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VOL. Ill—NO. 10. (pie Hamilton Visitor D. W. 1). BOULLY, Proprietor* CASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One copy one year $2 00 Otia copy six month* 1 00 One copy three months 75 Anyone furnishing "fire subscribers, with the money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one. po-t-oßice to another, must state the nunc of the post office from which they wish it changed, as well as that *o which they wish it sent. All subscriptions must he paid in advance. The paper will lie stopped at the end of the lime paid for, unless subscriptions are pre viously renewed. fifty numbers complete the year, CASH ADVERTISING ItATES. Spack I mo | 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos 1 iach ... $ 2 50 $ 4 50 $ 6 00 $lO 00 3 inches .. 450 725 11 00 18 00 3 inches.. 500 900 15 00 22 00 4 Inches..l 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 } column..! fi 50 14 Of) 25 00 35 00 4 column..] 12 50 25 00 40 00 -.00 00 1 column..l 22 001 41 00 02 00 100 00 Marriages arid deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. 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J"oxilcixis, Dsx TIST • mipSfe^ ~6e- -£y f ru -~Mf2== ^-f^jC-*f-T r g^ : HAMILTON, GA. Chattahoochee iiouse~ By J- T. HIGGIN BOTHER WEST POINT, GA AL()NZ r A * DOZIEK, Attoiinf* axd Counselor at Law, COLUMBUS, GA. Practices i:i Shite and Federal Courts in Georgia and Alabama. Office over C. A. Held & Go’s. 120 Broad at. decl-0m ~ SANDY ALEXANDER'S BARBER SHOP, Oglethorpe street, Columbus, Ga. Give me a cill when you come to town, aii'i L wi>l do my best to please. decll-Cm 3E3:in.e£i X>ozi©r, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice in the Chatta’mocbee Circuit, or anywhere else. Office in the Northwest comer of the Court-house, up-stairs. jsr<B ED. TERRY'S BARBER SHOP, COLUMBUS, GA. Go to E<l Terry’s, if you want an e*?sy shave, and your hair cut l>y first-class bar lH*rj and in a first-ciaKs barluT shop. Loca te ! imdir the H inkiii House. scp4ly KAN K l X HOUSE COLUMBUS, G^. ;j. W. RYAN, Prop’r. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE, main J W. RYAN, Prop’r. Read This Twice. 3? The P'wm’e’s Ticdsfor rnnt ins no continued to:*ieß. 8 lar#* |rro. 48 columns of choice misor llnoouK reeding matter every wet k, to gether with artirlos from the pens of sum l’-known writers as Nashy, Oliver Optic, Kviranna Gohh, Jr., Mi-s A’eott, Will Carl ton. J. T. Trowbridge, Mark Twain, etc. ?&-1 send th ft People's Led per te anij address every week for three months, on trial , on receipt of only 50c. The Peo- T -’s T/-d<rer is fin old established rvl r>libb- w i-U! .y p*P r. published every Saturday and |s v- rr nonn'ar thromrh'-ut t m W !•; Vtnn-1 -od Mi '■'! • stitrs. Address tII'.IV'IANN K CTJItTiS. Publisher, dec2s-3m 12 School st. Boston, Mass. NOTICE. H'vimr heretofore held stork in the Geor- Cii Home Insurance Cos., of Columbus Ga I hereby give notice that I have sol.-l F"l stock and transferred the sime, and under section HO6 of the Code of 187°., I am hereby eveinot from anv liabUiUes of said Company. \ y . j-tra. ' A. Wm.lf, Tnstce. Hamilton Visitor A FORTUNE FOR SI! One Gift is guaranteed to one of every eleven consecutive numbers, 850,000f0r ONE DOLLAR mow is -feme yij&e. Fortune hell* those who help themselves. 500,000 Tickets, at $1 each, num bered from 1 to 500,000, inclusive , The exceedingly loro price of tickets brings it within the reach of all. In aid of Public Improvements in the city of Denison, Texas. THE TEXiAS Gift Concert Association ■WILL GIVE A GRAND CONCERT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1875. And will distribute to the Ticket-holders $250,000 IN GIFTS. DEPOSITORY, FIRST NIT. BANK. DENISON. Distribution tocommenceimmeriiately after the Concert, Managers of distribution chosen by Ticket-holders and prominent citizens. LIST OF gifts: 1 Grand Cash Gift $ 50 000 I “ “ “ 25,000 1 .. 15,000 1 10,000 1 5,000 1 .. ..’ 2,500 1 1.500 10 .. .. .. 8500 each.. 5.000 20 250 .... 6.000 30 150 .... 4.500 50 100 .... 5.000 100 1 50 .... 5,000 100 25 .... 2 500 200 20 ... . 4.000 500 10 .... 5.000 1.000 .. .... 6 .. .. 5 000 1,500 21 .. 3.750 46,250 1 .. .. 