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A.. SnX>C3-A.m 3MI3C.
Hoitert Uonuer does not tliluk tlio
trotting ihiltt will reach 3;OIL
U IS MUd ilml the general me ot tile
tyiaiwriicr has grcally injured the ink
buftiuMt.
A steamboat line will begin running in
a few weeks between Chattanooga,
Telia,, and Ml. Louis, Mo. Thu business
uiuii ol ChaGauuogu are delighted at the
proMpecl, which means u reduction in
irnighu to that poiut, Within fifteen
days IHOOOeach were subscribed by 107
oi (lhaUenooga’s citi/cns as a guarantee
fund. The trip of the steamer Herbert
a few month 1 since over the same route,
made in the interest of Ghutlauooga
uiarulutota,demonstrated the entire feasi¬
bility of the scheme, as the Mussel Shoal
Uanal made the worst part of the river
navigable, aud below that Ihq voyage
was jwrfeoUy easy.
The American Wool Reporter sees the
solution of the deserted farm problem in
New England in the rising of sheep,
-‘Many ol these deserted farms,’’it says,
♦can bn bought from $5 to $15 pur acre,
and there ate clusters of them where 1000
or more acres on be secured in a body,
These farms , bo , stocked , , with .
can grout
Htu-o * pah ires and Bmithdowns costing at
-
. head, , these . , broods .
Irani 95 to 9 s per but
of course should not be ran in flocks of
move than thirty to forty head each. We
have recommended , , .Shropshire* amt .
ROttUidowns b cause of their superior
iuuttoe qualities, and because they , are
hardy and early to develop. The llutup
lluredowu will also please, ' perhaps
aquftUy u» well, and furnish atost tooth- I
tome mutton. The New England mutton
ratswi is not only favored with sweet feed
timing the limestone and granite v!-- ledges
»ud . in the green valley . of * his domain,
hut is also additionally favored by a close
'
the best, markets . die .
proximity to in
count,' \ wh' ic early lambs need never
to hunt a buyer aud where prices T, lot
mutton „ always . gov-u. ,
p. iiue are
V
'I’he easieru ahore of Maryland has
little disturbed .. . by smnugrotuui, ..
beeu so
iniuuiks the Ohii'xtao J timid ' ’ that the
mpou uumhers coutparativviv tew sur
"*»».«'*™“"»«»“
Imcti uetirsvu-y to resort to oiid but very
auhleiu devue , .... u di uu,-n a ttwctn
umu bearing the same name. The com
'
device . , pAtvouvuuo , by
lUOncav is the
which of two nieu bearing exactly the
sauie LUnstiau aud , family , name one is
AmtinoiiAhc-d ^ \ from the o'her bv the ad
*
ditiou “ot VViHUun,” “ot i'uouias,’’ oi
“of John,” as the case may be,the mean
iue ot the phrase being “sou of William,
,,,. Ihornm John , , „ Another , . device . ■
or onct
the name au adjective ’“•I’ to indicate ,?*•*•«• some
nhvuicMl y '' nectiliaritv as “loin.*” to iudi
’■
pate a tall man, “black" to indicate a
ilatk d%iL nu. luaft or or rod to to iadh-ate md.catv arnddv a taudy
man. Occasionally ' the distiuguishiug
wotvl , uucompieuieuiary. , ••Uevti .
is is
not at; uuusitai * iwetix to the Christian
of haviug; ,— - reputa
ot suruaiuv a mau a
Uou tw vuv mv . Oi rev alesuncss. A A mau instil
beariug one of the best known names in
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25 5
Vhe ^psat ol *wuwaw,ial t-ure.n who
«- «- w —<» *>«—«—
tioe tu western Kansas, for the purpose
ol ... okrt&uuu^ . lutorui - t %tion .- on wmeb. . . to .
