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AN intimate friend of W. H. Harrison's told him of a dinner at John Murray's (the elder), when Sir David Brewster gave some account relating to the Prismatic colours of mother-of-pearl. I- Mither of rl 1" said Hogg, the poet; "Murray, what's mither of pari?" "Oh, I don't know," replied Murray there's Hook he knows everything *8k him." Well, Hogg," said the novelist, I 0Q,t know, unless it's the Venerable Bede." LESSING, the German author, was, in his old age, IUbJect to extraordinary fits of abstraction. On his return home one evening, after he had knocked at his door, the servant looked out of the window J0 see who wa8 there. Not recognising his master m the dark, and mistaking him for a stranger, he called out, The professor is not at home." "Oh, v«ry well," called out Leasing, "no matter; I'll tll another time," and walked off. THEATRICAL MANAGBR-H I can't tell whether Your sister will suit us or not until I've seen her, talked with her, and seen what she can do. I this a recent photograph of her ? Young Man— Just taken. She is a good elocutionist, and has a!\VaY8 wanted to go on the stage. She is a good girl, too, and obeys every one of the ten command- ments Manager-" Don't care a darn about the ten commandments. Can she say G yuil 1 And C Me cbeyld That's what I want to know." Chicago Tribune. takes a fast man to run quickly through a JWNK does not change men; it only brings *;> in clear light, what's in them. Ax old lady says her son will never he struck late) ^t^g" kecauae alwfly8 gets insulate (in so tbUCK is a good thing, but pluck is a better One has to wait for luck, but pluck is ^ftys ready to go ahead. Co E are rowing such a fuss about the it thing in neckties that the Boston Post calls it t raging tie-fuss." lor Is a good thing to make a sacrifice for a friend; it is also a good thing to conceal the effort made making the sacrifice. A GENIAL old professor, who was known as a ry accomplished grammarian, was yet weak on one Point: he could never decline a kiss. en CouNTRY lyoeum lately had up for solution the ?Undrum Which is the more detestable, the J?n'ng hypocrite, or the groaning one?"_ aart E difference between a cat confined in a bag is tj,^e w*nc* sighing through a dilapidated house that one cries through a sack and the other sighs rough a crack.

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