Show want of energy want of energy is a great and coin mon cause of tho want ol 01 domestic comfort As the best laid liro can civo no heat and cook no food unless it is lighted 90 tho clearest ideas and intentions tent ions will produce no corresponding actions without that energy which gives power to all that is of lafue which is as it the very life of life and which is act or moro necessary or available than in tho matter of a family choso who have it not and many aro constitutionally destitute of it would do well to inquire of their and their conscience what compensating virtues they can bring into tho marriage alato to justify them in entering upon ita duties without that which is so essential to their performance alicy should consider that tho pretty face and graceful languor which ns it is often ca attractive to tho most impetuous of alio other sex gained them ardent lowers will not enable them to satisfy the innumerable requisitions and secure the social happiness of the fidgety and exacting husbands into which chadic tars ardent and impetuous lovers aro generally transformed s tharo is a story that the popular hymn the sweet by and by was tho work of two men while drunk joseph P who composed the music died several years ago dr S F ben natt author of the lives at richmond HI ho says that the charge of intoxication is untrue though webster was a free d tinker the two wrote a hymn book in 1874 and tho and by was one of tho pieces jointly produced for it tho suggestion cimo from a chance remark by mho was habitually despondent that all would he well by and by nt once made tho and webster brought alic music out of a fiddle which was his customary nd in composition alio hymn book had its day and is forgotten but this one tune is put inlo every new publication of and has n sale of about copies a year in sheet form ur saya that he and webster were not orthodox christians the hymn was written ad thai ho is now even less a believer As a newport R I 1 audgo was walking along a street of that city a handsome well dressed young woman met hiim on the sidewalk stopped and gazed at him a moment and then with a glad cay of joy threw her arms around him and began to hug and kiss him in a most affectionate manner at the same timo asking him if his namo thompson the judge somehow liked this sort of treatment and became so ab sent minded that it look him civo minutes to remember his own name and when lio reluctantly told her that she was mistaken alio gave one last lingering hug and sorrowfully moved away his purse contained 50 and some valuable papers and ho says if abo will return the papers she can keep tho money and no unpleasant interrogatories will bo propounded or words to that effect sista french soldiers of tho parrison of lately fell sick of trichinosis chi and two of them died it has been ascertained eliat the disease aros not from pork but from alio flesh 0 gacso that they had eaten acro also found in a pike recently in the north sea near osbond dr of ostend examined alio flesh under tho microscope and found it full of tho parasites it is supposed that a shoal of this fish has eaten the offal in tho harbor ot ostend and thai tho parasites had been conveyed to tho fishes in this way honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting and there ia no jovial companionship equal to eliat where the jokes are rather small and the jokers abundant washington gwng make yourself an honest man and then you may bo suro that there is one less rascal in tho world carlic Carl lc patrick on the zebra phat kind of a basic is that the mulo wid liis ribs on abo outside of bis ashkia entirely there is no rock so hard but that a little wao may beat admission in a thousand years tennyson the express puts it that there is a skeleton in every corset |