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... -M-v Coincident TkMgkts. We noticed recently a newspaper ar ticle that questioned Lincoln's title to the now familiar phrase from his famous Gettysburg speech, describing our Government as a "Government of the people, by the people, for the people." The article was a piece of hypercriti cism. And, curiously enough, the criti cism itself lacked originality. For Bart lett, in his famous "Familiar Quota tions," had 3'ears before noticed the similarity of the phrase to expressions used by Webster and Parker in speeches delivered bv them respectively in 1830 and 1850. Lincoln's title is not shaken tlercby. He gave the idea and expression a place and setting which made it famous. Emerson somewhere says "our best thoughts are borrowed from others," and Tie also says that "thought is the property of him who can entertaiu it, and of him who can ade quately place it" Lincoln so enter tained and placed this thought as to make it his property. He gave it its force and currency. Literature abounds in such coinci dences. Any one curious in such mat ters can readily satisfy their curiosity by reference to any good book of "quo tions." We call attention to several not heretofore noticed, so far as we know. Grant is the author of ome famous and current sayings. "Let no guilty man escape," is one of them. Thisphrase is a part of an endorsement upon a letter concerning the whisky-ring prosecutions, made by him officially, while President. It is characteristic of the man, and undoubtedly original with him. At the same time the phrase is to be found in Ben Johnson's "Cataline," as follows: Tho pods Grow angry with your patience Tis their . care ' And must be yours, thut guilty men escape not. As crimes do grow, justice must rouse it self." Act HI. Webster's beautiful ligure in describ ing the power of England, in his speech of May 7, 1834, as "a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, who:?ojporninir drum-beat, fol lowing the s!m and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England," is familiar to even .school-boy. Uartlctt notices the fact that so long ago as 1G1S, it was said both of the Hollanders and Span iards that "the sun never sets upon their dominions;" and that Schiller in Don Karlos says, "the sun in my dominion never sets:" and that Walter Scott in his "Napoleon," sa, "the sun nevar sets on the immenso empire of Charles V." Yet, no one would seriously ques tion Webber's originality. It has 'oc curred to us as , not improbable that Webster's description of England's "military posts, whose morning drum beat circles the earth," may have sug gested Emerson's splendcd couplet "Here oueet lie embattled fanners btood. Ami ilred tlmt-liot heard round the world." Stranger than all, however, if it be a mere coincidence, is the coincidence in the language employed by Lord Jlans lield, in his noted opinion in the ease of Somerset vs. Stewart, and the language employed by the poet Cowper in the "Task' on slavery: Lord Mansfield, in lus opinion on the case sum: "lue air of -England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who -breathes it. Every man who comes in lo England is enti'led to the protection of English law, whatever may be the color of his skin." (June 22, 187L'.) Cowper says ("The Task," Book II): 'We have slave at home then why abrond? ,f And they themselves once lurried o'er the id they waves That iart lis are ehinneiiato and loosed. Slaves eannot breathe in Knj-lmul, if their In nrs Iteveivo our air, that moment they are free. They touch our count r, and their shackles lull." Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Smith's Stove-pipe. Once upon a time there lived a certain man and wife, and their name well, I think it must have been Smith, Mr. ami Mrs. John Smitlu One chilly day in October Mr. Smith .said to her hus band: "John. 1 really think we must have the stove up in the sitting room." And Mr. Smith from behind his news paper answered "Well." Three hun dred and forty-six times did Mr. and Mrs. Smith repeat this conversation, anil the three hundred and forty-seventh time Mr. Smith addcil: "I'il get Brown to help me about it some day." It is uncertain how long the matter would have rested thus, hail not Mrs. Smith erossed the street and asked neighbor Brown to come