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longer needed to partake of
pleasures of onr children—scarcely'
welcome even to share in tbojr sorrows;
when cold duty take* the piste of the
ifterings in Vickntss or snffer-
hom do we* cast our eyes Up
wards, thinking, «d», were she here.
whom would >
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►y, mid language Vail* t«> expies* the
bitter shame; when the little feet whose
first tottering footstepi* wo haxe upheld,
Triple Plate Castors $3.75-
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Plated Spoons, Knivesand
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your table and ten or twelve
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i find me on tbe
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Carpet Lounges,
Marble Top Tobies,
Spring Beds,
$1.00 I Maible Top Bureaus,
9.00 j Wood Top Bureaus
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:bed through jhe firmer stride*
of youth and manhood, have turned
into divons devious paths, heedless of
entreaty or prayer, whither do we turn,
longing to rest onr weary heads oh the
bosom that over answered our cry for
sympathy? The mother in Heaver.
When years have passed, and wo
o left alone, children gone, some sep
arated by seas or monntains, others by
tho greater distanoe of ooldnesa or for
getfulness, whose voice then oome
back to us with the loving tones we
•ainly long to hear once more ? The
dear mother iu Heaven.
Is not the wish wrung from ns, that
ice again we were children to be
clasped in that warn embrace? Do
the bitter tears come aa we remem-
how unmindful we were of tho rich
motherly blessings while we had them ?
Oh, ye, who still hare mothers to
feel for you in your joys or your sor
rows, remember, however your hearts
may change, their’s never do; the moth
er’s heart is the one thing that never
grows old. Amidst the portion in this
world, a good being has sent to all one
blessing—ono love purer than all oth
ers. Happy are .those who, with an
guish and remorse, do not havo to say,
This tap 3k
ITII SUM Ml -Slip IB
Y’OV.'T&X.
AtTLllWAltD.
The object of her quest, a grave, was
tliere;
he grave of one who was her dearest
friend,
Whose loving thought liad lighted every
ho two together long had journeyed
And borne each other’s burden day by
day.
hared every joy, and many a hope and
NordTea’med they of the parting of the
great need, Charlie told her
his own, to spend as he pleased, and
mid * ' * *
aim
They thought their prayer a loving God
rhat, in the fullness of llis grace and
He would ’spare each to each for many
when the dark t
And one went on, God holding by the
hand
back to live but i
ng because she could not under-
P* 3 *. ,
rievlng l
stand.
i desolate and he«
ofar,
Comforter drew
soul beyond its prison
in vision, the dear friend she
;omforted befor
iess again, no vigils kept;
that he would rather gi
than to have the nicest toy in the store.
Then walking away swiftly from the
Bhop windows, which were all full of
tempting New Year’a presents, be went
bravely home to his mother, sure of her
approbation.
The firat person he met
grandfather, lie had observed Charlie
go down the street, and he was waiting
his return, that he might see what he
had bought. So his first salutation
was, “Well, my child, what have yon
done with your money?”
Now, Charlie’e grandfather was not
a religions man; and the boy knew that
though he sometimes gave money to
hia relations, he seldom or never be
stowed it upon the poor, so he rather
disliked to .tell him what he had done
with hia money; but while he hesitated
the verse which he had that morning
learned came into hia mind and helped
him to answer. Looking pleasantly
into his grandfather's face, he said:
“I lent it, air.”
“Lent your half-dollar? foolish boy
You’ll never get it again, I know.”
“Oh; yea I ahall, grandpa, for I’vi
got a promise to pay.”
“Yon mean a note, I suppose; but it
isn’t worth a cent.
“Oh, yes, grandpa, it’s perfectly
good. I’m sure about it, for it’s in
the Bible.”
■Yon mean yon have put it there
stranger, a babe, was sent to bless two
people living in a small red farm house
among the trees. The babe grew and
thrived, and, oh, what a comfort it
waa to those who watched over its
growth to see it daily growing
The mother, she is lying down there
under the withered grass; and the fatb-
sitting here, old and sorrowing,
with a withered heart. Madge waa a
favorite among the neighbors, and was
always the belle of every gathering for
milea around* She grew so sweet, so
ely, and—she was so true and gen-
» daughter! Bnt there! I need
not tell yon of that, for it only makes
the pjsin hero in my breast sharper.
