Unfailing Memory

-An anecdote is told oí a well-known lecturer on "Artificial Memory," who was expounding his theory in a provincial assembly-room, asserting that, under his system, the memory was so disciplined that it never failed. One of his attendants, who had listened to the end with rapt attention, was about turning down the gas, when he espied an urnberella in the corner of the platform. The attendant's confidence received such au unexpected shock that he exclaimed in tones of the greatest wonderment, "I'm blessed if that there artilicial memory man hasn't gone and forgotten his umberella!" Virtue does not give talents but it supplies their place. - Chinese Proverb.