bra wwe* & J»<«o0 iudo-meut of - the V--. business -c. concK- V -
Uousof that pact of the country, reports
that *mtt that wuw Dorlioa portion of oi Kansas n.aasa» is -> eokmng cufoymj,
rr. the most prossicrous \ era in its history. '
flae bacAS, he says, arc - m excellent „ con
■“«« “>«' *» “ j
they arc not using much Eastern money,
mrgn laiae amounts beiuo ociug received nxeivta tuxa from xaroi farm
ojw who are o&yitti? off wof tenges attd
*<•»•««« a
The abundance of the crops this year is
such, he declares, as to make up tor the
♦-------- Uw*» AtfdUftea auatV-acii bv by the the iarmors ‘armors in m ore- pro
V MM*# IttttfcSOX!** Accordiog to hisohsec
miskotk the cb mt difficult! tht tj have 10
outend with is the lack of threshing
ittctunes to handle the, wheat. But the
W'e do not let this trouble theca
tmm
ich as they are disposed to hold the
uw for higher prices, believing that
next February they can get $1 a
ifeel instead of sixty cents, which it
► present price. The prosperity of the
attars in bavin® its eileelj r *“ ret*;.!.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Hi ii ita t", “Bulks Without Sthaw.”
TWW! “The Harden of Isaial.
ipIA.j A*
Wlwt is all thl* excitement about in the
street* ot Cairo. Egypt, this December
morning in 1880? Htand bank! We hear
loud voice* and see the urowds of people re¬
oiteuient treating to the other* sides of the street. The ox
of heoomus our own excite¬
ment. Footmen come in sight. They lmve
a rod in the hand and tassefed cap on bead,
and their arms and foot are bare. Their
gar b is black to the waist, except as threaded
with gold, and tire rest Is white. They are
clearing chariot the way for an official dignitary in
a sometimes or carriage. thirty They forty are swift, and
run or miles at
a stretch in front or nu oouipage. Make
way! They are tho fleetest footed men on
earth, hut soon die, for tire human frame
was I not made for such endurance.
asked ali around mo who the man in tiie
carriage wiul but no one seemed to know.
Yet as I fell back witli the rest to the wall i
said, This is the old custom found all up and
down the Bible, footmeii running before tho
rulers, demanding obeisance, ns in Genesis
liefore Joseph’s olmriot. the people were com¬
manded, feet “Bow the knee;" and as 1 see the
swift of tiie men followed by the swift
feet of the horses, how those old words of
Jeremiah rushed through my mind, “If thou
hast run with tiie footmen and they have
wearied thee, how ennst thou contend with
horses?"
Now, my hearers, in this course of sermons
I am only serving yon ns footman, and clear¬
ing tiie way for your coining into the
would wonders have of Egyptology, study l’ar a beyond subject anything that l
be you said in the brevity of pul¬
that can
pit utterance, Two hundred and eighty
nine times does the Bible refer to Egypt and
the mother Egyptians. No wonder, Egypt, for Egypt war
the of nations. the mother
of Rome, Greece; Greece, of the England, mother the of 'mother Rome;
the mother
of ouv great-great-grandmother. land. According to that, Egypt is
our
On other- Sabbaths I left yon study iug
what they must have been Jn their glory;
Gm Hypostyle hall of Karuae, the aruhi
teetural miracles of Luxor, the Colonnade
of Horemheb, Sphinx, which Hie with cemeteries lips of of Memphis. speaks
the enough stone
loud to be heard across the coutu
archaxdogists. ries, Heliopolis and But SSoan, all that the conundrum extravagance of
0 f and temple and high monument was
the and cause deep of an hell. oppression The weight as of heaven
as those
tJocks of stone, heavier than any modern
machinery could lift, came down upon the
Hebrew slaves, and their blood mixed the
mortar for the trowels.
