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know: "Wliat is tlie critica! period in a man's üfe?" V.'ell, iny boy, it usually beins ubout six weeks atter he is merried, and lasts all the rest of hie li ie. - Notes and Querie. Toads becorae torpid in winter, and hide tliemselves. takin no fooil fur four or live monihs, I ke candidatos for office, wliohunttheir holes and ueverap pearagain until just previous to a nómina ting conveniion. - National IVeekly. "Base-ball playing." gajgan eminent physician, "causes heart disease." Yes, but the d soase does its woik w th painful slowuess. Can't you find soraa discaso that will transact business more rapidlyP - Arkansaw Trave 'er. The telephone girls in the central office don't fue! insulted if a man speaks to them bofore he has boon introduced. He only has to say "Helio"' and thny will cliat as freely aa if they liad sung in the samo churcli choir with liini. - Fall Moer Aduane. It is very diCicult for a lady to enter or loave a carriage proper.ly. It requires practica and a rarriage. Tlie carriage is the hardest thing toacquire. -Su t Francisco Wasp. '"Urabagog," named by the Indians, means In Lugllsh "beautiful water," but there are lotsof people aloug the Androscoggiu that would like tosee Uaibügog s beautiful water datued. -