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Oors and friends would help each other oc- cas'onaliy, even with small sums. they might do an indefinite deal of good. A, small sum of money may be so msed as to pay large amount of debts-onIv keen ;t moving from hand 10 hand, and m, hoard 1 It up like a miser. Our banks are sound to the core, and so are most of our mer- chants; no new arrangements are making. while the old ones are diminishing of course they must get through after a while. Where's the use then, of signing like an old bellows, wearing long faces, and look ing as melancholy as Patience on ,nonu- ment? We move that every man whose face hereafter measures more than two feet and halfin length, shall be expelled from good society, and put in the middle ofnext month.' All in favor of this motion, say aye-contrary no-,he ayes have it !- Clear out yon long faced gentry-Presto 1! be gone !-I'hH. Herald.

 HOmoring the Apostles. I have entered on the register the s,raneest name imaginable. mason's wife, and belong ing to the next parish, presented her urchiT. What took place is exactly as follows: " Say the name," said I, with my finger in the water. "Ac,s, sir" said she. "1cts," said l, "what do you mean 2" Thinks | to myself, l will ar the clerk to spell it.-- He did; 4Acts-so Acts was the babe, and will be while in nths life, and will be doubly, 'rebly so registered, if ever it marries or d'es' Afterwards, in the vestry, I asked the good woman what made her choose such name. Her answer rcrbatim 'Why, sir, we be religious people; we'vo got vour on' em already, and they be called Matthew, Mark. Luke, and John, and SO my husband thought he'd compliment the apostles a bit" The idea ofcomplimenting the apos- ties with this little dab of living mortar was too much; even l could not he Up laughing. have no doubt she will go on to Revela- ''ons' they being particularly religious peo- ple.-Btackwood.