over and help her husband set up a stove, and as she was not his wife lie politely consented and came at once. With a great deal of grunting, puffing and banging, accompanied oy some words not usually mentioned in polite .society, 4hc two men at last got the stove down from the attic. Mrs. Smith had placed the zinc in its proper position, and they put the stove way to one side of it, but of cour&e that didn't matter. Then they proceeded to put up tho stove-pipe. Mr. Smith pushed the knee into the chimney, ami Mr. Brown fitted .the upright part to the stove. Tiie next thing was to get the two pieces to come together. They pushed and pulled, thev yanked anil wrenched, they rubbed off the blacking onto their hands, they ut tered remark?, wise and otherwise. Presently it occurred to Mr. Smith that a hammer was just the thing that was needed, and he went for one. Mr. .Brown improved the opportunity to wipe tne perspiration irom ins noble brow, "totally oblivious of the fact that he thereby ornamented his severe counte nance with -several landscapes done in stove blacking. Tho hammer didn't seem to lie just the thing that was needed, after all. Mr. Smith pounded .until he had spoiled the shape of the stove-pipe, and still the pesky thin" wouldn't go in, so he became exasper ated and threw away the hammer. It fell on Mr. Brown's toe, and that worthy man ejaculated well, it's no matter what he ejaculated. Mr. Smith replied to hi ejaculation, and then Mr. Brown went home. Why continue the tale? Everybody knows that Mr. Smith, after making a great deal of commotion, finally suc ceeded in getting the pipe into place, that he was perfectly savage to everv body for the rest of the day, and that the next time he and Brown met on the street both were lookiug intently the other way. But there is more to tell. It came to pass in the course of the winter that the pipe needed cleaning out- Mrs. Smith dreaded the ordeal, both, for her own sake and her husband's. It hap pened that the kitchen was presided over by that rarest of treasures, a good natured and competent hireU girl. This divinity proposed that they dispense with Mr. Smith's help in clearing out tiie pije, and Mrs. Smith, with a sigh of relief, consented. They carefully pulled the pipe apart, and, holding the pieces in a horizontal position that no soot might fall on the carpet, carried it into the yard. After they had -.wept out the pipe and .carried it back they attempted to put it up. That must have been an unusually obstinate pipe, for it steadilv refused to .go together. The minds of Mrs. Smith j ,and her housemaid were sufficiently t oroau to grasp uus iaut. micr icw 'u cuw.-i iwjr service possiDiB. trials; therefore they did not waste their Every morning it is carefully washed strength in vain attempts, but rested, with tamarind water and brushed with .and in an exceedingly uumasculine waj the softest of brushes. A prince, offici :held a consultation. The girl went for ally known as "the lord l tbe ele ,a hammer, aud brought also a bit of phant," u asaghe to mtk etepkaut, 'beard- 8h placed this on top of the which he considers a ajmdA matt 1 fjpe, riMd her hammer, Ma SmL Ukx-X- Y. Berold. Wed tho-plpo In place below, two slight raps, and lo, it was doae. See what a woman can do. This story is true, with the exception of the names and a few other unimportant items. I say, and will maintain it, that as a general thing a woman has more brains and patience and less stupidity than a man. I challenge any one to prove the contrary. -V E- Homestead. Nose-ologj in a Sleeper. Did you ever notice what a variety of ! notes the snorera have in a sleeping car? , If you cannot sleep, and will but seek' amusement instead of discomfort, you will find an analvsis of this toue-lau- guage very entertaining, it nas more variations of time, lone, melody and harmony than a sonata or symphony. I amused myself very satisfactorily in takinc to pieces and individuaii.nir the discordant harmonics which issued lrorn the noses of our unconscious fc'ln-v-travelers during some of the stops when the noise of the train ceased, and the pattering staccato of the rain accom panied, without drowning, the nasal chorus. An upper lierth passenger, who must have been a person of spare habit, with a high, sharp nose; gave whistling and cheerful little