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ABBREVIATIONS.
ATtog That May Not lie Productive
Good Habit*.
Our public school childreu are be
yond doubt taught nowadays much
that interests and helps them, nil of
which was
unknown
IfMi
tci their parents at
the same ug3.
And this instruction is given in a
manlier to beguile the little people into
the royal rood to learning, so that it is
a oommon occurrence to have a child
burst into tears at the fear of missing a
day in sohool. Yet—there must always
be a yet—are they learning refinement
with the rest of the desiccated knowl
edge offered as their pabulum?
In the veiy scientific algebra taught
throughout New York state and com
piled by an instructor in the Normal
school, "to save time, the highest
common divisor is spoken of as the
"H. O. D.." and the least common mul
tiple is the "L. O. M." What time is
saved, and why? And isn't such teach
ing inouloating the vulgarity, later on
in life, which speaks of "photos" and
"bikes'.' and "buses," if not of "pants"
*nd "gents."
If this system of abbreviating every
thing is taught in our schools, we will
simply have to stand the jeers of the re
fined foreigners at our being in too
great a hurry to make money to even
speak the language properly.
As great as we are, our "fault lies in
thiB rushing frantically over everything..
je far leer: are trying to teaoh
j—a taking of timo for all the
Jiings of life, and yet, if this
of "chopping" the language
nt at the very base of our life,
jlio school, what can be expected
le children when they grow up?—
lelphia Press.
Bncklen'a Arnio* Salve.
Tint BEST SALVJS in the world for
Cuts, Bruises,. Sores, Ulcers, Salt
lllieum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Ilands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or uo pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price 25c per box. For
sale by C. W. Houston, Exira or O.
T,. lisom, at Bray
ton.
I. Zi. Bt&tzell,
Attornev-at-Law,
W1 practice In all Courts. Collections mad
Penuion papers made without charge,
(hira Iowa
J. C. NEWLOff,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office In Hamler'n drug atore.
EXIRA, IOWA,
Dr. John Riley,
Physician and Surgeon,
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competitors is the "unkindest cut of all.'1 Everything liae been reduced in price. When you read the: following
prices you will note our reason is two fold. We are carrying too large a stock and a season is at hand when we
must make further purchases. We will stake our reputation upon the genuineness of this marked-down sale and
we will guarantee that the prices quoted were never duplicated in Western Iowa
At the beginning of the ceutnry the
magnats, or higher uristocraoy of Hun
gary, lived in a semilegal luxury.
Their official court dress, whioh is quite
oriental in its richness and splendor,
alone recalls the feudal period of the
Hungarian aristocracy. Their country
chateaux are lordly in nothing but.
their hospitality. If a stranger drives
up in his carriage to the entranoe door
of a Hungarian chateau, immediately
and before any questions are asked oon
oerning the visitor's business, even be
fore the master of the bouse has mado
his appearance, a legion of servants
rush forward and carry the visitor's
baggage to one of the half dozen rooms
always ready to receive guests, invited
or otherwise. Twelve o'clock is the
usual time for dinner, and four or five
empty seats are always prepared for
guests who might arrive. When the
Hungarians wish to honor more partic
ularly a guest, a succession of 15 or 30
oourses are served at dinner, but as the
Look Over These Prices:
Magyars have in everything the ut
most respect for individual liberty, no
guest is ever pressed to eat or drink.
After dinner" guests and hosts take a
long drive over the estates of the cha
teau or pay a visit to the neighboring
castle. If it is a Sunday, a visit is
made to the noarest village, where a
peasant country dance is in full swing.
Supper at the chateau takes place be
tween 7 and 8, after whioh a dance is
given or a whist party is indulged in.
The next morning everything is silent
in the |)0une until 10 o'clock. Much
as in England and Scotland, break
fast is taken when one pleases, at no
fixed hour. During the whole morning I
the noble owner of the mansion is ex
tremely busy. The upper Hungarian
aristooracy still manage the business
details of their estates themselves, and,
as may be imagined, this is no small
work, since many of these domains are
larger than some petty German states.
Such is the everyday life of a Hunga
rian nobleman. In winter he generally
goes with his family to spend a few
months in Budapest.—San Franoisco
Argonaut,
LDBKltTHt on Hla Farm.
