Lords Of Creation

Husband - I wonder what wo'ï'd be a goed reraedy íor so many divorcei? WÏfe - Fewer marriages like ours. A Cincinnati man who advertises a fine steel instrument for ten cents' worth of stamps, returns a needie to inquirers. "Is Chincher making any money out of politics?" "Not a cent. Says he 5s perfectly satisfled with what he makes in it. " The chief of pólice in Baltimore says that he never found boys in the saloons until lager beer was introduced and games prepared to entice them in. It is claimed that a college graduate's chances of obtaniintr a fair degree of eminence ars as 250 to 1 as compared with the men who have not been to college. King Theodore of Abyssinia, punished Christian missionaries by coinpelling them to stand in the blazing sun while his genealogy was read, a period of four hcurs. Frederick Masson lately discoveed, and a Paris journal has published, a manuscript in which Napoleon, in 1791, maintained that love, being injurious to the individual and to the community, should be banished from the world. A family of father, mother, daughterand five sons in a northern county of New York, averages six feet, three inches. The daughter is just siz feet, and the shortest of the family. The tallest son is siz feet, six inches; the father is six feet and two inches. "I am surprised, Bobby," said his father, reprovingly, "that you should strike y our little brother. Don't you know that it is cowardly to hit one smaller than y ourself?" "Then why do you hit me, pa?" inquired the boy with an air of having the better of it. "Upon ui y place at home the re is an apple-tree, the fruit of which is sweet on one side and sour on the other," said C. E. Harrington, of Baltimore, Md., recently. "It has been known for many years that these apples existed, but no one has ever been able to explain the phenomenon."