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SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.--A few days since, during a recitation in
geography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of
electricity in the lesson on "Thunder and lightning." It had been stated
that when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to
_strike_. A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised
his hand and upon recognition said: "Do _people_ have any electricity?"
Upon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a
greater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he
added, "Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?"

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BOOK NOTICE

_Pleas for Progress._ By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D. Publishing House of
M.E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $1.00.

Dr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise
and not sunset. As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous. He
sometimes forgets to take off his "Titbottom spectacles" when he looks
southward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he
sees. This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at
various times and places, both North and South. It is a very valuable
book for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of
the South think on these great National problems that the American
Missionary Association is helping to solve.