Men Aud Their Curiosity

"In my room," rel n tes Mr. Joly, the ( anadian liberal, who was the nest of the ilnke ot' Westinluster, " was a curious old iaihlosed iSwiss doek. Below it was a printed notlee: ' Tl case do not touch.' The longer I looked at the clock the more I wondered at the reason for the Btrauge requeêt. Next day I ventured to ask my hostess the reasou for Uie.prohibition. " ' You are about the twentieth gentjeman wlio lias put the same question, and I luid tliat you are just like the rest of y oor sex. tVomen are said to be proverbially curious. That label was putthere to test the extent of the same wvakneas In men, and my experlence is that men are just as CUlious as women. I keep a list of all the gentlemen who ask me the same question you have just put, and 1 tind there is only Mie exceptlon.' "' Indeed I replied, 'and may I be permitid 1 to ik who he was?" ' "'He. was Mr. Fuwcettj the late postnatter treneral, and he, uoor man. was