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Faithful in Little.
“It belongs to human nature to hate the
man whom you have injuredsays Taci¬
tus. Akin to the principle underlying this
actio human natire, may there not he
traced another fact formulated thus : “The
wt rk which we but half perform* d we always
hate?" If so, perhaps the secret of our
distaste to certain hotne’y domestic duties
standing like spectres between us and our
happiness, may be found in the half hearted
manner in which we perform them. Certain
it is, that there is an immense satisfaction
to be derived from the thorough perform-
acceol even disagreeable du'ie.. Ji flatters
ou- eelf esteem, andI pul, a, on .rood term-
with ourselves; and when we can mentally
pat ourselves on the shoulder, and exclaim
“You are a pretty good soul, after all,’ we
are all on the highway towards happiness,
n is thought »s suggested by meeting a
radiant little woman, whom we verily know
de; pises the whole routine of hotisekeep-
ing, from Alpha to Omega, from the broil¬
er in the kitchen tothe dusting of the parior-
Tbis lady now exultiogly declares, now that
adverse fate has cornered her up to the
work, “I realty enjoy it. J’cl no idea there
could be so much pleasure in it.’’ Saul a
friend to this nth- Lady th.e other day, “How
is it, Lucia, th i> y >u always like the thing
you are doing ?>j*- best of anything else ?’
“Oh,” said she, ‘ I don’t know, unless, it’s
because I always do the thing I am at with
all my might ” And truly that is just the
whole secret of it. Half-hearted work
brings with it its own reward, loss of self-
respect, and a dreary sense of dissatisfac¬
tion.
In our civilization, the average woman is
a housekeeper, will she or no; by her own
hands or, which is about as difficult, usually,
by that happy device of Satan, the “hired
girl.” Now, the only way out of this do¬
mestic bog to the sunny slopes of satisfac¬
tion—to say nothing of the gardens of
Paradibe—beyond lies right through the
faithful performance, even down to tho
minutest detail, of these domestic duties.
They cannot be shirked, shunned or put
aside; and happy is that household whose
priestess soonest recognizes this truth, and
trims her sails for her only harbor of ref
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Boy’s Books,
Realizing the dangers which lav in wait
for him unless a correct literary taste waj
fostered at an early age, I chose books for
my little brother very carefully. 1 began
by reading to him Peter Parley’s works,
translating the long words into Saxon, and
showing him on the map the places men¬
tioned and described For this latter
exercise there had to be a few lessons in
geography, that, he might learn the relative
positions of the two hemispheres, the differ¬
ent continents, and the special places ot
which we read. In these he took the
greatest inteiest, and was able to remember
much of the stcy. Nextcamethe Rollo books
with the map, Hawthorne’s “Wonder Book"
aud “Tanglewood Tales,” and the mo?t
interesting stories from BuUinch’s “Age ot
Fable,” alternated with such poems as he
could catch the story of Later, for a while
we read alternately to each other, to make
sure that he understood perfectly what he
was reading; now he reads alone. In
addition to his history at school he reads
historical uovels. He soon developed a
aste lor Sir Walter Scott’s works, inter-
tspersed with these were some of Shake¬
speare’s plays, Miss Yonge’s works, (he
“Zig zag Journey“The Boy’s Froissart,’
and various lesser stories. Within the last
three months his reading has been Froude’s
“Csesar,” Kingsley’s “Westward Ho,” fol¬
lowed by the article in the late “Harper’s
Magazine,” upon the early English mariners,
and|several chapter, upon the Elizabethan
period in Greeue's “Short Studies,” “The
Prince and the Pauper,” “Three Yassar
Girls Abroad,” aud “Tom Brown’s School¬
days.” 1 think you will consider the above
very good reading on the part of a lad who
is neither a book-worm nor a genius, but
only a bright, sensible boy who has accept¬
ed the food laid before him,
Boys Will Be Boys.
An exchange says a boy wifi tramp two
hundred and titty miles in one day on a
rabbit hunt and be limber in the evening;
when, if you ask him to cross the street and
borrow Jones' two inch augur, he will be as
sti asff a meat block. To be sure he will.
