In Lighter Mood

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IN LIGHTER MOOD.

"What is Jigson in mawning for, do you know?" "It's eithaw faw his bwothaw aw his dawg; one of 'era died lawst week, but I weally fawget which it

was."

Not Always. — "Your bookkeeper seems to be a bright young woman." ' ' 'Yes ; but she has some very eccentric ideas. "Indeed?" "Yes. She enters our messenger boy's wages as 'running expenses.' " Tit-Bits.

Tommy seemed to be engaged with some problem. "Papa," he said, " 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' — that's the Golden Rule, isn't it, papa?" "Yes, my son." "And it's puffickly right to follow the Golden Rule, isn't it, papa?" "Yes, indeed." Tommy rose, went to the cupboard, and returned with a knife and a large apple pie. The latter he placed before his astonished sire with great solemnity. "Eat it, papa!" he said.

Two Irish farmers who had not seen each other for a long time met at a fair. They had a lot of things to tell each other. "Sure, it's married I am," said Murphy. "You don't tell me so," said Moran. "Faix, yes," said Murphy, "and I've got a fine healthy bhoy which the neighbors say is the very picture of me." Moran looked for a moment at Murphy, who was not, to say the least, re-

markable for his good looks, and then said, "Och, well, what is the harum so long as the child's healthy." Dublin Gazette.

• Hon. Joseph H. Choate observed recently that of all the witty men he had met during his stay in London the one whose quickness of humorous perception most nearly approached the American type was the clergyman, the late Dean Hole. Mr. Choate says that he was one of a party with Dean Hole to cross the Channel after a visit to the Continent. The voyage had been a rough one, and the dean had suffered greatly during the whole trip. When the party landed at Dover, the dean, in strolling about the railway station, chanced to stop before a printed notice of the company's rules pasted on the wall. As Mr. Choate came up, the dean said: "Mr. Ambassador, it occurs to me that after that stormy voyage of ours we have at least one advantage in making the subsequent trip to London." "How so?" asked Mr. Choate. "Why," replied the dean, "I perceive by this notice that the company carries returning empties at reduced rates." Harper's Weekly.