uricket-ou-lhe-liearth m . , . i notes, like "peep! peep! peep! " From ' the under berth, and probablv a more . expansive and belligerent organ, came a vicious, syncopated, slow accompani ment of "suork! Miork! suoik!" A deep, mellow, long-drawn --uhoonie whoomc!" from the next section l.ar- , mnnvjul -ii" i ril.o"ii1;ltifl till- l)tlfl I and snork, and was in turn punctuated in tne upper berth bv a nervous and quick "ex-y-jy, ex-y-jy, ex-y-jy. repeated with pertinacious ami dis concerting energy. Somewhere near, and combining with these, came a laborious, long drawn, struggling, force pump note, calculated to awaken the liveliest apprehensions of premature suffocation, iikc "un-mee-ce-z.c! uu-mee-ec-ze!" indefinitely repeated, mingled with obligato pa-sages of fugi tive clutchiug after the departing breath, still further vivified to the hor rified sense of the listener by another performer in the nasal overture, who, at frequent intervals, interjected des pairing catches of "spip-pip-pip-um-m-m-mop-buyy.7.h!" interspersed with "slit-slit-slit boom, boom beezc. bec.e! scatter-whucky!" At a longer pause than usual proba bly at Dayton, as I heard them testing the car wheels the cessation of all ordinary motion ami tho substitution of the pounding of the wheels seemed to ... awaken the desire for original and start-j ling effects among the orchestra. Among the more feeble efforts of the performers already mentioned there arose tho mighty diapason of asnorer of the larg est tonnage and bottom, whom I had seen (not without apprehension) stored in an upper berth through the united exertions of himself, the conductor and the porter, with the assistance of a step ladder, which creaked and trembled under the burden. I had been listening in an excited state for the note of that thundering pedal bass, and now it burst forth in all its graudeur, scattering the elements and silencing the whole or chestra :is if a Javan earthquake had lit among them, The upheaval was be yond the power of language or letters, but this may give some faint idea of the event: "YVhoome! um-mee-ee-eeze! Osh-osh-osh-kosh-kosh ! tubble-gubble- gubble! rip! snip-pip! szvsbss SNORK!" General Comlg, in Toledo Telegram. Did Nut Want to be Insulted. It is almost incredible that so green a person should exist as a man evident ly from Maine who entered a cheap eating-house in this city a few days ago in quest of dinner. He seated himself at a table and suspiciously reviewed in detail the appearance of every person present, after, which, evidently con vinced that there were no bunko 'men or other sharpers about, he tilted his hat on the back of his head and awaited de velopments. The waiters were hurry ing about, slamming down dishes and yelling out orders to the kitchen, and presently one of them came up to the stranger. "Roas' beef, roas' pork, boil' dinner, ham an' eggs, an' pork'n beans," said the waiter with the speed of lightning and the expression of a phonograph. The Maine man looked af him and grinned. "Oh, go way," said he; "what do yer take me for?" The waiter stared and went away according ly. Presently another came around, and ran through the same formula. "Get eaout!" roared the guest, "an' lemme alone, won't yer!" and this serv ing man also retired. A third and a fourth tried conclusions witli him with equal success, and when the last one went away baffled the Maine man was seen to be mad clean through. He arose and marched up to the counter and said to the proprietor at the desk: "Lot ker here! 1 come in here to get some dinner, an' I can pay for it, too, an' don't yer forget it. But I don't mean to be insulted. If you've got any grub here why don't your waiters tro1 it out, an' what do they mean byyellin' off a lot of heathen gibberish in a man' ear? Do they think I'm a blamed fool? You may go to thunder with your old hash-house: there's places in Boston where a man can come in an' be treated like a gentleman, I guess!" and he strode out and slammed the door aftei him. And to this time the restaurant keeper and his waiters haven't found out what the row wjis all about. Bos ton Journal. -- An Aristocratic Come-Down. I had the other evening a personal ex perience of an aristocratic come-down which surprised me. 1 was dining with a friend at one of the most noted res taurants in Loudon. We had a most attentive