We saw again and again on and along the
Nilea bos* workman roughly smite It a sub
ordinate who did not pleas* him. is no
rare occurrence to see long hues of men
ters under at heavy short distances, burdeus passing lashing them by task as mas- they
goby iuto exhausted greater sjhhxI, with the and blasting then heats these
workmen,
ot the lying down upon tho Uu-o
ground, . suddenly obi tied with the night atr,
trying }\ out wh»cWeau*0 in prayer: “Ya, Allah!’’ “Ya,
A what h:> must have been ^1!0 the olden (H^l times But
cruelty Waelitish shown by tho is Egyptian* indicated by towards pie
their slaves a
turoiu theBeai-Hassan tombs, wherea man
isheldylown hol&upkho on his face viddins by feetth* two inmiMud
mother
official* beat the bare back of the Tiotlro,
every stroke, 1 have no doubt, fetching the
N°w vou see how the I „ haraohs . could af
Ford to build such costly works ft cost them
wre cheap drmk for devils. Hi klm without
straw may not suggest so much hardship
until you know that-the bricks were usually
made with ■'crushcdstrow, straw crushed
by tiie feet of the oxen in the thrashing,ami,
ttos crushed straw denied to the workmen,
^^tubbfeoJ'cathw- A stuooie ocgathw lustironoui tne water
hde Thu story of the Bible is confirmee
by the tact that many of the brick walls oi
Egypt have on the lower layers brick niadt
with straw, but the higher layers of brick
nadeout of rough straw or rushes from L.o
?* v er bank, the truth of the Book of Lxixlus
tw» written n» the urick walls discovered by
the modern explorer. *
that governmental outrage has always
Egyptiau rule in the Bthle times as well a*
tt isw our owu time. A modern traveler
gives the figures concerning the cuitivatioo
of seventeen acres, the value of the yield of
the field stated iu piasters:
produce.,.,...,...................... l,8>:t
Expenses.....................‘........ flWS.S
-
Clear protiuce...................... 808L
Taxes................................ 198
- -
—
Amount cleared by the farmer,.,, 315>j
0r cent, ,as of my what authonty the .. Egyptian dec*™. farmer *ev«mty makes per ______
is
taCkOuaia. c*<l Si si
J«S> anlu.
entfsttsatsates -I the father and the brotheracaHed
hhn suppose Jue, for done not make ddfereuce
tK>w muca ooy fls aavaucoa auy woriaiv
it is m c>uc*
his totter *ad brothers aud sisters at
ways call huu by the same uame that he was
colled by when two years old-Joseph, by
£bm-^’s who had yust permission arrived, gave the richest to hfe family pai-t of
Egypt, farms the Westchester farmsor Jacob’s the Laacas
ter of the ancients. descend
ants rapidly multiplied.
JSi , M?s“s’*iS“£'*iS
iten c«we to a great storehouse which Joseph
bad provided, ami paid in money for corn,
But after awiub# fch* uioaoy gave out aud
the?n tkvy paid iu eattte. Atter awhile the
from thegovernmentby sua-cadering them
selves as slaves.
Where was help to come from? Not the
throne. Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the
Pharaoh’s ofiteers commanded that,
Net surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
wade them all tremble. Not thezodsAm
won and Osiris or teenpies the goddess Isis, for
Phai-aoh built their out of the groan
cf this diaboiiral servitude. But one hot
day the Princess Thoaoris, the daughter of
Pharaoh, while Nii», ia has hm-bathing word brought house her that the
banksof the
there ia a baby afloat on the river ia a era
die made out of big leaves.
Of course there is excitement all up and
down the banks, for an ordinary baby in au
ordinary cradle attracts smiling attention,
but an infant ia a cradle of papyrus rocking
o» a rivw arouses not only admiration, but
launched it? Rookies* ot the crocodiles, who
iay basking in themselves in the sun, the maid¬
ens wade and snatcU up the child, and
first one carries him and then another car¬
ries him, and ail the way up the bank herum
a gantlet of caresses, till Tlionoris rushes out
or the bathing house and says: “Beautiful
shall foundling, I will adopt you as my own. You
the yet Egyptian wear the Egyptian crown and Sit
on throne."
No! Not No! He is to be theetnancipatoi
of the Hebrews. Tell it in all the brick
kilns. Jell it among all those who art
tile writhing castles under the lash, tell it among all
Aoan and of Thebes. Memphis Before and him Heliopolis and will
part. On a sea
will receive a from mountain top, alone, this one
to be the foundation the Almighty all a law that while is
the of good law
world lasts. When he is dead, God will
come down on Nobo and alone oury turn, no
man the obseqmies. or woman or angel worthy to atlmiil
The child grows up and goes out and stud¬
ies the horrors of Egyptian oppression and
suppresses his indignation, for the right
time has not come, although once for a min¬
ute he lot fly, and when he saw a taskmaster
put the whip on the back of u workman who
low wuh doing his best, and heard tho poor fel¬
orv and saw the blood spurt, Most*?
doubled up his list and struck him on the
tomplo till the cruel villain rolled over in tho
Huiuf exanimate and never swung tho lash
again. But, Served him right!
the Moses, are you going to undertake
impossibilities? You feel that you are
going But where to free tho Hebrews from bondage.
is your army? Where is your
navy? Not a sword, have you, not a spear,
not n chariot, not a horse. Ah! God was
on his side, and He has an army of His own.
