Wasn't Fooling

A" boy in St. Louis was reccntly -prcscntod with a jack-kniío, with wlnch, boy-liko, lio ent anu inp.rked everythuig that carne in bis wij, f rom tbc dunngroom tablc to tbe cat's tail. A few days af te bc had bccomo tbc bappy possessor oí tbe kuif o, lus fatbcr was.fltorüed by seeisg two meo briaging bomo tbc young hopend in a very dilapidatcd eombtion. His face aeemed to be out and bnused and covcred witb blood. Tbe father, .at coursc, was very mucb alarmed, and mquired of tbc boy wbo bit bim. -Is otüme didn't bit mo, sir," the boy answered, bet ween bis sobs; " it was only a niiüe kicked me in tbe eyc" "A nnüc kieked you in tbe eyo, eb 8" repbeel tbe fatber V Ilavcn't I told you a tbonsand times or more tbat mulos and gP eï . notiittbings for boys to tod witti Wliftt were you doing to tbc mule 1 Wtloolin'witbbimatall," Baid tbo boy; " I was only U-yin' to out my name on bis back." Dubing Ibe panic wbich ensucd when the Algerian Btruck last weok on hpüt Koek in tbo öt. Lawrenco Bapids, a Soutbern gentleman eallcd bis kou, a boy of ten, te bini and cudeavored to rosten a life-prcoerver round bis body, tcllmg bim if tbe boat eipsiA-d to strike out lor shoro. Tbo boy, howm-r, obstumtely refused to let Ln ttach xt msistog tbat bis fatbcr, wbo was helplesslj onppted while srrvingin touMona reginient, slioud k.n-p it for bunself. Fuom a paper pubbsbedby au Austriim „„ ..I Vit a ppears tbat tbe JSritish empire . „ia, a larger populution tl.m. the Apiros of Russia, Austria, ÍUy, raneo Ld Germany comlnned. The total popuE of these is o„ly ' tbat of Ureat Britam ia '290,000,000. The calculation is made m referenec to the war power. Eight lmndred dogs hava boon shot in Washington tbis eeason.