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THREE BUCK BUGS, A* I often say to toy wi<V, when th blame* me for forgetting her little comrnis- ion*, it's a <jueor thing, ii the minti, and great it the force of habit. I never forgot to do anything I'm in the habit of doing, bat at Tilly usually attend* to the shopping herself I'm not in the habit of calling at tn i butcher'i or the grocer'* on my way home from busmeii, and therefore well therefore, I don't cill three time* out of five that ihe telli me to. Don't I catch n' No; not overmuch, anyhow. For one thing, we haven't been married very loog, and Tilly agree* that it'i only reasonable I should have time to learn to be more careful, and, for another, if it wasn't for the hold a habit haa on me. I doubt whether we should be married yet, or at least ws shouldn't be living in our own house, with the furniture all bought at a large discount for cash. I am a clerk in the service of a firm of colliery and quarry owners at Lington. and every Saturday morning I go oat to Wet- terby, a village some thirty miles off among the moors, tc pay the quarrymeo there their wages. It's an awkward sort of journey . I have to start by the first train in the morning, which leaves Lington at 6, change at Urask, our junction with the main line, leave the main line again at Thurley, some ten miles further south, and do the rest of the dis- tance in the brake van of a mineral train. Ihe money (nearly 100 pounds, mostly silver) I always carry in a lillle black leath- er bag, one of those bags you sse by score* every day, which may contain anything from a packet of sandwichei and a collar to a dynamite bomb, and it'* my habit when in the train to put my beg on the rack fac- ing me. I rarely keep it on the seat by my side, and I don't like to pat it over my head. If it has to go there because the opposite rack is full I am always uneasy about it, fancying I shall forget when I get out. I never have forgotten it yet, but one Satur- day in November, 1393, I did something which might havs been worse. I took the wrong bag when I left the train at fhur- ley. It happened in this) way. On Friday night I went out with Tilly to a party, whicU broke up so late that I had only just time to change my clothes and get a sort of apology for breakfast before catching my train. Consequently I slept all the way from Lington to Draak, and at Uraak I tumbled, only half awake, into the fint tbinl-claes compartment I came to. Three of the corner seats were occupied and I took the fourth, though there wa* no room on the opposite rack for my bag. I couldn't put it on the seat at my side, either, because the man opposite in the other corner had his legs up and I didn't oars to disturb him. I ought, of coarse, to have kept it oa my kneee, but it was rather heavy and I was very sleepy, so I just slung it over my head, settled myself down and dropped off again almost before the) tram was clear of the station. I t'ldn't wake up until ws stopped at. Thurley, and even then I fancy 1 should hav* slept on if the two men at the far and of the compartment bad not wauled to gel out. What station is this !" I asked, sitting up and drawing my legs from across the door to let them pass. " Otterford, I sup- pose !" " No, Thurley," said one, and up I jumptsl in a hurry, took ray bag, a* I thought, from the rack oppotite me, ami got down on to the platform just as the guard whistled the train away. " You ran it a bit fine th.t time, mister," remarked the man who had saved me from being carried past my destination. " I wonder if that other chap meant going on ' H* was as fast asleep as yon." " Oh, he's all right." said hi* companion. " He's bouksd for London. I heard him say so when lie got in." I felt much refreshed when we arrived at the quarries. After 1 had had a wash and done full justice to a second breakfast at the " Miner's Arms" I teltrsady to face my morning's work of making up the men's pay sheets. Then, as I felt in my pocket for my keys, my omory began to entertain a vague suspicion that that bag was some- how unfamilar to it. However, my key fitted the lock and a* 1 turned it my sui- piciou vanished, but only to be replaced a moment later by an astounding certainty. . Instead ofresting upon thefamiliar brown paper package* of silver and little canvas bad;* ol gold, my eyes were dazzled by a many -colored iride*cenoe, which shone forth from the iosiJe of that bag a* soon a* I opened it. " Diamonds, by jingo !" 