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Show Tlie KavHgea of Time. Stephen Day was very fond of making high sounding speeches, sometimes with laughable results. While calling one day upon a neighbor be was showu a scratched and battered stone pestle which bad lately been found hi the gardeo. As It was parsed from one to another, some facetious remarks were made in regard to its defaced appearance. One person ventured to suggest that probably the dogs had chewed it. "Uncle" Stephen looked stern; such language applied ap-plied to this venerable relic seemed to hira almost an ofTente. Patting the pestle reverently with his bl rinht iiand, he said solemnly: "Sir, those are the ravages of the tooth of time " Youth's Cmn:innion. |