest used and best known kinds of food, whether animal or vegetable, Is the important rule to insure health and strength from the table. No matter what the quality of the food to begin with may be, a bad cook will invariably incur heavy doctors' bills and a not less inconsiderablo "little account" at the druggist's. In case of poisoning the simplo nile is to get tho poison out of the stomach as soon as possible. Mustard and salt act promptly as emetics, and they are always at hand. Stir a tahlosjMjouful in a glass of water, and let tho person swallow it quickly. If it does not cause vomiting in live minutes repeat tho dose. After vomiting give the wnitea of two or threo rKK" Housekeepers, merchants ami others in handling knives, tools and other sharp instruments, very frequently receive severe cuts, from which blood flows profusely, and oftentimes en dangers life itself. Blood may be mado to cease flowing as follows : Take tho fino dust of tea, at all times accessible and caisily obtained, and bind it close to the wound. After the blood baa ceased to flow laudanum may be advantage ously applied to the wound. Due regard to these instruct ions would save much agitation of mind while running for tho surgeon. LADIES' DEPARTMENT, Fnhlon .Nnlrt. Bright Jet ornaments never go out of vogue. The rage for rod-caps for childnn is on the increase. ltedingote costumes are made up with the utmost simplicity. Ashes of rosos under a new name appears among artistic colors. Turbans of all kinds are worn by young girls, as well as by children. Children's hats and bonnets are more quaint and picturesque than ever. (iold soutache embroidery appears on a few red and blue all-wool costumes. Children's garments of all hinds are made rigorously loose and easy lilting. After all there is no color so hand some as scarlet for a balmoral or petti coat. Fine gauze veils with chenille dots bid fair to take the place of tullc-dotlcd ones. Black wool dresses remain the favor ites of American women for ordinary wear. It is said that the plush jackets, now so much worn, w ill be only a passing fashion. The Prince Albert frock coat re mains a popular garment for ladies' demi-toilct. Feather hands and long pile plush are the rivals of fur for dress and cloak trimmings. The dusky shades of grayish mauve and purple are combined in many silk suits for children. The latest fancy for neck lingerie is to unite several colors in the ribbon bows that mingle with the laces at the throat. Buffs and ruches do not encircle the neck, but arc brought down low on the bosom in front, but the throat is not left bare. The fancy work of tho moment- is the crocheting of licelle-colored twine or unbleached cotton into collars and cuffs for dresses. livery lady should have a plush jacket iu black, seal, brown, or some other color which will harmonize with any kind of askirt. Two things stout women should leave severely alone are the Jersey and the bustle. The former make them look like animated meal bags. New bangles are of gold, from which dangle live, ten nnd twenty-dollar gold pieces the coins being genuine. They are expensive, of course, and are chiefly affected by the young ladies who repre sent our moneyed aristocracy. A novelty in bridesmaids' dresses consists ill different colors for different costumes; the costumes, however, to be fashioned alike and of the same mate rial. Fnslilotinlii Pom. There are fashions in dogs as in every thing else Anne of Austria loved King Charles spaniels, probably because they were English. Madame de Sevigne doted on silky Maltese terriers, and Marie Loezinska lost the affectum of her royid husband through her infatua tion of her laji-dogs. I'ugs were the great '.elight of Marie Antoinette and her ladies, and greyhounds were the pets during the Restoration. Scotch collies, toy terriers, and pugs are all in favor at the present time, and there are signs that the Blenheim spaniel will be the pet of the future. t'lilnexe Women. Some important facts about Chinese women are given by the Hev. W. S. Swanson, missionary of the English Presbyterian at Amoy, China. He thinks that in that ( nlry women are a greater power than in any other Eastern land. lie speaks of their sturdy, strong, pithy character, such as 'makes them the real backbone of China. They are terribly oppressed, yet not tamely submissive, but rather resisting and reforming. Many of them have entered into a league, says Mr. Swanson, against the practice of foot binding, pledging themselves not to practice it, and further, to marry their sons only to women whoso feet were never bound. No more difficult reform could havo been undertaken. KrquLllt-a for a Pkrairlfin. To be a successful physician a woman must be n lady, a womanly woman. No aping of masculine habits, dress or foibles will conduce to success. She must have an affinity for tho work, feel at home in the sick-room, with a desire and tact to relievo suffering, de void of any morbid sensibility at sight of pain, offensive deformities and ghastly injuries and operations. She must be born to command, linn in pur pose and quick to execute, at the same timo have dignity and self-control. Nothing must escape her observation. She must be able to reason from cau.