Tho snowstorms are on God’s si do; witness
the snowbanks in which the French army of
invasion was buried on their way hack from
Moscow. The rain is on His side; witness
the 18th of June at. Waterloo, when the tem¬
pests so saturated the road that tiie attack
could not be made on Wellington’s forces
until eleven o’clock, and he’ was strong
enough to hold out until re-inforoeuionts ar¬
rived.
Had that battle been opened at five o'clock
in the morning instead or at eleven the des¬
tiny of Europe would have been turned tho
wrong way. Tho heavy rain decided every¬
thing. So also are the winds and the waves
oji Uod’s side. Witness the Armada with
one hundred hundred and fifty ships and twenty-six thousand
and fifty gnus and eight
sailors and twenty thousand soldiers sent out
by What Philip II. of Spain to conquer England.
became of those men and that ship¬
ping? Ask the wind and the waves all
*' ,, 01 , - ?? , an . ... lsl 1 c ? __. asts l lt>
-
*!*,,,* slops , all wrocifed , , or dronned , or
, A* 0 ■* Grat Moses will be
tJuu«-«< ' W “J^ !I*?u!X2 n|s r * lo the 11 ^S^o5an* Egyptians y tl» the
s ' Bs waters were then ns
, ... , Y,.T, ofaUtherarthWehfveuo
®i tho Hudson, , and Germans have
_„ h
v J,'t,,, 4,11 as 110 b ‘ oy P*
i wll,,'phn-.\i, f
Hut
[ he ‘waters!ami the^tuniInto aud the gore of f »
slaughter house, incarnadine-i’ through linuiti the sluices aud
fishponds the backs un
mto the land and the maledor whelms every
thing from mud hovel to throne room nil Then
name the froirs. °°Then with horrible croak over
everythin^ fastidiousness, this people cleanlv al
most to were infested with
insects that belom- to the filthv ami
^Ompt aud the air buaxed and Immvl with
nios. and then the distemper started wws to
bellowing aud horses to noitrhins-and camels
lo groaning as they rolled over and ex
Aud then boifcs, erne of which wifi put a
man iu wretchedness, came in dusters from
the top h*u of the head to the sole of the foot,
Aud t the clouds dropped hail and light
Aud then locusts came in, swarms ol
them, worse than the grasshoppers even wen
iu Kansas, aud then darkness droppixl foi
ftswjssfar*Wisrs*^ three days so that the people could not set
au the night of the 18th of April, about
Destroying eighteen hundred years before Christ, the
allnightlong, Angel the flap! sweeps flap! past; flap! and of his hear wings it
eldest until Egypt- child dead rolltxl ou a great Egyptian hearse, the
in every heme,
‘.Che the eldest palace *mi aud of Pharaoh all along expired the streets that night ol
in
Meunihisand Heliopolis, and all up and doivt
the Nile there was a fuueral wail that would
have rent the fold of the unnatural darkness
if it bad not beeu inipenetrable.
