Somerville Journal Pencilings

It seeuis strange that yachtsinen huven't discovered before now why the Prlscillucamein behind. She was too modest a maiden toshow her heels to the Puvitan. Schoeppeustedt says that orie of the physiologieal mysteries that trouble him most !s the procesa by whieh a fellow's nose ean peel off eight eonsecutive layer.s while he is away on his sumiuer vaeation, and then bo biergei and redder thau t ever was before. Drunkeniiess is now said to be a oontagious diseasii. This is no new discovery, however. It has long been pnrfectly sober :ifter doinw tne town wjth some boon compamons, is pretty sure to outota t trom his wife when he gots into tho house. 'No, sir," declared Schoeppenstede positively, "I don't take any stook in all this talk about mind-reading. It is all bosh, every bit of it. 111 defy any man living to re'ad niy miad. It's an absoluto impossibility. " "But, dear," gently interrupted Mrs. Schoeppenstedt, "you ought not to be quite so positivo. Science has been makiug wonderful strides. you know, in the last few years. Why, 1 wasreading onl3' the other day of a wonderful microscopo whicli would show over 112,000 linos drawn in a