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HOW TO CUT A FIVE-POINTED STAR

Take a sheet of paper cut square, and fold it as shown by Fig. 1. Make three divisions at one end with a pencil; fold the paper so that the corner lettered _b_ will be at _a_, as shown in Fig. 2. Then turn the corner lettered C so that it will be at D, as shown in Fig. 3. Then fold the paper so that the corner lettered B and the corner lettered _a_ will be together, and the edges perfectly even, as shown in Fig. 4. Now divide the space between _e_ and _f_ into three parts, and with one straight cut with the scissors from the division lettered _g_ to the corner lettered B and _a_, of Fig. 4, you have Betsey Griscom's five-pointed star.

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OBLIGED TO REFUSE.

BY MADGE ELLIOT.

An agile Gibbon, swinging from The top branch of a tree, Her brown-faced baby in her arms, A humming-bird did see (Upon a lower bough he sat) Of Puff-leg family. "Oh dear!" she cried, "I wish you'd give One of your puffs to me; I hear that they are always used In white society. And though I have no powder, yet A pleasure it would be To dab my face and arms with it, Like dames of high degree. And then I'm sure my darling pet Would greatly like it too; She is the _loveliest_ of babes--" "That, ma'am, is very true," The humming-bird made haste to say; "She much resembles you. But that small gift you ask is not Like stocking nor like shoe: It won't come off, for it, my friend, Grew with me as I grew. And so I fear I must refuse The puff you sweetly beg. Could I spare _it_? Why, really, now, I _couldn't_ spare my leg."

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=An Odd Combination.=--The year 1881 will be a mathematical curiosity. From left to right and from right to left it reads the same; 18 divided by 2 gives 9 as a quotient; 81 divided by 9 gives 9; if divided by 9, the quotient contains a 9; if multiplied by 9, the product contains two 9's; 1 and 8 are 9; 8 and 1 are 9. If the 18 be placed under the 81 and added, the sum is 99. If the figures be added thus, 1, 8, 8, 1, it will give 18. Reading from left to right it is 18, and reading from right to left it is 18, and 18 is two-ninths of 81. By adding, dividing, and multiplying, nineteen 9's are produced, being one 9 for each year required to complete the century.