-.e to effect, strong in convictions, but slow to give an . pinion. She needs a love for scientiil'.' research, and the ability to apply herself to study. 7r. Al'ce Stock hnm. RUSSIA'S CAPITAL. Inlrrrstlna Karl about Ht. I'etrrxbura and Km People Agriculture and Forestry, An American correspondent at St. Petersburg, writes : The Russian capi tal will surprise all American visitors. As it has a population of over 7il0A0. it would bo expected to cover a great surface, but its wide streets, its mam moth squares, and numerous central parks, combine to make it the city of magnificent distances. The public buildings a; d palaces, in number, architectural beauty, and pro portion ami fabulous cost, mark it plainly as the scat of despotic power which has no modern equal. In many instances the collonade supports, etc., fail to excite admiration or respect, as they too evidently have no economic use, and can be regarded only as ex hibits of a great central power. The 1 12, momdiths nominally supporting the peristyles of St. Isaac's Cathedral, are of this charaeter. Kadi support is seven feet ill diameter and sixty feet long, on" solid picceof polished granite, brought hither from Finland. Even far up, the cupola is in like manner surrounded by granite pillars of similar proportions, I happen to think id' St. Isaac as its musical bells are chiming, and thousands of people are standing on the streets bebuv the hotel w indow, making the sign of the cro;s and bow ing to the dust as the crowned Bishops step forth from the morning service just over. The Greek service at these great cathedrals is interesting. No ma:.sive images of the Saviour or saints are to be seen iis'in the Catholic cathe drals, but the pictures, mosaics and bas-reliefs appear at every point of view, which are the production of the most famous European artists of the last century. Thousands of candles are burning, and the vast audience make the responses by signs of the cross and prostrations. Some of the specially devout kneel down at inter vals and kiss the stone floor of the sacred place. While the services are in no sense instructive, as with us, they are well calculated to impress the multitude with a feeling of veneration for all that pertains to the church. How well this takes the place of the philosophic Christian I w ill uot attempt to decide. The people here have a good-natured, honest expression, and, upon the w hole, are good-looking, but they are wholly unlike our Yankee people in character. Each Yankee is constitutionally a sort of primary planet around w hich he expects all things to revolve. Here the idea of leaders of men and events has been impressed for ages until it has become a part f the nationality. With the peasants this habit was broken in liberating the serfs too sud denly. The final consequences are not easy to foresee. Agriculture is at a low ebb, and just now seems to he progressing backward. A change will come, but in what way I am not certain, nor would it be best to speculate. Horticulture, also, is not what it was fifty years ago. Trees have been cut dow n, and but relatively few have been planted. The Imperial Forestry school over in tho edge of Finland has now '")0 students, who seem intelligent and enthusiastic. In all respects the institution is well managed and aHy supported by the (lovcrnnient. The buildings are larger and better than we have seen in Kurope. The spei iuien grounds are on better land than is found this side, of tho Neva, and contain good trees of more species than the average American would expect to find in this high, and in all respects, trying lati tude. S.) far the same mistake is being made that we noticed in Austria and Prussia. The government plantations are almost exclusively of Riga pine and White birch. Russia at present has no timber for the manufacture of agri cultural implements, and plantations of the adi should be started. Our American White Ash grows fully as well here as with us. First Steamship on the Atlantic. The first steamboat which tutually crossed the Atlantic ocean was the Savannah, owned by Mr. Scarborough, of Savannah, (ia. She was 3."0 tons burden, and was purchased in New York, when on the