Getting Down

Mr. Dorkins hurried into the houso, and exclairned, "I have got another, rny clear - a good one. If yon were on tho top of a church spire on tlao back of a goose, how would yon get down?" Mrs. Dorkins tkought she?d jump dowu, slido down the lightning-rod, fly down on the goose, fall down, and ilion gave it up. "Why, if vou wantcd to get down, you conld piek it off the goose," said Mr. Dorkins, exültingly. A í-ire in Hamburg, Germany, destroyed the large theater called the Central Halle. It being Sunday, and the weather favorable, the theater and gardoiiH were crowded, and when the tire brokii ont a pauio was croatod, wonien fainting, and childxeu cryiug piteoualy ; and about a dozen peoplo wtvro oroslied and burood ,n deaíji. Bever! of the ballet gm nxtá wme pi tíw