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Here you have it. An Indian was describing the habits of his tribe, and said: "Indian great smoker; smokin' great help to laziness."

Among the battle monuments to be erected by the Japanese, in memory of their many victories over Russia, will be an enormous light- house on Okeno island, in the Strait of Corea, to commemorate the battle of the Sea of Japan. It is to be hoped though scarcely realized that all the monuments will be as useful as this one.

Thomas W. Lawson was once visited in his Boston office by a young woman who came laden with all sorts of college diplomas and gilt-edged references. It so happened that Mr. Lawson needed a temporary secre- tary and engaged her on the spot. When, later in the day, the young woman handed Mr. Lawson a number of letters that he had dictated,they were chiefly remarkable for their hideous orthography. He called the girl'sattention to her blunders, whereupon she replied with a giggle: "Really, now, I think I must have been bewitched." "Quite so," said Mr. Lawson; "some fairy has evidently cast a bad spell over you." This story affords a moral to the average stenographer and type- writer, for if there is anything which exasperates a business or a pro- fessional man it is the inability of his amenuensis to spell correctly. Success.