"Them shiny-lookin' swells ain't got no money!" is what I am convinced he reports to his friends.

It is said that a minister is greatly handicapped to-day in all his efforts for two reasons: First, that the times are spiritually lethargic, that men are so engrossed by material aims, indifference, or sin that a pastor can get no hold upon their hearts.

We scarcely get, in all our post-collegiate life, a chance to sit and muse.

Having completed the circle, I stood in the passage, and endeavored to get an idea of how the place looked.

Having taken either respectful or affectionate leave of all, and got every thing in readiness, on the 20th day of August, 1825, about midnight we again entered our copper balloon, if I may so speak, and rose from the moon with the same velocity as we had formerly ascended from the earth.

Although he was probably stronger than I, as he was heavier and older, my suppleness enabled me to get the better of him in a wrestle; and I got him under me, when the master, attracted by the shouts of the boys, made his appearance.

I shall expect to get a letter from you to-morrow morning.

One reason why it is so hard to get business men into the Church, or to interest them religiously in any way, is that ministers, in general, do not understand or appreciate business men.

"Now I'll get possession of the estate and the iron-mine.

Then, a thought came, to try to get a view of the abyss.

" "I know I got a big job, Jimmie, but I want to make a man out of you, temper, laziness, gambling, and all.

They manage, one way and another, to get the upper hand of their legal lords, law or no law.

You've got some active work to do; No doubt you'll see it well put through.

A week later I got word that my father was dead of an ague in the Low Countries, and I had to be off post-haste to Auchencairn to see to the ordering of our little estate.

Until a pupil gets a glimpse of that relation, that dependence of which we have just heard, with all that has yet happened in connection with it, he is not yet quite master of his fact.

When it was decided that we should ask the Orleans princes to our party, I thought I would go to see the Duc Decazes, the foreign minister, a charming man and charming colleague, to get some precise information about my part of the entertainment.

A small lake nestles in the bottom of it, from which I got water for my tea, and a storm-beaten thicket near by furnished abundance of resiny fire-wood.

I endeavoured to get a sight of her, and thought I should be comparatively happy if I could converse with her, as formerly, though she was the wife of another.

Once let the Celestials get our American way of doing business, and there will be plenty of China ASTORS among us.

This made them sleepy, and the consequence was, that the minnit they was led out on the grass, "Sleep, barmy sleep," got the best of 'em, and they laid down and slept like infants.

He thought he would send it to her, asking her opinion; then he would get an answer, and see her handwriting.

'But we've got time for this.

" But how Mr. Pickwick dropped his whip, how Mr. Winkle got off his tall horse to pick it up, how he tried in vain to remount while his horse went round and round, how they were all spilt out upon the bridge and how finally they walked to Manor Farmthese things are known to everybody with an inch of reading.

Rumors of war from Europe must always be expected, for how can we get Pacific news by Atlantic Telegraph?

'Ain't we got just lots to be thankful forthe business growing and the bank-book growing, and our Selene on top?