A visitor who recently called to see
General Longstreet at his farm near
Gainesville, Ga., says: "I looked for a
large, old fashioned southern place,
with pillars and a %ide hall. Instead
the house was an ordinary story and a
half farmhonse, snob as a northern car
penter might build. A board nailed to
a tree offered wine for sale at a very
low price, and I saw an extensive vine
yard across the road. A lean, farmerlike
person told me that General Longstreet
was in his vineyard, and there I came
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All our Men's $5.00 and 6.00 Pants, now 3 50
All our Men's $4.00 Pants now 5: 2 CO
All our Men's $3.50 Pants, now 2 15
All our Men's $3.00 Pants, now '. 1 95
All our Men's $2.50 Pants, now •_ 1 55
All our Men's $2.00 Pants, now 1 40
All our Men's $1.50 Pants, now 1 10
All our Men's $1.00 Pants, now 75
All our Men's 70c Pants, now
55 ,g
All our $1.50 Child's Wash Suits, now 1 05 1|
The $1 00 kind at 75c the 75c grade at 50c the 50c grade now 35c.
Children's $2.50 Junior &uits, sizes 3 to 6 years, now 1 50
|j|f Children's $1.50 Reefer Suits, sizes 3 to 8 years old, now 1 10
Boys' Double-Breasted Knee Pants, the $2.50 grade, now 1.55 the $3.50
grade now 2.15 the $4.00 grade now 2.60 the $5.00 and 5.50 grade now... 3 50
Our 15.00 grade Boys' Black Cheviot, long pant suits, age 14 to 19, now 3 65
Our $6.00 grade Boys' long pant suits, now 4 50
Our $7.00 grade Boys' long pant suits, now 5 00
Our $8.50 Boys' Black Clay Worsted long pant suits, now 6 50
MEN'S SUITS REDUCED IN PRICES
„. IN LIKE PROPORTION
Everything else in proportion. Not an article of clothing or furnishing goods in
our store has been spared and there is not a shred but what will bear inspection.
Many of these goods have been marked to be sold below cost and the people of this section will count us as bene
factors when they purchase. No trouble to show goods—no vexation to us if you don't buy—but if you need cloth
ing or furnishing goods such an opportunity may not present itself again. Look the prices over again, read every
item carefully and you will realize that you cannot afford to turn away from such a sale. We are here to. do exact
ly as we say and we guarantee every statement we make. We expect to be kept busy during this special sale but
will find time to wait on everybody. Our loss is your gain in this instance and such again that you will appreciate it.
Cvatoau In Hungnrj.
ton One Price Cash Clothing House, Audubon, Iowa.
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but his sltm is rr.cuiy, as tiiougn en.t \i
and good digestion were still his to con.
mand. Wo talked for a time about his
garden and vineyard. 'I get out every
afternoon,' ho said, 'and work about. 1
find the sun and air do me good.' One
of his arms is a little disabled, }ud he
is quite deaf in one ear. He could not
hear very well in the open air, and at
his suggestion we returned to the house.
'I live with my tenant. He is a veteran
of the northern army,' he said at the
door, and there was a slight smile about
his eyes."—New York Tribune.
ANew Source of Robber.
The discovery of a now source of La
gos rubber, froui a tree known to the
natives as the "ire," or"ireh,"has
given a great impetus to the trade of
the west coast of Africa in a rubber of
extremely good quality. The Kicksia
africana forms a tree 50 to 60 feet high,
with a trunk averaging 12 to 14 inches
in diameter. It is said to be one of the
most beautiful trees of the forest and is
capable of producing in a good season
as much as from 10 to IS pounds of
rnbber per tree. For the purposo of ex
tracting the rubber a deep vertical cut
is made through the bark and several
oblique cuts on each side running into
the main channel, at the base of which
a vessel is placed to receive the exuding
milk, which is coagulated by allowing
a quantity to stand for some days in a
cavity made in the trunk of a tree, so
that the watery portion evaporates or
soaks into the wood, leaving the solid
portion behind, which is kneaded and
pressed together into a solid mass, or
the milk is placed in a vessel and boil
ed, the rubber beginning to coagulate
almost immediately heat is applied
Nature.
