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would have torn them limb from Jiithey had offered to touch ns. He nsed i over tiU he found me and bronahito go with me to school, and lie on the I baok. When we got home^m.door step. There were only a half-1 banged the door in oar faces and tolddozen or so of white-haired children! us we shouldn't neither of us enter itthat oame; they might tramp on Eex or again. Then he took me to Mrs Dursit on him and he never offered to hnrt|kee and I bound myself out to her. H r tthem. Bat let one of those river-men at the poor-house now, but when I'm ofstroll along the road, and his blood was | age, I am ' " "np. Tbey generally finished their walk i get hiiand concluded t.o tarn back before they ••

jaohed the school-honse. I had come'•om civilized parts, and I used to be ;

)nesome, I should have been fright-'oed to death many a time if it had noteen for Eex; he seemed to constitute

regular protector, and he

nod from the:

er pealed fort!

nat long ajjo aecl at the tread

SainIf!'om tTeVealma ot\he dead,c ? ? a v ' e fanished away

And the friendly ties are all broken aparAnd the spirit of lo^e is gone;

And discord and tumutt among them reiAnd jealousy's flame -bnrns r ' —

d to change her into a horse, and riduabout at night. Yoar grandmother

said she told the woman she didn't be-"' eit. 'She does,' she said; 'she

apart,

again

MISCELLANY.WITCH HAZEL.

From Harper's MagazineOne ol the wildest portions of Western

Massachusetts is the region borderingMiller's River,—a mad little streamwhioh runs frothing amid ragged rooks,

id lies darkling in sullen pools shadedby dense and tangled vegetation. Itjoins the Connecticut by leaping riotona-ly down a staircase formed of jaggedorags and the ruins of a broken dam,forming a striking contrast to the lake-like expanse of the noble river in whiohit quiets its trouble spirit.

Life on the borders of Miller's Riverfifty years ago found its prototype in thesaviDg character of nature abont it,Tragio histories are told of families who"•• generation after generation never

ited a suicide. Religion was replacedby superstition ; the vices of mankind

•ew lash and rank, and even woman'siture was warped and deformed by its

demoralizing environment. Long afterthe belief in witoheraft had been stamp-ed out of Boston and Salem, a balefnlafter-growth sprang np and flourishedhere, and though there were no execu-tions for witchcraft, there was grosscredulity and infatuation, ostraoism andpersecution. Riding one day throughthis tract of country, and emerging froma dense and dreary wood of butternutand pine, we found ourselves in a iittli

char^ of neglected orab apples, growu-nto a thicket with hedgerows of tangledbarberries, flanked its further side ; anda blasted elm felled by lightning, andpartly stripped by the woodcutter,barred the froDt gateway. The houseitself presented a most forbidding as-pect. Its curtainless windows were rid-dled as by the firing of sharp-shooters.Jom'e were boarded up ; a few stuffednth parti-colored raga; hardly a panevas left unbroken. Originally the front>f the house had been economically>rnamented with yellow paint, but theleather had removed nearly the last/estige of color, and reduced the wholeto a uniform and melanoholy gray. Mycompanion more familiar with the regionthan myself, eyed me curiously as weapproached, to notice what impressionthe scene would make upon me. 'voluntarily I touohed her arm, andclaimed, "A real haunted house !"

She laughed lightly. "The old peopleabout here declare that it is haunted.My aunt could tell you many a strangestory about it. I remember when I wasa child how she would make the cold

p along my spine by herstory of Witch Hazel, the old woman

h lived here."Would she tell me ?" I asked.I don't know; we oan ask her att. She used to teach school heren a girl." _ And my friend pointed to

himney which rose from a dense massof bushes, a solitary monument to thefact that a house had once occupied thespot. "That was the school house, andshe boarded at that farm house opposite,where my grandmother lived ; it is the

ily house between the Hazels' andDarken taver at th<

necticut. ]ig girl to liv

Miller's River with the C<was a lonely spot for a you] „in. She must have been glad and tinful enough when my grand-unclemarried her and brought her away toNorthfield Farms."

