A latx poem begins: "Only asuiile that
was g.ven me on the crowded street one
day! But it pierced the gloom of my sad
dened heart like a judden sunbeam's ray."
A "smile does make the gloom of some
hearts migrate, as it were; but it should
never be -riven in a crowded strcvt Peo
ple wdl talk, you know; and a man ought
to have enough self-respect to take his
friend aroud tbe corner or np an alley when
ne wisues to Danisn nis gloom with a
"smile" he carries in a bottle in his pistol
pocket
A bio, fat colored woman went to the
Galveston chief of police and told him that
her step-son had run away, and she wan
Ud to know where he was. "It bodders
me to know why he left He had every
thing be needed to make him cumfable. I
done all I could for him," she observed.
lias he any marks by which he may be
recognized?" " Well I don't recken all
the marks I made on him with a bed-slat.
while de old man was holdin him, has fa
ded out yet'
In a primary school, not very long ago.
the teacher undertook to convey to her pu
pils an idea of tbe ure of tbe hyphen, She
wrote on the blackboard "Bird's-nest" and
pointing to tbe hyphen, asked the school:
W hat is that for?" After a short pause.
a young son oi the Emerald Isle DiDed out:
'naze, ma-am, lor the bird to roosht on!"
VEQETINE
FOR
Chills, Shakes.
FEVER AND AGUE.
