She Struck Him

"I vant me a diforce by mino frow," aaid a Germán to n lawyer. " Well, I thiiik we can secure the commodity if you have the dust to put up for it," replied the attorney. "Vat?" indignantly observed the Germán. "Hat? By chiuks, you dinks me a geeses, ain'd it ?" "Oh, no, but it is necesssry to have Borní' money to can y the case intp the coarte, and theu yon must give som Valid reasons as to why vou cannot live with yOTU wife." " Vell.it was a complimented cases, anyhow. We don't was hafe orne languages togedder vhen we vas gone by on der outside, uud dheu she vas no account vomans. ' "Do you base your application ilivorce upon such trivial things? Didn't he ever give yon any great trouble of mimi or body?" asked the lawyer. " Yah, shure. She one time shtole out my false Uooths, und told anonder fellow dot she vas goiug to got a diforce on ackound of my pheesickle defections. I don't like dot, too, pooty vell." " I hat's not enough. You can not secure a divorce on those grounds. She rmint hit you, or desert you, or something of the kind." ' Ish dot so?" "Yes, sir, that is law. Now, my friend, can you remember that she ever struck you?" '■ Shuro ting. I reckermember dot poot vell. She joost now, yesterday, struck me for two tollars, und I vas goot for dot diforce now, ain'd it." Thero are certain social grades in every rank f Ufe Even the poor flsherman is obliged to draw the line somewhere. The patiënt is the physician"s connudrum . The doctor guesses until he is at his wits end, and then gives it up. Generally, the ürst thing they do when a person is ill is to send for a piller to bolster him up and make him rest comfortably. A capital crime - well, kissing is aliout as good as any of them, if we admit that ki8ing is a crime. Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor wili feel a pleasure in the reverse. ïhere is no trouble about twisting the tail of a sleeping buil dog. The disagreeable part comes when you let go. A prominent clergyman calis the face "the playground of the soul." Then a book-ageut's cheek must be a prairie. When you think the world can not get along without you, pull a hair from your hi'iul and see if it makes you baldheaded.