Pith And Point

FiiAos of all uutious - ravmg-stonen. The key to an unoertaöi gate - Wh tey. A useful thing in tliu long run - Broatll. BESTthingto take bufore inging i jreath. Onjïï throe months now bef ore tlie New Feraey womeu can go bnrefooted. A glove at dinner is considerad very aobby - in fact aome say it'a miobby. " What can't be cured musí be wW fresh," is what they Bay in Porkopolis. A mothek-in-law is uot n h-avply body, but sho lias of ten eclipsed a honfiyïnoon. When yon hear a man Bay tbc world owes him'a living, dou't leave my hams lying around loosa. All hotel gueste aro expected tq oie satisfied with thcir quarta-x, bnt the waiters expect iifty ceutfl. Whï do womou talk lesa in Febrnary than in any other month 't Because it is the shorteat month in the year. " Can't tou make any allowanoe Lor a man's being drixnk V' " Certainly!" said ffie Judge, " I'll aÖo-W yon thirty in the-oikhotise." " O KiTTESS ! in onr hourH of case, uncertain toys aud fnll of fleos ! whon pain or auguish hang o'er men, we turn you into Buusage theu. " Mr. Cobmtgh left off liis flaunels on Thursday, and on Friday morning he quiotly said to hÏH wife, " Mid Coblaid, ged my uddergloads dab gwick ! " ANüflo we go," said a member of a JJoston school oommittee ; " our grtuit men aro fust departiug- first Greei, theu Chaoe, and now Sumner- and I don't feel very well myself." An Iowa father, who has succeeded in seventeen of the worst ohildren in bis neighborhood, says he is bound to have a representativo in heaven if it takes seventeen inore. Progbbssion is the watchword of the hour, bilt in Mimwuri mothers himl their disobedient childreü over the knee, and strike on the same oíd spot that. tiio Romane did 3,000 yearB ago. Ak exchange tells up that " thc law in Minnesota wop t allow a fathcr to thrash a child over 16 ycars oíd." In Konhicky it is not the law that prevents the fathei from thra,slúng a child oyer 16 yare oíd. As a goneral thing the child attends to that little matter himseU.-Louisvitte Journal. Here ís a good stoij that Rev. Dr. Adams tells ón himself. A lady pai-iphionier once remarkpd to him Üiat bis sermona :were a litÜo too ionp;. " Don't you think so, ür. AdninR," Raid ahe, "just a littlo ?" "Ah, good BOBteV, said he, "I am afraid yon don't like ' the sincere níilk of the word.'" "Yes, I do" said she; " but you know tlie fashion nowadays is conaennea muK. A um of Washington county, Now York, is a mother of a largo family of K&tam njirl thev are all rathrr diminutive A few tlayfi atter Ue dixui üi ut yimiigeet a littlo Ww of tho lady calU.I to eee Üie baby. After l.Hking at the tiny specimen for a few minutes, tttó ttttle girl suid : " Aunt Maria, don t ytfu tbiiik it would be to have loss of 'em, and have 'em biggel 't" An amateur nonsi uBM-umu unj, bor buried a rat in a iUnver-pot, leavmg the tail protruding from Üie earth and traillad to a stick, and tlicn proneuted ït to Mm as a rare specimen of cactus. 1 he lover of flowers earefuUy watched and watered liis uew accmiftitioü for everul days but at last hi wiïe pulled tlio tlnng up by the roota, and he discontmued frieudly relations vfith the joker. Jones and lii wile rera ibvays Qbaxrelinfi about their eomparative talent for keepüig a iire. She insisted. Unit rast so Burely as he attempted to rearrange the stickS with the tongs lie put the hre out. One nierht the church-bell sounded an alarm, and Jonea spvang for his üxebuckct, eagpr to rush to the conflagration. " Mr. ïonek crird W wüo a fe reaehed the door, " bWS biu and take the tongs." In roviewing Dr. MtzEdward Hall s maak on "Abraham," Mr. Richard Graut White saya: " Híb treatment ot on e who has uiidortaken ld hOSp others in tho Btiuly of out common njother-touie remiud w of the conduct of tlic shnunaHtcï who cuiik' on deck to fiud that, in Iüh absence, hls mate had undertaken to read the buriul èèttijto over the body of a departed foretopman, nnd had uotually be;.un the solenm task- 'I am ' etc. ' YOt the reeiuTechon and the life " broke ín the affronted skipjier. ' Ghv ')r tho Iwok- Tmm the resm-rection and the life.' "