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 »i«) '•t i /m if -.i J 'â- I J J IMi HOT ILTOHES. The hon^ bee is a res°lar merchant. It cells combs for a living. Ice is veiy popular just now, bat we can remember a tune not six months ago when almost every one was down on it. The days of the book agent are number- ed. A German firm has invented a steel- clad bullet that wUl penetrate four inches of brass. Aa old colored preacher, after exhaustini? himself on an attempt to describe heaven, wound up thus " I tell yon, my brethren, it is a very Kentucky of a place." Young Wife (petulantly)â€" " Well, even if I don't come to meet you every night as I used, what does it signify?" Young Hus- bandâ€" "That we have been married six months." Kate â€" " Louise, dear, there's crape on the Van Briskets' front door. Some one must have died." Louise â€" " Impossible I'm positive the doctor hasn't been there for several weeks." Mr. McFaddleâ€" " Let me oflf at Mike- town." Conductorâ€"" We don't stop. This is a through train." Mr. McFaddle â€" " Thin, playse, sor, will yer sthop long enough fur me to tell Bridget that it's car- ried through I am " " Do you know who that gentleman is, Mary, who is alwayss sitting at the window opposite He seems to take an extraordin- ary interest in my movemente.*' " Oh, Lor, HBB I He ain't no gentleman. He's got a wooden leg I" Only a girl who has run a type writer at four dollars per week and finally marries her employer can enter a dry goods store and paralyze a lady clerk receiving six dollars per week. It's no use for a millionaire's wife to try it. Miss X. â€" ** Just thiak, dear. I had a pain in iny knee and had to show it to young Dr. Smith." Friendâ€" "And what did he do?" Miss X.â€" "He bandaged it." Friendâ€"" What result?" Miss X.â€"" We are to be married in October." Three Frenchmen who were studying a volume of Shakespeare in their native lan- guage endeavored to translate into English the well-known opening to Hamlet's solilo- quy â€" " To be or not to be." The followir g was the result First Frenchman â€" " To was or not to am." Second ditto â€" " To where or is to not." Third dittoâ€" " To should or not to will." A Startling Frediction- Two hundred years ago in China there was just such a craze about natural gas as we have in this country to-day. Gas wells were sunk with as hiuch vim and vigour as the celestials were capable of, but owing to a gas explosion that killed several millions of people and tore up and destroyed a large district of country, Reaving a. large inland sea, known on the maps as Lake Foo Chang, the boring of any more gas wells was then and there prohibited by law. It seems, ac- cording to the Chinese history, that many large and heavy pressure gas wells were struck, and in some districts wells were sunk quite near together Gas was lighted as soon as struck, as is done in this country. It is btated that one well with its unusual pres- sure, by induction or back draught pulled down into the earth the burning gas of a smaller well, resulting in a dreadful explo- sion of a large district, destroying the in- habitants thereof. Lake Foo Chang rests on this district. The same catastrophe is imminent in this country unless the laws re- strict further developments in boring so many wells. Should a similar explosion oc- cur there will be such an up-heaval as will dwarf the most terrible earthquakes ever known. The country along the gas belt from Toledo through Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky will be ripped up to the depth of 1,200 to 1,500 feet and flopped over like a pancake, leaving a chasm through which the waters of Lake Erie will come howling down, filling the Ohio and Mississippi val leys, and blotting them out forever. â€" Am. Paper. .i m The Af|p;liaii fionndaiy Settled. After two years of negotiation the Afghan boundary question has been settled. The chief matters in dispute, it will be remem bered, were the possession of the Penjdeh oasis, between the Kush and Murghab Rivers, «nd the Ameer's claim to BiKlak- shan and Vakhaa, in the north-eastern por- tion of Afghanistan. Ihe new boundary gives Turkestan, which is friendly to Rus- sia, 7,000 square miles of territory on the west, claimed by the latter, including the valleys of the Murghab and Kush. Russia's claim to Vakhan on the east and the exclu- sive control of the Upper Oxus is surrender- ed. As it was adnutted that her claim to the district in the west was well founded this settlement should be satisfactory to the British Government. Bnsmess is BnsineBB. Our fellow-subjects of the Queen in Aus- tralia, while willing to make some financial sacrifice to provide the Pacific route from 6anada,to the East, do not propose to allow their brotherly love for oa to interfere with their business interests. The Melbourne Argru says â€" " There is no objection at all to abamdoning the present San Francisco contract for a Canadian service. Onthe con- trary, Australia ought to make a financial sacrifice to promote the change â€" a change which means an American route