Aunt Wealthy was an old lady of mar-elous activity aud keenness ; her hair:nder her widow's cap was white asnow, but her eyes were blaok and piero-ng. Her form was thin to emaciation,

bnt her health was good, and her mindnimpaired by age. She wore a blackilk dress, shiny and limp, and unadorn-d with modern ornament of jet or pleat-jg, but it was unmistakable black silk,nd a slender gold chain held her hus-

band's heavy silver watch at her belt.skilled, high-backed rook-

._„ , :king swiftly back and for-ward, knitting interminable garters, andsinging as we approaohed, in a highcracked voice, a hymn which arguedlifcsle for her admiration of manhood.

men of high degree:The ti

the balance, bo"th ;ppear

Extracts and Baking PowderALL KINDS OF

.utflt of Mr. ]

ON COURT HOUSE SQUARE,

ER & GO.Hardware, Paints, S S S S j l S iOILS, &C, " ^ " " " ^ ^ ^ ^82 MARGARET STREET. j ,

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• VILAS,'

HARTWELL & MYERS, HALE OIL, SOAP,

p I

Atlantic White Lead, c — — — ' li*«,iris2AS<>r©©njH.W. Cady's Drug Stare.

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Averill's Ready Mixed Paints. i ^i^iSiPRICES I

PCBDX &

r $25 worth of

s i Z : H. W. Cady's Drug Store.

don't seem to have a highof men, Aant Wealthy,"! re-

marked.'That's becanse I've had experience,.Id," she replied.

d my friend: "was he false, AuntWealthy?"

"I've no tales to tell against Ger-ihom, now that he's dead," said AuntWealthy, placing her lips firmly to-jether, and humming the tune with

'•Aunt Wealthy," said my friend, coaxingly, "we want yon tell us some storiesibont the witche's—"

"The witches ?"'•Yes, old Witoh Hazsl, whose hus-

band danced on her grave when shedied."

'•Yonr grandmother could tell youmore about her than I can."

"Yes, but grandmother died ten years

"The Hazels were a queer lot; butthen I don't know as any of themwere really witches. The people round

jnsed to think so, and were mortally1 afraid of them, especially of the oldmother. The old man declared she was

1 a witch, said she sold herself to the devilbehind the barn, and he knew when shedid it. She waa a frightful looking oldcreature, and dressed in rags from headto foot, carpet rags tied around her feetand arms, and a piece of old quilt abouther body. Your grandmother hadenormous dog—old Rex they calhim ; he was half bulldog and half

.mastiff. There were lots of roughcharacters rafting logs down the Con-

i necticut in those day, and putting upI at the Durkee's tavern; but we were[ never afraid of any of them, for old Bex

ir failed me but ( One efter-at recess I heard the children

ihing, and saw them all coming in.I stepped to the door, and there stoodold Mrs. Hazel, and a horrible sight shevas, with her gray hair streaming overier tatters, and her crazy grin. I call-id 'Rex! Rex !' and the dog came bound-Tig over the opposite fence ; but as soonis be saw Witch Hazel he howled andslunk away into the bushes. She langh-ed at me as wicked as could be, and Iran back into the sohool-hoase and bolt-ed the door, for I was scared to death.

'That night your grandmotheistories till near midnight abou

She said there was one woman i

and I bound myself out to her. He's»- -oor-house now, but when I'm o"

n going to work for wages, an.--out. Mother lives all alone a

the old house with|thefdevil.'"Some way the I girl's story touched

me, and I put my arm aronnd her. 'Iam your friend, Dyoie Hazel,' says I. «Iam almost as friendless away ont here aayou; let us befriend one another.'

"When winter set in, the measle*broke out in my school.' I had neverhad them, and they go hard withpeople. Down I came, aad as ba« <uu»would have it, jour grandmother hadnever had them either, and down shecame; and not a soul to nurse us, foryonr grandfather and the boys were upnorth chopping. We lay there two days;eaoh of UB too sick to lift the hand forthe other. On the. third day in cameDycie HazeL 1 knew yon were sickt'says she; 'something told me so, and1 ve come to nurse you. Mrs. Dnrkeedoesn't need me more than half the time.