After Madge left school she went with
to a ball In tbe Town Hall. Madge
a the belle, and it made my head
:zy when 1 saw his face, the hand-
ne stranger’s bending, bending over
the sweet-face of Madge.
“He waa visiting at a neighbor’
house yon see; and Madge being the
beauty of the place, he came to s<
They told me that his father
rich city merchant; and that he
clever young fellow, who would make
hie*
There pain and death and sorrow i
for sale keeping, eh?
Charlie brought the book and show
ed him the verse—“He that hath pity
the poor lendeth
Was she resigned t
Since be was spared earth’s sorrow
Tes; for love’s sake she took her heavy
Thinking each day how precious wa
his gain.
She could not know why they must part s
[uestion God 1
the ask’ed of Him that one great
boon—
The sweet submission that could trust
the Lord, and
that which he hath given will he pay
him again.
gave yonr money to some pofir
scamp! Well, you’ll never see i t again
Who has got it, pray?”
“I gave it to Hannah Green, sir,
And Charlie told him the «ad atory.
O, fudge!” said the grandfather, 1
dear will,
Him still.
't pay poor folks* rent, it* all
nonsenae. And now yon have lost yonr
New Year’s prffieot, or will, if I dpn’t
make it up to you. Here," he added,
Tbo Lent Half-Dollar.
When Charlie Gleason waa about
ten years olJ, a bright half-dollar
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l
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Ealu p.00 Per /Joy.
he threw him another half-dollar,
seeing yonr money is gone where yon
will never see it again, I must give yon
ome more, 1 suppose.”
“Ob,thank yon/’siad Charlie,heartily.
I knew the Lord would pay me again,
grandpa, because the Bible says so;but
given him by his grandfather, to buy
anything he pleaaed for a New Year’a
present. The boy’s mother had that
morning taught him tbe verse, “He
that hath pity ou the poor lendeth tc
the Lord, and that which he hath giv
en will ho pay him again.” Thi
words were running in the boy’a mind
his way to the store to purchase a
toy which he had seen in the window
of the shop on the ’previous day.
Just before Charlie reached the store,
he met a poor woman who had some
times done washing for his mother,and
she setmed to bo in great distress.
“What is the matter, Hannah?’
said this kind-hearted child.
“O, master Charlie, I’ye got to be
turned into the street thie cold morn
ing, and my little Bill so sick, too.”
“Turned into the street, you and
Bill, what for?”
“Because 1 can’t raise my weekly
rent. I’ve just been to see my land
lord, and he say* it’e three daye over-
duo, apd lie’ll not wait another hoar.
There goes the men now to pat my stove
and a tew other things on the aide-
walk. Oh, what shall I do?”
“How much is yoor rent. Hannah?**
asked the boy with a choking voioe.
“It’s a half-a-dollar,” said the wo
man. “It will kill Bill to pnt him
out in thin cold—and I’m nun I will
die with him.”
“No yon won’t; no yon ahna’t,”
said the tender-heart d child; and feel
ing in his pocket, he brought forth hie
treasured half-dollar, and plaoed it
quickly in hsr hands. Seeing aha hesi
tated to keep it, notwithstanding her
I didn’t expect to get it so quick.
“The boy*’* too much for me,”
the old gentleman, as he walked quick
ly »*»7-
Tbe old Man’s Story,
Twice a day, morning and night,
the feeble steps wended their way to
the orchard back of the almshouse.
His face was aeamed and tracked over
by the footsteps of time; hia hair waa
silver white and when he spoke there
waa a tremulous tone to his voice, very
saddening to the listener. Three score
and ten, an inmate of a pauper v
and yet, no matter how dismal w
weather, the same bent form would
wead it* way to the orchard.
