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"Don't nobody's papa have moufs sweet and cle.nt! _ With kisses like yours, mamma, that s what I mean ; I want to kiss papa,-1 lovo him so well, But kisses don't taste good that have such a Biuell. " It's nasty to smoke, oat tobacco aad *l>il. And. the kisses ain't good, and ain't sweet a bit." Ami her blossom-like faeo wore a look of disgust, As she gave out her verdict so earnest andjust. little darling, your wisdom ACTONS ONT., THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1878. {91.00 per annum In Adranc Yc yes, i\- II. LOffUV. M. c T. V. *. -irid.iAt.- o 'H'-.J-'of I* Hi*. Ol'jro ka:.l Ki - r.is "I 1 B., 31. ; < Tri'.iiy I .JMO!.....) -Uti-lH'. -cly iK-.'Jp:*.-! It. UK:.- K.-.|. Dil. ~R. HORROW". -' ,,. v >:<- is >'ir ulaV" C'l'-jj'. "-' O..: T-.*-l*r* - ' f*'t lay-f-'Olli 3 p "ra. "R'---.ld--,l A-T*S. ilTail.. \Yet lio* Pliysi- ,-vr. Tol- >! Victoria ,11 tlnys -. m. till t street. DIIEXDERSON, Convey .. Hc;r. *?-. a!o pni Canada Lire ^rJr.t-. Co. 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I'll think'of thee iu Suuimer's shine, Antl autumn p?.int.t the scene. I'll tUJiikof thee when measures flow, " . Anff rules the noon-tide air ; I'll.thank of thee while kueejing low, Bef$ro niy God in prayer. Till all this life of mine is fled, I'll think, I'll think of'thee j And when my powcralso mighty are, Oh! then '"' KcmcmberMe." ^rp vr. cooper. i PfOvinsiahLand Surveyor and '" Civil Engineer, Guelph.; OrJ'-r. '->>-: raatp'romplly attended to. lW A rpHE ONTARIO SADDLERY, . LVIDL.iW, Barrister. ^-,'ii.-\-.;-u- s liciinr In '.'\t"c."n:n-es: Hural'.ton, Io_J Qr y0ur money \\\'-\-m Mni-i tr-"' rUf4 , Bay vour Harness at the Onlrrio Siidiiferv, where'you get the worth Tlie" t'-i wnc^ 5 "wnoaM-*ia o nn-d.T the m-innee- i \c:-J a i-=.d t we "Mllt-->a office .-u r""ri*!*y of-a-tt weefe. TTESRV L. 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J The-undersigned begs leave to inform the'people of Aeton and sur- ronndipc neighborhood tbat.he baa procured a magnihcent HJ^Alttj^. And i/prepared torattend and con duct Funerals on tb'e shortest notice and most moderate terms. ICasktti, CofftM, Burial Sobeg, And all kinds of Funeral r?urnish ings kept in stock, and supplied on the shortest notice. Hat Bands and Gloves supplied when required. ' JOHN SPEIGHT. Ac/on, Feb. 10, 1877. sought her next day, - And they sought her in vain." JJUiet'je- Bovph. The Constable, after uiiolojjiaiiijf for distJihing me on my wuddiHii- uav, told rue the full particulars of a 'dreadful- robbery and murdi'r committed tlio;niht before.- The victiin,; Miss Marsden, an elderly lady of large fortune, and well- known for her public charities, had been barbarously .murdered by t fvo rriilians, ii}, revenge, it was thought, for their failure in obtaining ny booty. The police had succeeded ip apprehending one of the villains; the other was still at large, but a celebrated Bow-street Runner was hourly expected from London. Tho whole neighborhood was alarm ed, and a meeting of the magisterial bench was,to be held tbe following! day, at which I (was particularly j requested'to preside.. Having pro- j mised to do so, I dismissed my visitor, and found that instead of ten minutes, as I had .said, I had been detained nearly u'n hour, and T now hastened to rejoin Alice, and tell her the shocking occurrance. She was not in the drawing: The candles were lighted; the piano, which I had heard her playing at first, was open, and the music just as she had left it. The west win dow, which led on' to the lawn' in Italian style, was open ; no; dou.btr, finding the room warm it was a enltiy night she had strolled ilito the garden. I went out; bu(-could sic no sign of. her. I -called " Alice," gently at first, and then louder. Where could she be? Was bhe playing ine a trick,and hiding? Of course she was; and I commenc