46 250 49,707 Grand Cadi Gi f tsam’nt’g to 8200.000 22 prizes in real estate ain’t’g to 50,000 49,789 Gifts, amounting to $250,000 Please address us for circulars giving ref erences and full particulars. A st ilentent of the distribution will he pub lished anti forwarded io ticket-holders, and ail gifts promptly paid after the distribution. (IBID and RESPONSIBLE PERSONS WANTED to w ork for the interests of this A*'>ciat> r **- Liberal Commissioxs Allowed HOW TO itv“ ,T TO u ' s ’ ~ ... ~nr sent by Express or Dr-eft, ‘ , or! f ’TVWy Order or Registered Letter. communications to ALPHEUS R. COLLINS, Sec’y, 0c(23-td Denison, Texas. If : J'■■ Y 13 ANT ESTABLISHED 15 YEARS. A STANDARD INSTITUTION, LARGEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST IX THE SOUTH. The only Business School in the South eon ducted by un experienced Merchant and Prac tical Accountant. 3116 actual expenses of students are from fifteen to twenty per cent less than it will cost them to attend second cla-K. or imported institutions. The Course of Stn.lv is conducted on Actual Business Principles, supplied with Banking and other offices, combining every known facility for imparting a Thorough, Practical Business Education in the shortest possible time and at t-c least expense. Graduates of l hi - in-dilution, as practical accountants, stand pre-eminent- over those from any other Busi ness School in the country. The estaHi bed reputation of this Institu tion. the thorough, praeti'-al course of its study, and the success of its Graduates, ranks it the loading BUSINESS SCTIOOL IN THE SOUTH. Our course of actual business training is the best and most practical of the age. No vacations. Student* admitted at anv time, jjn classes Business Advocat". containing full particulars mailed to any address. B. F. MOORE, A. M., President. MOTHER'S MAG AZINE Is one of the oldest and best monthlies for the f-imilv circle within our knowledge. It is fd.lv condiic’ed, and its pages well filled hv talented aud expeiicneed writers. —Chrieiirn Observer & Commonwealth. Louisville, Kv. It is a vc y useful and instructive maga zine. and should ho in the tends of every mother.- —Haverhill Gazette. Moss Terms, $1 <SO a year, postage paid. Care fully sob-Ced eogrnvines to subscribers, at wt Stnd ten cen*s tor specimen copy and terms /.ddre-s Mother’s Magazine. P. O. I ox 3157, New York. deelß-8t SPIFITUAI ISM. The recent extraordinary attention the ant i •< t is attrec'ing. and its invest Ration by eminent snienii G, increases the demand for current literature devoted to the subject. In order th *t all mm become familiar with the mo-'t aide, fearless and widely circulated ex ponent of spiritualism, we will send the Re- IMr,-Philosophical Journal three months for thirty cents pnetaee prepaid by ns after Jan. i ’ {.-3 The Journal i? a large 8-page week ly naper. rezular price $3 per year—now in It, ninth year. Address S. S. Jopes, Effitor, 18(5 E. ±daua it, CbiflßfPr aoeLo-A n HAMILTON, HARRIS CO. GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1875. THE PERILOUS SWING. Oft’ tlio line, the weather, as may be supposed, is too warm for a com fortable reverie or nap in the mere box of a forecastle aboard a whale ship. At any time, in fact, the whaler’s /ore-cast!e is not a place in which one can very conveniently build atV-oastles, There is an eternal jargon of Span ish, Yankee, Portuguese, Danish, Flemish—of almost every known lan guage—dinging in your ears, about whale blubber, Captaiu so and so, and “ my last v’vage.” Your sweetest reveries are thus rudely trampled upon, like dandelions crushed by the heel of a great boot, and as to thinking pleasantly of your lady-love, that is out of the question, as the clouds of tobacco smoke float ing around you will give a copper colored hue to her skin, in spito of every effort of the fancy. Little blue eyed Minnie Wharn clift’e, passenger aboard the whaler Truxton, for Rio Janeiro, was the sweetest gill I ever saw, either on land or water. Her father, who was with her, had, for many years, been a sea captain, hut was how on his way to take possession of some prop erty left for him at the place men tioned, by a Portuguese relative. I was at this time about eighteen years old, while Minnie was but fif teen. The silvery music of tho girl’s laughter, her sweet ways, and the starry light danemgtin her dove like eyes, made a powerful impression on me, whenever I found myself near her. This often happened, as the captain was mv third cousin, and would send for me to visit him in his : cabin. When away from tho girl I woxl<l go by myself to think of her, usually mounting