Folly On The Wing

Stranger, to Pat, drinking Apollinaris - How does it taste, Pat? Pat - Faith, it tastes like as if my fut was asleep. Attórney. to wttness - Do you know the witness who preceded you? Wit ness- Yes, sir. Attorney - What is his reputation for veracity? Witness - He"s a peddler, sir. Reggy - -I hear there is to be a dreadful rowin society. Cholly - Yes, Miss Cholmondeley is about to sue Miss Montchesinsrton for alieuating the aff ections of hor pet pug dog. N. Peciv - I"d have you know, madam, that I have as much right to ventílate my opinions as you have. Mrs. Pcek - But, rny dear, your opinions don't need ventilating. They're all wind, any way. Judge - At how much do you value the boots that were stolen from you? Witness - -They oost me twenty francs when new; then I have had them soled twice, that makes ten franco; total, thirty francs. Mandy - Silas, we don't know nothin' about the sufferin' among the poor until we read the papers. Silas - What have you found? Mandy - Why, right here they're offerin' to sell undressed kids at so much a pair. Rattie, at the play - I see three days go by between the first and the second acts. Uncle Clover - Great Scott, llartie! I thought it couldn't be more 'an one night. I'll have to go home an 'do the milkin' in the mornin' an' eo.ne back. W ritten in Kuil. Nqwaflays, as tsvorybody knows, one'ï camii must be written out in full; the middle iiiitial lias been laughed into ob.scur-ity. AU anthors give tlieir full naiuos on the title pages of their work. It is tio longer John IJ. Smith, but John Dilliugworth Sinitli. as much as to say that, ihi: Smiths ;re connected witii the DUlingTVorths. Per-haps John's tiMtlier's maicit'ii nainti was Dillingworth, or maybe hia grandmother, if ho had one, was a Dillingworth before she w;;s married. H must be aduiitted that the n.une looks bettor when spelied out in iull. But wiiat is the uso of middle names? Oeoi'ge Washinyt.. mi diil nol havo any, nelther did TiKiïnas Jeü'ersori, Abraham Lincoln, Wiiliam Shaksieare. John Miltun, Ben Joru-on, Krancis Baron, Napoleon Bonaparte, nor thou-ands of otiier great men. What a luoky thing it is we de nut have to write Wiiliam Hollingbrook Sbakspeaie, Geurge Harring"ton Washington, or Abraham Hanks