ed'a diligent seurch among the shrubs, expecting, every moment that she would dart forth, lauglf- ing, and throw her arms arouud me. The twilight deepened^ and. the bats flitted out, but no Alice appeared, and. I became anxious. I was unwilling as yet to summon the servants,'and thus much valu able time was lost. Darkness came, and the shimmelr of light ning over the north-easfct with now t6rcbcB procured^ and, accompanied by a band of twenty strong, I. bc- ijm to Boiueh tlio grounds, nuigh -hoiingpIuntntionR and woods. The storm was steadily coming up ; rain i-Jtin began to fall, but we heeded it nJot; our one object was to find the inissing lady. What a bridal night. Wot, weary, nnd with my mind tortured by all kinds of dieadful cjnjecturt.'S, I roamed backwards and forwards like a mud man. I despatched mounted messengers for" tie police.: I Hhouted ' Alice ' till I was hoarse, but it wits nil in vain.: About two in the 'morning T re- tirned to tho house drenched tnough nnd through. The fn-st man I met was Mr. Temple^who, but fourteen hours " before, had joined our hands and where was my bride? He implored me to gel some rest whilst he and a fresh Land of-volunteers, farmers, and tonunts. who kept arriving, j con- txnrd the search. ' No Bleeji-for mo till she is found,' I replied, and onco' mora wo millieJ forth. Tlio, storm was at its height; the blue- forked lightning lit up the dipping, firwoods, and tho deafening peals of thunder shook the welkin, nr.d rhin descended in torrents. But tbo elemental wardeteired us not -- with unflagging zeal wo continu ed our fruitless efforts until dawn. The storui hail exhausted its strength, thel rising sun Biniled sway tie clouds, but his light, brought ho light to mo. Tbo sun) was .-high, in the heavens, when, I tore dead than alive, I was carried 1 omo, utterly spent with fatigue of body and anguish of mind. . I laid iiotioiiloHii on-niy bed and tried to think, but my brain seemed to be dn fire wuk my reason going! I knew not. . At lust weurinbs pre vailed and 1 slept. Whr-n t awoke 4.Jgain it was darkyJ Oh ! the hor- ijoi-H'of that waking ! When first I opened- my byes, I had forgotten all - then came tho dretidfui recol lection something was wrong, but \?hat, I had forgotten ! Then, wiLti crushing force, I realized tho awful truth! I rang-the bell violently. '?he door opened, and Mr. Temp'e i pproached my bidsiile. ' Is she- found 1 I asked, tell mo or I shall lo mud.' 'Think of her no more,' taid tho clergyman, 'alio wiis not ivorlhy of you.' He then told me that .since the Bow-streat Runner had arrived, the evidence that Alice had purposely lift mo was all too Jilaiu. One witness had seen her ijn earnest conversation with a wood Walk, the constable ame; another had seen her run uck to the house, whilst he waited or her ; a third, her own maid, nw her take it bundle of bank lotes from her casket. The guilty pair had been seendrivitig throiig'h .rltujefotd.on a dog-cart, and the worst part was that not a dowbt oxistedbut that tho.,murderer of joor Miss Mars'li'ii anjl tlie abduc tor of Lady Colebrooke was the iame man. " They lie who say so!" I ex- ;lained. " She loved mo too we'l. She could not have been so false, BO cruel ! Come back, Alice." - Oh ! my head, my poor head ! seemed to be going mad. The room spun round like a wheel, an awful weight seemed to be crushing on my brain. Was my head in a vice? It pressed tighter, tighter,! Or was I dying? Yes, it was sure ly Death. I recollect no more till I awoke as from a dream. I wat> still on earth. By my bedside stood a solemn looking man, he was fteling my pulse. "- ' Where am T ?" I as?d. ' " Hush; von must not talk now," was the reply. " You have been ill, veiy ill. You have had brain ;! fever." ^nidged no expense, no trouble. I never found niy fugitive bride! I was never avenged on uor.innimous abductor. Do you think now Ithero is much