And he will go swimming all day and stay
in tbe water three hours at a time, and
splash and dive, and paddle and puff, and
next morniug he will feel that au unmeas¬
ured insult has been offered him when he is
told by his mother to wash his face. And
he’ll wander around a dry creek bed all the
evening piling up a pebble fort, and nearly
die off when his big sister wauts him to
please pick up a basket of chips for the
parlor stove. And he’ll spend the biggest
part of the time in trying to corner a stray
mule or a bare-backed horse for a ride,;aud
feel that all life’s charms have fled when it
comes his turn to drive the cows home. And
he’ll turn a ten acre lot upside down for
ten inches of angle worms, and wish for the
voiceless tomb when the garden demands
attention. But all the same, wheu you
want a triend who will stand by you, and
sympathize with you, and be true to you iu
all kinds of weather, enlist .one of these
same boys.
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The Indians, more than any nation, make
use of metaphor. The redskins you have
metaphor did not, however, strike you
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K k OCCOA NEWS.
By EDW. SCHAEFER.
Volume N.
Choosing Friend*.
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Friend, should be few-that », those
whom we would retain as our bosom friends;
and they should be those on whom we can
depend for some firm and solid reason other
than a mere sentiment, which may be
chauged by more powerful motives. There
are few who can enter into the deep and
earnest friendship which David describes as
between him and Johnathan; "ihy love to
me was wonderful, pass'ng the love °f
woman. A mans duties and every day
work would in many cases preclude him
from c>. mentiag friendships of so close aud
sacred a character. But he may be on
terms of friendship in diff rent degrees
with every one wiib whom he conus in
contact. It is not too much to say that
there is some spark of goodness even in the
most degraded of our race, and therefore it
should be the earnest endeavor of everyone
desirous of obtaining friendship to find the
ground of association between himself and
his fellow man; to claim it and cherish it
and gain a friend on that ground, if al
beside should proclaim rather au enmity—
but which a friendly nature wquld be careful
not to declare in an unfriendly way. So in
all our Roubles and cares, our anxieties and
misfortunes, our joj's and our successes, we
would have a multitude of sympathizing
friends; and they would be real friends in
the degree that we have thoughts in com¬
mon, aud by the common tie and feeling we
wouldjalways claim them. We should not
mistake as our friends mere acquaintances
of whom we know nothing; or familiar faces.
The chances are that there are many whose
names we do not even kuow, more firmly
united to us in friendship by the bonds of
common feeling, hopes and inspirations,
than these to whom we are accustomed to
bid good morrow. True friendship is a
noblw thing, and there are many instances of
os oerfection.
Some one mny say, but what is the use of
friendship? It is the intermingling of ideas
and affVctions with each other, which, i
fully carried out, would bind humanity with
an encircling cord, rendering wars and
tumulis impossible, and the diffusion of the
arts of peace aud domestic comfort more
practicable. In the narrower spheres of
individuals, as Bacon says, “it is the ease
and discha r ge of the fullness and swellings
of the heart, which passions of all kinds
cause and induce; lor, as there are diseases
of stoppings and suffocations most dangerous
to the body, so are they also to the mind.
We take med'ciue for the one; but no receipt
openeth the heart like a true friend, to
whom you can impart griefs, joys, fears,
hopes, suspicions, ceuusels, and whatever
lies upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind
of civil shrift or confession ” The loss of
fortune often is the forerunner of the loss of
friends, so called, but who, iu reality, are
none; merely attendants on for'.une, and for
w h 0 m, il we acted wisely, we should have no
other feeling except pity. And to guard
agaiust such disaster, let us remember that
it is not the fawning professor who is most
likely to prove the friend in need. Friend*
ship real and true is that which suffers even
death for its friend; that no hardship or
trial or adversity can shake off, using plain
outspoken admonitions and warnings in
prosperity, a kind and gentle help and
advice in adversity.
How a Woman Uses a Hammer.
She wants to hang a picture on a wall.
She gets a nail, a hammer, and a tall chair
to stand upon, and calmly surveys the
situation.
Then she measures distance and scratches
a spot, always an inch too high or too low,
and prepares for actions.
She takes the nail in the left hand and
the hammer in the right, and gently taps
like the drum accompaniment of a musical
box.
Then she lays herself out for a big blow,
raises her arm and strikes, and yells like a
captured Camanche maiden on the bound¬
less prairie.
She goes about the rest of tbe morning
with htr thumb done up in a bread poultice.
Yet she never learns from experience.
The next time she wants to drive a nail
in anything she will hit it exactly in the
same place.
Origin of Two Expressions.