waiter whose face seemed very familar to me, and all through the din ner I was puzzling my brains as to where I had seen the man before. "Fritz," I said (all German waiters in London answer to the name of "Fritz"), "your face is very familiar to me; where have I seen you before? were you at the Criterion?" "No, sir," lie replied very quietly; "I met you in Berlin at dinner, when you and Mr. B. dined with Herr EngeL" It Hashed across me in a moment who the man was. I said, "Why, you're the Baron von G ." "The same," ho" replied, half sadly, half comically, "the same, minus the moustache." I re marked that I was glad to congratulate him upon the genius which he displayed in his new avocation for, I added, "I might have known there was good blood in you, for I was never waited upon better in my life, and I am one of those who believe that no one can do any thing better than a gentleman if he really gave his mind to it" The Baron was flattered, and said that no one who had not dined could properly know how to wait. "I," said he, "have so often noticed aud sworn at the shortcoming of waiters that it is a strauge thing ifI did not know how to wait decently my self." London Cor. Philadelphia Tttt graph. m At its home in Siam the white ele phant is treated like a baby all the time. It is fed from bowls of solid gold, its food Win? the same at that at tka royal table. Six attendants are com. stantly posed around it, ready and anz- OF GENERAL INTEREST. There are now sixty life convicts in Sing Sing prison. Keiu York Sun. The Pennsylvania Railroad has put its wires in Philadelphia underground. A Yeimont paper chronicles the death of a bride of a year at St. Albans Bay, at the age of seventy-three. A.Philadelphia boy tied wings on his little sister and induced her to jump fronra balcon'. -She broke one of her legs.: Two patient cribbage players in Boston have played 2.",Q00 games, and 1 at last accounts one was only one game ahead of the othr Boston lLraiil. Buffalo Bill's suit to recover sixty one acres of land in the city of Cleveland has failed. Bill will have lo content himself with the boundless prairie. Clcvi land Herald. Kate Van lvcnstiue, a young unmar ried girl in Union Hill, willed her $20, 000 of property to David Bourne, her lover, who boarded with her. JiuJJUlo (iV. Y.) tJjrpn; New Orleans recently had a baby show, with niuety-nitie infants on exhi- j bition. The lir.-t prize was won bv a i seveu-niontlis-old baby that weighed thirty-one pounds. New Orleans Times. A New London lad of sixteen years ran away from his comfortable home a lew months ago and was traced to a Southern c:tton field, where he was shoeless and hatless, working among the negroes for sixteen cents a day. ilail Junl Pont. There is a physician in Rochester whose heart only makes twenty-six pulsations a minute. He is fortv-four i cars old, and enjoys excellent health : . r i iii . - i ne average ior ueaiuiv men is sixiv men five heart beats to the minute. i.'oc- Cblcr (N. Y.) Kxjircss. T. P. l-'itzpatrick.a Norwich(Conu.) oyster dealer, has a curiosity in the shape of a pearl oyster, taken from a lot of Fair Haven oysters, in which there are one hundred small pearls, the central cluster forming a column in the center of the shell N. Y. Mail. A jeweler in Paris has committed suicide from slight enough cause. He found that a watch which had been left with him for repairs had been stolen. When his wife found him dead she im mediately shut herself up and put an end to Tier own life. What method for suicide these people adopted is not stated. . Large quantities of silver have of late been found in Arizona. Many mines have already been opened, and millions of dollars' worth of silver ex tracted. In a mine recently opened in thc TuVkov ,iMrjct, .s.;t,ooo worth oi silver was obtained in the first fifty feel of the shaft sunk. Other deposits have been discovered in Yavapai County, which yield copper and silver in abund ance. Ihnvcr Tribune. The Chinese are said to have a curious way of determining the future occupations of a male infant. On the first birthday he is seated in a large seive, with money scales, a foot measure, a pair of shears, a brass mir ror, a pencil, ink, and books, an abacus anil similar articles ranged m a cirdi ,.!, around him. The article which lie handles first is a sure prophecy in