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Show Short andfSHiarp. (Contributed.) Thoro aro two reasons why somo pooplo don't mind thoir own business. Ono is that thoy hnvont't any business and tho other is Thoy haven't any mind. "Lot go that jib lot go that jib, quiokl" shouted tho captain of a ' down oast sloop, toa raw hand, iu n equall. "I ain't (touohln' yor oldll jib," replied Johnnthan, indignantly, as ho jammed his flits doopor in his trouBorloons. ,J6 I ho hns roooived atfd Jeiasns ' thoso ho has inlliotod. Ho who is not olatoc whon ho is praisod, or dejected when be is treated with disrospoot, Is a wiso man. Miss Joy says she Is glad Bho is uot a "thing of bonuty" for sbo would not Hko to bo a "Joy forover. " In tbo mattor of plain speaking, mnny of us nro Hko tho soldier, who, in his first bnttlo, was afraid to 11 ro off his musket lest ho might hurt somebody. 1 Young mon who go to balls will do woll to romombor that a ball should not closo with n "rool." |