A. Georgia Sketch.
Hank, in reply to John’s inqniry as
old man Johnson,” who, I gather,
engaged in the business of moon-
shining, soberly told of his fate. “
he and old man Baa come booght a
together a year ago last October.
They were partners like. The beast
tan wild in the woods. This fall they
drove her np to the atill house, and she
and her seven shoats lived on the slops
of the still. Along in early December
Johnson sent word to Baacome to come
and divide the young stock, as he
wanted to kill hia meat. Now, yon
know that it wonld have been bnt fair
seeing that Johnson had fed the pigs,
for him to have kept four of the shoats,
Bascome, he talked him ont of four,
the old man was satisfied with
three. The understanding was that he
“Twas the old story. Madge
innocent, and waa carried away by the
stranger's city ways and genteel de
meanor. He most have turned tbe
girl’s head with hia false tongue and
smooth wotds. One morning Madge
waB missing; the young stranger, he,
too, was gone. One, two, three years
went by, and not a trace or a word did
we hear of her yonng man’s people. If
they knew anything about Madgf
they never told us.
“One winter’s night, when we sat i
the old kitchen, her mother and I,
sleep came over ns, and we both dream
ed that onr Madge was seated
little chair by tbe fire. We awoke.
Madge, onr Madge had come back 1
She must have slipped through tho
doorway while we slept, for there she
have, the odd pig next year, if
there should be one. Bascome allow-
ibat there wonld be one sure. Well,
woman Johnson, when she heard
of the trade, she allowed that there
would be no odd pigs next year, and
she pnt Johnson np to go and claim
the shoat, or at least one-half of it.
The old chap be went across the ridge
to Bascome’s house. It it about two
miles through the woods. Of course
they fell ont, and Johnson beat Bas-
upon her chair. Oh; how white
her face was! IIow black her hair
lookod, all hanging down about her
neck and shoulders! IIow hollow
her eyes was, and—oh, Heaven ! how
pained was the expression which shone
them as the firelight played upon
her features !
And—hush—it was the cry of
babe—she held a child upon her lap.
It waa a pretty little thing, with o'
Madge’s face, bnt his, the stranger'
eyes. We never chided Madge; I took
the babe, and Madge’s mother pnt her
strayed daughter to bed.
'She never awoke, for the exposure,
illness, nud heart disappointment had
went home, The babe grew, and final
ly, one day, he, ita father, came and
took the child away with him.
didn't ask for an explanation. Jot
understood it all. She was a mother,
but not a wife. Things went bad from
that time with ns, and we were sent to
■-house. She. Madge’* mother,
w.tetk.1 1 ’■"g *•■*“
bnnchw of . gairW .ppl«*« m\££2*^
Perhaps—hush 1
o yon oome here every
vaguely
„ ible to onr
•are: hia fingers trembling ’and shak
ing, were picking the leaves from
among the scant gnu.
Friend, why do you
day?”
• Ho turned, half itartingly, toward
ns; upon bis face a look of pain, and
in ’hie area — ‘ *
melancholy.
“Hnih f She’e down there.”
“Who?”
“Hera, ait down. I’ll tell yon the
atory. They all know about it ’
perhaps you don’t.”
We sat down by the old man, and
he told na hia sad story.
“Many, many year* ago
t It does
painful to sit here and think of the
days long ago. Perhaps—hush! 1
hope it won’t last long, for I have such
*—ims at night; and by day
of pitifnl
little
sit and dream, too, for I hear familiar
voices come to me from somewhere,
and they tall me “corns.”
We left him. His tears were
sacred for eyes to gaze on, his sorrows
straight home, counting on a quiet
evening together, for-the cards, yon
know, didn’t announce ns *at home*
until Monday. As I entered the vesti
bule, I stumbled over a pile of pamph-
ibe wore and with the second toe rub
bed the eye-lid. Then she bent for
ward and brushed back a stray hair
from her forehead. Taking np the pen
lets, circulars and catalogues as high
as a tea chest. We walked aroand them
and went into the library. My desk
buried under a mountain of
Please, sir,” said the hired girl,
ig to the hillock in the vestibule,
i wliat’s come to-day. If I’d
knowed yez was cornin’ home airly, I’d
have lugged ’em oaten the way afore
yez came. There’s ben a reg’lar per
cussion av men and byes a’poki
under the door all day.’