through British territory but, on the other hand, we cannot afford to check the development of the Cape and Canal routes, which are giving us the magnificent new vessels of the Penin- sular and Oriental and Orient lines. Senti- ment is sentiment, and we value the Cana- dian-Australian sentiment highly. But busi- ness is business." A Lucky Guess. Some time ago a gigantic balloon was in- flated with gas near Rothesay, in the is- land of Bute, but before all was ready it broke away from its moorings, and shot mUes into the air. Eventually it burst and fell near a gardener's cottage at Port Ban- natyne. The enormous extent of silk which composed the balloon had completely cover- ed the little cottage, saddenty add nnex- jpeetedly envielopins it in worse than Egypt- ian darkneaa. " On, John, John," aaiduie gardener's wife, " it's the judgement day at uat, and Fve my auld cImb on " " Non- sense, woman," said John, ' it's just a diiraptii» somewhere." 1CAID8 OF HOIOB. Wantaw • â- Â«' British mmieatT b Amy tktes feat a Pmccwk. The maids of hmor to the Queen earn crvery penny of tiie £300 a year which is their stipend for filling a very difficult pos- ition. With the best of intentions and with the kindest heart in the world, the Queen expects so much from herself in the way of phyfical toil, both for business and pleasure, that she may perhaps be excused for some- times forgetting that the flesh, especially aristocratic fle£, b weak. The maids of honor are on duty for a month at a time, and at the end df the month they are gen- erally fit subjects for a course of tonic treat- ment. While on duty they can not call their souls their own. After breakfast, which they take in their own rooms, they have to hold themselves in instant readiness to obey the Queen's summons, which comes the moment Sir Henry Ponsonby quits her Majesty's presence, with the big red morocco dispatch-box, containing his day's work, under his arm. After a brief " Grood morning " the Queen suggests a little reading, and the doubtful maid ad- dresses herself to the pile of papers wherein the proper passages for her Majesty's hear- ing have already been marked by Sir Henry. Through columns of parliamentary debate, leading article and. correspondence has the poor lady to intone her dismal way, often having to repeat passages, for the Queen never leaves a subject till she has thoroughly mastered it, and is not at all sparing in her commands to " Just read that again, please." The maid of honor is so busy minding he^Hstops and trying to modu- late her voice that she had little chance of understanding^ tithe of what she is read- ing, knd yet the moment the reading so v er she has to rush off and get ready for a drive with her royal mistress, during which she will be expected to make lucid renuurks on the topics she has just read aloud. After luncheon is the only real time the maids of honor have to themselves, and even that is spoiled for them by the uncer- tainty as to whether they will be wanted to walk or drive with the Queen later iff the afternoon. They must stay in iheir apart- ments, for, if by any chance they should be sent for and were not to be found at the moment, their life lor a day or two would not be a happy one so that a stroll in the grounds on their own account is out of the question till after 4 o'clock, when, if the Queen has departed on a drive without them, they know they are free till 6 at any rate. On the Queen's return there is more residing aloud, this time of ponderous works on heavy philosophical subjects, or else arranging of sketches, photographs, or it may be the charity neemework is brought out in such time as her Majesty goes to dress for 9 o'clock dinner, where, to the relief of the maid of honor, she is not expect- ed to be present. By this time she is not unfrequently faint for want of food, for when not at court she would naturally be ^nishing dinner at the hour when it is the Queen's pleasure to commence it. Young ladies do not, as a rule, jump at the post of maid of honor to the Queen until they have given themselves a fair chance of obtaining an "establishment." It is not until season after season has been drawn blank that disconsolate ladies have recourse to the dignity, very much minus the leisure of jotiiiog the " Household in It follows that, though by no means the." sear and yellow leaf, the majority of the maids of honor are not in the first blush of budding girlhood. The present senior maid is the Hon. Harriet Lepel Phipps, a cousin of the Marquis of Normandy. Miss Phipps will never see her forty -fifth birth- day again. The Hon. Frances Drummpnd, a daughter of Viscount Strathallan, is thirty- nine. The Hon. Ethel Cardogan was bom 1853, which puts to her o^dit thirty-three Summers, and the Hon. Maud Okeover, a niece of Lady Waterpark, by whose in- fluence she got the appointment, is only twenty-sevenâ€" London Letter. Doherty's Farewell. " 1 was in the drill square Royal Engineer barracks. A squad of recruits were at drill, amongst whom was an Irishman named Doherty, over six feet in height. At