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- ■■■■■■■ vj - - j"iíí jiTJH AA lustrating a deficiënt luemory and i fuüKy lronunciation : How many porsons do we know who can never reraember names, but stop in the middle of ft story to search tho ceiling for the names of the ramtil purttfM, as though thoy were to bo found writtcn there in letters of fire ! This f lilinsr, the whole fumily is eallodinto requisition to discover the lost title, and " Mr. Siuith " Js suggosted. " Oh no, ray deai' - how can you be so stupid ? You know that Mr. Hmith has gone to Europc." " Mr. Brown " is then proposed. " Brown ! Of course not : he nevor ges to Saratogft." Tho youngest daughtur tiuiidly suggests " Mr. Jones." How dull you uH uïü i Have I not told you it was tho gcntlciriail e met at West Point last year- the ono with gray whiake aud two children V" "Oh, I know - Mr. Robinson ! " cries the wifo, with a vague remembranco of a stout tli 'in un and two niischievous boys. " ín onsense, Matilda ! Mr. Itobinson is a bachelor and has red lmir ; but thcre is no uso trying to tcll a story to jKïoplo who don't know anytliing ;" and the angry Paterfamilias retires behind his newspaper, otrHngling the uniortunate story at its birth with grÍ7U ferocity. NoVj Wlieil Mntcrfii alias is blessed vith one of these stubborn tonpues, she triuniphantly conquers thc diffioulty whieli vanquishes her husband, and graccfully tells you how Mrs. AVhat's-her-namc met Somebodyor-other on the ráreet this morning, and told them that Miss Jones had eloped with Mr. What do-yp-call-en. ín either case the audionce is highly dtlighted with the anecdete. - A emous defoct m Our mental organism is ii tíertain síow apprehension of what is before is, a partiul paralysis of oT perceptive faculties, which, fortunately, only occurs at intervals, although it givcs us while it lasts an appreciative taste of what idiocy must be. A gentleman of high intelligenco was reading an aecpunt of the Pïüssian campaign of 1866, and chanced upon this sentence ; " The Prussians wore misled by a pretended guide, and suffered severo losses in consequence." After reading this ihniie through several timos, he laid down the papor and pondered a while ; nothing contiiig of this meditation, ho callcd out to his wife in the next room, " Mary, did you ever hear such a word n-s mishl ï " pronouncing it as though it rhymod with " drizzled." " No," she replied : " why do you ask 'i " " Because here is an account in the paper which saysi ' l'he frussians were misled bV a pretended guide, and Baifnred severe losses in consequonce,' and I canil"! imagine what it meansj" Nor ï: how is it spelt?" "Why, M-Í--!-(-l of coüfsö." "Mis4t, John - bjm-LBD i whère aro your senses'r " 1 was pluviug whist one eveiung ivir'n sorae visitors, when the door opened and niy aunt Huido her appearanoe, holding aloft ft newspaper. " ïoving poople, con you teil me what a Inig lor is '" she domanded in nu oarnestvoice. "You meao bungler, don't you, aunt?" "Nbj" sjir rcpued with rnnptuwiin. "I have read the sivme noticc in this paper eviry cvoning lor two weekitj aiid I cannot imagine what it nipftïis. Listen: 'Wantod ünmediatoly - Two pood Buglors, ftunt - bu-glers," slioutcd the young pcopl ; and Aunt June retived into the shadcs of her apartment with digaity somewhat diminished.