The lovely and elegant home of that crown prince of hospitality, the big hearted and noble souled Ab. Weaver, was a radiant scene of enchanting loveliness, for Cupid had brought one of his finest offerings to the court of Hymen, for the lovable Miss Maude, the beautiful daughter of Mr. Weaver and his refined and most excellent wife, who is a lady of rarest charms and sweetest graces, dedicated her life's ministry to Dr. James E. Hobgood, the brilliant and gifted and talented son of that ripe scholar and renowned educator, the learned Prof. Hobgood, the very able and successful president of the Oxford Female college. * * * THE MISCHIEVOUS MAKE-UP MAN. [From the Markesan, Wis., Herald.] It is a wise man who knows when he has made a fool of himself. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Zimmerman of Mackford yesterday. * * * WHY THE MAKE-UP MAN LEFT TOWN. [From the Grinnell Review.] Born, April 19, to Professor and Mrs. J. P. Ryan, a daughter. This experience suggests that simple scientific experiments performed by college students would furnish a very interesting program of entertainment in any community. * * * COOL, INDEED! [From the Tuttle, N. D., Star.] At the burning of a barn in Steele recently, our superintendent displayed some nerve and pluck. Miss Sherman did not wait for the men to get there but hastened to the barn without stopping to dress, and in bare feet untied the horses before they had become unmanageable thus saving them with little trouble. There is not a man, we venture to say, in all Steele but would have stopped to put on his pants before venturing out into the crisp air, but she did not, her whole thought being of the dumb animals imperiled, and it was, indeed, a nervy and cool-headed performance. * * * _RHYMED DEVOTION._ [Robert Louis Stevenson to his wife.] _When my wife is far from me The undersigned feels all at sea._ _R. L. S._ _I was as good as deaf When separate from F._ _I am far from gay When separate from A._ _I loathe the ways of men When separate from N._ _Life is a murky den When separate from N._ _My sorrow rages high When separate from Y._ _And all things seem uncanny When separate from Fanny._ * * * Lacking the equipment of the monk in Daudet's tale, an amateur distiller is gauging his output with an instrument used for testing the fluid in his motor car's radiator. "Yesterday," reports P. D. P., "he confided to me that he had some thirty below zero stuff." * * * Fish talk to each other, Dr. Bell tells the Geographic society; a statement which no one will doubt who has ever seen a pair of goldfish in earnest conversation. * * *