The Israehtish homes, however, were uu
touched. But these homes were full of prep
aration, for now is your chauoe, O y«
wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces
of food you can and to the desert! It,
KSrS. l ’S r
w sharply all as the wrongs that have stung
you your fives. Away! The man whe
was cradled iu the basket of papvrus on tin
Nile will lead you. Up! Up! "This is tht
night of your rescue. They gather together
armies atasignal. Alexander’s armies and all the
ot oideu time were led by torches on
high poles, great crests of fire; aud tht
Loni Aluiightv kindles a torch not held by
human hands but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but kindled
out of the atmosphere, such a torch as the
world never saw befoi-e and never will see
agaiu lt redchtfd ltwu tht> earUl unto the
heaven, a pillar of fire, that pillar proeti
sssasr J&rs
what k”thi
when I dip^ied mv hamte iu its bhie waters
JrZ the heroics 01 of the'Mosaic passage tmssaw roitoa roU«i ovei .«?«*
*
After three days’ inarch tho Israehtish
refugees encamped for the night on tho
banks of the Red Sea. As the shadows be
gm to fall, in the ffistauce is seen the host of
Fharaoh in pursuit. There were six hum
dred finest w* chariots, followed by com
uos chariots, rolhag at full si»eeil. trs^a; And the
s,‘2S?£:s:rtr darkness. But the Lord
safes of Bahr-eLKuizum opened and the the crystal
Umehtes enslaved
crys>&Al ua^sect iuto liberty* mu} then the
the shut ngnina
ySXSZSSSU when the mterkicked axle a trees a. -«a. of tht
either Egyptian chariotscoutd uot move an inch
way. But the Red sea unhitched the
horses and unhakneted the wamovs, aud
hrft the proud host a wrack on the Arabian
sands. Then two choruses arose, and Mourn
led the men in one, and Miriam led the
wonaen ijathe othar, aud the woman boat
tune with their feet. The record aa vs: “All
the women went out after her with timbrel*
aud witn dances. And Miriam answered
them. Sing ye to the Lord, ftw He hath
triumphed rider gtorionsly; the horse and his
hath he ihrown into the sea.” What
a tofiibng story of ©mhuanceand victory.
So the burden of oppression was lifted, hut
another burden ot Egypt is made up of dee
for erte. deserts, Imteed, Africa is a great wntiuaut
deserts hero-and Libyan, desert, and thvaara desert,
there yonder, ooudouiu
a Thousand miles wide. But all those deserts
will yet be flooded, and so made fertile. I>s
ned ivosseps the says Huez it canal, can be which done, marries and he who tho plan¬ Red
.Sea and tho Mediterranean, knows what he
is taking about.
Another burden of Egypt to be lifted h
tho burden of Mohammedanism, although that
there are some good things about re¬
ligion. Its disciples must always times wash be
fore they pray, and that is live a day.
A commendable grace is cleanliness. Strong
drink is positively forbidden by Mohamme¬
danism, and though some may have seen a
drunken Mohammedan, I never saw one. It
is a religion of sobriety. Then they are not
ashamed of their devotions. When the call
for prayers is sounded from the minarets the
Mohammedan immediately unrolls the rug
on tiie ground and falls on his knees, and
crowds of spectators are to him no embar¬
omits rassment-reproof to many a Christian who
his pruyors it people are looking.
But Mohammedanism, with its polyg¬
amy, blights founder, everything it touches. Mo¬
hammed, its had four wives, and
his followers are the enemies of good
womanhood. Mohammedanism puts its
ful curse Arab on nil higher Egypt, than and by setting up Christ, a sin¬
the immaculate
Help is an the overwnolmning brave and blasphemy. missionar¬ May Goa
consecrated
ies who are spending tjieir lives in combating
But before I forget it I must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last outrage
that resulted in the liberation of the He¬
brews was their being compelled to make
bricks without straw. That was tho last
straw that, broke the camel’s back. God
would allow the despotism against bis peo¬
ple to go no farther. Making bricks without
straw!
That oppression still goes on. Demand of
your wife appropriate wardrobe and
bountiful table without providing the means
necessary—bricks without straw. Cities de¬
manding in instruction the public without school faithful giving and the
successful
teachers competent livelihood—bricks with¬
out straw, United States government de
Washington manding of full senators attendance and congressmen to the interests at
of the people, done but well ou compensation which
may have enough dollar when twenty
live cents wont as far as a now, but
in these times not sufficient to preserve then
influence and respectability—bricks without
straw-.
In many parts of the land churches de¬
manding of pastors vigorous sormons and
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sanctified Ciceros on four hundred dollars
a year. Bricks without straw. That is one
reason why there are so many poor bricks.
