His Sole Regret

"You are not afraid to die, are you?" asked the weeping watcher by the bedside. "No, " whispei-ed the chronic kicker, "but it does worry me to think that I shall soon be with the silent ruajority, when all of my life I have so enjoyed being in the noisy minority. ' ' - Indianapolis Journal. Some of the bricks found in Babyion indícate by the stamps upon their surface an age of at least 5, 000 years. The art of brickmaking was well developed at that time, for no brioks are better made than these. Persians dump their household refuse into deep cesspools dug inside of the house. These cesspools have no outlet and help to account for that country being the hotbed of cholera. Things made wholly or in part of clay and baked, which are opaque, are called pottery. Those which are semitransparent are porcelain. Insects inhabiting islands have either very short wings of very little use n flyIng or no wings at all.