The Waiter's Mistake

He had made a hearty meal at a restaurant, and getting up he said to the waiter, "I declare if I haven't forgotten my prse!" The waiter fired up and hurled big words at him f or f ully three minutes bei'ore pausing for breath. When a chance carne the stranger continued, '■But I have a L5 note hero in my waistcoat pocket!" The waiter coulcl notsinile to save his life. - London Tit-Bits. Instances reciting the actions of people while under the somnambulistic control are numerous in early writings on the subject, while the more modern reports are deductions rather than relations of actual occurrence8. To abstain from superfluous apologies is also the habit of discretion. There should seldom be the occasion for apology in the household, where all would do well and wisely to be constantly gentle and courteous. An oíd provincial French expression runs thus, "The tears of woman arelike the waves of the sea." But another declares that -'the tears of woman are eoon checked." According to the report of the auditor of Virginia, the negroes of that state pay taxes on real estáte valued at $9,425,685, and on personal property valued at $8,842,950. One wonders sometimes had there been women stenographers in the old days if j the reporta would not have shown thati Adam asked to taste the apple himseli. 1