Show BREVITIES there isn t a mite says lavater avater Ii but what fancies itself the cheese one of the rules of tile tiie new english dress reform is to waar a dress drees until it is worn out the south carolina legislature has enacted a law legitimizing the children of colored mothers by white fathers who held them as slaves two things indicate an obscure understanding der to be silent went when you ought to converse and to speak when wi we should be silent an indiana editor makes n pathetic appeal to his readers saying it if there is anything you VOU know that is worth knowing that thit we ought to know and you know that we dont know please lot let us know it an old gentleman in penn Penu pennsylvania sylvania walked forty miles to pay his subscription to a newspaper this is a severe rebuke to the many men who would walk forty miles to keep from paying their subscriptions the heart is ready enough at feigning excuses for all that it does or imagines of wrong but ask it to give a reason for any of its beautiful and divine emotions and it can only look upward and be dumb when we are in the tho right we vee can never reason but only assent A baby in the northeast part of the city during a fit of coughing monday apparently strangled to death A doctor was called in antt and he pronounced life extinct while the body was being prepared for burial it suddenly revived and now bids fair not to cause another lay out for many years indianapolis di journal A philosopher saya baya that the true secret of earthly happiness is to enjoy pleasures as they arise for that man who can keep his eyes upon tile the bright present while it is bright tastes tile ille cup of sweetness prepared for him hlen but we are prone to look forward to dark objects while wo we should be enjoying thole those that are more agreeable if any man possessed every qualification for success in life it is probable he would remain quite stationary the consciousness of his powers would tempt him to omit opportunities those who do succeed ordinarily lay their success to some disadvantage under which they labor it is the struggle against difficulty that brings facilities faculties into play A man on the day he be became a hundred years old went to have a pair of shoes made remarking that he be wanted them built substantial with plenty of hob nalls nalis the shopkeeper ar suggested that he be might not live to wear such a pair of shoes out when the old man retorted that he commenced this one hundred years a good deal stronger than he be did the last one an editor in victoria australia says the people of this region have become go so virtuous and well weli behaved that it is impossible for us to make an interesting daily paper we hear bear that a shipload ship load of convicts is on the way to our virtuous port rt and we look for greater activity in a our local news department as soon as its passengers shall get got fairly ashore 11 earthquakes are on the increase ac cording to the best authorities there were vero in the fourth century 21 in the fifty fifth 25 in the sixth 31 in the seventh 10 in the eighth 11 in the ninth 36 in the tenth 17 in the eleventh 51 in the twelfth 68 in the thirteenth 55 in the fourteenth 68 58 in the fifteenth 41 in the the seventeenth in the eighteenth in the nineteenth with regard to the prolific nature of the orange oradge the crops muro moro especially in au an abundant season are something really surprising twenty thousand marketable oranges from one tree seems almost beyond belief but such is a fact the branches have frequently to be propped up with wooden supports to prevent their breaking risso mentions a tree growing at nice in 1789 which was more tian than fifty feet high and the trunk of so large a girth that it required two men with outstretched arms to embrace it it usually bore from to orin orad oranges A gentleman in syracuse blessed with a very jealous wife gave her a lesson and himself a very good hearty laugh the other day by a very simple yet ingenious device dovice whilo while his wife was out he cut out from paper a couple of figures represented in the act of kissing he placed the paper in such a position that the light would reflect a life sized shadow upon the window curtain that she bhe would bee see on arriving and awaited the result he heard footsteps then they paused and were followed by a mad rush into the house where the affair was explained and alla the story ended |