Bicycle* Sttre Che Blrda.
"Birds iu the park?" said the old
South park policeman. "Naw, not now.
There used to be lots of them, building
pests in every bush and singing on every
tree, but nowadays there's nothing but
sparrows. Sometimes there's a bird or
two that tries to nest, but they don't
stay long. The bicycles are too much
for them.
"You see, it's like this," he contin
ued to his interested listener. "Before
the bioyclisU gut BO numerous most of
the people in the parks and boulevards
stuck pretty well to the roads and walks
and were only around iu the daytime,
but sinoe the bicycles have brought us
suoh crowds the whole place is entirely
overrun with people, who find every
•hady spot, walk around every bush
and lean up agaiust every tree. Espe
cially they make night into day, and
lucky, indeed, is the poor bird which
oan find a roosting place that is not dis
turbed by the presence of the omnipres-
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A Substantial
The knife has been driven into prices clear to the hilt.
We never have and never "will advertise a cut but what
we mean it and now we have made a cut which to our
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summer. Iliore wue onoleu, tliru&lies,
catbirds and robins in the larger trees,
and quantities of yellow birds, flycatch
ers and warblers in thu bushes. In the
fall, when the leaves dropped, there
could be counted nests in the bare limbs
by the hundreds. Nowadays the few
nests you see are principally sparrows.
Ugh!" And the big policeman turned
away disgustedly.—Chicago Tribuue.
An Ear In BeMrve.
A young lady arrived at Victoria sta
tion, London, from Dover, with a little
over 80 minutes to catch a train at Can
non street
In ordinary ciroumstanoes she ought
to have done the journey very comfort
ably had she taken a hausoin, but, hav
ing some luggage, she selected a "growl
er," and, as is often the case, the lat
ter was behind a very poor horse.
Having told the jehu that she had to
reaoh Cannon Street Btation iu 30 min
utes, off the vehicle started.
They had barely got 100 yards, how
aver, before she put her head out of the
window and requested the driver to
whip the horse or otherwise she would
miss the train. The cabby did so.
A little farther on she asked him to
again administer the whip, as the oab
was only jnst moving, and she added:
"Can't you bit him on the head or
some tender part so as to wake him np
a bit?"
The cabby stopped the vehicle and
looking at the young lady exclaimed in
a manner peculiar to cabbies:
"Well, miss, I've hit the banimal oil
over his bloomin body except his left
ear, and I'm savin that fer Ludgate
'ill."—Pearson's Weekly.
Not only has England the greatest
navy in the world, but she has supplied
almost every other nation with most of
its warships.
The Argentine Bepublic has six
armored vessels, of which four were
built at Birkenhead, one at Poplar and
one in Italy. Of her nnnierous cruisers
and gunboats, all but two were built in
England.
Chile has four armored ships, of
which three were built here.
Greece has got 13 of her 13 cruisers
from us. Italy has come here for four of
her largest battleships, and eight of
Japan's armored warships were made in
British yards, as well as six of her
cruisers.
Holland has & warships built iu Eng
land Spain has 6 Turkey has 13, and
Portugal has 18.
The great powers prefur homemade
vessels, but Germany has two large
armored Bhips which she bought from
Englich builders about 30 years ago.
London Answers.
Constipation take Karl's Clover
""I Purifier.
H. Fred Fischer, Pre*.
John Polxin, Vice Pres.
Walk Crees is loading forty thous
and pounds of pop corn, at the Sta
tion to be shipped to Chicago.
Miss Cora Tyler has been engaged
to teach the fall term of school in
district No. 8, Sharon township.
O. P. Tyler had one of his best
calves killed by lightning during
that electrical storm the other Friday
uight.
Charlie Banning brought the first
load of new barley that passed over
the scales, at the Station, Tuesday
evening.
Monday nigh# a messenger was has*
tily sent to Audubon for a doctor to
see Uncle Mace Gill who is suffering
of pneumonia.
Theo. Gearheart and family are
here for a good visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Creep, and their
other relatives.