Iy anything after that tffi I found yourgrandmother rubbing me ana ponringhartshorn and vinegar up my nose tobring me to. She didn't ask me whathad happened—there war no need—andshe was glad enough for Grershom's sake.I sat and studied over the matter after Icame to myself. She is a witch, I thought—she is a witch, or she never oould havedone it. And then I remembered acharm that your grandmother told meMrs. Durkee had tried for her afflictedbaby, and I determined to make a cakeof Will's hair and barn it, and me whatwoald happen then to him and Byeie. Islipped into the pantry and got somefi6ur, and then went over to the schoolhonse, so that your grandmotherwouldn't suspect what I was doing, andmade a fire in the little fire-place there.I remember that when I picked up thechips the sky looked threatening. Therewas a great blaok okmd Mat looked liko.a hurricane bundling up ia the north-west. It was lined with a flulphar-ooior,and reminded me, in its shape, o* oldWitch Hazel grown to a giantess. Ilocked the sob.ool-b.onse ao6r, Hid tookWill's hair from the desk, and kneadedit into my cake. Then I made my fire,and when there was a good bed of coalsI sat the cake right in the middle of it.It had grown quite dark by this time,and just as I sat down the cake thereeame an awful flash of lightning that litup the whole country roand, and at thesame instant such a tremendous roar ofthunder that it seemed as if the wholeworld had exploded. The light did notdie out at once, bat lingered in theschool room quite a while, and a ball offire seemed to be dancing over the desks.With the darkness that followed, tilerain came down in one solid sheet Ioould hear the river rowing behind, andthe trees crahi it b k

told j and I can spend the nights here.' Andh 4 r

e i ^ b e d i 4 footing it baok and forwardoa'i didnnit s 1 •htyx «ft

; but when spring eame, and thelc?t broke up, and Will Dlrby oaWdownwith his first float of logs, I was all right

house at midnight, and thego by I'll whinny.' Well, <mother declared that that"

ir pulled me throngh, but it wan the sight11 of Will's face that pnt the flnishinff

your grand- j touoh to the bnsiiface that put the finishing

the clock struck . , .is howling like one possessed,sn pretty soon there came the sound, | to ride, andipperty-clap, of hoofs cantering on the | suaded mcnpike, and in a minute after there j go. Whi

waa a strange, human-like whinny at the j sittingite that made her ver- »-i—^ — —1J ' " —

grandmother

very night, | not quite himself that spring. When, she heard | he came to the house I wail not at homesesaed, and | for Gershom had come to take me oat

1 i your grandmother had per-that it would do me good tot I came back, there he

- • : o — *he door gt^p piaynj« -^nvery blood run cold. Rsx. He didn't say a^ythi/g, buTlg p ill e

idnight, telling many stories of thissort, and they made a great impression

my mind. At nooning next day, too,3 school-children were full of them.ie of the Durkee boys said that his

mother had taken quite a fancy to Dyoie" il, and had had her bound out to

the orchard roll o _ . „herself as round as a cartwheel, with herfingers just tonohing her toes, There isnothing can make her mad but to call

er Witch Hazel; if yon do that, sheill froth at the mouth, and Bhe willhase you like a dog till yon cross run

ning water.' Then one of the Taft ehildren spoke up: 'My father was going ahunting, and he met old Witch Hazel i]his path. "You won't shoot nothing,1says she. But he went, all the sameBy-and-by he saw a fat doe a couple ofrods off, and he fired at her. She ran alittle way, and then sat down and lookedat him. He fired again ; and took very

tef ul aim; but she never stirred. Then.. oame over him that this wasn't anykind of game, and he remembered that

heard tell if you fire a walnut plu_. _ witoh, it is the only thing that wiLhurt them. So he out a sprout, and whit-tled one end sharp, and put it in hia gun,and fired, and the creature gave a cry,and leaped into the bushes, and he.ouldn't find hide nor hair of her. But.phen he got home the first news heheard was that old Mrs, Hazel had fallendown stairs and broke her arm." Afterhe had finished his yarn, Molly Gaswellhad one to tell. Mrs. Hazel had beento their house, and wanted to borrowher father's horse to ride to Northfield,but her father wouldn't lend it. Thatvery afternoon a bumble bee stung thihorse in the pasture, making him throi.himself and break his leg, and her fatherbad to kill him to p,nt him ont of misery.When he oame home, there was WitohHazel standing by his gate. She gavehim a wioked look, and said, 'That wr~

• "" " into lend yoiHe always be-

lieved that Mrs. Hazel had changed her-self into that bumble bee, and stnng thehorse out of spite.

