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"Washington was born about three hundred yards from Pope's Creek (which runs easterly), half a mile from its entrance to the Potomac river, Westmoreland County, Virginia, in that district of the State designated the Northern Neck. This memorable spot is thirty-six miles from Fredericksburg, fifty-nine from the mouth of Rappahannock river, eighty miles from Washington city, and sixty-six miles from Mount Vernon.

Dear Reader : Did you ever notice the almost constant anxiety under which a fond mother brings up her offspring? How two-year-old Johnny must not stand near the window, for fear the little fellow might get cold in his head. How Susy, his sister, must not remain in the open doorway after "playing tag," lest she cool off too quickly, and get the croup.

''A fisherman upturned a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and draw them ashore, but he could not prevent the small fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.

"One Lord, one faith, one baptism. " Eph.

Said a lady: "This is an age of miracles; if I was as sick as I thought, what cured me? I live just as near God as any one can. I prayed him unceasingly to cure me, and I was not healed.

All pleasures must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false pleasure and true, is just this: for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false after you enjoy it.

Wisest and sweetest of all Anderson's many wise and sweet stories, is the story of the Nightingale. She was brought to sing before the king.

Over the door of a safe in a counting-room of one of our large manufacturing companies, is the motto, "Thou God seest me. " There is perhaps a fear of God in the mind of the book-keeper who is intrusted with the accounts of this corporation, that stimulates him to do his work honestly.

We are ready to meet the profound thinker on the statement, that all is mind; and if this is divine science, as will be proven, it will at length destroy all human error, whereas the conservative theory that there are two, even matter and spirit, and they unite on some basis, would forever keep truth and error at war, as it has done, without a victory on either side. — Science and Health.

Three or four citizens were having a confab at the door of the town hall, in regard to will power, and there was one of the group who dared go far enough to assert that a man of will power could draw a person to him from a distance of 100 feet. "Try it—try it!" exclaimed one whose faith was very slight.