Mbs Gbunpt decidedly objects to cremation, for if there ii anything she does like, it's a nice, respectiful funeral.-*) Rochester Democrat. Thb editor of one of our religions papers says it ii bis firm belief, that "no man who uses seven story words can take rarik in literature.". , " Who was the meekest man P" asked a Sunday-school teacher. "Moses.** " "Very well. Who was the meekest woman?'' " Never was any." ~" "What comes after T?" asked a teacher of a pupil who was learning the alphabet. lie received the bewildering I reply, "You do^to see Liza." An obituary notice of a much-re«pected lady concludes with: "In her life she was a pattern worthy -to be^followed : and her death—oh! how consoafcfg to her friends/ , . ..--. James Grant Wilaon,- in his " Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers," gives an anecdote of Frederick the; Xxreat iwhich may be new to some readers. The King once sent an aid-de-camp, Colonel Malachowki, a small portfolio, bound like a botlc, and containing five hundred crowns. Meeting the officer afterwards, he asked him how he liked the new work. "Excessively, sire; I read it with such interest that I await the second volume with impatience." In due time the second volume earner in" scribed, "This is complete in two volumes."
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1860, 18 December 1874, Page 2
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