After the literary, at Old EJamliu,
next Saturday night there will be a
heap big icecream and cake eat at the
Mai Bryan home. t:
That was a thrice welcomed shower
of rain that visited the Station last
Tuesday evening. But the great
horned spoons how it did pour down.
Mrs. Frank Sfeita)', or iEjfmtellion,
is passing a pleasant week' with her
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ilenty Young,
and other acquaintances and friends
about the Station.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amnions, of
Exira, called on their old Elliott
neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Schoon
over, at the Blue Grass Creamery,
Inst Sunday afternoon.
The Blue Grass Creamery now
makes two shipments of butter each
week. One goes to Merry Old Eng
land and the other is sent to Zimin &
Company, at new York City.
Miss Nora McDaniels, who lives
with her uncle, Will Young, return
ed Tuesday eveuing from Atlantic
where she had been visiting with her
mother, Mrs. Ettie Spangler.
Mrs. Mandy Cheever, mother of
Mrs. Jake Bauning, is lying at the
home of her daughter, south of the
Station, very ill and it is feared that
the good lay's days o»i earth are few.
Some one took Charlie Miller's
wbip and doubletrees ofl'ot his binder
last Friday night. The party is
known and if he will return'em there
will be no questious asked. I'll re
turn the bottle.
Banker Frank Watts and wife rode
their wheels down from Audubon
the other evening, took a good old
fashioned drink of cold butter milk,
at the Creamery, tasted of that golden
butter and then faded iu the gloam
ing.
Tuesday evening Mrs. C. M. Green
and her daughter, Miss Grace, of
Exira, reached the Statiou. on their
way from Audubon to their home,
just as the Btorm burst. They did not
look as if they would get very much
wet.
Will ThomaB was on his way to
Old Hamlin, Tuesday evening, on his
bicycle, with a message informing
Mrs. Mai Bryan that her sister was
dangerously ill, when the concern
bucked and threw Will to mother
earth with great force, shaking up
that little fat body at a lively rate.
Mr?. Doctor It. L. Harris, Mrs.
John McKarahan, and her daughter
and niece composed a party that caine
down from Audubon, Monday *nd
called nt the Blue Grass Creamery.
They were piloted about the estab
lishment by Will Thoma8and treated
to a sip of iced butter milk, a drink
fit for the gods.
Willis llattenborg, of Sharon town
ship, drove seventy-one head of fat
hogs to the Station one day this week
and sold them to Will McGuire. As
he was driving along home every once
in awhile he would feel 'way'down
in the corner oi his vest pocket to see
if tlie,check for $818.00 that.he got
for that herd of hogs was all right.
The fourth Quarterly Meeting ot
the M. E. church will be held at Oltl
Hamlin on Saturday, August 14th, At
3 o'clock p. m., preaching by Elder
gainsay. Quarterly conference will
follow this service. Preaching af
on Sunday following at 10 o'cloc
si., the service closing with the
^ment Service. All are con
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«nd niiinv the
Journal.
Geo. P. Wiley, Cashier.
Ijouitt Groteluschen, An
n't ("h'r.
RESPONSIBILITIES, S50.000.
Farmers Exchange Bank.
GRAY. IOWA
Do a General Banking Business, receive deposits subject to
check at sight. Buy and sell domestic and foreign exchange.
Interest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on good com
mercial paper or approved collateral. Co-partners individ
ually liable—H. Fred Fischer, John Polzin, Geo. P. Wiley,
Louis Groteluschen. Collections made and promptly
remitted.
The GRAY PHARMACY,
C. EUGENE MERTZ.
PROPRIETOR.
DRUGS, MEDICINES. CHEMICRLS
Stationery, Perfumery, Jewelry, Paints, Oils, Class, Etc.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded,,,,,,,,,,,
Hamlin Department.
Frank Irving lost a valuable horae
the other day—overcome by the heat.
Will McGuire shipped a car load
of extra fine hogs to Chicago, last
Saturday.
Miss Bessie Bradley returned to her
duties at the Atlantic Canning Fac
tory last Monday.
Ross Department.
Wm. Weiderstein finished harvest
ing his I3ii acres of wheat Tuesday.
