A Promising Boy

A farmer's wife, in speakiug of the smartness, aptness and intelligence of lier son, a lad (! years okl, to a lady acquaintance, said: "He can read fluently in any part of the Bible, repeat tlie whole catechism, and weed onions as well as his fatler." "Yes, inother," added the yoxing hopeful, "and yesterday I licked Ñed Rawson, threw the cat into the well, and stole Hickey's gimlet." The New Orleans Times offers a medal valued at $100 for the best poem expressing the gratitude of the South toward the people of the North for its kindness during the epidemie.