rou can imagine that after hearingtese stories I must have thought[ had come to live in rather a poker-lace. I confess my heart did failand I don't know but I wouldgiven up the school and have gone

if it hadn't been for Will Darby. Heand I had been engaged for a long time,

" Will was working on the river float-logs down in the rafting season,

enever he went by he pat up atDurkee's tavern, and would come up

It was my only really hap-;hout the whole summer,'t so desolate as I might

>en, either, for your grandmoth-1" it Gershom used to drive over

span of horses as often asek from Norfehfield Farms and

take me out to whatever was going on inintry round. Qershom wassmd good looking, and he

prided himself, so I've heard, on drii "the handsomest span and having theprettiest girl to sit beside him in all thecountry round. Will Darby was as pooras most young lumbermen, and ratherof a jealous disposition, but my heartwas just set on him, I could tell bisfigure as far as I oould see it on the river,

py time throughthough I wasn'tlave bei

_ „ nthe slip. graceful, '

„,, logs as carelesslong pole to keeph i flwig n thebalance, his curly hair flowing in the

nd, and a crimson silk han " ' ' 'lotted at his throat under

collar of his gray flunnel shirt."One day I was up on the mountain-

side looking for fringed gentians. T1

was late in the fall, and I rememtthinking I wouldn't go out for flow*

i that season, when just before m„ _ _ jg girl started up. My only thoughtat fifat was that she was unusually hand-

>me, for though meanly dressed in aidigo blue cotton gown, she was s

handsome aa a picture. Her black hai;,and straight as a gypsy's, wasDarse a

notted if h

a careless heavy mass at thel10k of her neck, and gre

>head, shading eyes

mlow

blaok as pokeberries. She held a knifein one hand and a basket in the other,and I saw that she had been searching

lervine and sassafras. We joinedother, and rambled about for an

• longer, talking about herbs andflowers, and I remember that I tookquite a fanoy to her. At last she said,'Your folks will be anxious about you assoon as they learn that I am out here.''Oh no,' says I ; 'I often take long walks

lyself, and Rex here takes good careie.' 'Rex would never hurt me,'

said the girl, trying to pat the dog,pinch slunk olose to my side, 'and per-taps you would be afraid yonrself if you

^new who I am.' 'Who are yon ?' Iasked. 'Some people call me WitohHazel,' she replied.

"Well, I will not say that I was not a-ittle taken aback ; still, she wasn't sofrightful-looking as the old one, and I

3wered up as peart as I eoald, 'Yous Dycie Hazel, who lives at Durkee'srern.''Yes,' she said; 'you'd be glad to live

there yonrself, or in a worse plaoe even,

alia ay. Thei'o brothers, they couldn't stand things,

. _id they went east to work at a maobine-shop. One day mother had a fit, and•hen she oame out of it she said they-ere both dead, but that they would

never be buried. Two day* after, weheard that the boiler had exploded, andthere wasn't enough found of them to

ke a funeraL After that mother tookorse than ever, for the boys.were allsared for in this world. I ran away

toldme afterward that he"asked her if thatsort of thing had been going on all win-ter, and she told him it had, for she waanxious that we should quarrel, and thaI should marry her brother. I didn'think anything of his qneerness untilafterward, I was so glad to see him aaain.I remembered his hair had grown prettylong up there in the woods, and I offeredto out it for him; as he w as going downinto civilized parts. 'All right, Itelilalsays he. After I had cut his hair

* it in a paper, and pnt it in mythe school room. Often and

often, when I was teaching those pester-ung on

he desk and stroke that pa t o j '

for my tasks."Some time after he went away I had

a visit from old man Hazel. He was icurious creature. He said that Dyoibhad told him that I had been kind -toher, and he wanted to thank me for it.'I think Dycie's got the making of agood woman in her.' Til do anythingin my power for her,' I said; and I askedv -~ why he had given her such a strange

e as Dycie. "Sightly its Boadycie,'sajshe; and I knew that he meantBoadicea. He staid and talked quite awhile, and he accused his wife of alltheir misfortune and of all manner ofwickedness, and said that when she diedhe would dance on her grave. Ttyou are willing to help Dycie,' he

eame, andher look id

jnst as he was leaving, 'and you can helpher if you've a mind to. She never hadany learning to speak of, bat she's tooki notion she'd like to come to school thiserm, and Miss Durkee she's given hereave. So if you'll sort of hear her les-ons private, so as not to shame her

before the young ones, it would be agreat favor; for Dyoie's despnt high-sperrited.'