In all departments, bricks not even or
bricks that crumble or bricks that are not
brioks a t all. Work work adequately paid paid for More is
worth more than not for.
stmw aud thon better brioks -
But in all departments there arePharaohs;
sometimes Capital a Pharaoh aud sometimes
Gabor a Pharaoh. When Capital prospers,
and makes a large percentage on its ravest
rawn ^ and declines to consider the needs of
tbe operatives, and treats them as so many
human machines—their nerves no more than
the bands on the factory wheel—then Capi
tal is a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when
workmeu > not regarding the anxieties and
business struggles of the firm employing
them, mid at the time when the firm are
doing their best to meet busy an important accomplish cou
tract and need all hands to
it, at such a time to have his employes make
a strike and put their employers loss-then into Labor extreme be
perplexity and severe
comes a Pharaoh of the worst oppression,
and must look for the judgments of God.
Detail oppressors whether in homes, in
churches, m stores, m offices, m factories, in
social life or political life, in private life or
public life know that Hod hates oppressors,
! ‘“ a cl *ey wili ail come to grief here or here
« ft er. Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing,
a cunning tiling, a decisive thing when for
the complete extinction of the Hebrews m
Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew boysmas
sacred, but he did not find it so fine a thing
when his own fh-st born that mgut of the de
*troying angel dropped dead on the mosaic
Some of the worst of them are on a small
scale in households, as when a man, because
his arm is strong and his voice loud, dom
mates his poor wife into a domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases where
the wife is a lifetime serf, her opinion disre
gwded, her tastes insulted^ and her existence
a wretchedness, it. It though Pharaoh the world may not
know is a that sits at the
head of that table, and a Pharaoh that ty
rannizes that home. Thera is no more ab
horrent Pharaoh than u domestic Pharaoh.
But it rolls over on me with great power
the thought that we have ali Been slaves
down in Egypt, and sin has beeu our felt task- its
master, and again and again we have
lasli. But Christ has been our Moses to lead
and wide between us aud our aforetime
bondage, and though there may be deserts
yet for us to cross, we are ou the way to the
Promised Land. Thanks be unto God for
this emancipating Gospel.
Come up out of Egypt all ye who are yet
enslaved. What Christ did for us He will
do for you. “Kxoilus!” is the word. Exo
dns! Instead of the brick kilns of Egvpt
come into the empurpled vineyards of God,
where one cluster of grapes is bigger than
the one that the spies brought to the Is rael
ites by the Brook Eshcol, though that cluster
was so large that it was boi-ue'“between two
upon a staff."
sssssEsuys.^ s»a ;;»**"*
mDArs F1RE REC0RD -
Desti-uctlva WSIIUclIto Wo.-k Hoik of ti. the v\ Hauies at
Ynrim»« 1 i .
A . v Nashville dispatch . says: About 8
o’clock Friday morning tire broke out in
the Nashville Gas Company's four-story
buildiim The third and louith ton.-G. fl.iora, n '
o«f» ..... i fw t . office* m and i slhCpiua, t Were buruevl
0W L the rest of the building drenched
&<£?*■ nWtohp* Tb * ^ ««*
l .‘ / v J th.i Git * 1 . »...• buaiuess portion
^.ji, town , of Loda, , 1U has been de
roofed by tire. M
at
J&M'&al-ii^ Hr, > entire busi
,. portion ol thy . town was destroyed,
besides a score of dwellings.
The IMrubuekle factory Kt Bra/il 1ml ,1'’
was entirely ^ destroyed bv fire to.
mominu *h rutug. i Loss, fR'.dlR); insuranct
** K>ut oue-fourth. Fifty hands arc
thrown out of miploymeut. The factory
is owned and onerated hv Y th« H-nvf*
RtceUud Iron Oouipyny,
vuntou, Hunterdon cbuuty, Jf, J
was you fed by a destructive fire Friday
night, ha Nineteen l l httUdings, including ®
society L * '? s s torn li„u.n »,„i
were *rl ^ ^tiwated at . a #100,000.
*”fd , r yingkUn»oftheFrankliul,uni
. her Loinpauy Ju
Routhampton oountv
A HAUNTING THOUGHT*
If (be wind is the breath of the dying
As ancient legends say.
What rebel soul, defying,
S eeps down the storm to-dayf
What fruitless, mad regretting
Uttered that lingering wail?
What life of war and tempest
Is spilled upon the gale?
If the wind is the breath of the dying*
Across this of light,
What saintly soiifii, replying.
Goes out to God to-night?
Whom does this moonlit zepfiy.
Uplift on its white breast?
What spirit, pure and patient,
In rapture sinks to rest?
