A Doubtful Story

paper pubhshes the fbllmring somuwtaat [probable story : " uurmg tho SeTolutionary war the English knooked in the hnads of soveral thousand bar reis ot tur, whiuli they hud captured in store near tSutïulk, Virginia, and lol it run oli' iüto a pond foür acres in extunt. (-Jraduaily fi'ar'dening in the min it büCiiina a soti 1 mass, nid rem ius tiil this day. It leoks lïke slata and is trom two iiiches to a Faut n thicknoss. Onr boys in camp üear by uaa it for tuel. CP1" Omu of the Texun.s who bnardad the Harriet Lane, irnmediutly on jumping a board, graspad a Federal otiii'.ur hy the collar, exolaim'ng: ' iáurrender, r I wiH Ulow your bruins out!1' The other replied: " You had betler look at tóe iirst Keoognition was iustantaneous; they wcre bro'.hor.s. Z" Conscience!" said Mr. Hopkins iidigiiiintly, ' do you suppose nobody has got any oohiwjiènce hut yoursolt,! My conscieuco is as good as yours - ayo ítríd bet:er too - fttr it has oever been nsed in llieuoursuof my lü'e, wlulti yours imist bü nearly worn out!" &3C T'"3 siiríeon Gencr-dt in' return for conrtesy exhibited b}r the rebel authoritieg in lendiüg the. list of prisoners who died South, hna made and eent to Richniond a list of rebel prisoners who died in Union b espitáis, amounting tj 2,000. The list from the South is miio'a largor. C3C" Hesitato, and tho vulgar will tli i i k you weak ; bo eonfidentj and thej will think }'ou wise. L"S" Echo, like a woman, alvrayi bas the kst word, but unlike a wo:naD, it alyays agreos with you. JyLT Jiany school masters entertaia no doubt tliat the gouuine treo of knowled-;o is tlie birch. 53T Spare the rod and you'll have ni firsti for dJGncr. ST Piiile would never owe, and self love would novor pay. KS" Vazoo Pass is twenty trñles liny, cast from the Alississippi to ColdWaler river.