A Year's Pensions

The record división of the pension office for the fiscal year ending Juno 30 makes a largor showing as compared witu the woik in 18S5. Thia exhjbit of the record división is a fair sample of the other worli of the bureau. During the year the nuin ber of claims for increase filed was 166, 317; origináis, 51,887: Mexicana 18,785; total, 176)879. The result of the year ending June 30, 1885, was: Increases of pensions, 68,590; origináis, 38,079; total, 10i,C(9. The txeesa for 1SS7 is 72,210. A B-yetr-old boy in the city rcccntly commt'iiccd atteudh.p 8unday-sebool, and bccame dceply intcrested in the teachlngs he received. Aftcr oue or two lessons had been given him l.o expreMeü a .-ti"nií wish Cor a "slloff-sbot" líis foml mother was rather astonished at the requost, and aked the youni; hopefui whj he vvanti d such a thiug. Hls reply ñas prompt and to the point. ''At Sunday-sohool," said he, "they told a story of a Huif boy that killed a big glant With a sling-sbof, and he vauled one." A funny incident in connectlon with the relief fund of the Peiinsylvanla Ratlroad Relief association is relatad bj an employé. The coropany barled the body of an employé and forwarded the man's fatlier in Ital.v a cbeck for $5)0. The oíd man was so ovtijoyed at spcuilug so much money for the loss of a son that he immediat'ely dispatchcd anolhttr son to this country, with InatrucMom to get a job on the l'ennsylvania railroad and become a meniber of the association. He is still worltr ine on the road. Not long a?o a bríght little srirl in the Sunday school, who had reacheil the bottom facts of the lessou - the creation of mau out of the dust of the earth- carne runulnir home to her raother overfull of confidence in tlie scrlpture theory and her own refiective contlusions, and exclaimed: ' Oh, mother, I kuow it's all tnie what the Catechtsm eald about Adam belDg made out of the dust of the eartll - I know it is." "Why!" "BeeaUM I saw Auut Kimnu whlp Gracie, and I saw the dust fly out of her. I know t is so!" Little Gracie had been ulayinj; with the ashes. Last week, late in the afteruoon, s:iy.- The San Francisco Vhroniclt, a. case was callcd in one of the courts. "I would like to ask, your honor, that tbis case go over," said one of the attorneys. ' Oq what groundsi" "I am too tired to take ftlip." "Too tiredl" 'Yes, your houor; I have been ttrgulnL ;i case n department 2 all day, and I am rcally two exhausted to go on with this trial." "Very well, let the . ae go over. Cali the next case. The next was called and another attorney rose. "May it picase your honor, I would likc to ask tbat this case go over." "For what reasonï" "I am tootired." "You, tooi What bal made jou tiredï" "I have been Uitenlng all day to imj learned fricad in department 2." A minister in Massaclmsetts, says The Buston Travellcr, was talking to bis llttle 5or 6 year old daughter. Hesaid: "What would you do if Jesús should come right in bere?" Sho suid: "We would all take hold of banda around Him and say: Tbanfcyou, thaokyon, tbank you!' " Tbe same mlnister's liule boy of Sor 10, at the time of the'cunvass for Lincoln as president, oue evening In the sittiugroom formed bis sister into a company, and with sticks bearlng paper banncvs marebed around tbe room. His fathcr tolil blm Ihat people ahvavs had a speech on sueh occasions, and ms tbe procession caine around pust bitn satd: "Haltl Now lor the speech." Wben Ihe litile captain sald: '"Oor Father who art in heaven; hallowed be tby name; tliy kingdom come.' Hurrah for' Abraham Lincoln I" Says The San Francisco Chronicle: Althougb cannibalism is reported by misionarles to have died out among the islands of tbe south Beat, it is far more common than generally Imaginad. In New Ircland there occurrcd recently a big fi'lit. between two villages, and alter tlu: battle the bo.lies of those who bad fallen wcre eaten. Tbe bodles, afler belng sc.alded in hot water, are scraped with a bamboo kuife by old omen. Au o!d man cuts up the bodies, taking care to keep the tbish and sbin bones, which are used for 6pear heads. belnK wrapied In stout leaves, tbe dlsinembercd cadavers are placed ín ovens dug in the grouud, and in four days are rcady foreatlng. The nativei made do eoacealment of Iheir diSgliatlDg meal, and during the feast they held wild dancing and orgtes. The preparatioo of Bago, coeoauut and human brains Is called saksak, and is in gre.at dein md amone the iromen. The femalea aeem to be more brutal and savage thau the meu during a uibal banuuct.