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MAROONING. During the palmy days of the buccaneers, when the master found it necessary to restore discipline by punishing one of his cutthroat crew, he used to "maroon" him,—that is, set him ashore on some treeless key or coral reef, far out from the mainland. Here the helpless maroon usually anticipated the tardy process of insanity and starvation by drowning himself in the surf. This word marooning" has been handed down from generation to generation of sallow-faced coast dwellers through the two hundred years that have flown since the last buccaneer of the Spanish main dangled from a man-of-war's yardarm, until of late some enthusiastic camper-out, with the purpose of making a more poetic name for his favorite pastime, applied it to the life of the midsummer dwellers on the Florida keys.-Outing.

PROGRESSION.-Father.-"When I was a boy, children had some respect for the advice of their parents."

Son.-"Yes, but in those days the children didn't know any more than their parents did."-New York Truth.

THE FIRST PERSON WHO FELL IN THE REVOLUTION.-Hezekiah Butterworth, in "The Patriotic Schoolmaster," says the first person to fall in the war of the Revolution was not Crispus Attucks, but a boy. If Attucks, who fell by an accidental encounter, merits a monument as the first who fell for liberty, so does this boy.

There were a few merchants in Boston who continued to sell taxed articles. They came to be despised and hated. The boys, in their hasty patriotism, made on a placard a list of the names of those who imported and sold proscribed articles, and put it on a pole that bore a wooden head and hand. They set this image up before an importer's door, with the wooden hand pointing towards it, and this made the importer angry, and he fired a musket into the crowd of boys. Christopher Gore, afterwards governor of Massachusetts, was slightly

wounded.

Little Christopher Snyder, a boy whose mother was a widow, and who had followed the spirit of the times, fell mortally wounded. They took up his form and bore it away, and the whole city wept. Never in America was there a boy's funeral like his. They made for him a patriot's coffin and bore his form to the Liberty Tree, which stood near the present corner of Washington and Essex Streets. On the coffin was this motto: "Innocence itself is not safe." The boys of nearly all the schools, some six hundred in number, gathered around the body as an escort. The bells tolled, business was closed, and some fifteen hundred people followed the first martyr to the grave.

As the procession marched, not only the bells of Boston, but those of the neighboring towns, were heard tolling. It was almost spring, and there was a mellowness in the air. That procession was a prophecy of events to come, a protest against the injustice of the royal power. The sons of liberty should remember little Snyder's grave.

A CHIVALROUS COMMUNITY.--Walker Barnstorm.-" What if this is a chivalrous community? Why should it prevent me from giving my celebrated rendition of 'Othello' ?"

Catamount Cal.-" Waal, yer see, ther boys hev already hung two afore ther Desdemonys could explain thet they wa'n't really bein' smothered to death.”— New York Journal.

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UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.-"I think," said the gentlemanly collector, "that it is about time you were paying something on that press. It has been almost a year since you got it."

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'But," said the editor of the Jazeville Gazette, "you told me that the darn press would pay for itself in six months.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.

DON'T BE CARELESS.-In these days of nurse-maids, the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk is a great safeguard to the health of the little ones. It will not easily spoil, being perfectly sterilized in its manufacture.

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EGGS AS AMMUNITION.—People in a little mountain town in Kentucky have a peculiar diversion known as egg-throwing." The heaviest battles occur on Saturday night. Jim Strong is the captain of one egg-throwing band, and Bill Eversole is the captain of the other. They have about twenty men each. Each man has to provide himself with a dozen eggs, and of course it is to his interest to buy them where he can get them the cheapest. As no individual expects to be struck by his own eggs, he does not require the dealer to candle" them. In this way the dealers in country produce here are able to realize at least cost price on their sickest eggs.

One night's battle was a glorious one. The moon was shining, and the boys lined up for the fray about nine o'clock. Every member of the two companies was present. The captains did not throw, simply directing the movements of their men. Each had his full quota of eggs when the battle began. The first volley was thrown by Strong's men, and six men on the Eversole side were struck. Then the Eversoles began to throw eggs, and at their first volley seven Strong men were marked, and one egg carried away the cap of Captain Strong. Then the throwing became indiscriminate, and no attempt at volley-work was made.

The sport did not cease until the entire four hundred and eighty eggs were thrown. Nearly every man had been plastered, and the captains were regular omelets from head to foot. It was decided that Strong's men won the fight. The Eversole company did the proper thing, and several bottles of a colorless liquid known as moonshine" were passed. The most casual observer passing along the street next morning could have told there had been an egg battle, for the houses, sidewalks, fences, and curbstones were plastered with eggs and shells. -Chicago Record.

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A CURIOUS TEST FOR BEER.-At Munich an ancient custom still obtains of the burgomasters and town councillors going annually to Salvator cellar in order to test the quality of the beer consumed by the people.

The test is a very primitive one.

The officials attend in their leathern breeches, and beer having been poured over the wooden benches the civic dignitaries plump down upon them. While there seated they sing an ancient song, the same that their predecessors have sung for ages, and in order to subject the beer to a fair test they sit long enough to sing the song through three times.

Then they essay to rise up. If, now, they find their breeches sticking to the benches, the beer is voted good and sound.

Having stood this test, the beer goes through the formality of being tasted, and then its sale to the public is duly sanctioned.

HEALTHFUL FOOD AND HAPPINESS.-The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table said that "true happiness is four feet on the fender before the fire." Delightful as such an experience is, healthful food and good digestion is absolutely necessary to secure the fullest measure of earthly happiness. Both animal and vegetable life are dependent for healthy growth and development upon proper nutritive elements suited to and adapted to their respective needs and requirements. The character and quantity of food, the time and manner in which it is eaten, will have a marked influence upon the man, his disposition, courage, and mental ability. If the farmer by continuous crops has robbed the soil of the natural chemical nutrient elements needed in the growth of the expected harvest, the return for the husbandman's labor will be disappointing and unsatisfactory. The student, artisan, and mechanic, to do perfect work in their respective departments, must have the best nutritive food, a healthy digestion, and the most approved tools.

In the last few years great attention has been paid by scientists, biologists, and social economists to practical questions about foods, which affect the happiness, healthfulness, longevity, and general welfare of the human family. The attentive study of these questions has brought to the notice of the general public a great variety of appetizing, nutritious Cereals, as well as a mass of most valuable information. It is a fact long known but too little recognized in actual practice, that in the manufacture of Superfine White flour fully eighteen per cent. of the muscle-making, nerve-sustaining nutriments are eliminated and excluded, thus reducing the normal value and strength-giving powers of the products to eighty-two per cent., while were the flour made from the whole wheat, as seems intended by the Creator, the standard would be 100, the unit of perfection.

This waste of eighteen per cent., which is entailed in the process of manu