"The next Monday Dyciejeemed to me I'd never seei. „„handsome. The bold, hard mannerwhich was the only thing about her thatI did not quite like, was entirely gone,and she was as gentle and modest as anyyouog girl oould be. She did not make

raoh progress with her studies, thoughhe tried very hard to do so. She learned) write her name, and to read in a slow,tambling fashion; that was all One

day she brought some rye straw toschool, and braided it at recess. I sawthat she was making herself a hat, andwas surprised ; for she generally went asbareheaded as an Indian. She finishedit in a short time, and then took a littleramble in the woods, saying with a laugh,that she was going to the milliner's tobuy some artificials. She oame backwith the hat wreathed with dogwoodberries. It was very pretty, bnt Iscreamed right out, 'Why, Dyoie, ohild,you will be poisoned ! !othing canpoison me,' she replied; and looald nothelp noticing how sweet and lady-likeshe looked, so different from her oldself. 'What has come over you, Dycie ?'I asked 'You l o o k ' ' J t likself. WI asked.

h

, Dycie ?'Just likek

o k J u s tother people, don't I? ' she asked.hope you will think so.' And then.

had made the change.the river, just as I

had, only hers was of higher birth thanshe, and all her new resolves to study andmake something of herself was born ofher desire to please him. There waa

ithing touching in it that drew meir to her. It was about this time

that in her reading lesson in the Bibleshe came to the text, 'Unto Him thatloved us and washed us.' She stoppedright there, and looked at me with allher soul in her eyes. Tjhen He loved

3 before we were olean,' she said. 'I' any one could do that bui

if Christboy ; but if 'all love Him.. . . .i your lover,' I saiu, -jrciu »x>lake yourself lovely—' She

too.' 'And because youe tryii

. . —„ did n<_.let me finish : 'I will olean myself up forChrist too,* she said.

"I had a great influence over that girl,greater than I ever had over any otherhuman being. I gained it because shethought I believed in her, and I lost itbecause she found oat that I doubtedher. God forgive me, I believe she wasalmost a Christian then.' Aant Wealthypaused in her narrative, and we saw thather keen eyes were dimmed with tears.

"I never meant to wrong her," sheproceeded, "and I do not think shewould have injured me then for theworld; but we eaoh wronged the otherbitterly, and I was the greater sinner.When autumn oame, Will Darby stoppedto see me on his way up the river to thewoods, where he has to spend the winterchopping. He was strangely changed,md I could not understand it, and toldlim so. 'We might as well understand

eaoh other, Wealthy,' he said, 'though Ididn't think I would be the • first tobreak. I expected that when I oamebaok this fall I would find yon marriedto that other fellow, Gershom What's-his-name, and then there would havebeen no need of any explanation.1 Withthat I declared up and down that I hadnever oared a mite for Gershom, and hadsent him about his business long ago,for I loved him better than all the worldbesides. ' I used to feel just that way>boutyou Wealthy,' said he. 'Used tool'jaid I, for my temper was up. 'You arebewitched, Will,' I said, a minute later,for he looked so helpless and miserablethat in my own torment I oould not help--•'-•- T him 'Yes, I'm bewitched,' he

I, 'and yonder is the witch; butnever could have done it if I hado Rare that yon loved me, Wealthy.'

„ »ve one look out of the window, andthere, strolling along the road, with her-hat trimmed with the poison-berries-ringing on her arm, and my Will's

imson handkerchief knotted at herthroat, was Dyoie Hazel. She smiled and

and joined a show. I performed a long waved her hat aa she saw ustime, dressed aa a boy; but father drop- j the window and I doa't

__» crushing oa it•A moment later, and above the sound

of the storm, I heard some one beating»t the school-honse door, and callingwildly to me to let her in. » wag ByrneHaset. I stepped to the door, and wasgoing to undo it, when I rememberedthat thi* was the confirmation of theeharm, and that I must not let her inuntil the cake was burned. It was aproof that ehe had bewitched Will thatshe was there now struggling like a.-wildcreature at the door. I walked to thefire-place; the eake was burning, andthe nauseous fames of the singing hairnearly choked me but I knelt down onthe floor and waited. Dycie left thedoor, and I could hear her at the win-dow ; she could see me in the fire-light,and she pushed against the sash untilshe burst it in, and it fell shivering onthe floor. Then she leaped in afte* it,and springing to the fire, raked theburning cake off of the ooais with herfingers. She thrust it in my face, andlaughed. 'You were trying a charmagainst me,'she ' ' - "^*you out.' Thenof cinders in her hands. 'Yon hare suc-ceeded,' she cried; «it is all burned.What have you done with him 1 Whereis Will Darby ? Then she began to ramand I saw she had lost her senses. I ranacross the way to your grandmother,and we watched her through the frontwindows all that night. The storm con-tinued, and she did not leave the sohool-house. Tlsee her L_._

oould hearh^rffigiggand chattering toherself, until the morning broke, and therain ceased, when she wandered downthe road toward Durkee's tavern. Lateron we saw old Witoh Hazel hurryingdown the road. Your grandmother calledto her, and asked her what-was the mat-ter. She answered that the lightninghad struck the elm that stood in front ofher house, and that it had fallen uponand killed a man who had taken shelter 'under it. Men came up from Durkee'aand carried the dead man away. It wasWill Darby.