into the maintop, or sitting on tho topsail yard, for that purpose, as 1 could not Tear to m*se upon so gentle a subject amongßiy noisy ship mates. One eveninir-Ave were then in a O few’ days’ sH of Rio—the wind came on t-* Glow a gale, sending the seas roaring aud careering along, with crests gleaming white, and the phos phorescence sinning upon them like showers of stars. We were standing along with dou ble-reefed topsails, foresail, topmost staysail and jib, rolling violently, now and then plunging bow under, when I heard a cry from Minnie, who Lad come up to look at the scintillating waters. Turning round—l stood at the time near the main hatch —I beheld the girl’s hat—a little, round one of vel vet, with a green feather—whiling upward toward the main-royal mast. Watching it, I saw it finally catch against the royal yard, where it re mained; the ribbon dangling from it having caught round the lift covered with melted tar, which caused it to stick fast. Of course the gallantry of the sail ors was at once aroused. Several, myself among the number, sprang for the main shrouds. Before we were in the rigging, however, the captain sang out: “Hold, there —that mast is sprung!” (injured). When the gale first struck the ship, we had heard a cracking noise, but had not known whence it came. The skipper, however, had gone aloft to investigate the matter, and came down just before Minnie lost her hat. There she stood upon the quarter deck, a pretty picture to look at—her little rosy mouth half open, her hands clasped, her eyes turned up towards the fluttering hat, the wind making merry with her long chestnut curls. “Oh, no!” she exclaimed, turning to (he captain: “do not let them go, if there is any danger.” Mv companions obeyed llie cap tain’s order, returning at once to the df ek, but I kept on. “Torn Burke!’’ roared the skip per; “come down, I tell you!” Reluctantly I obeyed, although I would much rather have preferred risking n f life for the velvet hat with the green feather. An hour later darkness van <-.ri the sea. The wind still roared a gale, and the seas were as violent as ever. In calm or rough weather, it was my custom, when in warm latitudes, to -sleep either on deck or in the top. In a gale like the present I usually took the precaution to fasten a rope round my middle, that I might not be jerked overboard. Just as the bell struck for my watch below, I mounted, as usual, into the maintop, and having secured my form with a ropi stretched myself down, with my load against the mast. As may >e imagined, I could not sleep, owiig to the violent grinding and j'U’kini of the spar. turned uprard into the I lay musingabout Minnie Wharnoliffe and the hot with the green feather. The pvett vlittle head-piece was prob ably still a’oft upon the end of that, hateful royal yard, and the thought occurred tc me that it would boa glorious acVnfveinent —would raise mo wonderfully in the fair passenger’s eyes—if, at tin imminent peril of my life, T should [rocure the hat. I resolved to try. Tho captain, •who was now'Mow, would at pres ent know nothing about it,, and as for the officer of tho watch, lie would be unable, owing to the intense darkness, to see me go aloft. It struck me that tho captain had shown an urichivalric indifference about that llat. because ho had not. in some way contrived to rcstoro it to the owner, yhoreas I should have re membered that he was an old seaman, and had gotkl reasons for not making the attempt! Obeying flic impulse of the mo ment, I darted rapidly up the top mast rigging, gained the topgallant shrouds, and was soon close to the royal yard. At, this moment every spar in the ctaft was cracking with the violent uiotions of the vessel, and as I gained i tho yard, she plunged with a suddenness and force that al most threw n(e from my position. I looked for the hat, and saw it yet fluttering from the lift. With a quick movement, I secured it, by darting out on the fobl-rope, and was about moving in ward, when there was an other plunge of the ship—a crash— and, to my horror, I felt the spar go ing over. I threw myself upon the yard, grasping it firmly. Down went the mast at, the same moment, hurl ing me from my position. As I fell my knees came into con tact. with the end of the maintop-gal lant yard, and I endeavored to grasp the lift. A r< ll of the ship made me miss it, a:id 1 w“ iL.