THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 3

THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

Courteous to everyone: — A storytelling friend of the editor is very particular in instructing his children to speak politely on all occasions. The result of his teachings is sometimes amusing. This was the case one day last week when he was putting the youngest of four through his preparatory course. The question was asked, " Who tempted Eve ?" The little fellow, after a moment's thought, with an air of confidence replied, " It's the gentleman who lives in hell ; I've forgotten his name."

From a boy's composition in the ' New York Herald ' : " A hen is an animal made by the Creator of the universe, which is covered with feathers and has a bill. The hen stands en two feet except when she is tired and then she stands on one and eats corn with her bill. When she sits down she sits down to lay, and when she lays down she lays down to set. The hen's eggs are good to eat unless they have been sec on."

The Lapps are a very religious people. They go immense distances to hear their pastors. Every missionary is sure of a large audience, and an attentive one. As soon as the family arrives at the little wooden church and the reindeer is secured, the father excavates a little bed in the snow, and the mother wraps the baby snugly in skins and deposit it therein. Then the father piles the snow around it, and the parents go decorously into church.