A Bad Situation

newsboys in Detroit, who can 't read a word of print, was yeaterday look ing at one of the big cute in a paper as he sat on the poHtoffice steps, having the paper upside down. "Well, Jim, whnt's the news?" inquired a lawyer, struck by the boy 's careful interest in the pnper. Jira was looking nfc ttie wit of the steamboat, which was of course upside down with the paper, and he promptly replied: "Worst kind of news ; a steamboat hm tippod oTor in the lake and evory darned ono of the folka '11 be drowned." He wont into Thompson's, and acci dentally got uptm a stool at the iirst trial. "Got eniiy oynciiers?" "Yes, sir - how'U you have 'om ?" "Oimme liW' a iloxn im shells - (liic) - stop ! zat aiu't it, buttor want dozen tialf-shelled oysoh - " and then he wipd bis pliite wilh his hat aud weut to sloep.