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One Advantage or Pock. —"I'm aye glad when wo hae a hog to kill," said a humble Scottish minister, who was possessed of a large family and a correspondingly. < small income, "for ye see there's a hantle o' miscellaneous eating about a swine." There is a man in Colorado who signs himself "T. Pot." It is said that the least thing makes him boil over.'.' A lady in a* paroxysm of grief was said to have shed torrents of tears. .'■' Poor thing," remarked an unfeeling punster, " she must bare had a cataract in either eye!" . Progressive teacher to pupil of. tho period:—" Sarah Jane, Hooker, just take that chewing gum out of your mouth. Little girls who chew gum in school need never expect to become President of the United States.''—American paper* \ Appeeciative.—An old' bachelor who died recently left a will dividing all his; property equally among the surviving women who had refused him, " because," said he, "to them I owe all my eartbly happiness." Vibginia once more comes to the front with the sword of Lord Cornwallis, exhumed near Richmond this time. This only makes 13 .swords, and you know Cornwallis had over 40 buckled around him.—Detroit Free Press. Enfobced Oivilitt.—Bowing to circumstances. - . Shakespeahe's Hamiet.— Stratford, on Avon. —Fun. A Eakb's Pj»otfifnss.~-Through a quantity of weefl*:.