Only Plain Smith

" Who is tuat 1" asked Brown of Jones, as Smith passed by his store on Main street yestcrday. "Thnt is Mr. - - Smith, air." replied Jones, " nnd I will bet vou the drinks jou can't spell his name." " I'll takc thnt bet," quickly rejoined Brown, casting n glance toward the clouds, with a look oí' scholarly wisdom as he complaoently removed a fresh Havana and puffed from his lipa a cloud of blue smoke that floated in wreaths and curls over his beadi "Smith - 3-c-h-m-i-d-t," was his first effort. ' ' Try again. " "S-c-h-m-i-t." " Wrong again " "Well, it ain't S-m-y-tho, for that spells Smythe." "No." " Now I have it; Sc-h-in-i-tt." " No, sir; you've missed il again and I ïave won the drinks." "Well, then, I give it np," said Brown. " How in the d - 1 do you spell t, then?" " Easy enoTigh. I spell Smith - S-m-i-t-h. " " Bnt that," said Brown, witn a look of innocent surprise, "is plain Smith." ' "Certainly," replied Jones, " that's what I said plain Smitli. " Jones gently relighted his cignr and walked back into his office, repeating ae he wer.t, "Sahmidt, Schmitt, Smith." New Zealand will not be representad at the Paris Exhibition. The Prime minister, Sir Georgo Grey, says that the ' eolonv, which is now preparing to j row nother $20,000,000, cannot afford it. Theso Australasian colonies have, for the most part, very heavy debts, and, i when bad times come, the interest is feit as a serious burien, the populatiou being still very small. That of tl:." whole of Austrfüasia is less than 2,500,000. Thby do not know wbat rotation in office means in Holland. The Register of Deeds in the district of the Hague, has held the office forty years. One of ; the public printers has been iu the employment of the Government sixty-six years. Seven mernbers of the Common Council of the Hague have served for twenty-seven years. The PostofBco of a town near thnt city bas been held by oiw fftmily for 150 years.