Anecdote And Incident

The other day M. Perier, the president of France, went into a shop in Paris and opening? a packag-e which he carried produced an automatic doll, and asked the shop girl behiad the counter whether it could be repaired. She replied that it could and asked who he was, that the doll mifrht be sent home. He told her, w-hen she stared at him a moment and famted away. His dig.nity was too ruueh for her. BiBhop William Boyd Carpenter ol Bipon, England, is thecourtpreacher. A story is told of him that when he was asked how he managed to address so exalted a personage as the soverelgn and yet malntain his composure he replied that he never addressed her at all. He knew there would be present the queen, the princes, the household, the servants, down to the soullery mald. "And," said the bishop, "I preach to the soullery maid aud the queen understands me." A few days sínce a womau entered a certain hat store. She had in tow a boyofabout 10 years of age. That is, his body was 10 yeara oíd, but bis face looked like a man of 30. "I want a cheap hat for this boy. I don't care what it is, so long as it is cheap. :' The hat ter pulled over his stock, and finally presentad to the woman a hat worth about fifty cents. liI guess this will satlsfy you," he said. "It is fifty cents." "Allright; 111 take it. I wanted somethingcheap for the boy to have fits in;" and then she went out.