To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.--_O.W. Holmes_.




AGENTS


"John, whatever induced you to buy a house in this forsaken region?"

"One of the best men in the business."--_Life_.




AGRICULTURE


A farmer, according to this definition, is a man who makes his money on
the farm and spends it in town. An agriculturist is a man who makes his
money in town and spends it on the farm.


In certain parts of the west, where without irrigation the cultivators
of the land would be in a bad way indeed, the light rains that during
the growing season fall from time to time, are appreciated to a degree
that is unknown in the east.