A Tall Rabbit

Irishman's hare, rhich was no haro at all, but a donkey, the polar hare is the largest of the long-eared tribe. It equals the fox in size, and wilt sometimes reach the height of a man's knee. The golden eagle and the snowy owl are both particularly fond of the pretty creature, but it is a fondness which the hare has no desire to encourage, and, therefore, when it spies one of these great birds sailing through the air.with lts sharp ej'es searching about for something to devour, it instantly sinks upoo the snow as mötionless as ïf dead, and thanks to the whiteness of its fur,it can hardly be distinguished from the material it rests upon. - St. Nicholas. Ie has been a standing announcement in the telegraphic columns of the press that, "War between China and France is inevitable." War is a bad and unwarrantcd thing, and to be deploreii. biit it would be a relief to have China and France shut up, put up, go to fighting, or quit, and nol be eternally bracing up to eaoh other, and daring the other to "knock a chip off rny shoulder. " It begins to look as though 'one was afraid, and t'other dasent." Au exchange says: "The Goddess of Justiee which for so many jearfl held the scales above the oíd Capítol of New York, haviug boen put out of the way in a corridor of the new Capítol, was mistaken for a spook recently by one of the colored orderlies who had been out almost all night and had taken too muchpier" Thure are a good many places in this world where a sight ot Justico wouid be taken as m viuitatirm irorn me grave. "Eastefn capitalists," says an exehange, "are going to boro for oil wilhin a few miles from Cincinnati." The scheme may be successful, but its dollars to chips they will tap beer bef ore they do oil. Prof. Nordenskjold says that all the time he was in the interior of Greenlaud he saw only two living creatures, and they were ravens, neitheroncof which was a candidate for president. Remarkablfi country.- R. J. Burdette One of the meanest capers ever played on a postoiüce clerk was rec.ntly porpetrated in Conneotio.ut. A young man wrote eleven hundred and fortv words on a postal card and sent it through the mail.