The origin of the terms “Uncle Sam’
applied to our government, and “Brother
Jonathan,” appfied in the first instance to
the people ot New England, and sometimes
to the people of tbe whole country, or,
rather, to the represenative American, often
proves a puzzle. The question how the
terms arose is often asked. The following
seems a correct answer:
After Washington was appointed com¬
mander of the patriot army in the revolution,
be had great difficulty in obtaining supplies,
On one occasian, when no way could be
dev j sed b * him or hi* officers to supply the
’">■>». of th. army Washington wound np
conference with the remark, “We most
Devoted to News, Politics, Agriculture and General Progress.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, APRIL 28, 1883.
consult Brother Jonathan.” He referred
t0 Jona , han Trumbull, ihen governor of
CoImecticat whosa judement he had
C0Dfidence Governor Trumbull helped the
ml outof his dlfficultie8> and afterward
jhg exprPgg5on uged by Washington became
!ar byword in the army, and eventu-
ally a nickname for the nation.
The name Uncle Sam as applied to the
United States, is said to have originated in
be war 1812. An inspector of army
provisions at Troy, named Samuel Wilson,
: w &s called by his workmen “Uncle Sam.”
Q ne day somebody asked one of the work-
men what the i etters “U. S.” printed on a
cag ]j; meant. The workman replied that he
gU pp OSed r must mean Uncle Sam. Ihe
joke was afterward spread in the army, and
this, according to the historian Fro3t, was
the origin of the naitional sobriquet.
OU Meal for Hogs.
A correspondent of the Iowa Homestead,
writiug of oil meal for swine, says; I have
used it with apparent good effect by mixing
it in swill, giving once a week when feeding
fattening hogs heavily on corn. I would
recommend feeding it occasionally to fatten
hogs in that way. I think I nave seen good
results from feeding it in swill to sows about
to farrow—say for two or ihree weeks prior
to farrowing. Care must be taken not to
feed too much (I am speaking now of old
process of meal.) Do not feed it after far¬
rowing for three or four weeks. At least
very little should be used. Swill for a suck¬
ling sow can be too rich. Fine litters of
pigs are often ruined by overfeediug the
sow with rich swill; and speaking of swill
it occurs to me that swine are very similar
to a two-legged breed I have seen as to the
variety and quantity of swill they will take
in. The four-legged species are, however,
excusable, being void of reason or common
sense, while the two legged sort are said to
possess both. Pardon this digression. I
am ot the opinion that there is no economy
in feeding oil meal, other than as a medi¬
cine, or to give variety, which is.very essen¬
tial in swine breeding.
Corn is certainly cheaper even when it
reaches sixty or seventy cents per bushel,
or even at one dollar per bushel, aud I am
quite sure corn is a better feed. I prefer to
mix say six parts of corn to one of oats, have
the two ground together, then mix with feed
bran, milk, and house swill; feed belore
getting sour. There is no better feed for
sows while suckling pigs or for the pigs
whoa they first begin to eat. I said corn is
cheapest. Oil meal at $25 per ton is l£
cent per pound. I believe one pound of
corn is worth two of new process oil cake
meal; it true it stands as one to two and a
half. Any one can tell which it will pay to
buy. 1 have not been able to find anything
from which I could get figures as to results
in feeding new process oil cake meal to
swine for fattening purposes. I think it is
of little value.
Silly Fashionable Superstition.
The rage for small hands and feet is a
silty superstition enough, bnt it inflicts as
much misery as many more pretentious
creds. As hands cannot be mutilated, their
generous dimensions only give pain to their
foolish owners ; but with feet it is otherwise
Between the Chinese foot of beauty and the
narrowtoed, high-heelep abominations into
which the ladies insist on compressing
themselves—even if they possessed feet of
the fabled expanse of those of the Chicago
belle whose foot-prints in the snow were
taken for those of our lamented Jumbo—
there is only a difference in degree. Both
are unnatural, cruel and ugly. The fantas¬
tic fashion which prescribes that women
should have the hands of babies and the
feet of the dolls insists not less stringently
on the importance of a little head. A small
head may contain a good deal of wit; and
Miss Becker this month triumphantly quotes
the recorded weight of M. Gambetta’s brain
as a proof that the smaller size of the brain
of women is no proof of the superiority of
her lord and master. But those who, a3
Lady Paget complains, ‘squeeze and plait
up their beauti f ul hair in the smallest com¬
pass, till it is more like a pigtail than any¬
thing else, under the impression that ampler
softer coils would make the head look larger
have but little wit inside, however large may
be the outside circumference of their crania.
