1 Plain Handkerchief for nose, 1 Fancy Head for Cane (morning), 1 Fancy Head for Cane (evening), 1 Picnic Head for Cane, 1 Bottle Peppermint, 1 Catnip, 1 Waterbury Watch. 7 Chains for same, 1 Box Letter Paper, 1 Stick Sealing Wax (baby blue), 1 do " " (Bismarck brindle). 1 do " " (mashed gooseberry), 1 Seal for same. 1 Family Crest (wash-tub rampant on a field calico). There were other little articles of virtu and bric-a-brac till you couldn't rest, but these were all that I could see thoroughly before he returned from the wash-room. I do not like the blase young man as a traveling companion. He is nix bonuin. He is too E pluribus for me. He is not de trop or sciatica enough to suit my style. [Illustration: 0376] If he belonged to me I would picket him out somewhere in a hostile Indian country, and then try to nerve myself up for the result. It is better to go through life reading the signs on the ten-story buildings and acquiring knowledge, than to dawdle and "Ah!" adown our pathway to the tomb and leave no record for posterity except that we had a good neck to pin a necktie upon. It is not pleasant to be called green, but I would rather be green and aspiring than blase and hide-bound at nineteen. Let us so live that when at last we pass away our friends will not be immediately and uproariously reconciled to our death. HISTORY OF BABYLON. The history of Babylon is fraught with sadness. It illustrates, only too painfully, that the people of a town make or mar its success rather than the natural resources and advantages it may possess on the start. Thus Babylon, with 3,000 years the start of Minneapolis, is to-day a hole in the ground, while Minneapolis socks her XXXX flour into every corner of the globe, and the price of real estate would make a common dynasty totter on its throne. Babylon is a good illustration of the decay of a town that does not keep up with the procession. Compare her to-day with Kansas City. While Babylon was the capital of Chaldea, 1,270 years before the birth of Christ, and Kansas City was organized so many years after that event that many of the people there have forgotten all about it, Kansas City has doubled her population in ten years, while Babylon is simply a gothic hole in the ground. Why did trade and emigration turn their backs upon Babylon and seek out Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City and Omaha? Was it because they were blest with a bluer sky or a more genial sun? Not by any means. While Babylon lived upon what she had been and neglected to advertise, other towns with no history extending back into the mouldy past, whooped with an exceeding great whoop and tore up the ground and shed printers' ink and showed marked signs of vitality. That is the reason that Babylon is no more.