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There was an old shudJ ,� its 'towWho ru.lsout each day 1.e •
Ile said he'd more rimer.
11. a laudau or bcouju AM.
But the phichtuu was more elr . , a.
There wa. a young lap, t,
And her lovers all t,oIh, r -d b r :.,.0 .
That s'te thought ,t tx tsar'
To give them the mitten
And replied to them all. • Ne for Jaut.-
A man in • voluutecr .wipe
Said his drill was • terrible b ;rpa;
So spoke to the coluocl
Lt Luigua,tc Int llut,cl. •
Andhe was epccd•Ii h,u.,. •J '. h• weeps.
There was a young lady u[ Oiourestrr.
Whose parents they hoped tae, Lad k,assllas.
But she came back enc day.
To their awful dismay.
su they called her a wicked iinponoester.
There is a young maid in St. Croix
Who is gone on a clever young butt.
They swing on the gate,
Both early and tate,
And their lives are o'ergushing with joix. -
An old yellow dug in Cofugne
Ran away with an old woman's bogne;
But the wrathful old crogne
Hit him twice with a .togne,
And'Iwaa dreadful to beer the dug grogne.
.t coroner out in Dubuque.
Found a man in su*IK'n.e from n',ogee;
He looked at his tongue.
Aad the verdict sea.-"Hongue,"
An I they buried him down by the In ulna.
A ',tole and fiery Gta"ur
Once built for his lady a blaour;
And when it was done,
Intent on some lone, '
They stayed in it nearly an Maur.
A wonderful donkey of Aix,
Was tamed for hie musical brsix;
Hill went out to hear him,
Hut when he drew near him
'rhequavere did drive hien awaix.
A certain young man of Poughkeepsie
One day got decidedly teepeie;
As he lay in the gutter
He said. "I should mutter -
I Leel like a regular geepsie."
THE HURON 8143N AL, FRIDAY AUBUS'T', it. -Mi.
quired, "what is the harm of • socilii
l game of cards,judgesplay cards, fashiva-
h d it
of the
.1 Oiler Cate of Cards.
able people play cat•/ls; what urn oes
do. Could. they have witnessed that
scene, and marked the anguish of that
t,rokeu-hiarted mother; and could they
read the history of Hundreds of young
men who have bee* albefed to their ruin
by thew " hannleea • game* of cards '
however strong might be their confi
dance in their own ability to withstand
temptation, they would, for the rake of
others who are weaker, and are in dan-
t.,w ger, put away theimplements to temp-
tation and say in the language of the
apostle, "If meat tuake may brother to
utrend, I will eat wu more flesh while the
world swideth, lest I make my brother to
offend.- Rolm. VIII. 13.
AN INTRICATBPROPOBITION
Thi POINT VAR11, f3ODIRICH'd FAMOUS SUMMER RES(JRT
Dr. µcad es Old Taw In ale Risk.
The thoni in Paul's flesh was not a
literal thorn. S.11110 say it meant fslw
apostles and wy father had that idea;
but Paul gloried in this thorn, and he
riot would hardly glory in false apostles.
Others say it was his littleness; but he
prayed for the removal of the thorn,
"Did it ever occur to you, my dere, and he would hardly pray to be made
that a ,meson going overland would have bigger at the age of forty years. Others
to mail two letters • day from the train l say it was a stammering tongue. 1 don't
in order to have one letter a day return b.tlieve it. Paul was • very fluent
speaker; he did not speak like a stutter,
when he was before King Agrippa.
f$,me say the there was earache or
Sometime about the commencement of
the year 1871, a train was putting; over
the Northern railroad, between Osh-
kosh and Madison. In two of the seats,
facing each other, sat three lawyers en
pl1ed at cards. Their fourth player had
just left the carriage, and they needed
another to take his place.
"Come judge, take a hand," they said
to a grave magistrate, who sat looking
on, but whose face indicated no approval
of their play. He sh6Ok his head, but
. his apparent refusal only increased their
eagerness to secure him.
"0, yes, yes ! We can't get along
without you, judge ! Come, only just
one game." They persisted in their ur-
gency, until finally with a flushed coun-
tenance, the judge slowly rose and took
a seat with the players, and the playing
went on . for he did not reply until after lighting
A venerable woman, gray and bent a cigar. Then he said, slowly, "You
withyears, sat and watched the judge
from her seat near the end of the rail-
way carriage. After the game progress-
ed a while she arose, as if urged by some
strong impulse. and tottered forward
along the aisle until' she stno.l face to
face with the judge.
"Do you know the ? she said in a
tremelous voice.
