Maybe you like, I tell you one story. He live about two, three thousand year ago, _yes!_ _sure!_ He travel every city, teach Chinaman--that very good. One city he no came--that Canton--one very big place inside three big walls. Kong-foo-too, or Confucius, he come to Canton, and try to come in the gate--very big gate. One little boy there seven years old. I think that little boy too smart. He making play of a little city, and building three little walls around it, all the same like Canton. He took up too much room, and talk too smart, so that Confucius cannot get in. He watch him a little while, then he say, "I guess Canton all right; this boy can teach Canton. I go some other place." _That very bad!_ Next year that boy died--_very strange that_! So Canton never get any teaching, not from boy, not from Kong-foo-too. I think not very good for little boy to be too smart.--_St. Nicholas._ * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1884. * * * * * MAINE, $257.77. Augusta. "J. S." (5 of which _for Indian Work, Hampton N. & A. Inst._) to const. REV. ARTHUR F. SKEELE L.M. $30.00 Belfast. Miss A. L. McDowell, _for Selma, Ala._ 1.00 Bluehill. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Brewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 Camden. R. Bowers, 20; Abner Howe and wife, 3; Jonas Howe, 50c.; Mrs. Myra A. Mansfield, 3.50; E. D. Mansfield, 3 30.00 Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 65.85 Gorham. Sab. Sch., by J. S. Hinckley, _for Student Aid, Selma, Ala._ 26.42 Limington. "A. B." 2.00 Lyman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50 Machias. Center St. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Portland. Fourth Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 Saint Albans. Rev Wm. S. Sewall 3.00 Scarborough. "A friend in Cong. Ch." 50.00 South Berwick. Mrs. J. H. Hodgden's S. S. Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 South Berwick, Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ Woodfords. ---- 1.00 Yarmouthville. Rev. A. Loring 1.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $237.16.