that time the sergeant-major was Mr. G., who was only five foot four inches. On this day he was seen approaching the squad looking sharply about for some fault. All squared up with the exception of Doherty, and the sergeant-major made straight for him, when the foUowin? dialogue ensued. Serjeant- major " Heads up, that man " Doherty raised his head slightly. "Up higher, sir 1" The head was raised again. The sergeant- major, by standing on his toes, managed to reach Doherty's chin and poked it higher still, with the remark, " That's better. Don't let me see your head down again." By this time all were interested on see- ing Doherty staring far away above the sergeant-major's head, when just then a voice from above in a rich brogue said, " Am I to be always like this, sergeant- major " Yes, sir " Doherty " Then I'll say good-bye to ye, sergeant-major, for I'll nivir see ye again." Brainless* A tourist at the Corragh was strolling round the outskirts of the camp with a party of ladies and gentlemen, when they found a man laborionuy taming a windlass which hoisted from a shaft a backet fiiled with rock. The only thing remarkable about the man at the windlass was his hat, the crown of which was cut clear off, allowing the hot sun to pour down on a perfectly bald head, some waggish friends having recommended this arrangement as sure to produce a crop of hair. The gentleman and his party stood watehing the man toiling unceasingly at his heavy labour for several minutes, when the kind-hearted visitor spoke up with concern, and said, " My fiiend, why don't yoa cover up your head? The hot sun will affect your brain." " Brain, is it ?*' cried the man, as he gave the windlass another creaking revolution. " If I had any Ivaina, d'ye thinki'd be here puUin' up this bucket " He Became Ominonaly Silent- Sheâ€" "I saw you talking to Miss De Ponsonby the other evening, Mr. Cutaway- coat. Are yon fond of her She's an artist, isn't she Does she paint voy well " He â€" •• She paints,' bat not very Half of it came off on my coat aleeve." Sheâ€"" Whore waa your coat aleeve " Heâ€" Becomes omiaoaaly ailent. welL HEALTH. Bed Time. This is not a "standarA" time for every one that has reached adnlt life, but should be so for every child under fourteen yeara of age* Babiea may early be taught to sleep in a quiet, cool, dark room, and if this habit^ is formed during the first three months of in- fant life, it is the greatest blessing in the world to the rired motiier. City babies, particularly the first-born in families, are often kept up at night to "see papa," who feels as U he wer«; defrauded of part of his enjoyment in life if baby falk asleep before he com sa home from business, and thus baby ia i.bbed of his " beauty sleep" very early in nis little life. At the age of two and £ven younger, the little ones are kept up, and dressed to see company that ha^been invited for the even- ing, and allowed to stay up until after re- freshments have been served, said refresh- ments consisting of food which is very im- proper for the little folks. These parents would be horrified if they were told they were abusing their children, and yet they are doing so as surely as if they neglected them in many ways. Children are taken to evening entertain- ments, parties, etc., in the mistaken idea that children meat have " a good time," when the excitement of the evening causes tbeir pulses to throb and beat, and often sleep is a difficult thing for them to find when the excitement has passed away. Let seven o'clock be the bedtime for the little ones, and from the five year old to the fourteen, year old, fix their hour for retiring at eight, and let that time invariably see them all tucked away ip bed, with the good- night kiss of mother, the last episode of their childhood's day. In our reckless waste of our faculties later in life, we too often bum the midnight oil for thrift or pleasure, or, unhappily, sin so let us for those that. are our sacred charges make a firm foundation on which to build the struc- ture of Life, which, to be fair "Ukd comely must be substantial with Health, and ce- mented with good principles. " Elarly to bed and early to rise, Hakea a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Airing Beds- As soon as dressed in the morning, the occupant should open the bed, placing pil- lows in open windows and spreading out bedclothes to catch the breeze in such a way as to be fully aired wheeling the bed into position before the windows stripped of ^^^every article -of clothing, thoroughly shaken up, that the air may penetrate every part of it. Even the boys should be taught to do this, that the busy house- wife, employed with preparations for breakfast, may be saved a trip up-stairs. The making of beds should be the very last duty of the morning's work, that every trace of the night's emanations may have had a chance to disappear with the fresh breeze and cleansing sunshine. But as es- sential to health and sound sleep as is this precaution, feather beds and pUlows should not be "placed in the sunshine, but given a