the direction in which his future activities will lie. When George Warroll. of Rapid City, Minn., went to be married he found his progress impeded by a river swollen by the spring Hoods. With a rope around his body - ie ei-d held by friends on the bank he swam the stream, and then, on an improvised raft, towed over his clothes and two saddles, one of them his wedding pres ent to the bride. Then tin- horses were guided across and the wedding was celebrated. .S7. Paul Press. One of the most magnificent stair ways in the world is situated on Calvario Hill, west of the city of Caraceaj. Ven ezuela. It is of sandstone, one hundred feet wide and eighty feet high, and was built in a park that cost Si'.OOO.OOO. The crest is six hundred feet higher than the level of the city, and is surmounted b a statute of the "Great President," Guz man Blanco, the "illustrious American," as he is called, who has done so much to pacify and build up the country. Dr. J. E. Rentier left Indianapolis in the summer of 1875 and rolled up his sleeves in the cause of humanity at Memphis. His work during the "epi demic w:us heroic and he fell in the cause, dying of yellow fever in the latter part of September that year. Now his grave is an unmarked spot of desola tion, and near him lie thirty-two other volunteer physicians and forty-two nurses, none honored in marble, though all gave their lives for the public good. Chicago Journal. Mrs. T. M. Wheeler, of New York, received the $1,000 prize recently ottered for the handsomest design in wail-paper. It is known as the "bee pattern," and represents golden-winged bees in a wealth of clover blossoms. The second prize was won by Miss Clark. Her de sign is a gold lishing-net on a light ground with a dado of seaweeds and a irieze oi seasticus. mis is quite a triumph of the ladies, as quite a number of men artists were in competition. New York I'imes. Going to see the Chinese baby at the Chinese Legation is a fashionable amusement among society ladies in Washington. The'' old Minister is very proud of his ott'spriug, and rolls his eyes delightedly when told tiie baby "is the perfect image of its father." At Mrs. McElroy's reception Saturday af ternoon this baby v.as a topic of conver sation, and it was generally stated and believed that the young aud handsome mother of the interesting chick is the twentieth wife of the aged Minister. Washington Post. "Mouce Traps and Olhcr Sweelmclcs.' ? Tho followiug advertisement is copied from the Fairfield Gazette of September 21, 178G, or ninety-seven years ago, which paper was "printed in Fairfield by W. Miller and F. Fogrue, at- their printing office near the meeting house." Beards taken, taken of, and Re- gisturd by ISAAC FAC-TOTUM, Barber, Peri-wig. maker, Surgeou, Parish Clerk, School Master, Blacksmith and Man-midwife. SHAVES for a penne, cuts hair for two pene, aud oyld and powdird into the bargin. Young ladys genteeely Edicated; lamps lited by" the year or quarter. Young gentleman also taut their Grammer langwage in the neatest manner, and great care takin of morels and spelin. Also Salme ringing and horse Shewing by the real maker! Likewicc makes and Mends, All Sorts of Butcs and Shoes, teches to Ho! boy and Jewsharp, cuts corns, bleeds On the lowes Term Glisters and Pur is, at a'peny a piece. Cow-tillions and other dances taut at hoam and abrode. Also deals holcsale aud retale Pirfumerry in all its branchis. Sells all sorts of stationary wair, together with blacking balls, red herrins, gingerbread and coles, scrubbing brushes, trycle, Mouce traps, and other swectemetes, Likewise. Red nuts, Tatocs. sassages and other gadin stuff. P. T. I teches Joggrcfy, and them outlandish kind of thing A bawl on Wednesday and Friday. All pir formed by Me". ISAAC FAC-TOTUM. Bridgeport Standard. The young Marylander who was putting off his wedding day till the law reducing the charge of marriage li censes from $4.50 to 60 cents was passed must raise the extra $3.90, as the unro nantic Governor of Maryland has vetoed ibe bill. Chicago JountaL PERSONAL AXD DIPERS0XAL. Sal lie McCollum. of Allentown, Pa., claims to be the Handsomest woman in the State. Pittsburgh Pott. George L. Perkins, a venerable citizen of Norwich. Conn., has carried in his pocket for seventy-eight ears the same silver half-dollar a 'little feat not often done in this uoild. Uartt'ufl Pot. It is said that the death of Harry E. Packer, the late President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, leaves his sister, Miss Packer, with the largest income of any unmarried lady in America. S. E. Henderson, a leading business man of Cleveland, is said to have lost his entire fortune oi jflO.O'.JO in .