“I looked over a few of tho things be
fore I pitched them into the grate.
may s
come with a clnb, and he yelled foi
help. You know his gal Bet'
is as big as a cow, and as strong
male. &he ran ont of the honse,
and, gathering a stone, she mashed
Johnson in the ribs, and knocked
the wind ont of him. He fell
against the corn honse,
and Bet grabbed him by the
goozlestring (windpipe); that settled
When a 250-ponnd woman gels
her hand on o man’s goozlestring that'
has got to do something mighty
Budden, or it’s all day with him.” He
was silent for an instant, and gazed
moodily out of * the car window,
judged from the expression
There were twelve catalogues and
price-lists fromfnmitare-dealera, seven
dry-goods and millinery advertisements
addressed to my wife, cards from three
nval bakers, two paper books describ
ing burglar alarms, one illustrated cat
alogue of baby coaches, fonr annuals
published by insurance companies,
and a circular announcing that in a
few days Mr. Somebody would call
with a copy of “The Honaewife’
Friend,” a compilation of choice w
cipes, together with a thousand and
domestic bints invaluable to tbe
inexperienced housekeeper.
“You may laugh, but I even found
lawyer’s card, inscribed: ‘Legal busi
ness attended to promptly and without
publicity.’ Do you suppose the scoun
drel thought I’d want a divorce before
the end of tbe honeymoon? But that
all. We were swindled ont of onr
quiet evening, too. Can’t imagine
how they found out
that he had experience with 250-ponnd
women. He cheered a little shortly,
and resuming the, to me, thrilling sto
ry, said: “Johnson squirmed away
from her and broke for the timber.
Bet’s blood was np, and she took after
. iig yellow bound
him, and he hit old Johnson. Bet
chased him over the ride, and at every
jump she threw stonee at him. She
hit him, too. and tbe dog tore most of
his clothes off. That Bet never stop
ped chasing him until the heft of her
epapero
“Here cc
between the large and second toes of
her left foot, and holding a slip of pa
per with her right toes, she wrote in a
feminine hand, small and rather neat:
'He that lends to all shows good will
bnt little sense. Ann E. L. Thomp
son, Born without arms, December 28,
1839, Ga.,' This written she pnt the
pen down, took up a pair of scissors
with the large and third toe of the left
foot, and cleverly cut off the portion of
r on which she had written,
comes my dinner. Now yon
me eat—not that it’s such
sight, bat yon may find it odd to s<
te eat with toes instead of fingers.
Mr. Thompson spread ont a napkin
i tbe platform, and placed it on the
nner of a person in good health. Mrs.
Thompson turned around, took np
cup of tea in her foot, stirred it with
spoon held in her right toes, and half
tending and raising tbe cap to her lips,
drank off tbe tea and placed the cup or
tbe platform. Then she grasped a fiat
handled silver knife in her left tc
caught a fork between the first two t
of her right foot and cat some steak
to pieces. Part of it was tough; bnt
she had no more trouble in cutting it
than an ordinary person wonld have.
A piece of meat on the fork was trana-
People who Think Aloud.
_ lometimes hear
the remarks people make who talk
themselves while walking along the
itreets,” said a Pinkei
the Continental hotel. “They
ply thinking aloud. The hshit itself
seems altogether foolish, bnt I ca
yon the tenor of soma of the exprei
is juto the reverse. I always make
a point to listen to these one-sided
vernations. Now you may con
.polite
ferred to her mouth, aud was followed
by a piece ot bread broken from a slice
by her large aud second toes.