chance of my marry ing again ? I would not boo her now. Jf alio Btill lives sbe^ must bo an old and wrisjkled woman. I would not realizo that beauty like hers could fade; If she is dead, 1 have a strango fancy to visit her grave. I should like to bo laid bo- sido-hor. At times, a strango,feel ing conies over me, and I think there must-bo some mystery about her disappearance that she was not false. But, alas ! tho evidence againsther is too conclusive. That ten pound note! No, nothing will bo ever known until wo two stand before our Judge, Go, Harry; leave me alone-; let mo recall her as she was that day-r-so young, so Joving, so beautiful. Go, and take my blessing with you. May you be -happy in your choice. Come and visit.me hero as often as you like; but never, never ask me to go near Colobrooko Hall." am off to Hereford on imogisterial duty; we must have ;tbo pic-nic ;!o-niorrc.w ; the weather is .sure to last you will come, !of- Jcourse,- Richard?" ' j . -: " I will, gladly, especially n% I havo another subject I wish to talk bVor with you.!' | Three minutes afterwards, my pouies, the best in the country, woro scattering the gravel, dowjn the smooth approach, and whiiling the light four-wheel dog cart to- war .Is Hereford at the rate of four teen miles an hour. I wus right afterall, tho other subject of courso was a formal demand for my daugh ter's hand. I"toTd him she was too young, &a, but in the end made him very happy by saying I hud no objection, provided my wife had none. , " You have asked -Ajico?" " Oh, long ago, and I know that Mrs. Colebrooke favors'our engage ment." ; A Desperate Ulan to Meet In tbe Mark. As a respectable and respected banker of Chicago was a couple of nights ago walking borne fiom'jthe cars he met a haggard and desper ate looking man at a Lonely corher, and discovered that- he was one of the former employees of' tbe bank, discharged tiome months before. " WlrVT-whui do you want, Eir ?" nervouslyVinqnired the banker. M Times' sir," said, the other in a hoarse changed voice, " times have gone Very hard with me since you gave rue tho g. b., and I have not. tasted whiskey let ulene'brtad, lor forty-seven hours. I am a'desper- ate man, and only one course re mains to me. See this revolver?" and he pulled: out a weapon,, the barrel of .which gloomed ominously in the moonlight. " Ye -yes," timidly faltered the banker. - A Story of Victor Emmanuel. . " Well, take care of her, Richard,) " I took : this revolver to-night, and if she makes you asjgood a wife and a wore ati awful oath that I in earnest couversati joiing man in the Fin lot ttn minutes aftei t I PART IV. A Felon's End. "Oh, God ! it is a fear.'ul thing To see the human eo'.tl take wing." Byron. Nineteen years since Annie and I w.-re married, impossible ! It seems but yesterday. And yet it ia too true. . Nineteen years have (lowu sinco that ride in the' Pjirk with my then betrothed. NSneteer. years have slipped away since my uncle, still living, told hie that !ainf yet no-eluo to the mystery has been found. How l.i-ne Hies as one gets on in life. At first, like an express train-starting, it only creeps along.1 What an.ar;e- a'year seems in; our childhood. Ey- !id bye St gather^ pace it r goes quicker -hurrying'tis past station after station us rapidly on, faster aud (aster to wards tlie great terminus, the grave. When I look at Annie I confess I do not see ihiiMi change. Tuiie has dealt very gently with her she has scarcely known cave or sorrow, and it is these which age. When. I glance round the breakfast-tuble, and see so many' young face*, it is then I begin to realise the fact that I have beert married nineteen years. Itisholl*- day time all a"e nt home. There is Henry, 4he eldest, a fitio youth, waiting for his commission. Alice', the picture of -what her mother wus at_seventeen, and a living staircase of gills and boys, each a strp be low