In Lighter Mood

IN LIGHTER MOOD .

Ferdy: "She is all the world to me! What would you advise me to do?"

Percy: "See a little more of the world, old chap." * *

The Right Eye: "Ihear that the Upper Lip and the Lower Lip parted today." The Left Eye: "Yes; it was owing to some words that passed be- tween them." * *

"What does this nation need?" shouted the impassioned orator. "What does this nation require, if she steps proudly across the Pacific-if she strides boldly across the mighty ocean in her march of trade and freedom? I repeat, what does she need ?" "Rubber boots," suggested the grossly materialistic person in a rear seat. Baltimore American . * *

Insome cases counsel receive answers to questions that they had no business to put, which, if not quite to their liking, are what they justly de- serve. The following story of George Clarke, the celebrated negro min- strel, is a case in point. On one occasion, when being examined as a witness, he was severely interrogated by a lawyer who wished to break down his evidence. "Yo are in the negro minstrel business, I believe?" inquired the lawyer. "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. "Is not that rather a low calling?" demanded the lawyer. "Idon'tknow but what it is, sir," replied the minstrel; "but it is so much better than my father's, that I am rather proud of it." The lawyer fell into the trap Clarke had laid for him, and inquired: "What was your father's calling ?" "He was a lawyer," replied Clarke, in a tone that sent the whole court into a roar of laughter as the discomposed lawyer subsided into his seat.