northern, or northwestern exposure, where a stiff breeze is very often to be found of a bright morning. If placed where the direct rays of the sun may fall upon them, they will be very like- ly to emit a disagreeable, oily smell, caused by heat drawing from them the oil, which from long use has become rancid. It b not necessary to state that the con- stant use of feather-beds and pillows is very unwholesome at the best, but if they must be used, keep from the sun, but air thorough- ly every pleasant day. To the other ap- purtenances of the sleeping-room, bed-cloth- ing, mattresses, and so forth, together with the room iteelf, it is impossible to give too much sunshine. flints. If a hang-nail seems likely to be sore and turn to a "run-around," soak in strong soda water, as hot as can be borne. Beware of boils or any eruptions. They indicate that the system is in a low condi- tion, and an infectious disease will be more easily contracted than when the body is in a healthy state. Coffee, especially the higher grades, in the occasional use, stimulates the bowels to action, but ^fe ludntual use of strong coffee gives the secondary effect, and torpidity is the result. Curiously enough, the poorer and cheaper the coffee the leas deleterious its character. Java and Mecca may really be poisionoua to an individual, while Rio coffee is quite inoffensive. The hot fomentation is a valuable remedi- al agent. It is rare to find acute suffering where it is not indicated. It alleviates neuralgia and rheumatic pain. It u good for bmonsneaa, conatipataon and torpid liver. It relievea colioa and flatulence. No wdl-regtdated family ahould be without a hot toattr bottle. A wet cloth placed under a hot water bottle will give moisture, if de- sired. These rubber bottles come in sizes from one to four quarts. Hints Upon Bmeigencies* After all accidento use liquid food, espe- cially milk. Never allow thirst, uae ice if nothing else can be procured. In any case of doubt aa to the existence of life, insert a needle in the flesh and let it remain half an hour. If the patient is alive, the needle will mat. Ether is a much better anesthet- ic than chloroform, as the 'atter sometimes causes paralysis of the heart. But if chlo- roform has been uaed, and the patient atopa breathing, put him on his h^. In admin- istering ether, wring out a sponge from hot water, aatnrate it with ether, hud it to the patient's mouth for a breath or two. Stop, then apply the sponge again. But first of all put vaseline or cud cream upon the pa- tient's face. Stncopb OB Shock ok Collapse.â€" First attend to the circulation. Loosen all gar- ments at the neck and waist, use artificial respiration and apply dry cups to the head. For stimulants uae muatard or coffee or brandy and water. In extreme caaea inject brandy into the thigh and insert warm water and turpentine into the reetam. Aromatic apirite of ammonia may alao be used. Hehosbhage.â€" These may be from the bowela, kidneya, atomach, or utema. Nour- iahment ahoald be given b large quantities. In external hemorriuge, arrest the flow, raiae the hands, and i^ply ice to the back oftheVeck. Apoplkxt ok CkbbbsaIi Hsmokbkagbs. â€" Thia ariaea in a rich man from high livings lack of ezerdae, '"nfag the fleah to change tvfat. Inapoermafiitiaoaaaedbyatarved arteriea. Death by apoplexy can be diatin- Siiahed from diaease of the heart, aa in tiie tter caae death enanea in a moment, while in apo^exy it ia dds^yed. Convulsions â€" Are chiefly cauaed by too much or too bad blood in the head. In epiglottis spasms, keep tht tongue forward, for if the patient awallowa hia tongue, there is no hope. Is it a Fiece of a Comet From an illustrated paper by William Earl Hidden, in the August Century, we quote as follows There has recently come into my possession the ninly iron meteorite whose fall to the earth has been observed. It is' moreover, the first meteorite which seems to evidence a direct connection with a star shower. The mass acquires still further interest from the fact that it is presumably a fragment of the famous comet of Biela. A brief account of this celestial wanderer will doubtless be of interest to readers. Astronomers have waited patiently for the fall to the earth's surface, at the time of the periodical atarshowers, of something tangible, but until now they have waited in vain. In looking over a considerable amount of astronomical literature, only one record can be found of the falling of a body to the earth at such a time this was near Paris, on the 10th of April, 1094, when "many shooting-stars were seen, and a very large one was said to have been found on the ground as a glowing substance." From the 24th to the 29th of November, 1885, the earth was passing through a train of meteors that proceeded from the con- stellation Andromeda, and once formed a part of Biela's comet. These meteors are now known to astretiomers as Andromedes or Bielids. The maximum of this shower occurred on the 27th, while it was yet broad daylight over America, and at an hour corresponding to 11. a H. at Mazapil, Mexico. Thus, at