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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 572, 28 August 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)

It is always leap year with the merry grasshopper ah d. : cricket 1 Tlie papere are searching for a man who is always ready for an emergency.' The woman always waiting, for an offer will be found. ■ ■ , A German editor remarks that in America thieves (ire--so scarce that rewards are offered f° r them. ;He does not seem to know that it is not until the rewards are offered ■ that they make themselves scarce A literary paragraph says the son of Abd-el-Kader is engaged on the life of his father. That is the way the Oriental chieftain usually departs this life. Eldest son and heir-apparent helps him out of it. 'lf you saw a poor, half-starved boy in the street, wouldn't you give him a part of your luncheon ?' said a little girl to her big brother of nine. 'No; sis,' was the reply, r but I should be-Willing, I'think, to give him sOme of yours, 1 ; ' Qh, yes,' said a grumbling beggar, f folks always helps theni as don't need any help, r Why, there's lightning; it can git down to the ground fa?t enough, all by itself, and'yet folks is all the time a putting up rode for it to slide, down, ' ~