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Foreign terms are apt to occasion confusión in the minds of those who are ignorant of their meaniug, because, as one old lady who thought mirabile meant a "rough, noisy crowd o' folks, " said, "They don't scusslyever stand fer what they'd orter, jedging by the sound 1" A western man wished to file a paper for his partner and himself in the circuit court and affixed to the flrm signature the words "per se. " "I reckon that won't do," said the partner, whose education was somewhat more extensive. " 'Per se' is sin 'gier and means jet you, and ther's two of UB." "Oh, all right! I eau fix that easy enough, " responded the other easily. "Gimme the eraser. " The article in question was passed to him, and after some scratching and rewriting he shoved the document over to his partner with a smile of triumph. It was signerl, "Green & Wilson, per 2 e's." - Youth's Companion. The Abbe de Marolles, in one of his latest works, calculated that he had printed 133, 124 verses, and yet the public had not sense enough to appreciate him as a poet. Spain has fver 400 islands in the , ern seas, mostly compriseö in the Philippir.es and Moïuccas.