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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2503, 13 January 1877, Page 2

Cause Foe Fear.—A. little four-year* old remarked to her mamma, " I am not afraid of the dark.!' " No, of course you are not," remarked her' mamma, " for it can't hurt you." " But, mamma," I was a little afraid once when 1 went into the pantry in the dark to get a cooky." " What weae you afraid of?" asked her mamma. " I was afraid I could't find the cookies." How to Gut it Cheap.—A. German in the Western Addition writes for information as to do with his son. He says that whenever he gives him a dollar the boy invariably buys four glasses of beer f0r,20 cents to commence with. This the old man does object to; but what hurt* him is that his son spends the rest of his money in drank. Our advice is not to give him the dollar, but to apprentice him to a brewer. . . ; The Sexton Aaxis. —Agraveaiggcrin , a cathedral town in the north of England, whilst " gathenng-in" the remains of an aged parishioner, observed some women weeping by the grave side. Turninground, he sharply demanded of them— " What are ye crying for ? If ye dtanot bring Vm at eighty, when wad ye bring 'em?" . ■ Not a doubt of it. —" She make|. all the conquests she desires," said a gentle* man of a reigning belle to a lady. "Sure," was the response,." but she'd give all her filares for one xuaster."