"No,my good woIuau," saidhhe judge,
while he . and his conipsnions looked at
her inquiringly.
"Where did I ever I:•ee you before 1.. and two Letters received, and so on to
"You seen meat court at1hikosh.wheu New York. Eh, :Ma3nr?"
my son was tried for -for rt,bhirt some If Mrs. Max had not been examining
a hew pattern of lace she hail in her
sleeves she might have noticed the sat-
isfied smile the Major had as he leaned
back in his chair and said: "The second
N bleb Slayer lea Crralty Puzzled
Ills WHO.
to San Fvancisco r' asked Major Max
the other evening, after the cloth was re-
moved from the table and his wife was
pouring out his glass of two-thirds bene I headache, and I read a book some years
dictine and one-third curacoa, which the
ago which said that it.was • foci wife.
Major contended was the only civilized I will say that the thorn in the tlesh was
drink with which to prepare for the sifteei pre eyes. Paul himself rays it was
dinner cigar. given to him through the abundance of
Mn. Max passed the Major his cordial the illumination of the revelation which
and waited a moment before replying: he received on the way to Damascus,
"Why, no; it seems to me that if a per- and its purpose was „to keep hint hum -
son travelling east mailed a letter each bee.
day by a westward -bound train a letter A correspondent who differs from the
would arrive hero each day."
Mrs. Max answered cautiously, for
while she knew that the Major pretend-
ed t., deplore the fact that she was il-
logical, he really derived much comfort
from his superior comprehension, and
was somewhat addicted to studying out
intricate propositions with which to
puzzle the lady.
"You think so, do you 1" queried the
Major, as though about to be convinced
by her, while in truth he only wanted
her to commit herself more decidedly
that his victory would be the more ,sig-
nal:
"Why, yes," Mrs. Max continued,
somewhat enured, "If you mailed a
letter on the first day out, it would get
here the next day; if you mailed one the
day following it would arrive here a day
after the first, and the lettters, being
mailed twenty-four hours apart, would
of course, continue'to arrive here a day
apart. They couldn't gtow further apart
on the road could they, Major
Mrs. Max wound up' this sequence of
feminine logic with a triumphant accent,
and felt sure she had posed the Major,
post a letter the fust day out"
"Yes."
"That letter arrives here the day alter
you leave ?"
"Certainly. One day gone, one letter
received."
"Exactly. Well, the next day -'-e
little curacoa, straight, please --the next
day you post another letter from the
train, and—"
"And that -arrives here the day after
the first, of course, making two days out
boiiy, and you sentenced hint to prison
for ten years -and he died there last
June."
The tore began to chafe etch other
down the aged w.nian's fact and the
card players seez1ted to have forgotten
their game as she went on:
"He µ'aa a good boy, if you did send
him to prison, Ju• for hd cleared our
farm, anti when his took sick and
died he did all the rk. Ae was a
stiddy boy till he got to card plsyin' and
drinkin', and then he'd be out I1 night
at it, every night gaiubliu' away money,
and he went down and down.
Overpowered by her entoteons., she
stood weeping in the aisle, while the
crowd of passengers gathered around
leaning forward to hear her story. She
continued :
"He ran away finally, an' took with
hila all the money there wet left on the
farm. i didn't hear from him for five
years, an' then he writ to me he had
been arrested. I sold my hours* to git
money to help him, and went on to
court. There's Squire S.- (pointing
to. one of the four euchre.plyers,) the
lawyer that argued agin hi;a-and you
Judge. sentenced him tat yeses to the
State prison."
The old lady shook with emotion, std
her voice was choked and broken with
grief as she gasped out :
"0, it does seen to me that if my boy
had never learned to play keards, he
wouldn't a gone clown, an' he'd been
aloft now
The ,fudge and his companions. and
all that stead around, were melted to
tears by the power of the old woman's
words. There was no more card 1.lay-
ing in that carriage. the player threw
away their cards, and *come of them, it
IM believed, detprmit:e.l to play ne more.
That desolate bn.ken-hoerteil woman
hk•l taui;ht them a leu- •n n!i•ch they
*ill never forget. Possibly tome one
h., reals these words mar 1's -e en
day out you would he at Ogden ?".
"Yes.'
"Wouldn't it take as long for a letter
to return to San Francisco as it had
taken you to go to Ogden 1"
Dr. writes: Now, had his eyes been af-
fected by the appearance of the Lord
while Paul was on his way to Damascus,
that proof of affection of the eyes would,
no doubt, have convinced the apostles
at Jerusalem that the Lord had appoin-
ted him an apostle, and referred them
to his eyes in continuation. But we
read he never did. ' Now, I understand
the torn in the flesh to which he alludes
is common to all humanity, saint and
sinner, and 'kings are not exempted,
and is very largely displayed by many
calling themselves preachers. This
thorn is rarity. Men became vain on
their reasoning; professing to be wine
they became fools, and changed the
glory of the incorruptible God, for the
likeness and imagine of corruptible man.