the time of the fall of this meteorite, ten hours after the maxi- mum number of meteors was observed, the earth was meeting with only the stragglers of the train. It cannot be doubted that the cosmical dust proceeding from the disintegration of Biela's Comet whollv en- veloped the earth and was seen as mexeors from every part of it. Sdch was the magni- ficence of the celtstial pbenonienon that in some parts of the Eastern Continent un- educated peofAe believed there would be ho stars left in the sky. Of the countless host of meteors which crossed the earth's path on this 27th of November, only one is as yet known to have reached the earth's surface, and this fell near the village of Mazapil, in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, at about 9 o'clock in the evening. It is {of the rare iron-nickel variety, and weighs ten and a quarter pounds troy. This meteorite was presented to me by Sr. Jose A; Y Bonilla, Director-Professor of the Zacatecas Observatory, who received it, five days after its fall, from the ranchman who saw it descend from the heavens. This lanchman related the strange occur- rence as follows translated from the Spanish "It was at about 9 o'clock on the night of November 27th, when I went out to feed certain horses suddenly, I heard a loud sizzing noise, exactly as though something red-hot was being plunged into cold water, and almost instantly there followed a some- what loud thud. At once the corral was covered with a phosphorescent light, while suspended in the air were small luminous sparks as though from a rocket. I had not recovered from my surprise before I saw this luminous air disappear, and there re- .mained on the ground only such a light as is. made when a mateh is rubbed. A number of people came running toward me from the neighboring houses, and they assisted jne in quieting the horses, which had become very much excited. We all asked each other what could be the matter^ and we were afraid to walk in the corral for fear of being burned. When, in a few moments, we had recovered from our fright, we saw the light disappear, and bringing lanterns to look for. the cause, we found a hole in the ground and in it a ball of light. We retired to a distance, fearing it would explode and harm us. Looking up to the sky, we saw from time to time exhalations or stars, which 'soon went out without noise. We returned after a little, and found in the hole a hot stone which we could barely handle this on the next day, we saw, looked like a piece of iron. All night it rained stars, but we saw none fall to the ground, as they all seemed to be extinguished while not very high up." Upon further inquiry we learn that there was no explosion or detonation heard, and that the mass penetrated the earth only to a depth of twelve inches. This very circpm- stantial account leads us to believe that this meteorite is the first one to be aecured and preserved that haa come to the earth during a star shower. than probable that crime wonu crease, for they would not '*°*1*id their sewing to the saloon • a«'!S"^y, d aaloon the cradle of crime " u- " â- *! Thisi, SoonemightgoonindefinitJ^ ing the blessings sure to spriJ/'" eral masculine know-ledge of th "'" ine, ignorance of which Bas dri ^^'i otherwise happy and contented ' riage by way of defense atainst?- •" lessness in the face of buttonleJ and other such bachelor »«â- â-  • Han's Ohiefest Weakness. Sydney Smith often wished he could sew. He believed one reaEon why women are so much more cheerful generally than men is becau-e they ccm work and vary more their employments and he ia on record aa saying that all men ought to learn to sew. At an evening gathering in a pretty American city less than a month ago the writer of these words heard a lady say she always pitied men because they were unable to take up fancy sewing in their leisure hours at home. " My 1" ishe exclaimed, " I couldn't get along at all without my sewing." To a limited extent all men certainly should know how to sew â€" not necessarily as an employment, or even as a pastime, but as a part of the practical education which the necessities of the age demand. Even the man of family, whose practical sewing ia done for him by the willing and nimble fingera of hia loved ones â€" ^whose ahirt but- tons are nursed and teni'ed with alert care, %nd whose raveled buttonholes are " made as good ai new" from time to time â€" goes aometimea uway from home. What annoy- ances he could avoid, and what economies he could practice during those presumably heart-breaking absencsa had he been timely taught to aAiUfnlly handle the indii^naa- ble needle and thread. Had i^ men learn- ed to aew how many humiliating printa of " old bachelirs" pathetically or comically struggling wnh an off batton or a rentgar- ment we shoUd have been spared Even the horrors iMhich that immortal Song of the Shirt celebrates might thus have been mitigated or at least shitfed. Moreover, c|nild all men sew, it is more then, if man will but mtelliap;,^ his duty to himself and learn T'"'^! (because usefulest) lesson of self i^l must forthwith learn to sew. "^HJ The Wealth of Ancient Mexi, ;». Though gold in the ore is ripl, j ful in the Mexican country, fte t^M could 4 «co, not have been aware ofan, method of obtaining it than bv rif from river sands. NotwitI numerous observations of wrought gold objects in Mexio Diaz's own words should establish thi.n Montezuma he says, informed t their gola " was obtained from the 7 H of Zacatula, where the earth whichH ed It was washed m wooden vessels S gold-dust sank to the bottom. "It' ^^ to be had, he says, in Tustepec •'»!!