Concerning hair-dressing, Lady Paget says
much that is sensible and not a little that is
amusing, as for instance, the remark, *a
person with a large nose will do well to
wear much at the back of her head, so as to
re establish the palace.’—Pall Mall Gazette,
The two-eent postage rate goes into
effect October 1. The friends of this meas¬
ure think it will increase rather than
decrease the revenue of the Government, as
the increase in business, will be enormous.
If, as they claim, it will doable it, why not
make a one cent rate, and treble it. An
Irishman was examining a stove, which
the dealer assured him would save half the
fuel. “Bedad, an Til take two o’ them an’
says it alL”
Music in D&macns.
There is no Eastern city whose inhabi¬
tants are so devoted to music as Damascus.
Every wedding has its performers, who
generally continue their labors till daylight,
especially if the audience is sympathetic
and the refreshments good, two considera¬
tions whir h always weigh heavier than a
sordid seeking for hire. In the large public
gaidens in the summer evenings a good
nobeth is always to be beard ; the musicians
perched in a high divan and the men forming
the first circles around them. The women
draw in as near as they can with propriety,
and are perhaps most intensely delighted at
the concert. It is for them an opportunity,
of hearing a man’s voice declaiming an
impassioned love story, which they are quite
at liberty to appropriate to themselves, in
imagination at least. Some of the most
celebrated singers sing only for ladies, and
will not perform unless they are aware that
their efforts are not being merely thrown
away on mankind. Of course Moslem
women can never be present, but they can
and do throng adjacent terraces, courts and
windows. An amusing trick was once
played on one of these artists, who was
never known to exert himself for males only,
Whenever he was invited out ail the neigh¬
boring posts of vantage were quickly occu¬
pied ; and if he perceived that there were
ladies amoDg his outside hearers, he always
surpassed himself.
On the day in question, however, it was
raining, aud every one was obliged to stay
indoors instead of spreading the guest-
carpets in the court. The tenor was
obstinately silent, and evidently sulky. At
length, one of his friends who knew hi3
idiosyncracy, went out of the room and,
* enveloping a broom handle with a white
veil and izar, placed it in a neighboring
window. Returning to the singer’s side, he
jogged his elbow and. pointed out to him
that a beautiful woman was watching him
and waiting to hear his voice. He bright¬
ened up at once and sang for hours, with
many a side glance at the mysterious lady.
When the party broke up the inventor of
the trick fetched in his dummy and present
ed it to the singer saying, “Behold, my
unde, the maiden to whom you have been
singing,” It may be imagined that his
mortification was for long kept alive by the
most unmerciful mockery when the story
got abroad.
About Feet.
“The largest pair of shoes I ever sold to
a lady,” said the merchant, “numbered
nine. There are two sisters; one wears
eights and the other nines. The oldest
sister,” he continued, “tried hard to squeeze
on a pair of eights, but without success.
Finally she gave^me an order to make a
pair of nines, and they really look well on
her foot. You wouldn’t think they were
nines to look at them. We sell more num¬
ber one3 than eights, however. I have
been iu the business over fifteen years, and
I find that the majority of those who wear
ones are either Southern or Spanish ladies.”
“What is the difference in the loot of a
Southern lady and a Yankee woman?” we
inquired. “The difference is the same as
the difference between a Southern man and
a Yankee. Southern feet are narrow and
bowed in the middle, giving them a very
high instep, The Yankee foot is spread out
at the toes, and has more surface. There is
much gjace about.the foot of a Yankee lady
but it lacks the suppleness of a Southern
foot. Its merits are its exquisite shape,
small heel aud strength. Compare the
walk of a Southern woman with the walk
of a Yankee woman. Thj Yankee lady
has a short, springy step. The little heel
first catches the sidewafif, and the gaiters
sound like the click of a telegraph instru¬
ment. The Southern woman walks languid¬
ly and makes long steps. Let a Y r ankee
girl attempt the step of a Southern lady
and she will turn her ankle.”
The Rapidity of Motion.
