"half That."

Wlien young Hodgff flrst came up to towu, his falher told him it iould be polite, wlien being helped Lit diniier, to say to the host, "Half that, if you please." It so happcned that at tho flrst dinner to which he was invited a sackingpig was one of the dishes. The host, pointing with his knife to the young porker, asked, " Wel], Mr. Hodge, will you have f his, onr favorite dish, or haunch of ruutton ? " Upon which, recollecting his lesson, he replied, "Half that, if you pleaae," to the consternation of all present, A GEizzLT bear in a Paris menagerie lately got out of a cage and broke into that of a panther. A terrible fight ensued, iu which the panther was killed.