^own offil Wildly Id my firms, and grasped a thin lino, which,! instantly comprehended, was the top-gallant gasket—a rope which is used to wind round and hold the sail when it is furled, or stowed upon the yard. Sometimes, during a gain, this rope becomes loosened, especially when the sail is not. very neatly furled, by the wind getting in beneath the folds of the canvass and pulling it out. Such was the case, on this occasion; but it must be understood that the gasket had not blown entirely clear, and that it was simply one of the bights or turns which I had suc ceeded in grasping. The turns being all loosened, this bight slackened be neath my grasp, causing mo to be precipitated head downward. I expected to continue my course, but in an instant my progress was arrested by a circumstance, which, while perfectly natural, was totally unexpected. My ankles, as I fell, had caught in two turns of the loosened gasket, which becoming twisted round them by a swing in ihe ship, tightened, bringing my heels sharp tip against, the yard, as if they had been screwed there ! It was my weight that pre served the twist of the rope —preven- ted its uncoiling; and so there I hung, swaying aloft, head downward, nearly a hundred feet above the, deck! A thrill of strange horror went through me—the blood surging into my brain, soon confused and bewil dered me. Through the darkness, tho phos phorous gleaming from the white foam patches of roaring water, re sembled the eyes of miniature sea-de mons looking up and exulting in my painful, perilous situation! As well as I could in my present position, I shouted to make myself heard, hut my voice was swallowed up in the tremendous din of tho sea and gale! To me, the noise was as if hun dreds of cannon were booming in my ears. Despair seized my soul. At the mercy of the rolling, plunging ship, I was tossed hither arid thither like a pend uln m. Far and own—down—down beneath me in the darkness, the sea, by rnv distoi led vision, was noon mag nified into one great yawning whirl pool, contrasting with which, the dim deck looked like a mere chip, whirling round and round. I would rather the rope parted £ud lot me go down into that whirlpool, than hang thus much longer. I could not make myself heard—doubtless those below were still ignorant of my position—and so there I was, that ship’s living pendulum, swinging so far aloft, with bursting eyeballs and brain filling with blood! Boom ! boom ! Room ! Swing! swing! swing! crack! whiz! whish shsh! How droerily monotonous sounded these noises of the rolling ship, the swashing water, the thundering gale! llow I prayed that the rope might part and end my misery. There was something fearfully tan talizing in being held by the more turns of a gasket, without any pros pect of my rescue. But to bo made yet metre of aTavf talus was I doomed ; for beneath me, faintly discernible in tho phosphor lighted gloom, appeared the forms of two of my shipmates, standing m ar the nmin-rnast, apparently conversing in the most quiet, unconcerned man ner possible! The gloom inpenetrable above, pre vented their seeing mi 1 ; they, with all the rest below, wore even ignor ant that the royal mast had given way, the noise having boon drowned liy the din of tho tempest. Could I do nothing to attract, the attention of my two shipmates?—to make my situation known to them ? I again endeavored to shout, but now niy long, unnatural downward position bad almost deprived mo of the power of speech ! My brain was becoming more confused every mo ment. I felt that my senses were deserting mol Ere consciousness left me, however, a sudden thought flashed into my brain! I clasped my hand lo tho belt in which I kopt my knife, and discovered that the instrument, thanks to the tightness of the sheath, was still there! I pulled forth tho blade and drop ped it, hoping that it would fall clqso to the two men and thus excite their curiosity enough to make them dis cern whonoe the weapon came. Alas I I knevv, by tho manner in which trie Stlfli) left niy hand, that T had not made sufficient allowance for the wind; and the weapon was, there fore, whirled off into the sen! And so, there I still was doomed to swing, while rny two shipmates so far beneath me—right beneath me—still stood calmly talking together, ignor ant of m y peril! O! how my head throbbed! bow hot became my eyeballs! A sea was surging in my brain as well as below! Another thought! my pocket knife! I felt for it, tied round my neck by an