stin ks, and fitted for the purpose intended. On March 27, 1 1810, she left New York for Savannah ! for a trial trip, which was successfully made. On the 2'th of May follow ing she left Savannah for Liverpool, iuid , reached her destiration in 22 days. I From Liverpool she went to Copcn hagen, St. Petersburg, Stockholm and other ports, having Arundel forSavan ' nah, which she reached in 25 days. Captain Steven Rogers, of New Lon don, Conn., commanded the vessel. The ship was built in New York, and her engines were made in Klizaleth, N. J. In 124 the l-.ntcrpriM under Captain Johnson, inadea voyage to India around I the Cape of Hood Hope. CLIPPINGS FOR THE ITRIOl'S ' Roots extend much further than muy be supposed. Strawberry roots range , outward livo feet, onions from six to nine, and trees send out roots to a distance often as great as thirty feet. The cactus magiiuris a Florida plant, '.lie fibres of whose long, thick leaves make the strongest cord and rope. Its ' juice furnishes a pleasant but not in toxical ing beverage. After the plant ; blooms it dies, and the trunk can then be deprived of its heart or pith and ; makes water buckets, pitchers and other utensils. ! A French writer says that, although dogs abound in the Egyptian cities, there is no hydrophobia among them, j Camels, however, suffer from a form of ! madness at certain times, and bites j from them during this Mate are , dangerous, but the disease is not con- j tagioiis. j A man living at Simmons' Cap, Ya is living with his ninth wife. The j patriarch is eighty years old, has fifty- j three children, and at a recent reunion : over three hundred of bis descendants j were present. It is claimed that he j does not know all of his children, and makes no effort to keep up with his grandchildren. The Nltro tunnel, now completed, discharges :(1,uihi,(UM) gallons hot water daily from C. linstock mines. This water has a temperature of l'.'o degrees, and is conveyed through a closed pine fliiiiipto prevent, tin" escape of vapor. After .1 passage of four miles through t lie first tunnel it loses seventy degrees of heat. A second tunnel, l.K'H feet long. and an open water way a mile and a half long, conduct the water to Carson river. A 1 ng its cou rse are hot - wat r bat hs and laundries, and a plan is on foot to con duet the hot water through pipes under ground, to be made available for pur poses of irrigation and for supplying artificial heat to hothouses. In some parts of Russia the tobacco plant is looked upon as a deadly foe. The H;iskoluikscallit the devil's herb, and in Little Russia tho following legend is current as toils origin: Certain Little Russian carriers were in danger of being led astray by a heathen woman. A voice from heaven ordered that she should be put to death. The carriers obeyed and buried her alive. Her hus band planted a twig above her remains; it grew and grew and became a large leaved plant. As theChristian carriers and the heathen widower passed that way, they saw that he broke off some of the leaves, filled a pipe with them and smoked it. They followed his example, and sucked what has since been known as tobacco. Sodclighted were they that they went on smoking without ceasing; until at length the smoke gave way one day to fire, which burnt them all up. History or Matches. The fiftieth anniversary of theinven tioii of matches by three Austrians was recently celebrated. Ffty years ago matches bad only reached the slage known as "lucifers," and were clumsy and inconvenient. Fox and Burke and Dr. Johnson used to light their candles with Hint and steel, though practice probably made them more skillful than wc would be at sudi an operation. InlYj:aii elaborate appa ratus called the "ciipyrion" was in com mon use. This was a large-mouthed bet tie containing sulphuric acid, soaked in libroiis ,T-Iest'is, and the matches, which were about two inches long and -old for a shilling a box, were tipped with a chemical combination, of which ehlora'e of potash was the principal ingredient. When the end of tho match wa- dipped into the acid and rapidly withdraw n, fire was produced, but the a-id was inconvenient, the :ii.itIn - w civ likely lobe spoiled by da'np. and the cupvriou soon went out of use. I:i 1M2 the first friction match was made, and it was jokingly called a lucil't r. Lucifers were sub stantially the same as our present mutches, pulled through a piece of sand paper The ii'ilv change since then has been altering il from a silent to a noisy match, ami the invention of the safety la -co. wvich will ignite only when rubbed it p"ii chemically prepared paper. This sifoty match va patented in Eng land i:i l5ti. There is one match. :nak:ng linn in Manchester, England, i hat makes '.uiOO.OOcl matches a day, .ei l rcv.i.i! linns in London muku .'