Blunders Of Bashfulness

-If there is any defect more striking than another in Amorionn charnoter, it is bnshfulness Young America, in particular, ia painf u 1 1 y affected by it. I was ooce desired by my aunt to go over to neigbbor Shaw'e and seo f lie had any straw for sale for filhng beds. Mr. Shaw was blessed with a goodly numbor of Misses Kbaw, and I therofore feit a little tiraid at ene oud tering them. To make the matter worno, I arrived just as tlio family was aeated ut dinner. Stopping in tbe doorway, bat in band, I stammered out : "Mr. Straw, oan yon spare me enougb shaw to fill a oouple of beds?" "Well," replied the old gentleman, glanoing around at bis largo family, and enjoyiog my mistake, " I don't know but what I can ; hovr many will you need ?" Before t could recover, thos hateful girls buret into n chcrus of laughter, and I broka for home in a oold iweat. Hon. Htigh MuCullooh. ex-8ecreiary of ihe Treagnry, in connoction with Oen. George B. Sargonf, h-ig purcbised the 1 floward tract, adjniuihg Duluth, Lake Superior. It if to bo put into the rniirket st oceC; i