that
my business I don’t think it
detectives sometimes gain valuable
formation by overhearing j^rsoas t
to themselves. 1 remember, years a
when l was a private detective in I
city, how I cleared up a case jus'
that way. Several thousand dollars
had been stolen from a prominer
chant. He suspected his son, a
fast young mar, and employed
find whether his suspicions wc
rcct. I shadowed the young felloi
closely for weeks, but I couldn’t dii
cover any good reason for conncctin
him with the robbery. Finally, lati
one night, when I was thinking about
giving up the case, I noticed himgoi
up Chestnut street aud heard him talk-
* * * floac behind
clothes waa snagged off of her.” Mus
ingly he remarked: “Wimmen is
tough customers;” and, after a abort
pause, added: “Bet say* she can whip
'd reached home
bnt three polite insurance agents called,
one after another, before 10 o’clock.
Two of them were life insurance men.
and each tried to piotnre to me what a
horrible thing it would be for me to die
and leave a wife—and perhaps a child
—unprovided for, and how likely I
to die instantly. The third was a
insurance man, who wanted to take a
risk on everything in the house before
we had time to sleep. From the way
he pictured the horror* of a fire you
might have thought we were living in
a powder-mill. I got mad finally and
told him to go to the devil. Well.tix
more bores called on Saturday. Then
I broke down, and to-day I came to
the club to get away from them. Take
my advice, boys, and when yon get
married don’t pnt it in the paper.”—
Philadelphia Times.
As soon as she had finished this nov
el'meal, Mrs. Thompson continued: “I
forgot to tell you about my schooling.
O, yes 1 went to school. The pupils
were kind and l had a little raised pli
form for my case. I held mjr books
and read and studied as well
as tbe rest of the girls. I held a slate
in my right foot and a pencil between
the toes of my left foot and managed
to figure as well as anyone. My right
limb is shorter than my left foot as yon
have seen. I learned all that was taught
in the common schools of Georgia be
fore the war.”
Tho Mother in Heaven.
When the heart i* oppressed with
i heaven who m
r failed ns while
uiot her
Hc.ii
r mother in Heaven.
Beware of Smart Young Men.
Three panics have been caused by
three yonng men, two of whom were
iess than thirty years of age; each was
who had forgot-
the God of his lather. One v
banker, one was a broker, and one a
confidential clerk. Two died homeless
and penniless, in selt-cxile, and one is
w in jail. One of them was a finan-
il prodigy. At the age of twenty-
o ho was a bank president. The
bank was a success. His personal
ipeculations brought him large returns,
■enerable directors encouraged
his career. He was esteemed a
wonder in the financial world; bnt bis
aged father, the retired clergyman, .
trembled for the future of his son.
When tho young banker had accumu
lated $200,000, lie begged him to be
snt and stop. Bnt the son was
ho could make a million. Temp
os multiplied. Honesty was sus
pended, the golden bubble bursts, de
tection followed, the young banker fied
from home, aud died a penniless stran-
,trange” and. His life story,
with a fev
i the
The final s
:ircumstantial variations
of tho confidential clerk,
ry of the third is yet to be
ct us be weary of the smart young .
l. IIow consummate are bis per
il attractions. His address is pleas-
IIis imagination is his faculty.
t. Lieten to him, and the false
ns true and fiction teal. Success
mds his early
vied, pittied, courted, feasted, trusted.
He handles millions. Hi* methods
sr questioned. Dividends are
Ask noqueetions for conscience’
his powerful temp
tations. He fancies that fortuni
slave; but bis “black”
The sheriff arrests him; the dungeon
His day of extravagance
ended. Money gone, jewels and fast
irscs sold, and the banquet hall is
rNaken.— l)t % •/. /’. Newman.
him and listened and
knew he was the thief. Tho afft
wonted him aud for Teliet he talked
about it to himself and thus gave
whole thing away.
to me in New York a year ago. A lit
tle girl was foun I murdered one morn
ing in one. of tbo worst part* of the
city. The child had been smothered
to death and for several weeks I tried
to discover the murderer. But 1 found
tha stuffing out of him in a fair fist
fight; but Lord! John, he can’t fight
no more. He is all smashed np.” So
berly John expressed hia sympathy for
old man Johnson. Neither of them
smiled. A vision of a half-naked man,
chased through the forest by a yellow
honnd and an angry woman, who un-
lovingly threw stones at him, and who
encouraged the dog to disrobe him, and
who kept np tbe ehase until ker own
clothes were gone, arose promptly be
fore me, and I yelled with laughter.