Hence the confusion that. exists in the
present day in regard to heavenly and
divine things.
JI iSEPH GIBSON.
On Thursiay w••rmino, about 1
o'clock, "(our Boys" (hl C.wq+ny, of
Sarnia, Well No. 3, Sarnia, was down
to the depth of five hun.lrod and 1.117
feet, and struck a dowing oil well. The
oil ascended to about silty feet in the
air above the whole derrick, sod the
flow lasted about six hours, driving the
mien from their work, and 'malty toned
down so that the pumps c.wld be put in.
The driller estimated the well at 25 bar-
rels per day. The public sympathy of
Sarnia and vicinity is with the boys in
their big strike. Many more wells are
now to be put down by a prominent
Pennsylvania gentleman of large exper-
ience in the oil business. This strike
has demonstrated to the publiu that the
Santis oil field is &e.o.m! to Rome in
America, as the gmdity .of the oil is very
Hanlan's position is this: -He does,
not regard Ross' challenge u anythink
more than a business speculation, where-
by !toss seeks to lose a small sum and
make a large percentage Staksa stands
prepared to row Roes for the American
championship oa condition that the
challenged party harthe right of mist-
ing the water. If Ross wishes a bond
fide match all he has to do is to follow
the precedure of Hanlan in the Morris
race, and Hanlan has no alternative but
to aecept. But as Hanlan is rowing for
money, he will row anywhere provi ded
the inducement be great enough and the
arrangements for percentages are not
jug -handled. Of one thing the public
can rest assured, Hanlan is not shirkinr
a meeting with nus, and any delay there
may be is only with a'view to the pro-
tec•ion of the champion's interests. If
Ross wants a genuine race, he can have
it; if he wants a business speculation,
it takes two to nuke the bargain.
The tppearanre and Condition of Brig-
ham lsana's Lana of !Urints.
But of all the ill -conditioned, God- I
forsaken, hapless looking people I ever I
saw,the women here beat them all. Yes-
terday was supply day for ,the Mormon
Farmers living outside the city. They
bring their wives into town in dead axle
wagons, and all in the vacant room with
children who look fully as bad as their
mothers, if not worse. Many of them
are lathe and humpbacked, and all look
sickly and are ill clad. Two out of every
three women un the streets yesterday
had nursing infants on their arms, and
four out of the children are said to be
girls. One of the saints had thirteen
wives arid ninety-four children, which
he exhibits with all the pride I should
take in , a lot of fine horses. I never
realized the infernal nature of the insti-
tution nor its effect uponsociety as I do
now. The sooner our government
crushes it out the better for humanity.
It is a blot upon the face of the earth,
particularly in this lovely valley; so green
and beautiful, with apple, peach, pear,
and plum trees inf full blossom-- grass
waving in the wind, bees humming and
birds singing, like our July weather,
"I supposd so." while just beyound this in' the back -
"Then the ee and letter would arrive ground are' the mountain taps covered
here two days after you arrived at Ogden with snow. It is the prettiest sight I
and four days after you left here ?" ever saw and one which 1 shall never
Mrs. Max looked up and said, hesitat forget. -[Salt Like Letter.
ingly:
"Well, I don't see how you make that
out."
"I did not mske.it out, Mrs. Max. I
only asked if I was right. "
"No, you are not: if you post at letter
on a returning train each day I say that
a letter must arrive here each day, and I
don t care.
"Mrs. Max, how long doors it take to
go to New York !"
"Seven days, I suppose.
"Then a letter a day would he seven
letters. You would post your sixth let-
ter on your sixth day nut, and it would
take it six days more t•• return, being
e .lays after you left here. Now,
as you had only mailed tire letters be-
fore the one which arrived on the
twelfth day, how could a letter a day
have arrived 4"
Mrs Max thought a moment, and
then asked with censolerable warmth:
"D.. you mean to say. Major Max, that
if • person going to New York posts a
letter on a San Francisco -hound train
each day that it takes two weeks for alt
those lettere to arrive here 1
it certashly wnuki, replied the
Major, glowing comfortably behind his
cigar. - He knew Mrs. Max acknowl-
edged her defeat by the way she rang for
the tea. lint she would not ask felt
further explanation -(San Francisco
Chronicle
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