English Dinners

Gn. Grant was not groatly inipressed with the excellence of English dmners. One of the London press-gang called on hini at Gen. Badeau'a (the American Consul). Tlie interviewer worked up to the question uppennost in an Englishman's mind - good eating and drinking - niul observed: " You ought to be a great judge on the dinner question now; don't you think we can diñe better as a rule in the United States than here ?' " Well, the dinners are good enongh here, but I think they are better in America. Our markets offer a more varied supply of provisiong. Here the dinners are nearly all the same, wherever you go." " ïhat is partly the fault of the cooks, who pei-sist in aeuding lip the same oíd dislics yr.iiv it'ter year." Baby is 7 yeats öld, and, walking on lifiicli, Kïiys to liis motiior, " Manini i, gjve rüe ;), knife; I want to kill tho seft.'" "My ohild, yon ve stupid; X9' fl'MJt R littio, How eau the, sen bo kad ï" "Well, thú, thfi ZkaA m whftt M it .lie of?"