Albert Jiugst had a full set of
lightning rods put on his barn Tues
day.
Albert Davids, three miles west of
Itoss, lias been very ill the past two
weeks.
Morey Hart, clerk at the Farmers
Store, visited the first of the week at
his home in Carroll.
John C. Bonwell, of Viola town
ship, will soon commence the erection
of a large stock and hay barn.
The week-old baby boy of M[r. and
Mrs. Harmon Meier, on the Gus
Wright farm, died last Sunday..
Lightning struck a grain' shock
near Fred Tessman's house Tuesday
evening, considerably jarring the
family.
A. J. Eddy and family expect to
enjoy a visit from his niece, of Den
ver, Colorado, about the last of this
month.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gutzmeyer,
of Lincoln township, became the
happy parents of a sweet baby girl
one day last week.
Kub't Henderson shipped his car
load of bulls to. Chicago Wednesday
night. They weighed, each 1,51*0
pounds—sixteen head.
Levi Kopp went to Brayton Sat
urda1v Any
Poland-CblM brood sows. Mr..Kof{
is always ".fookTng for something fine"
in the hog line'.
While stacking hay Monday one of
hay poles fell on August Schraeder,
nearly breaking Ills right leg. He is
considerably crippled and will liinp
for ssveraldays.
L. N. French, the jolly man of
Cameron township, marketed twen
ty-five head ot hogs at Ross Wednes
day that averaged 370 pounds and
received $3.35 per hundred.
During a recent thunderstorm the
Sands schoolhouse iu Cameron town
ship, was struck by lightning, tear
ing the door from its hinges and con
siderably damaging the building.
We learn ot the following young
people of Cameron township attend
ing normal at Audubon Audev She
ley, John Rutherford, Emma* Reid,
Belle Brldenstine, Anna French,
Grace Swaney.
Last Monday Finch & Thompson,
the cattle dealers, sold to parties at
Marne, Iowa, 39 head of cattle at 3Jc
and 4}c. They also sold ten large
feeders to John Oliver, of .Melville
township, price 4}c per pound.
The change iu the timetable of
the C. & N. W. road fixes the time at
this statiou as follows: Going south,
8:42 a. in., 4:10 p. m. and Suudays
2:40 p. m. Going north, 10.-CO a. in.,
5:20 p. in. and Sundays 5:40 p. m.
Levi Kopp had an experience with
lightning the other day that caused
him to think of having all his farm
buildings protected by lightuingrods.
A hunk of greased lightning sawed
its way to earth and struck the
smallest building on bis farm, au old
tumbled down shed in which a lot of
hogs were taking shelter during the
storm. Not a hog was injured but at
the rear of the building a couple of
roosters were killed. Several large
timbers iu the building were knock
ed into toothpicks.
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen
erally needed when the lanquid, ex
hausted feeling prevails, when the
lanquid, exhausted feeling prevails,
wlieu the liver is torpid and sluggish
and the need of a tonic and alterative
is felt. A prompt use of this medicine
has often averted long and perhaps
fatal billious fevers. No medicine will
act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric
Bitters. 50c and $1.00 per bottle at C.
W. Houston's Drug Store.
The August number of the Deline
ator is called the Midsummer Num
ber/and Its exposition of hot weather
Modes and Fabrics is made graphic
by full-pnge color plates, and the
fiction of the number is notable.
Grace Peckhani Wurry coutrib
her Talk on Health and Beauty
a discussion of the various iorn.
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The Captor or Atlanta.
General Horace Porter, iu his "CaW-,1
ftaigning With Grant" in The Century,
tells of a mission to Sherman after the
capture of Atlanta, on which he was'
sent by General Grant. General Porter
says:
Upon reaching Atlanta I went at
once to General Sherman's hqadquar-]
ters. My mind was naturally wrought!
np to a high pitch of curiosity to see!/
the famous soldier of the west, whom ij
had never met. He had taken up his'
quarters in a comfortable brick house
belonging to Judge Lyons, opposite the'
courthouse sqnare. As I approached l[
saw the captor of Atlanta on the poroh,
sitting tilted back in a large armchair,
leading a newspaper. His ooat waa un
buttoned, his black felt hat slouched),
over his brow, and on his feot were a::"
pair of slippers very much down at the!
heels. He was in the prime of life'and!
in the perfection of pbysioal health. He'
WM jusf 44 years of age, and almost at
the summit of his military fame. With
his large frame, tall, gannt form, rest
less hazel eyes, aquiline nose, bronzed
r1-"
face and crisp beard, he looked the pic
tore of "grim visaged war." My coiS-iK?'