* waa collected, from the beds'of „• 1 Again, speaking of the expeditions seS by Cortes in search of mines, he m,l\ Gonzalo de Umbria, who went to Za^j' reported that there "the nativesT^ gold out of the sand in small troughs ' If this were the only means employei J IB improbable that the Spaniards saVk all the instances and in the great qnufe that Cortez and Bernal Diaz describT^ that their statements in this regrd J grossly exaggerated is evident from the hr that, with the exception of a few gu,! trinkete, not a relic of the beautiful tliiig of whifch they speak remains. Neitherl the chronicles record a very great amotj; actually gathered by the rapacious conqae or, yet all the schemes which his mbj could conceive must have been directed t this one object, not for personal greedonlv but to meet the expectations of theempai to whom, when he had feared that he wi to be deprived of his command, he U promised wealth and treasure, lloia torture of the most barbaric descriptionu employed to induce the natives to reveal riches that they were supposed to more were obtained and, in order that tk Spanish king and those about his court mj afterward understand the absence of treasure in the kind and quantity which k had led them to expect, Cortes cautioniij wrote that it was all lost in that disastroB revolution which first drove him fromtln city. The Children's Jubilee. One of the brightest and happiest featun of the Queen's jubilee, recently held in Enf land, was the treat given to the school children of London. A large sum of monn was raised by a subscription opened by ou of the London papers and on the day fd- lowing the regular jubilee cekbratioL thirty thousand littL girls and boys gathe ed in Hyde Park. They were taken in a certain proporticE from all the public schools of the metropolJ!, and a great many of them came from tlit most wretehed and squalid quarters of great city, issuing from miserable coi and alleys, from dreary houses te^mii; with beggarly occupants, from hot id dirty streets. Possibly many of them had never seem park, with big shade trees and pretty lake, before. Many diversions were arranged fe their amusement. They were amply 1« on cakes, lemonade, and other good tbiiigi Punch-and-Judy shows and a hundredotha amusing things attracted their attentio: and laughter. Bands played, and thm were sounds of music and merriment w over the park. Each child also was eec home with a little memorial of the day ii the shape of a mug. The Queen herself, and the Prince d Princess of Wales, visited the throng (^ poor little children, smiling at them, aa saying kindly words to them. Surely thai was not one among all that multitude ww will ever forget the pleasure and fun of t» Queen's Jubilee. In these days much more attentiono paid than formerly to the am'usements m recreations of children. Not only "• the children of well-to-do or f^^ parents provided with amusements in n*' forma, but public-apirited and beneTote- people have established societies for givnf pleasure, now and then, to poor childrai whose parents cannot afford to procure tbffl recreation. Jemmy and the President- The following story is told of the indii* I ual who. has long officiated as the »rd^ at the presidential mansion in VVashingi* President Cleveland bad heard rumoi" that the gardener was drunk and uncivu visitors at the White House, so.""*^! morning he summoned him into his prf^ to receive his dismissal, i" Jemmy, the president, "I hear bad stwries »»» yoa. It is said you are co^tantly a" and uncivil to viaitors." For a brief "J^ Jemmy waa puzzled for a reply. â- Â»* j, aaid, 'iMr. Presidint, bedad I he»r ^^ worse stories about you but do y^li^jl I believe them No, by the powers-i' i they *re all lies!" Cause and Effect A certain University was once sw^^jL. a leamed place from the fact that 'r^%i sons took some leanung there, *»" jj a- brought any away with them. » cumulated. oi^\ He Was Willing to Quit A good story is told of an ""tfrj^^^'tf* governor of a certain prison witn on prisoners. Some of the V^°^^^JoBaii work lathing a room during a recen j,, visit of the governor, and the l»tt« apectiug the progress of t^ wor^^ ^. contemplating the process for a ntee, the governor remarked, ^^ tm my manâ€" you are hiying those ^^^^ near together that sort of wort » do." hJ "" The prisoner cahnly laid do*}|^ tol| and said, " Governor, I am "" worK tamed off and discharged, '^J'^-Tot^, I never •Vfii^JfJ^^jS^^^i^' ' and, if my work tan t sa"" salt. tion un willing to go.