A Proverb Extended. 
“ Sambo ! my massa always trabblo; yours 
cbber stay at home.” “ Dat berry true, Jim; 
but you know what the proverb say ; ‘ rollin ’ 
stone gadder no moss !”’ “No Sambo, but it 
gadder polish ! an’ dat era’s a qu-aliflcation your 
massa stivnd berry much in need ob !” 
A Danbury paper says: “An out-of-town 
couple applied to one of the Danbury drug 
stores on Wednesday for soda water. ‘What 
syrup propounded the clerk. ‘ Syruj)—syrup,’ 
repeated the bucolic fop, with an incredulous 
stare, and then le.aning forward he impi-cssivcly 
added: ‘ Stranger, money is no object to me to¬ 
day ; you kin put sugar in tbcin.’ ” 
“ What’s the matter, Uncle JeiTy ? ” said Mr. 
-as old Jeremiah R. was passing by growl¬ 
ing mo.st furiously. “ Matter! ” said the old 
man, stopping short; “ why, here I’ve been lug¬ 
ging water all the morning for D. C.’s wife to 
wash with, and what d’ye ’spose I got for it.?” 
“Why, I suppose about tfin^^nts,” answered 
Mr. ——. “Ten cents! She told me the doc¬ 
tor would pull a tooth for me some time.” 
A Fat Lot 
An amusing game of base-ball was played in 
■ Rochester, N.Y., between picked nines of lean 
men, named Stringbeans, and fat men calling 
themselves Marrowfats. Both clubs were weighed, 
the Marrowfats weighing in the aggregate 2,040 
pounds, an average of over 226 pounds each, 
while the Stringbeans weighed 1,100 pounds, or 
an average of less th.an 123 pounds each. The 
st.akes were half a bushel of peanuts. The 
.score stood 24 for the Marrowfats to 26 for the 
Stringbeans, the lean men beating the fat ones 
by two. 
A elergj'man pas.sed a boy weeping bitterly, 
halted and asked: “ AVhat is the matter my lit¬ 
tle fellow?” The boy replied: “Before, we 
could hardly get enough to eat, of anything, and 
now what shall wo do ? for now there’s another 
one come.” “ Hush thy mourning, and wipe ofl’ 
those tears,” said the clergyman, “ and remem¬ 
ber that He never sends mouths without He 
sends victuals to put into them.” “ I know 
that,” said the boj% “but then He sends all the 
mouths to our house and the victuals to yours.” 
There is a little railroad at Bayou Sar.a, Lou¬ 
isiana, that runs to AVoodville on a very uncer¬ 
tain schedule. A stranger came in the other day 
and inquired how. often the steam cars made 
trips to the country. The party interrogated 
said “ Tri-weekly.” “ What do you mean by 
tri-weekly?” The answer was, “It goes up 
one week and tries to come down the next.” 
An Upsetting Sin. 
Dr. M’Cosh (now President of Princeton 
Seminary) tells the story of a negro who prayed 
earnestly that he and his colored brethren might 
bo preserved from what he called their “ upset- 
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at the close of the meeting, “you ain’t got to de 
hang of dat ar word. It’s ‘ besettin,’ not ‘ np- 
settin’.” “Brudder,” replied the other, “if 
dat’s so, it is so. But I was a praying in de 
Lord to save us from de sin of intoxification, 
and if dat'ar ain’t a upsettin’ sin I dunno what 
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