Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 62, 25 November 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous

A Scotch iiuuiMer pn -ached a sermon, TPn-nt-v, takifig- for his text the words, "Know thyself." i T n liie Mouday he r reived a note (anonymous), saying, d propos' of your text, "know thyself," 80UU' people wouldn't kiit.w much if thi-y followed that d'Vtrine. " I'm sorry I wasn't at jour father's fun.ral Miss Moliie." Faith, and you didn't nmH much. It was very quiet i Beer at the wnk<- and only one liand at the cem«- cry. V"ii know father always detested any ceseiiioity like."— Puck. An article on the military power of Gtrmany" has caused Paris to lose its customary gaiety for a moment. The writer points out th«t when the law of 1880 goes into full effect, its twenty-fire classes of 295.0CH) ni*n each will cousti« tute a total of 5.647,000 fiuhtine men, A blushinft^yoiinu woman entered the circuit clerk's office in Perryville, Mis* souri, the other; day, and asked if a certain yo.ung. man had taken out ,a license to marry a certain young woman. She looked much relieved when the clerk said "Nol" " Well,' don't gire . him ©ne," she said, " I've got the first claim on him. 1 ' " Mamma," . said a Seventh Street merchant's little bey the other night to his mother^ ': what will God do to me it lam not good?" "He will punish.you, Bobhierand make you very, very sorry for having done wrong," replied the mother. " But if I kept ©n doing wrong, mamma, 1 then what?" "He would punish you more severely than before. " Mamma, do you think he would Boycott me after a while ? The mother told the father thatnight behind the curtains that he' must be careful how he talked tiiFore the children.— Washington Critic.