old lanyard, which, with one jerk, I severed. Then I dropped the knife, and then —a twanging sound, like that of a bow string went through my brain, and I knew no more. When I came to niy senses, I was in the cabin, the captain bending over me, a pair of soft eyes turned upon niy face —a soft hand upon iny brow. She was by me, Minnie Wharnellffe, and I was happier than words can ex press. What more to add ? My last effort had proved success ful ; the knife, falling near the two men, led to a search a’oft, and to my rescue, accomplished by means of ropes. “Do you see that?” inquired the captain, holding up a piece of rig g”l fl it was from the gasket, and there was but one ting strand left, the other two having untwisted! “That was all between you and eternity, when wc hauled you in ! ” continued the captain—“a moment more and the strand would have par ted ! ” “ Did Minnie got her hat ? ” “Yen,” she answered, blushing, and with tears in her eyes, as she held it up —“it was found tied to the but ton-hole of your jacket.” In duo time Minnie hecarno my wite. “Take her,” said old Captain Wharncliffb, when I told him that I wanted his girl, “and, although I shall fool eternally grateful for the peril yon incurred on her account, in the matter of the hat with the green feather, still remember, hereafter, not to let your gallantry, my lad, run afoul, as; it did in that case, with the wisdom of an old head that knows how to steer his craft according to the weather! ” The stamp of civilization— The postage stamp. WIT aud HUMOR. “Why do they call the people who live in tho South Sea Islands ‘canni bals ? ’ ” asked an old lady of a sailor. “ Because they live on other people,” answered the sailor. “Then my son in-law must be' a cannibal,” said she Ninoteen years ago a Tennessee Cither refused to let his daughter go to a candy-pull, an l she disappeared. Tho other day she returned, lifted eleven children out of the wagon, en tered the house and took off her things as coolly as if she hadn’t been gone over a day. A fellow rushed into an offloe one morning with tho interrogation:— “ What’s tho difference between the mice that, have just, been eating,mv greenbacks and the epistles of Paul ?” All present subsided, and he gasped, “Thoy’re both scripohewers I ” and then proceeded to the door. A Dutchman describes New York ers as “berry fine beeple, who go about dor sthreets slie.ating each ud der, and doy call dat pizziness.” TTcwbo goeth it blind sitteth down on'tlio bent up pin, while the observ ing man scannctli the chair-seat before ho squatteth. Why is the world like a piano? Because it is full of sharps and flats* When Gen. Thomas was asked for a furlough by a backwoods soldier, in order that lie might visit his wife, to whom ho had been married but three months, lie replied: “ Why, my dear fellow, I haven’t seen my wife for three years.” Tho backwoods man stared incredulously at tho Gen eral for a moment, and then broke out: “ But, you see, me and my wife ain’t that kind.” There is one piece of property in Rhode Island which none of tho Spragues desire to lay claim to. It’s twenty acres of graveyard. “Shingle weddings,” it is said, are coming rapidly into style now. This novel wedding takes place when the first born is old enough to spank. An Idaho ma stripped himso!£ hung his tmpnrcl on a saw-bnek, and retired on a pile of cord-wootl. Ilia mistake was discovered by his wife, who overheard him quarreling with an imaginary old woman about there not being enough cover on tho bed. A Dubuque boy was rather troubled for fear he would not know his father when they boih reached heaven, but his mother eased -him by remarking: “ All you have to do is to look for an angel wiih a rod nose on him.” It is stated that Brigham Young is about (o call a mass meeting of all of his children, so that they may be in troduced to each other. An amateur farmer in Massachu setts didn’t know how to take off a wagon wheel to grease tho axle, so he bored holes through the hub and poured in the grease. It is time to stop talking about tho softening influence of women. A Massachusetts man who has four wives has been sent to the peniten tiary for stealing horses. A Kansas farmer purchased a re volver for his wife, and insisted upon target practice, so that she could de fend her house in case of his absence. After the bullet was dug out of his leg, and the cow buried, he said he guessed that she’d