True To Life

-Aii amusing story 13 told ot a 1 renc-li lictor wïio went mto the country to study a new part. lío ■was waiting at a lonely station and thinking of his part when, quite uiicön sciously, he began to aci it ín dumb show. Frenen actors think more of the pantomine of a plav than we do, and the comedian while walttogfOT liis train had gone tfarwigh sofne oí the principal scènes of the new piece in tliis way, quite ignoraiit tliat his efforta had been watched with the keenest inteiit by an attentive rustic sitting on a hos: in a dark corner. When the actor suspended his task, the rustic rushed up to hini quite eagörly, asking in anxious tones : "And the lovers, Monsieur, were tliey united, and was the villain discoverelY" "What do yon mean?" inquired the actor. "Oh, Monsieur told the story beautifully !" "Hut, my goöd fellow, I have not spoken a wnnl," "Ah ! Monsieur, I could see t all by your movements, and 1 know Monsieur from the photographs in the shop windows." A young man recently called at a little domicile in Vickslmrg. A small boy and a big yellow dog were sinigled on the door-step, and the young man asked: "WU1 that dog bite?" "Well," said the boy, "it's owin' to certain things ef he do or not. Ef yer want to colleck sewing-machine money hu's fierce as a tiger, but ef yer got anytliing to givc us he's harmless as a kitten - ain'tyer, Towser?"