The rapidity of the movement of the
globe has been strikingly stated by Charles
Morris in the American. He says that if
we stroll along the street at the rate of a
step per second, it may seem like a slow
progress, and yet the speed of the famous
seven-leagued boots hardly surpassed the
rate at which we are realty going. For
every such step really takes us eighteenjmiles
foiward in space. Between the lift and the
fall of the foot we shoot forward this grea
distance, and in ordinary breathing, each
successive breath is taken fifty miles away
from the locality of the last. In the short
period in which the second hand of a watch
completes one revolution and marks one
minute gone, we dart 1,100 .miles through
space, so that a distance equal to the noted
“tour of the earth in eighty days” is traveled
by every one of us is every twenty-three
minutes of our lives. This, thus barely pre¬
sented, seems incredible, yet it involves in
it tbe annual revolution of tbe earth around
the san. We are in reality shooting con¬
stantly in three separate directions through
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space, at speeds to which that of the cannon
ball is but a snail’s pace. In one direction
we are moving forward at the rate of sixteen
miles per minute. In a second direction we
far surpass this speed, and dart forward at
the rate of 300 miles per minute. But the
third line of motion is at the extraordinary
rapidity above mentioned of 1.100 miles
per minute. The first of these motions is
that of the earth on its axis. The second
is that of the movement of the whole sohr
system through space toward the fixed
stars. The th : ra is that of the revolution
afound the sun, which carries ns over nearly
600.000,000 of miles every year. And yet
the train which bears 113 at this rate through
space moves with such utter smoothness
that we find it impossible to realize that
there has be*n any change of place.—New
York Star.
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Handwriting of Famous Men.
Sometimes half a dozen engravers are
engaged in rendering an artist’s drawing of
a single subject, which, when finished, pre¬
sents to the unpractised eye one uniform
style. Nevertheless, a practised eye can
tell where each engraver’s work leaves eff,
and where that of every one of the rest
begins. In haudwriting, as in other arts,
and in literature, “the style is the mau.”
For all that, the evidence of handwriting, as
of style, generally, is not to be relied on if
a man’s life and liberty are at stake, and
still less can character be judged from
handwriting. Brave men may perpetrate a
timid scrawl, generous and high minded
men may write a mean hand, and cowardB
produce a bal'd and flowing script. Porson,
the great Gr^ek scholar, among the untidi-
est of students, wrote neatly and elegantly.
Shakespeare’s signature is not particularly
clear. Napoleon wrote illegibly, it is said
purposely to hide his bad spelling. The
writing of the tortuous minded Charles I. is
as clear and striking as that of Thomas
Carlyle is crabbed and indistinct. On the
other hand, Queen Elizabeth’s writing is
magnificent. The manuscripts of Charles
Dickens, to be seen in the Forster collection
at South Kensington, are ragged and full of
alterations and emendations. Many men
write large or small, according to the
humor of the moment. Again, handwriting
depends for its style on the school ia which
it is applied. The manuscript of Byron, of
Thomas Campbell, and of Thackeray, may
be called the literary hand; it is uniform in
color, small and fairly legible, but without a
superabundant curve or flourish. The
great mass of “copy” which passes through
the hands of a modern printer is more or
less of the same character. A commercial
hand, as it is called, is something quite
different. Compare an envelope addressed
by a city clerk and one from the hand of a
university professor, and it is well nigh
certain that the former will be more
distinguished for elegance than the latter.
Again, the writing of the rustic and uncul
tured is so much alike as to defy differentia
tion. All this goe3 to prove that
evidence of °xperts must be taken with
proveibial grain ol salt.
Vulgar Habits.
Asking questions, private and personal,
is a vulgar habit, and telling your own
business, which no one wants to know, is
another, Asking the cost rf a present
that has been made to you, loud talking in
public bard staring at table, insolent dis¬
respect to husband, wife, sister or brother,
showing temper in trifles, and making
scenes in public, showing an embarrassing
amount of fondness, and making love in
public convert sneers, of which people can
see the animus, if they do not always an
derstand the drift; persistent egotism,
which talks forever of itself, and cannot
even feign the most passing interest in
another, detraction of friends, and, it may
be, relatives, husband telling of his un-
pleasantnesses, a wife complaining of her
husband s faults, the bold asumption
superiority, and the servile confession
infinite unworthless—all these are signs
and evidences of vulgarity—vulgarity of a
far worse type than that which eats its fish
with a steel knife, and says, “Yon was,’
and “Each of the men were.”—Exchange
To Husbands.
You requrie a great deal from your wife
in the way of patience and tenderness.
Don’t forget that she has equal claims on
you. Don’t be gruff and rude at home.
Had you been that sort of fellow before
marriage the probabilities are that you
would be sewing on your buttons still.
Djn’t make your wife feel that she is an
incumbrance on you by giving grudgingly.
What she needs, give cheerfully as if it
were a pleasure to do so. She’ will feel
better, and so will you. Don’t meddle in
the affairs of the hoQ3e under her charge,
Ton have no more right to be poking your
nose into the kitchen than she {has to walx
into yoar place of basinew and give dirco-
tion to your employees.
