On Sight And Demand

a wüll-known, highly respected Jlnickerbocker, on the shady side oí' fifty, widower, with five children, full offun. and frolic, ever ready for a joke - to give or take - was bantered the other evening by a Miss oí' five and twenty for not taking another wife. She urged that he was hale and hearty and deserved matrimonial messinate. The judge acknowleged tho fact ; admitted that he was convincod by the eloquence of his fair friend, that he had thus far been very remiss, nd expressed contrition for the fault confessed, ending with offering himself to the lady, telling her she could not certainly reject hini after poiuting out to hiin his heinous offonso. The lady replied that she would be most happy to take the situatiou so nniquely advertiaed, and beeonie bone of his bono and flesh of his flesh, but there was oue, to her, most serious obstaole. - " Well," says the Judge, " name it. My profession is to surmount suoh impediments." Ah, Judg, this is beyond your powera. I have vowed if ever I marry a widowur he must have ten ohildren." - " Ten ohildren ! Oh, that's nothing," says the Judge. " 111 give you five now, and mv noteB on demand in installinents