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... I ?? ?? .. .. . ?? . . . - ?? . . ?? . GRANDMOTEER'S GRUMBLE. Ahl deary me !how times arO changed ! The world's turn'd upside down, Since sixty years ago I went To school with Betty Brown. We work'd our samplers aide by side, We learnt to spin and scw, And knitted stockings strong and well At twelve years old or so. Poor Lindley Murray, too, weeonn'd, (Now voted quite a bore l) And cipher'd ...

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... ?? ?? . ?? . .. ._ .. ?? ?? GEMS OF THOUGHT. The best way for a man to get out of a lowly position is to be conspicuously eff,~ctve in it. The best thing to resort to, when evil comes upon uts, is not lpimentation, but action ;we should not tilt and suffer, btit rise and seek the remedy. A good book and a good womtan are excellent things for those who know how to appreciate their value. There ...

POETRY

... -I-- 141-1 ~ ~ __ ?? __ __ ?? __ __ _ DROOP ROT. tweeter Is the wardore furl gh After long laborious fight; 1nnbeims bunting through the ?? 8een more gloriously bright: Wu from cave or mitue emerging Lcurns to doubly vaine light. So the way worn, unfering pilgrim, Uuffete I by troubles's igae. ?? roi ...

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... 'P erarm f vittilono. I AN INDIAN STORY.-GeIneral$)~~ jjat~~ iag Indian story. He wvasne hlesaindon a Iennes, withi whomh wihe onegotiato a treaty but rri I cftilwol iqX ¶ 3sdipmwev'r 6kwkt, IM h r5Wcde~jrietb) cfg'jl tg Li' Jiyh9 MPIL1s MU I th4 rI Yf satfl{ ? 9 ~'Wo fll' 'nif~ak ?? U~u '1 3btjdrth a~hrtjcrgiA~ 4tii ~tv P1 ?? T'bmts~ s~e'o~btno-itle&stqeI ?? 4r11w I Qz`{~~{#p±h~h1 psblc Rl1> ...

Poetry

... go0efti. NO0T tfN'TO US. As of the sceds stdate de, Sm canortell wbat secret ?? A ors ot their destiny, SO midst thelaccidents of life And gernils Of power ~ innae NonO car et ad kind fate. 'Tw ixt mn sae The rich, ayho spend and have to spare, jay still but misers be; give And they who live their sin's togv May haveo D charity. The poor man in his humble apboeo !day be an honest Inanea ?? ...

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... ?? - -- I ;radctito- I I G==~EMS OF THO°UGHT. Osun, ?? than extraordinary natural ?? a vast majority of in. pawer, has bee tue secret of sbeendisti gih for extiu- btanceS among those h oriar Mcelts , to youir enemy is forgiveness; to your Thieabe t tinig to g to y, rienyour heart; to your child, a Opponent tolerance father, deferenco; to your mother, con- good Ta;npld t a Isr pmiload of you; ...

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... GEMS OF IllOUGHT. Wiie mesrssorly urged aud lpressed I powr hic teythought they bud ntick lv0011 workfiltli to whom nIO material isworth- Nature Is telii,tinwlte luxboratorythere reno waste prodlrt~ ~ittd cose fertility Of invention is incea- ~o 'oAGAINST L's -Whbat inextricable conl- worldfor s-srhivebern in, but for the variety is-bt ,e- fu~ stod is te faicos, thle voices, and, the hand. ~~ ...

Poetry

... 1?ottq. I SURNAMES. Men once were surnamed from their shape or estate, (You al may from history worm it,) There was Lewis the Bulky and Henry the Great, John Lackland and Peter the Hermit, And now, when the doorplates of misters and dames Are read, each so constantly varies From the owner's trade, figure aud calling, surnames Seem given by the rule of contraries. Mr. Box, though provoked, ...

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... a- ietiro. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Life is half spent before we know what it is. He that would enjoy the fruit must gather the flower. WNe profit more by the faults than by the successes of other, Time is a travelliag thief, ever stealing, yet no man can catch it. Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. Be good-natured, if you can, for there is no attraction so great, no charm so ...

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... - ?? I ?? I i I I K bo *WWEtiTRIFLE,:. ?? eoolt*~41e top of Mont Blanc. Wost against a farmer's graint 1His mowing, An tiec'ay ncewrote over his door, ~All kbinds'of dyings~itufs sold h'enre. A man has amplied. for a divorce in Chiicago, on the giound that be was niarried only in fon.'' A sulhoilbov's aspiration-' u, how I wish I were at foun- fain, fi)r then I coulil always be playing! ...

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... aricties. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Open evil at all eveits does this good-it keeps good on the alert. Every art is best taught by example; good deeds produce good friends. Any one tny do aA casnal act of good nature, bnt a continua- tion of such acts sbows it to be a part of the tealperasowet. Mirth should be the embroidery of conversation, not the web; and wit the ornament of the mind, not the ...

Poetry

... TOodni. - = = - - - -- - , - , SOME CALL THE WORLD A DitEARY PLACE. Sonie call the world a dreary plae, And tell long tales of sin and woe As it there were no blessed trace Of sunshine to be found below. They point, when autumn winds are sighing, To -alling leaves and withered flowers; But shall we only mourn them dying, And never note their brilliant hours? They mark the rainbow's fading ...