VARIETIES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4038, 7 December 1881, Page 3

VARIETIES.

There is a atory of an old hunter who came into Chicago one day, and after wandering about for a while, looking at the public buildings and other improvements, got into a chat with one of the inhabitants, in the course of which he mentioned to him that he had once had a chance to buy all the ground that the city was built upon for a pair of old boots. 11 And why didn't you buy it ? " " Well, I hadn't the boots just then," was the old man's calm reply.

A tramp, who called at a clergyman's house in West Haven, Conn., was given shelter night in the barn, and invited to breakfast the next morning. After eating liberally, he joined the family in their morning devotion, and his final feelings were evidently touched. He went away with a thankful heart, and returning the next night, stole the pastor's harness. A negro once thought to excite the admiration of his hearers by tellingthe most monstrous fibs. "My brethren," he said, " we shall nebber hab agin sech good times as dey had in de ole Scripter days. We'se got to be so orful bad an' sinful dat it's jess as much as the Lord can do to stan' it wid us for sebenty year, an 1 even den he fills up de time wid neuralogy an' rheumatiz an' yellow fever. So drefful wicked is we dafc. even de pore little chil'ren has to have • measles an' teethin' and mumps in order to show em dat human life has got down to de dregs in de barr'l. But brethren, it didn't nse to be so once. In de days ob de prophets a man never paid 'tention to a young woman till he was fifty or sixty, an' even den he warn't in no hurry to get married. He knew dere was time enuff for all dose tings even after he'd turned a hundred. Why, my frens, so remarkable was dose Scripter times, dat men used to lire to be five hundred year ole, an' it not unfrequently happened dat dey was most twenty fire year ole when dey was born." —Ex. __.