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" Physician , heal thyself," is a very natural maxim, and very just. When we have seen a physician walking on crutches, or staying in his chair several months each year for several years, or bending in pain and weakness to the earth, and all his skill and that of his brother-physicians are entirely unavailing, we reasonably infer that their skill is small and their science nil.

Some well known facts seem to say that patients may be healed equally easily whatever their state of thought and feeling. Unbelievers have been healed.

There is nothing which adds to a boy's success in life, next to honesty of purpose, as the practice of good manners wherever he goes—on the sidewalks, in the buggy, as well as in the parlor. If you meet a boy who refuses to give you half the sidewalk or compels you to turn out on the sidewalk, you may class him as a boy with no sense of justice.

The New Northwest thus summarises an article upon Mrs. Gladstone: "A sketch of Mrs.

" Oh Mamma, Fred. Skyblink has had a big wart come on his nose this week, and another on each thumb.

A German woman recently said: "You temperance ladies think you know about the evils of intemperance. Could you see what my eyes have seen, and what I have known of my own knowledge in these things, you might talk.

The Pittsburg Dispatch vouches for the truth of the following touching story:— "I hear that Smith has sold out his saloon," said one of a couple of middle-aged men, who sat sipping their beer and eating a bit of cheese in a Smithfield Street saloon, last Friday night. "Yes," responded the other, rather slowly.

Bertie , Tom, and baby were playing together,—not in the pleasantest way, though; for baby could not always understand when his turn came, and when it didn't, or why it couldn't be his turn all the time. So he took turns when he ought not to, and became cross if anyone tried to prevent him.

At this season of the year when the holidays are approaching, one would do well before buying, to visit the well-known store of Palmer, Bachelder and Co. , 146 Tremont Street.

Our Exchanges are rapidly increasing, and they are an interesting and motley group. They wear all the colors of the spectrum; and their banners and devices, their objects and methods, are numerous and ingenious.