I've hearn some folks pretend that it comes from the bowels of the airth, but it don't; its a thing of the air, and I've a notion it travels a mighty long way from its startin' place afore it reaches us.

" "Hevings and airth," sed the Deekin as he tumbled over in the entry way.

"If I'm regimented, I should at least like to know in whose service it is?" "Ye're over-quick at yer objections and sentiments," said Jamie Allen, coolly, "like most youths, who see only their ain experience in the airth, and the providence o' the Lord.

Isn't the Almighty, in His wrath, this moment proclaimin' it through the heavens and the airth?

Isn't the airth a page of prophecy, an' the sky a page of prophecy, where every man may read of famine, pestilence, an' death?"

" "Wal, ef she is, she's come to the right place; and there's no knowin' but that the Lord's guided her, Eben; for ef ever there was a man sent on this airth to do the Lord's odd jobs o' looking arter folks, it's Elder Kinney," said Joseph.

On the night before his execution, he inscribed the following lines with a diamond on the window of his jail: "Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then, open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker!

But s'pose, my friend, you go on this way for a year morewhat then?" "As long as I can thravel over the airth and Miss Cora isn't found, me faat shall niver find rest.

The most disgraceful thing on 'airth is a paupe"so Ithuel pronounced "pauper""the next is a street-beggar; after him comes your chaps who takes sixpences and shillin's, in the way of small gifts; and last of all an Englishman.

There's twice as much water as solid ground on this 'airth, to begin with; as in reason there ought to be, seeing that an acre of good productive land is worth five or six of oceans; and then you have little knowledge of my character and prospects to ask such a question.

A witness is sworn to speak to the point before the court; but he is not sworn to discuss all things in heaven and airth.

We've all o' the ellermunts, this very hour, Thet make up a fus'-class, self-governin' power: We've a war, an' a debt, an' a flag; an' ef this Ain't to be inderpendunt, why, wut on airth is? An' nothin' now henders our takin' our station Ez the freest, enlightenedest, civerlized nation, Built up on our bran'-new politickle thesis Thet a Guv'ment's fust right is to tumble to pieces, I say nothin' henders

Where on airth else

'What on airth, father, you doin'?'

he!" Mrs. Plausaby The Inhabitant A Pinch of Snuff Mrs. Ferret One Savage Blow full in the Face "What on Airth's the Matter?" His Unselfish Love found a Melancholy Recompense The Editor of "The Windmill" "Git up and Foller!" THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE.

"What on airth's the matter?" soliloquized Dave.

" [Illustration: "WHAT ON AIRTH'S THE MATTER?

"But the gin-an'-waterhow on airth you contrived it is a riddle!

Aye, an' at the Work'us door she said to the fellow, said she, 'All my life I've longed to ride in a bridal chariot; an' though my only lover died of a decline when I was scarce twenty-two, I've done it at last,' said she; 'an' now heaven an' airth can't undo it!'

And then came the werry natural enquiry, what on airth's a going to be done with it all?

"As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed 't was the best thing in the hull airth.

I knowed about God, an' how he made me an' made the airth, an' everything an' once I got thinkin' about that, an' I asked my father if God made the fishes.

But seems to me, jest the fac' he done it kinder makes fish an' fishin' diffunt from any other thing in the hull airth.

It seems that for years parst quite a littel Collony of yung Gents as gets their living in the grand old Citty has been in the habit of spending their littel summer Hollydays there, but, somehows or other, as I coodn't quite understand, the master of the littel Hiland made up his mind for to sell it, and all the yung Gents was in dispair, and wundered where on airth they shood spend their Hollydays in future.

A friend told me of a dinner scene illustrative of this sort of interference which had happened at Airth in the last generation.