The two grave Georgians smiled in
sympathy with me, bnt they did not
anything fanny in the story.-
Georgia’s Armless Woman.
Webster’* Audience.
[Baltimore American.]
Here is a new anecdote of Webster.
It was told by the late Col. Mnnford,
who was at one time Secretary of the
Virginia Commonwealth, and it has
never been published: Col. Mnnford
was in bis office at tbe 8tatebonse one
day whenadistingnished-lookingman,
accompanied by a yonng lady, came
in and asked if they could see the legis-
U WALKS, WRITES A
1 stive chambers. Col. Mnnford at once
recognized, from portraits that he had
Miss Leach, the armless woman who
was born and raised at the Dean place
in Griffin, is now a Mis. Thompson,
and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A
Milwaukee paper publishes tbia ac
count of Mrs. Thompson that may in
terest many who knew Miss Leach
when a child:
Now let me tell yon what I oan do,
too deep far wtraagera’ comforting
dolenoe. The next evening, jnat as ™
shadows began to fall, they went to
loek for tbe old man, and found him
sleeping the last sleep.
A Young Husband’s Woes.
“A welcome home? Well, yes,
rather,” said a newly-married man,
who was receiving the congratulations
of his bachelor comrades yesterday
What kind of a picture wonld yon
prefer, mi«s?” inquired a photographer
of a young lady customer. “Well,”
was the reply, “take me with an im
pression as if I were writing a poem
one of the fashionable club*. "Y« .
be continued in a contemplative tone,
mariner welcome than I anticipated.
dinner’ll be herein jnat a moment,
Thread a needle? Of course I can;
see.” And eniting the action to the
word, Mrs. Thompson picked np a fin#
needle with the large and eeoond to# of
the right foot, held it tightly between
the tips, and taking some yarn in her
left foot, rolled tbe end deftly on a
■mall smooth stone, bent in her body
almost double, and deftly breasted tho
yarn in the needle more easily than a
bachelor threads a large needle with a
very fiae thread. Next'the took a
1 never knew before what % married
man has to endvre. Do vow know that
when a fellow gtte married he becomes
The victim of aa army of agets, can
vassers and all each cheeky cattle, and
they never let up till the honsymboi
over?
“Fannie and I got back from the
wedding tonr Friday night. We drove
handsome tidy, on which she
crocheting, with ■ remarkable deftness,
held the work in her right foot, while
the left guided the needle inaad oat,
catching tbe thread with ease wad fash
ioned the figarea aa fast a# “my lady”
in the sitting room does with her eoft
hands. Her right eye giving ber town
trouble while doing this work, she deft
ly poshed back the spectacle* which
*een7 the lace of Webster, and wishing
to see as much of the great statesman
aa possible, offered to accompany him
through the Statehouse. The young
lady Beemed to be a relative of Web
ster, and waa very bright and piqnant
in hsr conversation. Thera was a con
stant fits oi clever repartee between the
two, and when tbe party reached tbe
Senate chamber the yonng lady, turn
ing to him, exclaimed: “Now, every
body says yon are a great man and can
make a speech without say prepara
tion. 1 want yon to prove it.” As
she said thia she moved toward the
rostrum and took A*****’ 00 °f the
President’* chair. “Tbe house
please come to order.” The gentleman
from Massachusetts has tbe floor.
“Webster,” said Col. Mnnford, relating
tbe incident, “took as if by instinct the
most favorable position in the room, eo
that hia voice could beet be heerd,’ and
for ten or fifteen minutes be spoke with
an eloquence that' I have never heard'
equaled. He referred to Virginia* e
past, and. alluding especially to her
distinguished scan, be pointed out their
portraits thathmag' on tbe walls, a»d
described their traits in the most beau*
tifnl language imaginable.” Col. Mun-
•. It was during the winter and
tter cold day as 1 was going
through Central park 1 saw a woman
ahead of me acting very strangely.
