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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2775, 5 January 1878, Page 2

'■ Integrity of Chixactkr.—Young .men should be deeply impressed wittrthe" fast importance of cneritpin^-thoivjnin* , ciples, and of cultivating those habits i which will secure them the confidence .and the esteem of the wise and Mm good;% ■ Intbbestiko Exp*aiMßNT:^-4.!obJ&te^|/ , porary says in,a jeeent. article—" a yoa" : wish to know whether it matt' is superior , to the prejudices of the world, ask him to . carry a parcel for you." A .feljow, tried this plan a few days since 'upon' a" welldressed man he met at a railway station. The well-dressed .man-took the parcel, and the other Was satisfied that he was superior to the prejudices of societal, but he has not seen the parcel since.—Judy. A.k ixmspivsißLK Cox£>iri6kA~Edi|li (that dreadful young flirt)—" Do jbk know, coi, I think I shall marry!" Cousin (with designs in that quarter himself)— " Heally! \'6u amate me! SootoP " Edith —">W>Mi: |»ftf ps. iv, * month or, two." Cousin—''Mair I "^ the liaiie <tf'fh« happy man P r> * Edith—" The whatP" Cousin—" The man, the—er—what is it t —the intended ? " Edith—" Ah, by the way—yes—l jnust:begin to thing prth^L too, musn't I?" '-„" ' ' Awkwkm fob Mi;—Tiltr* wiii<|uite a company of fashionable suests. sitting round the table after dinner, wlioj'ap. pened to disagree as to the date w a certain ercnt of which they had been talking, When the host's eight-jreir-old-'no attempted, to expedite the solution 1 of tb* problem by. suddeily. asking—^WhjfV mamma, what day ,waji,it ypjd: Wiuh*l me? 1:. _ /i „, >'■-:■''J^.l

It was in Boston. V;A low musical aoond ' came up from the closet'andfer the .stair*,: and the mother listened. 1 It was her little' son, softly singing, to'himself. ' "1-need thee ererj hour." *• How glad I im 1 that I'taok my boy to hear that aermon on 4 Closet Devotions' at the Tabernacle last v evening," said she. Then she.cotild not forbear stepping quietlj. io . {he, old'sti door to catch a glance at the " dear, child,^ the ." precious-lambt-blesi: hu feeartl " So she did. And she s*w him—saw him devoutly engaged in hamming that revival hymn, and also—running hiafingrtarwrnd in the preserve jar! And tiftre the :ds? votions broke up-~broke up amid grbatas of repentance for sin found wt.s*:Vf7 v " ■' -■ ' ' '