For The Children

A little child was addressed by a genleman the other day. "How oíd are you, my dear?" he asked. "Oíd!" said the child, indignantly; I'm not oíd at all. I'm quite new. Aunt Esther has been trying to persuade little Eddie to retire at sunaet, using as an argument that little chickens went to roost at that time. "Yes," said Eddie, "but the old hen always goes with them." "What is the meaning of the word 'tantalizing!' asked the teacher. "Please, marm," spoke up little Johnny Holcomb, "it means a circus procession passing the schoolhouse and the scholirs not allowed to look out." At the breakfast-table, the elders of ;he family were talking about a coming wedding. "Papa," asked the youngest boy, "what do you want to give the bride awayfor? Can't you sell her ?" "Can water run up hill ?" asked Harry, aged ten yeara. "No," said his aunt. 'Well, then I don't understand it. Here my map shows that the Mississippi runs toward the equator, and the jeography says that the pole is flatter ;han the equator." Johnny had been in the street, watching the anties of the organ-grinder's monkey. When Johnny ran into the house, he shouted: "Grandmother, who made monkeys?" "The Creator, my boy." "Well," said the grandson, "I know the Creator laughed when he got the first monkey done." Practical arithmetic: "You cant add different things together," said an Austin school teacher. '-If you add a sheep and a cow together it does not make two sheep or two cows." A little boy, the son of an Austin avenue milkman, held up his hand and said: "That may do with sheep and cows, but if you add a quart of milk and a quart of water it makestwo quarts of milk. I've seen it tried." - Texas Siftings. The boy who attends public school in England, studies about five hours a day. He bas plenty of time for ball aad marbles, unless the circumstances are such that he must work af ter school -hours. In Germany the children are obliged to devote about eight hours a day to their books. In France theyoung folks are worked still harder. The average in France is eleven houra a day. Of course the small children are not expected to study that long, but boys of f ourteen are kept busy.