She was poorly dressed and I thought
at first that she was intoxicated. Sh«
throwing her arms around widely
and talking to herself. Yon should
have heard that woman. She wjD
raving about a child that was tout
dered and called on heaven to forgive
her for having killed i*. Theu she
moaned out something about the child
having been cold and freezing and
starving and she couldn't see it suffer
any longer. 1 soon found out that nhi
was the very person 1 was looking for
Well, I arrested her, bnt the poo
thing died before her trial came off. I
was glad aht did.
“But tho funniest things are said by
drunken people. . I often. »oo comical
instances of intoxicated men staggering
home, swearing at themselves for get
ting drnnk and solemnly promising not
to do it again. • Then again they often
haven serious conversation with them
selves as to bo^ their wives»
them when they get home.”
TheSninlloHt Watch iu tho World
A small, gold penholder, renting in
» rich velvet case, lay or a jeweler’s
showcase on John street, last week.
The end of tho holder wta shaped
like an elongated cube, and was an
inch long. A faint musical ticking
Msued from it attracted a custo-
aiiention. The jeweler lifted
the holder from the case, with a smile;
and exhibited a tiny watch dial, l-lt»th
inch in diameter, set in the side
between two other dials almost as
small. One indicated the day, and tho
other the month of the year. Tho
center dial ticked off seconds, minutes,
and hours.
“This is tbe smallest watch ever
made,” the jeweler said, “and the on
ly one of its kind in the world. It
took a Geneva watchmaker the better
part of two years to fit tho parts togeth-
tbat they would work accurately.
i London and
it has been exhibited
Paris.”
The works of the w ,tch were so that
they fitted lengthwise in the holder.
The mainspring was an elongated coil
of Btell fitted to the wheels by a tiny
.M-fasbtoned
golTou
the under side of the handle. A gold
pen ws* fitted in tbo holder, and the
jeweler wrote with it withunc disturb
ing the operation of the faiiy watch.
A Frenchman who was introduced t
a brandy-punch in Bicbtnoud, by a
American friend, appeared at the san
bar early next morning in qnest of
duplicate. U afortunately .he could nt
recall the name of tbe inspiration which
be had absorbed the nig I
the bar-keeper found tbe following de-
scriptior 'sufficient: “I-will take one
' contradiction, what you - call it? win
very much 1«hiu»u for task# him. sour,
very much aoogaie for make him sweet,
the customer
What’s the pri
d $500,” replied the jeweler,
laughing.—New York Sun.
HU MO 1C,
The stage-driver, in desciibieg the
.teepness of a certain Vermont moua-
ain, said that “Ohain-ligbtia’ couldn’t
p^down it without brcechia’ c-».”
“In ehoosiog a wife,” says an ex
change, “be governed by her chin.”
The worst of it is, that after choosing a
’ ipt to keep on Uiog gov-
iVln tbe t
‘‘This world is foil of trouble*,’’
ford frequently told bi* friends that it
was the beat speech that he ever listen
ed to.
plenty of brandy for make him strong,
great deal of
hitn weak.”
r Yor make
claimed Brown, despairingly; “there’s
no rest this side of the : grave.” “Cheer ‘
up,” replied Fogg; “forget y. nr troub-
; yon’U get the rest beyond the
grave.”
“Ugh!” excla med Brown. I “believe
ADELINA PATrl. (he great songstress
ttld.-orSpploa Palmer’s p«(uin^*Toilet
and other artfcJei_
moonce them superior to- any I ever
>d.” Principal depot, 374 and 376 Pearl
l ahal* freeze to- death; bnt I*. _
die some time,” lie added,
might as well die that way as ai
er.” “Much ieiter,” irplied
consolingly,' you’ll have such
cellent chance to thaw off on th
side, yon know.”
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