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Show CARRYING WEAPONS.-"This is not a land of peace, it is a nation of armed men. The farmer has a revolver in his bedroom, and the merest boy, on the slightest provocation, pulls out his pistol. Two hundred years have proved that, in civil life at least, the Quaker is right. No Quaker ever shoots, and no Quaker is ever shot. There should be a general disarmament, and we should guard the sale of pistols as we guard the sale of poisons. It is the brutality that comes from the possession of arms that does the harm."-Rev. Robert Collyer. "If you feel the need of having a pistol in your pocket, you are a miserable coward. If you are afraid to go down the street unarmed, you had better get your grandmother with her knitting needles to go with you. A pistol is the meanest and most infernal weapon ever invented. It is the weapon of a sneak. I would as soon carry a load in my vest pocket."-Rec. T. De Witt Tallmage. ANCIENT MS.-People are laughing over a mishap of the Clarendon Press. A very learned Greek offered to sell the authorities an ancient manuscript, which he declared he had discovered at Alexandria. On examination it was found to be a history of Egypt by a sage of olden time, and the delegates more naturally eager to acquire the treasure, having, after a keen scrutiny, decided that it was genuine. The Greek sold it for a large sum and departed. In process of time the manuscript was printed, and a few proof copies were circulated among the dons before publication. But conceive the consternation of all concerned when one of them informed the publishers that the thing was a gross imposition, being merely a very bad translation of a modern history of Egypt by a well known German scholar and professor. |