-peculation in the List si nu.uth.; aud go:.c to California : poor as the r.t ,f ik Cleveland Letnkr. George Ehret is one f the ucalthic-t brewers in New York, Lis pnp, ity be ing ariottsl) estimated at from 'l'J '.- . 000 to 3,(0M.0'0. all made since he f lauded on these shores from Germany,, twenty-live years ago. .V. Y. Sun. j Sergeant Ballentine, the iHstin- : guished Euglish lawyer who visited this country hist summer, has writren :n : account of his tour in the United State. He speaks in tone of kindly apprecia- j tion of the American reception which , was accorded him. CIA a-jo Herald. j Francis Badoux. uiuclv-fuur earj old, whose later years have been spent in Portland, Me., was a lieutenant un der Napoleon Bonaparte. His second wife was an aunt of Nathaniel Haw thorne. He taught dancing, and among his pupils were Longfellow and Gover nor Washburn. Mr (.ailing, of Gatlinggun fame, is a benevolent looking old gentleman, with snowy hair and whiskers. He is slightly deaf, wears gold-rimmed spec tacles, and talks about his wholesale slaughtering machine as unconcernedly as though it were merely an improved hay rake. X. Y. Graphic. Kcely, the motor man, wears a magnificent solitaire diamond stud and a solitaire diamond on his left little finger, drives a fast horse to a handsome top buggy, has jet black whiskers and hair, bright black .-yes. handsome phys ique, and dresses laulilessly. It i. not stated how his stot kholders dress. ( tiicago Tribune. Mr. Charles Ba.jctt, of Ashburn ham. Mass., is ninety -si years old. In 1Mb", when he was fifty-eight years old, he was insured for 1.000' in one of the best-known life iiisui.mce companies. The policy was payable at death only, but within afe.vdays Mr. Barrett has iveehcd from the company a check for 'he lull amount of the policy, together with the dividend for the current year. In traiis-nitting the e'e'ek the President of the company writes that Mr. Barrett is the only member of that company who ever outlived tin-mortality table, and that there lias n:t been a similar instance of longevity i-i any other com pany in this country. -Boston Pod. 'A LITTLE MLNSEXKE." "Have von Charley?" "No; lars as much as siv n George lately, I Km red him five dol tl.ivo weeks ago." Lmrdi Citizen. 'Here's your r-:i-! beef, sah," said the waiter: "J served it some time ago." "Oh, indeed! roast l ef? Why, so uu did. I thought all the time it was a crack in the plate." Prtroit Fni Press. A terrible sereaMi A l':n-.'oyouiilii(l;, icumil House. Caught uuliinpM-ol .ijm or litllt use. Ami the sore.iiii t! a' -lw seiouu, fli:tteiel licncu s Mite dome. Ami Iiiiliseil out the -. IN of the houe. Msminil, Tutntne. An amendment: "Don't give it away, please, Mildred." said Amy- to the higu-school girl. Mter reciting an escapade in which she had been en gaged. "No,"r"plii.l Mildred, "I'll make no gratuitous presentation of it." Oil Villi Derrick. In a barber hop: Mr. Jack Plane, carpenter, whose facial stubble has just been ra.eed. lays down a two-dollar note. Boss barber- "Ticket?" J. P. "M -no, guess not. I'm always losiii" "em." Boss barber "In the shavings? eh?" Boston Transcriiit. A rural reader of the .S'mm asks: "What is the best thing to feed hogs on?" Well, that depends altogether Tn circumstances. If you have no trough, you had better feed them onthegrouud. They might be fed on the barn lloor, but it is easier and consequently butter to feed them on the ground, as it is no easy matter to drive hogs into tho barn. Peck's Sun. Aunt Tabitha visited an tip-town studio the other day, and was admiring the portraits, when the artist quietly hT quircd of her, "Wouldn'tyou like to be taken from life, madam?" "Laws-a-mercy!" exclaimed she, starting for the door, "I hope I haven't fallen into the hands of a murderer!" And she retired in evident alarm before the artist could say a word in explanation. N. Y. Com mercial Advertiser. A Brookly n woman said to her ser vant girl, a tresh arrival on the latest