the other down to little Percy, the baby. A warm July day makes exery- one feel happy. What a much more contented race wo should be if we only had, more sunshine, and ii projected pic nic ini the fir- woods is tbo topic of our conversa tion. A knock and ring. Who can it be? Who comes so early ? It is Richard Temple, tho young rector, grandson of "Mr. Temple, who uiai ried my uncle si.vty-tive years a^o. A fine, handsome fellow lie is, und a pattern clergyman, be loved by high and low. !A grant; favorite, too, among the young people, and, fiori a tell tale flus!i on Alice's face, as his name is an nounced, I begin, to suspect that he has. secured timt young lady's affections. Well,.he is all | wish for it son-in-law. . " Sit down, Richard, and" have some breakfast." '; ^ "Many thanks ; but I have al ready breakfasted." '- -" At' your uge I was always ready for a second breakfast; sit <lown." v But no, he could not be per suaded. "I have called 'on special bust- as her mother has made me, you will be a happy man." ' How life repeats it$elf! So I won Annie. Truly, inj out cbild- ur ren's lives, we live our own over ng-.iin ! We talked on nierrily, and the all absorbing subject was not half exhausted when |we rattled dpivn High-street and drew up at tlie workhouse gates, i I never enter Uiut gloomy, builrijmg' without would wait here at this unfrequent ed spot, and .the larst. traveler that came along tfeat looked as is he had tho stamps I would-r-" ' " Miserable man !" - said the banker, hut his teeth, chattered so that he.could go no further. " I would try and sell it to him/"' said the unhappy man. " "it is a bully good revolver,,cost me eleven dollars, but I'll sell it to you for dollars, and not charge yon a feeling a corresponding! depression; *wo < w of>pirits. Why do wp build our ceut/or the four cartridges in it. prisons so like palaces 1 \a bargain ?" Edinburgh and Gloucester Gaols " Mf dear.sir," said the banker, ind our workhouses solika prions? feeling as if the Palmer house had Honest, but unsuccessful, virtue "^n lifted off his breast bone, " my scarcely brings its own ireward at 'dear sir, I could not think of pay- least in England. On :a wretched ing you so small a price for so pallet lav the object of Cur visit .Teu dollars an emaciated old man' with a white > tUo lowest I eould.for'ia moment beard." His features Were good 'think of offering my honorable mi-ht.onco have boon handsome f"itnd fQr lt- I have nothing but time und privation's, exposure -smaller than a twenty dollar note to weather, and, above all, the lines with, me,- and you may keep the which vice imprints on the conn- i change. I tenances of its slaves,' marred tho ! Su sayinghe concluded the trans- expi-ession of his face, and gave iC'action, paid over the money, and a sinister look. Hisi eyes - were wheu be hlVd 8' a blook "nd arbul1 close.', but he was mumbling some- away set-off like a startled fawn thing wjth bis; lips when we enter- and made vhe rest of the way to ed the ward. ;bis nouse at the l-atfe of about " Now, thenj wake up," said the *'-*-ui.- . ' ' -; workhouse surgeon, iu his rough, ! . ! " but honest Tway, "Here's the An American Opinion of Cat.- magisirate come, don't keep him' adian Women. waiting." , ' :------- The dying man opened his eyR, His Majesty, one tlay,> hunting in -the, neighborhood of Rome, shot at a hare at the very moment when a stout citizen, out enjoying-the pleasures of the chase, discharged his pt"ce at the same object. The king claimed that he had killed the : hare, and the citizen, ignorant of tho person of Iris rival, declureci irr verv impolite terms that he himself was the successful marksman. The result was a regular trial of strength for possession of the game a tussle whiph resulted in favor of the king, who' walked " off with his prize, while the citizen poured upon him a;perfect flood of such abuse as only