Pith And Point

A fust man is very slow when t comes lo paying his dobots. - Fort Worth Mail. A man who gave hlmselí away is Baid to be afixioua to take it all back. - Lowell Cilizen. Ab lity and genios may command the Bh:p of life, but luuk holds the tillen - Wliüehall Times. Don't bo mulish. Never kick simply bcoause people talk behind youi back. - Winnipeg Siftinys. Sleepy oaslcrn towns had botter send delegations out to soe what western energy is like. - &t. Paul Globe. It is not enough to make a virtue of necessity. You should make a necessity of VÍrtoe. - Washington Hatchel. A girl may by like -silgar for two reasona. Slio may be sweet, and she may be full of grit. - Burlington Frte Press. Frogs should pool their issues that tliey may not be thrown on the markot all at oue time. - Neiu Orleans Pcayune. The Mobile Item says: " 'The Graves of a Household' will appear next week " ('reniation cannot come too sood. - New Orlen is Picnyune. A valnable paokage has been left at th s office for the Manitoba wave, whlch it may have by calling at oncein erson. - Chicago Times. Herud tary gout is a most unjust discase. The fathur has had all the fun and the son catches most of tho pain. - New Orleans l'icaynne. It is so hot down in New Jersoy that farmers aredoing llieir liaying by inoonlight. They use Jersey lightning on dark nights. - Ilurlington Free Press. Tliere may be more beautiful creatures than Ballimore girls dressed in tlieir Lmm acúlate togs, but they do not livo in this world. - Baltirnore American. Don't cali a very largo, strong, sinewy man a prevaricator. Jf you are sure he is a prevaricator hiro another man to break the news to bina. - Irish Times. Someone thinks excessive chewing, both of gum and tobáceo, is because America is H free country whcre all do pretty muuh as they chews. - Vicksburg Uerald. "I hear that thcre is an American college at Koinü," observed Mrs. Tripper. "Is thcre?" replied Tripper, how does its base ball club stand?" - Tid-Kits. Kentucky liquor men have decklod to limit the output of whisky. What our temperance friends want is to limit the input as woll as tha output. - New York Tribune. "Why do not women get bald?" ask9 an exchauge. It seems to us that any one ought to be able to answer that. It's bueause tliey don't have wives. - Yonkers Sta'esmnii. Chicago man (to frienrt) - Do you suppose Robinson wotild lend me $100? Fr end - Wel!, I dunno. Nor is a good time to ask hini for it; he's just got a divorce from his wife. - Drake's Magazine. Ye editor Iiereby returns thanks to one of Elba's fair ones for a delightfu] treat lo a delinious watermelon. The melon was only excelled iu swectness by the smiles of the fair donor.- Elba (Ga.) News. A furiuer said: 'One th'ng I don't like aobut city folks- Ihey be either so stuck up that ver can't reach 'em with a haystack pole, or sü blaxaed friendly they forget to pay tüeir board." - Detroit Free Press. "Women are unreasonable creatures," observed Brown, as he ordered another round for the boys. "Now, there.'s my wife. Before we were married, when I went to seo tier. she always thought it was too early for ma to go home, and now I can't go home early enough to suit her." - Chicago Mail. An old deacon was asked the otheir day: "How do 3'ou like your new pastor?" "First rate," fae replied, "except in one thing." "VVhat's thatP" "It is this," continued the deacon, "the Lord never made him totell jokes, and vet he insits on telling them. I never like to laugh when I don't want to laugh, and yel I have to do it constantly, just to save the pastor's ings." -