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Many oddly addressed letters daily pass through the post-offices. Several of the rhyming kind are somewhat remarkable for the poetical skill displayed by the writers.

" Max ," of the Buffalo Express, says, the gentleman who has succeeded to President Cleveland's' place in the old law-firm is the father of a pretty, blue-eyed, bonnie lassie, aged four. Sometimes she visits the office, and she has captured the heart of big Bachelor Bissell, the remaining partner.

Mr. Editor: —Will you please (if possible) give a little space to the following: Quite recently, my attention has been called to two or three articles in a Boston magazine, of such a nature as to allow, by direct implication, that my Teacher in Christian Science is regarded as being guilty of doing what I know to be utterly false.

"Oh Ben, 'tis only the first of December, and I've had a letter from Santa Claus already," said Amy Graham to her brother, as they walked across the fields, on their way to school. "Nonsense," said matter-of-fact Ben, "You're always getting notions into your head, Amy.

These two witnesses are infinite and eternal Love; "they shall prophecy a thousand, two hundred and threescore days. "This does not refer to a period of time.

All nature, all existence, which is a living, substantial reality, metaphysicians have analyzed and sublimated into a ghost, called the "absolute," and to this ghost they have given a shadow, called the "relative;" and, then, they are unable to tell which is which or what is either. They follow closely the directions of Mephistopheles to the student: "See that you conceive profoundly what is not meant for human brains.

Mature Lady. You Mr.

Mr. Gill on street, looking for an approaching horse-ear.

Christian Scientists have often been threatened with legal persecution for the good work they are doing, and in a few cases the attempt has been abortively made. In Georgia, they have framed a law which seems designed to make our action illegal.

I have learned, O God, that it is not possible among imperfect men to escape all suffering, even by religion. We are not to be in the lion's den and yet never feel the lion's fang or paw; nor in the furnace and know no sense of burning.