ah Italian of hv certain sort has at command. A"t the city gate the king ordered the commandant of tbe guard to follow the angry citi zen and; report his name and resi dence. After a few hours the offi cer was able to say that' tbe un- known hunter waaan holiest cabi net maker of the Porta del Popodo, when the king sent one of his caiv ; Wages' to fetch him to the palace. Naturally the man was tetriblj arxious as well as full of' wonder why ho should be wanted at the palace, and he was not much reliev ed when he recognized in the king the man whom he had abused. " Master Salvrna,"said His Majes ty, and at tho sound of his own name from royal lips, ~tbe man trembled in every nerve " Master Salvina, I have sent for you because I have found shot different from mine in the hare ) we both hit the the beast. Come, we will eat the bare together," and thereupon the door of the dining "room was open ed, where, between two plates with appurtenances, smoked the "hair properly roasted. Suffice it that -better taste was and, casting a look of ineffable never shown by fairer women than Bcoi-n on the docto'-, tui-ned to me, at the Governor-General's ball, and, in a low, refined tone of voico, one word, ho waver*, for tbe women said : ',' Are you Mr. Colebrook ?" 0f MohtreuLjind Canada generally?; ' I am, and nt your service.". ' Xt is a comtuonaud impolite saying " Is your uncle, Sir John Cole- that the average English girl is at brooke, still liviqg?" *-- j once the freshest, tha most innocent " He is." i i and the most stupid creature ever " Swear me. You need not go," niet in society. Be this as it may, addressing Richard Temple. "As j am sure the Canadian women for you, turning to the doctor, you have all the innocent freshness and may attend "to the other patients ; parity of their sisters in the I shall not require you any more." Mother Countr}, while they.\ialk The doctori took his departu-e, qUjte as well as their cousins ^on mv noscles. and 1 administered the usual oath, the other side of the border, and in " - -- which the dying man repeated talking have that beautifdl voice slowly and reverentially after me. ' andjaceeut which are the pride of "You have heard of Lady Cole- the English women in. every part brooke ?" said the sufferer. ' of the world. There is^ too, "about " Yes, what of her 1 If you can ti,em a healthy robustness which, t'rrow ,any lighten her disappear- excites the admiration'of all men anco, I beseech you to speak while wj]0 uaVe heard of nerves, sick my uncle yet lives ?" i replied with headache and those other'symptoms some excitement. ' of " little health" which! go along "You heard of tlie murder of w(th house-wraps and easy chairs. Miss Marsden the night before Sir one 0ther thing I noticed' in the John's marriage?" ho^ebntinued, ,.uall.room which seemed a Kttie odd not noticing my: questions. to pie, and that wus that the Canadi- "I have, indeed ; but what of _<.aDg have either not give, up or have Lady Colebrooke V1 \ ' ! f,taken up again the old fashion of: "I murdered MiBs Marsden. It hopping in the waltz. After the was I who was seen 'talking ;wttli smooth and gliding .motion seen in niy.BiBter the night Bhe disappear- pn American ball room,. I can't sa A Kefprrued Youii"; man. January 1. ^-The coming year I am determined neither to drink, smoko nor swear. Nor will I m-.e any manner of- "slang." It is coarse and impolite. Nor will I eat with my knife; nor make any . noise in swallowing my Bohp. X will attend cliurch reguiar|y. I shall teach a Sunday school' class... I will not read any light trashy liteRi-tUTe. I am going to study French, German, -music, Spanish, and Italian also Latin and Greek. I am resolved to speak mildly and" politely to my mother, brothers and sisters. J-am going to rise at . five o'clock-the ,year around, and bathe in cold .water winter and .summer. I shall avoid late suppers ! and too much butter. 