.tHMiitXi ami ",ioo,(00 a day each. I " r-iii the consumption of matches in France and England it is seen that i'h'ui 'JMi.O'K'.O k arc made in those two oiin'ries iu a yiar. In the Vnited S'a'e aboi-.t 10iii(i(iii(i,oiH) a year aro m: le, yioli'iir.t, a .. nuelo the govern, an nt of about $:'.,:."( i.ttm. t!i ! my poor heart ! My heart is in akin:;." wailed a Chicago girl, and yd the doctor who was called in pro i ivh d l;nic-w:it r, and told her she'd '.oi'i r b i.ve off eating fried pork for a 1 icw i'.t ... Sweet Evenings Come and Go. Swret evenings ooino nnd po, love. They mine nnd wont of yoro; This evening of our life, love, Shall fe'o nnd come no more. When wo have passed nway, love, All things will keep their name; But yet no life on earth, lovo, With ours will be tho sumo. The daisies will bo there, love, The stars iu heaven will uliinoj I shall not feel thy wish, love, Nor thou my hand in lliino. A bettor timo will come, lovo, Ami better souls bo born; I would not be the best, lovo, To leave theo now forlorn. fjcnrije KHnt. rrXKEXT PARAGRAPHS. A tale of the sea The sea serpent's tail. The latest thing in cradles - The new baby. A movement on foot -a walking match. There is no doubt but a lean man can enjoy a fat legacy. The man with a wheel-barrow carries everything before him. A number of stock speculators iu New York are making a biar living. When a powder magazine blows up, it an, we suppose, be called Hash literature. We sneer at tin Siamese for worship ing the elephant; but think of the money tba is paid here annually just to pee it ! Hindoo girls are taught to think of marriage as soon as they can talk. American girls are not. They don't require teaching. The Long lir.inch hotd-kecper w ho charged a typhoid fever patient. fl.-KiO for three weeks" board is now in court to answer to the charge of robbery. George Francis Train lives iu New York at an average expense of $:l.St) per week for food. Ten years ago his cigars cost more than that per day. A Pacific coast, exchange doubts if any man lives in San Francisco for any oth'-r purpose than to make enough money to get away and live somewhere else. It is said that a woman was the first one t o discover 1 h bb it! ing pad. Umi't believe it. If she had been in a hurry she'd have blotted the letter on her apron. It is said that th" dovernor of Missouri is jealous because ten persons call upon Frank James to one upon him. Hasn't the Governor sand enough to rob a train. It has been fifty years since the paper commenced to advise people not to blow the gas out, and yet it is still practiced enough to keep tho grave diggers' business lively. There isn't any written testimony to prove that William Tell w as ever tailed upon to shoot an apple off his son's head. Indeed, at the time of Tell apples wen.' rarely seen iu Sw iterlaud. The advance agent of a bad show has the best time, lie can get out of town before his company performs. It is tho manager who must stay and pay salaries and hear the compliments. A man fishing around in his pockets for a nickle to Secure his admission to a five-cent lunch house, can hardly realize that the amount of coin in cir culation in this country is over 7h (iOO.Oiki. A man must be thirty-live years old before he i a:i be president of the United States. This is a great damper on many young men now in college, but we all suffer more or less from reck less h'gislat ion. The czar of Russia thinks that pro motion in that country is entirely too rapid. Although he holds one of the highest positions in the world, his loving subjects are anxious to exalt him still higher with a bomb. "You don't appear to catch on," remarked the post to the gate; "I like to see a gate well postcd."---I f("l hingered by your remark," replied thu gate; "your raillery seems barren of wit." "That's your staple remark when you are shut up," answered tins post; "you never like to see a post holed his own." Notice the (Juiet (iirls. Noisy girls are often very lovable, ' and have their uses, and all quiet girl:i are not endowed with genius and vir tues, for some aro simply fools who would be noisy enough if they could find anything to say. Hut wo protest against the habit which prevails of slighting quiet girls and speaking ill of ; them beforo they have been fairly tried, and of paying s ekening homago to the conceit e(l chatterboxes of little moral sense and principle. "While noisy damsels will often turn out to bo gaudy impostors, many quiet ones will amply repay tho time, trouble and , love which any one may bestow upon them. iTin "tttv Trn

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