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this amount in any case as we had to 

 pay twenty-five dollars for having the 

 building moved, and we shingled the 

 whole over the clapboards, and had we 

 not had the original building we 

 would not have put the clapboards on. 

 "The roof rests on Lane's Barn 

 Door Hangers, No. 3, which cost us 

 altogether twelve dollars and thirtv- 



A Very Old-Time Yankee. 



lingo Black tells this story of his 

 learning what he calls the American 

 language, lie rushed on a tram just as- 

 it was pulling out of the station and said 

 to a friend: "I tell yon I caught this 

 train just by the skin of my teeth." The 

 Yankee friend replied: "Bravo! Well 

 done ! You are catching on to Yankee- 



A CHICKEN HOUSE THAT BECAME AN OBSERVATORY 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 



five cents. The whole works admira- 

 bly ; it is easy to push the roof off as 

 shown in the picture, and when this is 

 done the telescope is practically out- 

 of-doors. The view through the door 

 makes it appear as if the head of the 

 pier is much lower than the top of the 

 walls, but this is the result of the per- 

 spective merely. Actually the top of 

 the pier is a few inches higher than the 

 top of the walls." 



ism pretty rapidly." The witty clergy- 

 man replied : "You Yankees claim every- 

 thing but do you claim that Job was a 

 Yankee? Job uses the expression in his 

 nineteenth chapter and twentieth verse : 

 'I escaped with the skin of my teeth.' 



The general magnetic survey of the 

 earth undertaken by the Carnegie In- 

 stitution is expected to be finished in 

 about two more years. It has now 

 been going on for a decade, already 

 includes some three thousand stations 

 in more than one hundred different 

 countries and groups of islands, and 

 has involved more than 160,000 miles 

 of ocean travel. The area included 

 stretches from 80 degrees north to 70 

 degrees south, about nine-tenths the 

 total surface of the globe. 



Lonesome? Well — everybody's lone- 

 some in a way. But the cure for lone- 

 someness — the permanent cure, the 

 cure that will sustain us in old age 

 when the comrades of youth are fall- 

 ing thick and fast around us — is self- 

 sufficiency. It is the habit of re- 

 sourcefulness. This children learn 

 best in quiet homes where entertain- 

 ment is not lavishly provided. — A Plain 

 Country Woman in "The Ladies' Home 

 Journal." 



When you think your walk is profitless 

 and a failure, and you can hardly per- 

 suade yourself not to return, it is on the 

 point of being a success, for then you 

 are in that subdued and knocking mood 

 to which nature never fails to open. — 

 Thoreau. 