11 will not , stare'at young ladies in the- street. . I shall join a debating society. I J wish to be an orator and get to Ottawa. "I am going to read Dar win, Spencer- and' HU1. I"' will read 6nly solid books. I am going to join' a gymnasium, to .ne'riecfc 1 will not speak evilly or slondetoutiVy of any one.* Will not poke, fun at anybody. February 22 a contract. [Eud of diary.] , Long-Hand Writing Yes, I had been lying unconsci- uess," he said. When you have days. oils in that bed forone and twenty The crisis came at lst. 1 ed./-j Would to God I had died then!! Whim bqtler, I asked the clergyman who had nursed me like a brother, if any clue was found to the guilty pair? Yes. They had been traced to Bristol. A ten^ pound note paid me by my bankers the week before my marriage Iih^I been stopped at the Bank of England and traced to a ship agent, who remembers well receiving it from a man wno V and then a low rumble, betokenecj took a passage for himself and a - ~' -" woman to too clear that villain had some an approaching storm, BecomingT,good.]00king young really alarmed, I returned-^o the |America. It v/as t wing-room, and rang the bell can buy first-class P"b and Op-oaks cheaper of DAIS- IEL, F. BEATTY," Washing ___ to:i, New Jersey, than anv other manufacturer in the United States- Wby 7 Because he sells only for cash, takes no risks and has no book accounts. Every! instru ment is fully warranted for six years as 'strictly' first class, apd >rc sent on from 5 to 15 days' test trial, monsy refunded, and freight paid both ways btf him if they rfre usatiB- dra,._ . L violenily.. A cold shudder -through me when, I ;1ieard thatj Bennett had not Iseen "by wife since just after she left me, but he thought she might be in her room, bs. he hud seem her running up stairs. Slightly relieved; in mind, 1 hurried thither and knocked. No answer. She was not. there, nor in the dressing-room, nor in the boudoir I had furnished for her bd carefully. Meanwhile, tbe tidings, that Lady Colerooke was missing] spread like wildfire through the ^dUslimonialslrrom his patrons, ing to *id me ,n bnd> .bef; some of whom you may know. Ad, | gome ran ^e .way, some * *l> drees DANlflL F. BBAT'ry, ^a*-. jftnip8 and JanteTO? w.ere lighted, Jington, Kew-Jeraisj^ - " .! this desparate mysterious power, over my unfor tunate wife, and they had gone off together. " When shall I be strong enough to travel ?" I asked the doctor. "In a/month, if you keep your mind c^lm." " I will thinh no more," I said! "I will act in 1 uttue." A month afterwards, in company with the detective and -Bennet, I sailed for America, and_ sought for years my voyage, to Europe, and roamed . through have finished may I have an audi ence in your study ?" The blush on Alice's cheek ueepeued. Oh, oh! thought I thought to myself, be lias come to cany off my daughter; this is sooner than I imagined. That's the way our divghters treat us. VVe have all the trouble and anxiety und expanse of bring- in" them up only for the fits* young fellow who beckons them away ! . ; " I am at your service, Richard," I said, leading the way to my sanctum. Now for it-^ and yet the fellow is very cool can I be mistaken? " 1 want you to come and take the dying deposition of an old man in the Casual Ward of Hereford Workhouse ;, he has something on his mind, and he will apparently confess it to no one but you ; he asked for you by name repeatedly." " Do you know tho man V '-No, he seems a tramp, but' ' ' I ed."- \ this looked pretty, but it was don&. ." Your sister?" . . 'i with no little agi'lity, and the d"an- 'I Ay, my sister, Lady- Cole- cJrB appeared to be having a good brooke. Did you never hear of.