"Dyoie never recovered her senses.She went to live with her mother. Atnight passers-by would hear her scream-ing and singing, and her mother swear-ing at her. The old elm lies across theirgateway now just as it fell. Old WitohHazel died at last I went to the grave.There wasn't anything that you oouldcall a funeral; only a few neighbors gath-ered out of ouriosity. After the sextonhad filled in the earth, the old maa, wh»was there from the . . .ie poor-house, took

and led her to theDyoie by the handgrave, and then he folded hisdanced just as straight and as hard as hecould tramp. Dycie did not dance. Sheonly stood and stared Mil she caughtsight of my face; then she ran to me,and said, as mysterious as though it wasa great secret: 'Him that loved us andwashed us.' Then she laughed in a sillyway, and singing,

Is burnt hair caie,'

she staggered away to her home. They .took her away at last, and she ended herdays in the mad-house. No one has liv-ed in the house since.

"I don't know as the charm had any-thing to do with the lighting killingWill Darby. I only know that I'd giveall the money Gerehom left me to knowthat I hadn't a-tried i t "

Aunt Wealthy ceased speaking; andbat night, as I drove homeward alonghe banks of the brawling Miller Biver,

and saw the moonlight stream throughthe vacant windows of the hauntedhouse, I oould almost fancy that thestricken elm at the gate was the crook-ed and malevolent form of that original^Witch Hazel. ^ * ® s ;

Where the Drains Come From.GranviUe Corners ia situated abont

two miles north of the Connecticut line.A large mill stream, runs through theplace (a branch of the Westfield river),furnishes a number of privileges, mostof whioh are utilised. Messrs. Noble &Cooley are by far the largest manufac-turers in the plaoe. They say that inDecember, 1863, they first made a drumin Mr. Noble's kitchen, from a boardfound in a barn; steamed it with a tea-kettle, and used two hog's bladders forthe headB. Next day they made a dozendrums and sent them away in a bootbox. They * ' ' " " '~feet, with fiiwater. They have made and sold 75,-000 drums. These were made of wood.tin, brass and nickel. They used forthe heads of all these drums 30,000sheep skins, which eame from Liver-

Halted>f your readers

pool, of the kind kmfleshes. Let none of .._....._.„.wonder where all the toy drums aremade hereafter. This firm also made400 gross of toy pistols, 23,000 boxestenpins, 700 gross rolling hoops, and42,000 boxes of wooden toothpioks.—Hartford Times.

Humorous.—The ice-dealer's little venture: "You

may talk about fine buildings, but it'athe ice-house that takes the oake."

—Orange county, Ma., has 8,000. peo-ple and only three panpers. They alltake winter boarders out there.— Boston-'oat.

—The horse thief may have his wash-ing done at home, but the sheriffgenerally does his ironing.—Glasgowlima.

—"Generous to a fault," may be saidof many men. At least they are

—A burglar got into the house of aountry editor the other night Afterterrible struggle the editor succeededi robbing him.—The fatherly Lowell Courier reminds

penuriouB young men who go off sleigh-riding alone, that there is a law againstsleighing without bells.

—Tutor in Mechanics—"If a bodymeet a body—" Sophomore [in an under-tone, Mechanic-ally] "Coming throughthe rye,"— YaXe Beoord.

—I'm aa astonished ghost! I didn'tknow before that my boy was a girl.[Phantom of Hamlet's father on seeingthe Diokiaflon.1—CouHer-JournaL

—A method has been discovered re-cently by which goqdjjfalking- shoes canbe made from leaffletT This will have atendency to relieve the great strain onthe pasteboard market.—Hatokeye.

—"But I pass," said a minister recent-ly in dismissing one theme of hia subjectto take up another. "Then I make Itspades," yelled a man from the gallery,,who was dreaming the happy hoursaway in an imaginary game of euohre.It is needless to say that he went out onthe next deal, assisted by one of thedeacons.