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Show Nine Tailors Make a Han. Everybody has heard of the saying that it takes nine tailors to make a man, and the general supposition is that it reflects re-flects upon tailors in some indefinite manner, man-ner, and no one knows where the saying originated. Now, the truth is that the saying is misquoted, and the proper word is toilers, or tellers, not tailors, as often written, and its origin can be traced back several centuries. . It wa one of the customs when a person per-son died in the parish to toll th church bell once for every year of the deceased's life. But nobody from this oould tell the sex of the departed, so the sexton, to gratify public curiosity, after ringing In the usual way the number of years, would give eight quick strokes if the deceased de-ceased was a woman and nine if it was a man. This being rung at the end of the strokes for the years were called tailers, and thus nine tailers made a man. Golden Days. THE JUBILEE OF THE SPARROWS." 0b, what Is this tumult and stir and commotion? And wb&t are the sparrows all talking about Say, why do they beckon and nod to each other? I)o thoy fear that some one their secret will out? Twas early this morulas I mat a gay party All busily ohat'ring way dt n by the brook; Each bird to the other some item was relating, And they never so much as gave me a look. Pray, what is this matter that seems so important? Oh, do you not know, sir, and cannot you say Why each little heart's In a whirl of emotion. And throbs as a leaf on a mad, windy day ? Tis that they're expecting a host of relations, All bright, merry cousins from woodland and mere, And strangers from orer the surf beating ocean, So blithesome and chipper, aud full of wild cheer. And this seems the reason the little brown sparrow spar-row Is gld when the long, dreary winter is o'er. For spring on her wings bears the weaJth of the tropics, And scatters profusion from mil top to shore. PhUadAlnhia Telerhone. |