better shoot with an axe. Col. Prnll, of Lexington, Ky., says tlmt an on old la.ly on his pension roll, now living in that city, is in her 102d year. But she is killing herself smoking a pipe. Hlio has been at it for tho last half a century, and he thinks she can’t stand it many years longer. “Well, Mr. , how do you feel ?” said a friend to a defeated candidate a few days after election. “I feel, I suppose,” he replied, “as Lazarus did.” “llow was that?” “Why,” said ho, “ Lazarus was licked by the dogs, and so was I. When may a man bo said to be lit erally immersed in business? When he is giving a swimming lesson. The most direct method of deter mining horse-power: Stand behind him and tickle his hind kgs with ft brier. Rhode Island proposes to have her census taken. That’s easy enough— let the people stand up arid be counted. The lady who advertised a lecture on the subject of “woods,” was dis gusted at not having the “first per son present.” Music by handle—a street organ. $2.00 A YEAR. Texts, Alphabetically Arranged. A good task for Sunday-school scholars will bo to soaroh out and tell where the following texts are to be found in the Bible; A.—“ Ask and it shall be given un to yon.” B. —“Behold, T stand at the door and knock.” C. —“ Children obey your parents in the Lord.” D. —“I)o unto others as ye tkould that they should do unto you.” E. —“ Evon as Christ forgave yon, so also do ye.” F.—“ Fear not, little flook.” G. —“ God is love.” II.—“ Honor thy father and thy mother, tlmt thy days may he long in tlio land which the Lord thy God g’tv. eth thee.’* T,—“ 1 love ttrfroi that love me, and those tlmt seek me early shall find ine.” J. —“Jesus Christ, tho same yes terday, to-day and forever.” K. “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they spoak not guile.” L. —“ Love as brethren; be pitiful, he courteous.” M. —“ Make mo a clean heart, O, God, and renew a right spirit within me.” N.—“ Now is tho accepted time; behold, now is tho day of salvation.” O. —“Open thou mint eyes that I may behold wondrous Ahings out of thy law.” P. “ Perfect lova oastetl* out foar." Q. —■“ Quicken thou me, O, Lard, according to thy *. ord.” It. —“Remember than thy Creator in tho days of thy youth.” S.—“ Search tho Scriptures.*' T. “ Tho Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” U. —“Unto you which believe He is precious.” Y. —“Verily I say unto you, he that beliovelh in me hath everlasting life.” W. —“While wo have time, let • do good unto all men.” X. —“Excellent things are spoken orinee, tnou city ortfOUF’ Y. —“Your s'ns aTe forgiven yon for His name’s sake,” Z. —“Zealous in good works.” Table Etiquette. 1. See that those about you are helped before you help yourself. 2. Do not eat soup from the tip, but from the side of the spoon. 3. On passing your plate to b re plenished, retain tho knife and fork, 4. Wipe the mouth before drink ing. 5. Remove the knife only in cut ting the food; do not raise it to the mouth, 8. Eat slowly : rapid eating is un healthy. 7. If you find anything unpleasant in your food, avoid calling the atten tion of others to it. 8. Close tho lips when chewing. 9. Keep your elbows off tho table. 10. Do not speak with food in your mouth. 11. When asked to help your neighbor, do not shove, but hand tho plate to him. 12. Do not turn yotir head and stare about the room. 13. If any one at the table makes a mistake, take the least possible no tice of it. A Lawyer.—lt is related of George Clarke, the celebrated negro minstrel, that being examined as a witness, he was severely interrogated by the at torney who wished to break down iiis evidence. “You are in the negro minstrel business, I believe?” inquired the lawyer. “ Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply. “ Is not that a rather low calling ?” demanded the attorney, “ I don’t know but what it in, sir,” replied the minstrel, “ Out is so much better than my father’s that I am ra ther proud of it.” “ W hat was your father’s calling ? ” “ He was a lawyer 1 ” replied he, in a tone of regret, tLat put the audience in a roar. The lawyer let him alone. B@T A good wife is 'like a snail. Why ? Because she keeps in her own house. A good wife U not Hke a snail. Why? Because she dooa not carry her all on her back. A good wife is like a town oiock. Why? Because she keeps good time. A good wife is not liko a town clock. Why ? Because she does not speak so loud that all the world can hear her.