-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , in Independent.
humor of the day. J
The tramp’s style of expression is neve.*
labored .—Washington Star.
.Tagson says it’s a long loan that has no
returning .—Elmira Gazette.
Even the strictest vegetarian believes
it is meet that he should eat.— Boston
Courier.
We have hair-dressing parlors, and
why not dental drawing-rooms ?—Boston
Gazette.
The “balance of the season” is what
troubles paterfamilias .—Boston Common
wealth.
“No, Gubbins, vou will never be a
brain-worker.” “Why not?” “Haven’t
got the tools .”—Dansville Breaee.
There’s one good thing a bad boy
won’t take, and that is good advice.—
Richmond. Record.
The dear hunting season has been trans¬
ferred from the beach to the drawing¬
room .—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Iu the world of fashion every old hen
has her set. And they mauatre to hatch
out a good deal of mischief .—Texas
Siftings.
The barber who will invent a 3tyle of
whiskers which the wind can’t blow
through has a fortune awaiting him.—
Buffalo Express.
“So you live in Chicago?” “Yes.”
“Are you interested in the fair?” “You
bet, I’m engaged to three of ’em at pres¬
ent .”—Cape Cop Item.
Some one says “poets are declining;”
this is evidently a mistake. Every poet
will tell you that it is the editors who
are declining .—Richmond Recorder.
The young man who says “Thank
you!” when the girl he loves has
promised to be liis wife ought never to
say it in words .—Somerville Journal.
He took the coin they gave him there.
Its looks he could not trust;
He raised it to his lips with care—
• ’Twas thus he bit the dust.
—B'as/iLii/fon Star.
Mrs. Pendergrast (in disgust),—“You
call these shades alike! Is there anything
you can match?” Mr. Prendergrasi—
“Yes. Pennies ."—Kate Field's Washing -
ton..
“Father,” asked a boy, “why do they
call this place the Exchange?” “Be¬
cause, my son, it is where we exchange
money for experience .”—Boston Bul¬
letin.
He (seriously)—“Do you think your
father would object to my marrying
you.*” She—“I don’t know. If he is
anything like me he would.”— Brooklyn
Life.
If some people were to do unto others
as they would have others do to them
they would not have a single moment ia
which to look out for themselves.—
Dallas News.
“You had better accept Mr. Hippie,”
said Mrs. Elder to her daughter; “it is
your last chance.” “You think this is
the court of last resort, do you, mamma,”
asked the girl .—Detroit Free Press.
Editor-in-Ohief (to managing editor)
—“I understand that James has re¬
signed.” 3Ianagiag Editor—“James has
abdicated, sir, not resigned. James,
you know, was office boy.”— Jury.
The husband was reading the news at night,
And his wife said: “Tell rue, prav,
How Who many made balloonists ascensions were killed 'outright
to-day?"
—New York Press.
“H'iu— that young man of yours—is
he worth anything, financially?” “Why,
ye3, papa. He is worth at least $35 i
week to the store, he says, though they
only give him tea. Indtanapotis Jmr
ml.
Jinks—“Waite would be a good man
to start a church.” Finkins—“Why
so?” Jinks—“He has sisters enough
good-sized among our leading families to start a
herald. congregation.”— New Toth
Miss Pearl White—“I wish vou to
paint my portrait.” Dobbins—“I’m
sorry, ma’am, but I can’t do it.” Miss
Pearl White—“Why not?” Dobbins—“1
never copy other paintings.”— Cincinnati
Gaxetie.
First Jeweler—“Do rou sell that new
house of Upson, Downs' & Go?” Second
Jeweler—“No longer; I sold them sev
eral large bills. They paid promptly at
maturity, so I stopped.”— Jeweler’ *
Circular.
Visitor—“I have often wanted to visit
a lunatic asylum, but I suppose there is
none ia the city.” Resident-—“No, but
we’ve got a Board of Trade. (Proudly)
Uoiue along. It’s in session. It will do
just as well. ”—Boston Herald,
Fuet Youth (at railway depot
“Traveled fart” Second Youth—“Not
yet, but I expect to before I stop, I am
going Youth— west to seek u»y fortune.” First
“l just got back. Lend toe x
dime, will you ?”—Nmms City Journal