Ing had been announced to him by tele-,
graph, and he was expeoting my arrival
at thia time. I approaohed him, intro
duced myself, and handed him General
Grant's letter. He tilted forward in his
chair, crumpled the newspaper in hisj"
left hand while with his right he shook!
hands cordially, then pushed a chair,
forward and invited me to sit down.
His reception was exceedingly cordial,
and bis manner exhibited all the per
sonal peculiarities which General Grant,
In speaking of him, had so often de
scribed.
Antiquity of the Pipe.
ArcbSBologist J. D. MoGuire of the
National museum announces his discov
ery of the fact that the ancient Romans
smoked. Of course they knew not to
bacco, whioh is a plant native and pe
collar to the new world, but they used,
several other herbs, ,aud of these four I
have been definitely identified by Mr.
McGuire. Thia news upsets the long ao
oepted theory that the practice of smok
ing was invented by the American ab
origines and was unknown elsewhere in
the world until after the landing of
Columbos.
Unquestionably /smoking had alreiady
been practiced by ihe Indians for oen
turies wfiSii Columbus first reached
these shores. It was with them to a
great extent a form of religious cere
monial. Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, the
famous ethnologist, thinks that it had
its beginning iu the blowing tube of
tiw medicine man. Ignorant savages
are
disposed to regard the human breath as
possessing magical properties. and it
may be supposed the*
were introduced
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of
•purpose
,bie.«7:'
Of pMllw
bark and of the kinnikmick
or bear bv: _id tobacco doubtless was
a AiffcosA' resulting from a selection
of the"fittest.
The earliest Indian pipes were simply
tnbes, in one end of which the tobacco
or dried leaves were put. Mr. McGuire
finds that the pipes used by the anoient
Romans were made on the same plan,
the bowl being an invention reserve
for a comparatively recent day.—Was'
ington Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democri
A Uving Kite.
In Franoe a living kite has been s(
in whioh a man formed a part. It
In the course of a series of experime
to determine the effect of wind up'
soaring machine. A gigantic ki'
been made, on the face of which
stood, his feet wide apart and
upon braces for the purpose, wh
his hands he clasped two stra
kite was 80 feet high Wia ma
cloth. The first attempt to fly
made on an exposed section of the
where the wind blew in over a li
large parachute was attached
frame of the kite, to which t)
was supposed to cling in case o'
Everything being ready, the
braoed asr^pNRhe wind","t5na-m»u won
kii place, and 60 men ran against tho
wind with the rope, many more hold
ing the tail. The wind oaught the enor
mous surface, and amid loud cheers
from the spectators the man rose ten
feet from the surface and there remain
ed, held by the men at the tail: Slow
ly the latter released the rope, and grad
ually the kite rose, proving beyond
question that a man could asoend i
this fashion. It was such a hazardous
and uncertain experiment that a very
high flight was not attempted.—New
York Sun.
Belnc a Bishop*
An Irishman was toiling, bareheaded,
at a windlass under the scorohing sun.
A Catholio father rode by and suid to
him:
"Put on your hat, Patrick. You'll
bake your brains iu this sun."
The worker looked up at him and
said, "Do you think I would be doing
this for (1.50 a day if I had any brains?"
Two other Irishmen were delving in
a aitoh. Said Murphy,' 'Terence, if you
had yes choice in this sinful world,
What would yez be?"
Terence mopped his brow and consid
ered. "Well, for a nioe, olane, well
(aid, ary job I'd be a bishop."—Hard
ware.
Bettor Than Medicine.
"Why, you seem a great deal better
this morning."
"Yes, doctor," whispered the pa
tient, "but don't let it affect your bill.
They threatened to send for my wife'*
mother. •—Octroi "ree
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