-tjn)ei-. I tajlketl tho other day with Alice's outlawed brother? ' tbe [an American'.from the South, and family disgrace; the son who | ng )eXpi-9ssed his astonishment at brought down his [father's' grey. the wonderful hospitality met with hairs -with sorrow to the. grave; j ona]i Bides, and wbich I am Bure who ruined h;s mother; who.d;'ag- j8' the n,le io Canada. He said, ed down his only piBter to the j lhat he had expected to find only boards,; whence she was rescued by , ,< ca\& northern hearts and Sir John, Who raised'up the family' again from their low] condition ? I was that brother!" i " T never-heard of such a brother. What is niore, my! uncle never mentioned such a brother. Have you pteipfs?" ', ' j - | "Ptfobfa. What iM'opfs cou'd T have? pnly my word.': niy oath. You ma|y bfllieve it or not, just as you like.- .That I am a gentleman by birth, my conversation might perfect truth. : I ani pinking now. Give me some brartdy, for God'B sake, or I shall die ^before I have spoken."- ' __ | An impecunious individual was heard to miitter, is', he finished reading a railroad hjtnd bill headed "Through without : chnnge," " That's the road 1 shall take ; no rude northern tongues." but instead found eact one' filled with good feeling and generosity, and, living aa though the latch string of his door was always oil the outside. Montreal Cur.'N:-%.,<Worldt A rapid penman can write 30 wor'ls in a minute. To do this be must draw his pen through the space of a rod 16i feat. In 40 minutes his p^n travels a furlong, and in five houVs and a. third,- a mile.' We tmrke on an average 16 curves or turns of the pen writing - each word. Writing 30 wiords a- uiinute,Jwe must make 480 to each miutjte ; in an hour, 2S,S0 ; in a day of only five hours, 144,000, and in. a year of'300 days, 43,200,- 000. "The man who made l,00p,. 000 strOVes with apon'-iu.a month was not at all ljjmarkahle. Many men, newspaper' men, for instance, make f4,000,000. Here we have, in the 'aggregate, ,a mark of 300 mi'es long to be traced on p.ip^r by each w'riter in a vear. In mak ing eaeh-letter of the drdiiiary alphabet we must make_from three to ereii Feveuturns of the.pen or an average of three ;and a <half to four. Which Denomination. " Marie ! what's noise at tbe front Bays he was henn in this palish. should thiiikHjo had seen better lor Ameni .1 ,, i without finding the object of a*ya- . . r^-iii" In 1815 1 returned "His carious however, I mil go at once ; it is/ my duty and muse i . u v.in l be done. James, order the ponies Tbe laziest man in Burlington, Vei mont, writes " Fortanately" 42n81y. . :. A paper " out West'^has the fol lowing! notice-:- "All notices of man-tape w.hef-e.no biide-cake is seDt will be set up in small type, nnd pokedin an pntlandisb covner of the |5aper. Where a handsome piece of cake is snt,the notice will he put censpienously in large ltftt-ers ; when gloves or' other hridp favors ai-e added, a piece of ill us ,tvativo will be, given, in adililion. WheiJ, however, the editor, attends at the ceremony in, person, and kisses . the bride, . it will have sir." " Cat's ! Well, when I was especial,,: notice-4vety/ large; type, youtlg cats didn't v^ea.r stove-pipe and thai most appropriate j^oetry hats'and smoke cigars.0 "Times that can be begged, borrowed or "jtolen." fault to find with tt om; terms.. r- that', stvarigo "ate?"" " Oat's A .German fa.lmer in Enstern New'Yoik wjts one inorning draw- in" his wheat to market,7 when-;he was" uccosted by a friend, who. was irreligious, and who hoped to^ con found Uncle Peter. Said he-. " Uncle Peter, \vhich denoaiiBa- tion do'.yoii think is in the right;!". Uncle Pete answered : ; " Veil, ven we took our_;veat to market some, fellers goes voir way und I goes annunner. Biitven we all comes to de market blace, der merchant dont say, ' Vich v*y-yon come V veat is goosl. Data vot after but he. Viint to know; if ooy goosl. Data : vot he jis Tlie ladies are:ajliopp'"'sc-d to the telephone. Thtly don't, oare to iava a young fellow/whisp iring in their . ears with his maatlr twenty m'lea wway. w ;;-S ' ^^^^rfSaS