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"now Squirm, Old Nature."

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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A stingy Christian was listening to 8 rWity sermón. He was nearly duaf, md was accustomid to sit f.tcing the iongregation, right under the pulpit, vith h9 ear-trumpet upward toward thc reacher. The sermón moved hiin conliderably. At ono time lio said to hiailelt', "l'll give ten dollars," again he ;aid, "I'll give fifteen." At the close of .he appeal he was very much moved, ind tlioughthe cvould give fifty do'lara. Sow, the boxes were passed. As they noved along his charity b9gan to ooze iut He carne do iva from fifty to twen;y, to ten, to five, to zero, He coneluJed that be would üot givo anyth;n{. 'Yct," he said. "that won't do - I am in i bad fix. My hopes of heaven may be n this question. Thia covetousness will ïo my ruin." The boxe& were getting icarer and nearer. The crisis v.-as upon iim. What should he do ? The box vas now under his chin - olí the congre;ation wero looking. He had been holdng bis pocket book in his hand duriog he soliloquy, which was half audible, ;hou"h in fus deafness he did not know liat he washeard. In the agony of the in.-il moment, lie took his pocket book md lid it in the box, saying to himself ís he did it, "Norequirm, oíd natur'P Water-prooi? Paper iianoi.nos. - A Lrerman tnanufaeturer has recently innoduced water-proof paper hangings, whioh can be washed with soap and water, without the slightest detriment, iud which also do not permit the mois:ure from damp walls to strike through. Fílese wa!l-paperfe do not diíTer from tho wdinary kinds, except iu a more iuteuse ind Bofter tone of colore. The expense 8 said to bo but little more tbau that Ebr ihe old-fashioned sort. Cod Fibh Pie. - Take a piece from tho middle of a good sized fish, salt it well all night, then waeh it, and season ívith salt, pepper, and a few grains of íutmeg, a little chopped parsley and ome oysters, put all in your dish, with dieces of butter on the fish; add a cup of jood second white stock and oreara ; ;over it with a good erust, adding a lat;le lemon juice iu the gravy. In the House of lleprefentatives, at Wash tigtou, Mr. Knos of Kentucky was ppeaking, and was interrupted with :ho usual "Will the gentleman yield ?" tío replied that he hadn't troubled the ffouse with a epeeeh for threo years, and .hought he should now have hia say unuterrupted. "Then are some members aere," said be, "who would have slop)od the Sormon on the Mount by akng tho Saviour to yield to them." A minister in Xew England, receiving i salary of 8400 a year, wears an over cont made from a cloak he wore in 1834. ílií ivife bas ono cloak only, it being ■hirtyfivd years rld. As was the case rf the Israelitcs in the wilderness, bo it ,s with Ihem, their garmeuts wax not )ld. The Tennesseo Constitutional Corention has adopted a provisión requírg the prepuyme.it of poll tax before sxercising tho right of eufirage. Nasby hiis taken to vvritiog for Lis )per as "Jehial Slab." Haring "bored' )eoplo to death with petroleum, he now' lants to put a slab over thoir graves. A rich Amerioan was killed in Engand a few days ngo by breaking hig leek at a fox huut. His family have lot yet Ueard wbether the fox escaped.

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Old News
Michigan Argus