boat from Cork: "Bridget, go out and see if Mr. Block, the butcher on the cor ner, has pigs feet." The dutiful servant went out and returned. "Well, what did he say ?" asked the mistress. "Sure, he said nuthiii', mum.',' "IIaJ he got pigs' feet?" "Faith, I couldn't sec m'uiu ho had his boots on." A1 Y. Commercial Advertiser. "Mr. Schmidt." said a German gen tleman yesterday, as he entered a Pitts burgh merchant's office. "Mister Schmidt, I haf der schmall pox " "Great heavens!" Mr. Schneider," was the hurried reply, "don't come here," and the clerks rapidly disappeared in various directions. "Vot's der madder mit you fellers anyhow?" pursued Schneider. "I haf der schmall pox full of butter oud in mine wagon vot der Mrs. Schmidt onlerct last wick al reaty." Explanations and cigars fol lowed IHtlsburgh Chronicle. ".Of all the Biblical characters," said .Mr. Shinraek, putting aside the Scrip tures and addressing his interesting family, "I most admire David. Aside from being a great ruler, he was a poet, and a singer of great sweetness." "He was something like Andrew Johnson," replied the son, a young man wbao career on the college play-ground has been spoken of in the highest terms. Why like Andrew Johnson?" asked tho father. "Because he was a tailor." "What. Da id a tailor?" "Yes, for tho Bible says so." "The Bible says noth ing of the kind." "Oh, yes for don't you know that when Saul" went into tho cave David cut his garment?" After a few moments silence the father said to his wife: "There is an old horse-pistol somewhere up .stairs. Wish you'd bring it down." Arkamaui 'Traveller. Spelling Reform. Mr. William Houston read a paper on "Spelling Reform" a few days ago at a meeting of the Canadian Institute at Toronto. He said that he read between :5,000 and -1,000 letters a ar, and finds that hardly more than three in of.e hun dred are correctly spelled, and as a rule the uneducated spell more correctly than the educated. Modern spelling, he thought, is a tyrannical superstition inherited from the eighteenth century, and Milton's spelling was much more correct, both etymologically and pho netically. It will be news to many that Edmuud Spencer did not use the u ia uch words as honor, for omitting which Americans have ben so severely criti cized by the English. Doubtless a re form iii spelling is desirable, but the practical difficulties in the way of accom plishing it aregrcat. N. . Tritmmc j KRAUSE, THE "DEEKIM" o CD tn fc M o TJ1 Lightest draft Binder made, and the only Binder which does not injure horses' necks, all the heavy gearing- and machin ery being behind. The following illustrations show a few of the points of advantage which the " DEERING " has over its competitors: The following cuts show the pieces of the Deering cord holder and kn otter when taken apart only six in number, "Whioh when put together are really only two, as shown in this cut. A neat little device, shown in the following cut has been added to the Deering Binder for 84, this extension butt board, which is adjusted to machine as shown in cut farther down. 4&zL- - :- -" ---- I -fgfc- - Makes all the bundles bound by the Deering square at the butts, thus not allowing any. of the grain to slip out and waste while handling the bundles. It will readily be seen ) that this gives the Deering an immense advantage over all its competitors, who cannot do better than shown in this cut. Testimonials, as to the merits of the "DEERING," of twenty-four of the leading farmers of Platte county who bought "DEERING" Binders last year will be furnished, and any -wishing to see the "DEERING" Binder are cordially invited to call on FARM MACHINERY, PUMPS, WIND MILLS, HARDWARE, STOVES Who will most cheerfully show you anything in their Thirteenth Street, LXJ WHICH IS FAR AHEAD OP Bflir-l.h.iBi U-T-'K.-Hi-P''-M.rB' - . -fe. .iftHV BMftBBBrr"-3-iirB&L-: -y r --p-v - . j.p -.bCf: Of the Deering Knotter it can truly be said that it is no complication, no getting out of order, no springs in Knotter, no numberless lot of weak little pieces, no missing of bundles, always sure, very sim ple, very strong. tJ-ttS P S M a CD :u d o o Wet m X3 CD e tn j p t s p. H- O N l. pg 3J3V4 1 J 1 r-'M.-ra 0q p CD cn P p Op et-et p s o Jia CD CD go ph P. CD P 8 3 H-.3 P-CD P e2 O pTEL Pj --. 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