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- It is the mn wlio has the most property that has the greatest wiü power. - Chicago Times. - There are eighty-two glue factorie in th#i country, and the prioe oí gumdrops is kept within the nieans of the poorest citizen. - Nothing is vainer in Nature than the slim man who has suddenly grown fat. unless it be the elderly matron whc has just been mistaken tor her daughter. - Boston Fosl. - Summer joy: A atender walst, lust llyhtly clasped, As up the seented lane they stroll; A Hinnll. wlnii' band, just liifhtly grasped, Two heads beneath oue parasol] - Bmtnn CourUr. - The face value of all the money ie the world is said to be $550,000,000,000, We can't help wonderiog sonietimei iust how ïnany people the other $549,.H)!.0y9,998.23 is diVided among.- houisville Journal. - A book on etiquette adTises: "Kever interrupt any oonrenaUos, but wait patiently until your turn comes to !])(;;ik." The agent who handles this book has the bulge on the world. She can come into your office unannounced, take 1 r; uninvited, and talk you to death onder the rules. - N. O. Pieagune. - The Great Disímil Swamp oontains 14,000 aores, all resting on a bottom of Suk'ksand. Xow, if the youngest solier in tho lato war and theoldcst living Mason and th surviving soldier of the Revolutionary war would like to hold a reunión. right in the very middle of that 14,000 acres is the natural spot for their encarapnient. - Burdetle. - An excliangH says that to get the full Uavor of butter, the bread upon which it is spread ¦hoold be inserted in the mouth buttered side down. The Eaet that the buttered side up is tho general custom II an indication of a general and perhaps hereditary disinclilütion to get the full llavor of the butter. We have knowu the tlavorof butter to be so full as to fairly stagger. - Springfield Union. - An old South Carolina lady who alwavs had a good word to say of the absent, found herself last week in a jredicainent. Sho was at a sewing so;ietv, whore a rather lively young girl was discussed, of whom every one spoke ïarshly. Mrs. Brown sat a whilo in .hought, but soon brightening up and shaking back hersnowy cu.'ls tuat hung on either side of her sweet old face. she said "Lailies. havo you ever noticed ïow well Miss Giddy walks and how leautifullv she lurns out her toesP" -