An Amusing Incident

When I used to tend store at tbo "Regulator," in Syracuse, the oíd man comes around and says he : "Boys, the onc that eells tho most betwixt now and Christmas, gets a vest pattern as a present." May-be we didu't work for that vest pattera ! I teil you tLere was some tall stories told in praise of goods just about this tiine ; but the tallest talker and one that had more cheek than any of us was a certain Jonah Squires, who roomed with me. He could talk a dollar out of a man's pocket when the man only inteuded to spend a sixpence ; and the woraen, Lord bless you ! - tbey just handed over their pocket booka to him, and let him lay out what he liked for them. One night Jonah woke me up witli, "By Gosh, old fellow, if you thiuk that ere's got any cotton in, 111 bring down the sheep it was cut from and mabe him swear to its own wool ! - "Twon't wear out either - I wore a pair of pants of t 1 that kind of stuff myself for five years, and they are as good now as when I first put them on ! Take it at tbirty cents, and I'll say you don't owe me anything. Eh !- Too dear ? Well, cali it twentyeight cents. What d'ye say ? Shall I leiefrit -off ?: All right, U's a bargain." I could feel Jouah's hands playiug about the bed clothes for an instant, then, rip ! tear I went somethuig or another, and I bid my head uuder the blankets, perfectly convulsod with laughter, and sure that Jonah had torn the eheet from top to bottom. When I woko up'next morniDg - I fouod, alas! unkiudest tear of all - that the back of my night shirt was torn from tai! to col lar-bands 1 LrS" I was Gray, the poet we believe, who said that tho highest state, of cnjoyment which he could imagine, was to lie all day on a sofa and read a book of romance. The iinagination of a Burman soldier was equally fertile, when he replied to a question of what were his ideas of a future state. "I shall," said he "be turned iatp a buffalo, aad shall lie down in a raeadow of grafs hiaher than my head, and eat all day long, aud there won't be a mosquito to annoy me." ii a ui 1 ST Uniform lovu is now defined as the lovo of a girl for a soldier,