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Show PITH AND POINT. -Congress has agreed to pay Japan $785,000 indemnity. It is understood that the Tycoon will now buy an American bonnet for his wife. -Self-made "You've made a fool of me," said an irritated man to his wife. "My dear," she sweetly responded, "you do yourself injustice; remember that in all respects you are a self-made man."-Anon -One end of the Brooklyn bridge is falling down of old age, but they hope to have the other end completed in time to make some repairs on the first end before the other end fall down also.-Burlington Hawkeye. -Men who have traveled the world over, who have sounded all the depths and shoals of fortune, return in their moments between sleeping and waking to the first happy scenes that greeted their infant consciousness. -"Yes, said Fogg, "I used to believe everything; was the most credulous fellow alive. But," he added, "since I have had this confounded sore throat, it is hard for me to swallow anything."-Boston Transcript. -There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans. Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.-Emerson. -"I say, sire, do you want to hire a boy, sir," said a bright-looking little fellow, as he stepped into a business office. "What can you do, sir?" was the respondent inquiry. "I can tell the truth, sir," was the bright reply. "Don't want you, my little man, my business can't stand truth-telling." "Better take the boy," said a bystander. "I know him. When he says he can tell the truth he lies like blazes. He can't do it, nor his father before him couldn't either." Boy engaged on modern business principles.-New Haven Register. |