ALL 80BT8.
Spring good*; Bat traps.— -Bo*tou Star.
The first foes of spring—the chad’a—Jt.
Y, Advertiser.
A bilions individual— Tho collector
—Somerville JournaL
The American press—the ooreet.—Bar*
lington Free Press.
A Green Baj horse is no Qooommoa
thing in Wisconsin. — Lowell Conner
“No library is com pie e without it”—the
featbar duster,—New York News,
A sound suggestion—Never turn a deaf
ear to the telephone,—N. Y. Advertiser.
Base ball is always seasonable with a
country church choir.—New York Adver-
tiser.
Smithers says there is jast "no* difler-
ence between right and wrong.—Boston
Star.
The prosperity of the book agent pr o v ra
that falsehood is mighty and will prevail.
—Puck.
A Mormon with a plurality of lean wives,
speaks of them as his “spare riba'’— Boston
Star.
“I never was better in my life," as the
man said when asked to take n wager.
—Boston Transcript
A Texas horse thief knows what it meant
when he is serenaded by a string band.
—New Orleans Picayune.
When are two tramps like oomtnon time
in music ? When they are two beats at n
bar.—Baltimore Every Saturday.
The watch that fell out of a drunken
man's pocket and smashed on the pavement
was off its guard.—New York News,
“Board wanted”—as the young lady said
when she came to a mud puddle in the
sidewalk,—Burlington Free Press.
Marriage is a lottery, but we have not
heard that love letters are denied the privU
lege of the mails,—Boston Transcript,
The poets have always sang of the charms
of country life; but who ever heard of oan~
ning mosquitoes for city use ?—Puck.
A man needn’t flatter himself that he is
working like a beaver simply because he
throws in a lot of unnecessary dnnlan.
—Boston Transcript.
A boy in Vermont swa’lowed a handful
ofbirdshot to cure boils. The boy died,
but the effect of the dose on the boils is not
stated.—Philadelphia Press,
Seven millions of rabbits have been killed
in one year in Australia, an 1 these are
hardly missed. With an Australian it’s
only his dead bares that are numbered.
Young grandson, presenting his cigar
case to his grandfather: “No, my lad, I
don’t smoke.” Quite right at your age it
is objectionable.”—French Joke.
Is it said that old Father time is bald
headed so that he can’t be taaea by the
forelock. He is the fellow wbo scythes for
more worlds to conquer.—Harlem Times.
“It is a crime to be a woman 7* asks Mrs.
Blake. Not we think, not if she sincerity re¬
pents, asks to be forgiven, and promises not
to be so again.—N. Y. Graphic.
The difference between a rope-walker and
a book keeper is that a rope-walker make* a
trial balance before be begins business, and
the book-keeper afterwards.— The Drum¬
mer.
An exchange prints a two-oolumo story
headed‘ The Mystery of an Inn.” We had
supposed that all the hash jokes were oon-
sidered off long ago.—Boston Transcript
A man went into a drag store the other
day to bay some medicine. “Do you keep
the best drags “You can’t get better,
sir.” “Too bad, no use of medicine, then,
good-day.”—Gas.
“A fellow must sow hie wild oats, yon
know,” exclaimed tbe old adolescent John.
“Yes,” replied Annie, “bat one shouldn't
begin sowing so soon ater cradling.”
—Hartwell Ga. San.
Why is a man wbo is less careful of kes
dress at home than in the street like a
of family who takes his meals at a restau¬
rant ? Because he’s neater out.—Sua
Francisco News-Latter.
Few lawyers, says an English writer, have
ever been invested with the Order erf the
Garter. This shows that that kind of a
garter was not intended for “limbs of tha
law.”—Boston Globe.
Lady Brooks Carnthers is coming direel
to San Francisco with her six on married
daughters.^ Is it possible we’ve got to drop
everything and take to the wooda again?
—San Francisco Post.
“I was drank when I married her,*
pleaded the defendant to the oonrt “Meet
men are who marry pretty wives,” returned
the judge. “Scanty is always intoxica¬
ting.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
Blobson says he does wish the ladies
would give up their fondness for long traina
in society, and ran an accommodation train
once in a while—an inch above tbe floor
for instance.—Burlington Free Presa
Trained powers of observation; Art
professor—“Yon have seen the cat hedra l at
Florence with your own eye*. J have not
been so fortunate. What struck joa
most noteworthy in it V Pupil—"A
English ghL”—Fhegaoda Bkitv.