Joke On Mrs. Russell

sell, of Boston, referring to a typographica] error in the announcement of the meeting at whioh he was to speak, said tliat 'ho had read in the papers that Mrs. Ju'dge Itussell was to preside at the meeting. 13ut ho had left her at home in charge of a Birmll body of infantry ; and unablc to come herself, eho had sent a feeblo detachment from the main body." " It is a familiar fact," says Dr. Windabip, 'that every collego boy has to basa througb. an attack of rhyming frenzy as regularly as the child bas to submit to measeis and the whooping cough. I have heard of a young gentleman who, whenevcr he was hard up for money, weut to his nearest relatives, and threatened them with the publication of a volume of his original poems. This threat bever failed to opeu tho paterufil pursc." ifi&ds&S jpy Most modern authors lard thuir lean werkcí with the fat of older works ; and so their predecessors tlid bofore them. - ui fc in gSg" Tho Chinese have from time inmemorial practised tho boring of urtesian wefls, and according to inisisoniritís, Hiero iiro peveral ot them in ttio provioce of Üu-Tong-Kiao of a depth 1093 ynrds. Some of theco weüs, bou ever, ins'. cac! of water pive inflammable gae.