1 cried as I start- ed back amaxed. I thought it best to Icet p my discovery to myself. The bag, I gussaed, was probably the property of a jeweler's traveler a traveler in a large way of business, too, thought 1, as 1 l*tieii m,o it iu the leant exposed i-orner of the office' and found it almost full of what, little as I nsw about precious stones, 1 felt certain wers valuable jewels. Rings, brooches, bracelets, loose stones, at least one necklace, a gold watuh mid 'ham, ncme bank notes and a considerable .mm of sovereigns were all mixed up toge- ther in a chaotic confusion which seemed at least inconsistent with their habit*. I began to doubt whether it was coaistsut with honest possession -of, , all events, thu o meant of the bag on the part of my late fellow passenger the man who was booked for London, and who had been asleep when 1 left the train at Thurley. No doubt he wa* awak* and alsoaware of hi* lota by thu time. What a state of m.nd he must be in too. Hut, just a> I was trying to realize his skate of mind a mur- mur of gruff voices and a xhiittl UK of heavy test in ihe yard outside reminded me , ha'. it was time to pay ttie men. Hurriedly summoning the foreman, and telling him that a mistake had been mads in supplying mo with money, I went down into the Tillage, and, after some trouble, ucoee led in collecting enough silver sod copper to serve my puroose. Then, with that precious bag out of light between my feet, 1 paid the men. As soon as I bad finished my tack I re- turned, per mineral train, to Thurley, and there I broks my journey. On calmly re- viewing; all the circumstances of the case in the seclusion oi the brake van I hail de- juled that the police rather than the rail. way authorities unit hi to be first informed of my mistake, and the inspector to whom I told my story agreed with me, "I am very glad you came straight to me," said he, turning the contents of the bag out on hi* desk. "If yon can hold your tongue for a week or two it's j".*t possible we may catch the gen:lsman who put this nice little lot together." "You think the- have been stolon then ! ' I asked. "Think '" he repeated, smiling at my sim- plicity. "I know, my boy. And when and where, too ; though, nnfortunately, not by whom. Run your eye over this." "This" was a liat of jewels and other valuable* missing from Erlingtborpr, Lord Yerbury'* place, where, the inipector said, a we'l planned robbery had been carried oat on the Thursday sveninic. "Ton seem to havs nailed a lot." he went on ; "but ws may as well go through the articles seriatim. ' We did to, and found there was nothing missing except the money I had talen to pay the men. Now, look here, young m%n," he went OB, eying me keenly, " I'm not in charge of this case yet bat, if yoa'll do as ! tell you, 1 hope I may be in the coarse of a few day*. There a tidy reward offered for the recovery ot the properly, as you see. That, I take it, you've earned already ; but ire you gamo to help me catch the man ? There'*: a further reward for nabbing him, which, of course, I oan't touch officially and don't particularly want. My aim is promotion. Dn you understand T ' " I think sc," said I ; " and 1 am will- ing to help you all I can. What do you wan: me to do !" " Nothintr," he replied ; " just literally nothing. (!o home. Keep a still tongue in your head snd a .harp eye on the agrmy "Il'f a plant. No, no. The w:i .low, you ool," he added, as Mr. flurst,bag in hand. "The polios are in ths made for the door, bar already As Mr. Hurst opened the window he cursed me with much volubility and bitter- ness, and as soon as be was outside oa lhe leads hs did worse. "Stand clear, Bill," he cried, snd his fmnd obeyed him. 1 scrambled to my fast, but immediately dropped again with a bullet from Mr. Hurst's revolver in my I shoulder. I am not at all sorry that Mr. Hunt firad at me, a* Inspector bland say* it was much easier U) convict him of attempted murder than to prove he actually stole those jewels, and the inspector doubts, too, wnellier he 'oald have got fifteen yean if merely charged with receiving them. Bat I do wish he hadn't hit me. However even the pain my wound still gives me is not without its compensation. It prevents me from feeling any twinges of conscience when I reflect that my furniture cost Mr. Hurst his liberty, for Lord Yer- bury took it for granted that he wae tne thief, and paid me ths extra reward he had offered for his apprehension. Inspector Bland won the promotion he coveted, and is now stationed at Lingtou. His wedding present was characteriuiic. It was a black bag, with tpy initials on either sids in white letters about sue inches long. Some Strong- Men. Thomas Thompson lifted three barrels of water, weighing together 1336 pounds, on March 28, 1841. Hs also put an iron bar on hm neck, seized hold of its two ends and bent it until the latter met. On another occasion he raised with his teeth a table 6 feel long, supporting at its farthest end a weight of 100 pounds. He also tore without ser.ous effort a rope of a diameter of _' inches, and lifted a horse over a bar. Some yesrs ago a negro appeared in London who, with one hand and his arm straight, lifted from the ground a chair on BRITISH AJSfD FOREI&N, A letter of Cardinal Richelieu's was sold recently in London for 3190; one-written by La Fontaine, the poet, brought $1 JO, and one by Robespierre Ml. At Hslsingfors, in Finland, a newspaper has been started, edited, and managed entirely by women. The chief editor is Miss Minna Kant, who is well known among the Finns as a novelist. Electricity is now used for coloring leath- er more quickly and deeply. The bide is stretched on a melalio table and covered with the colt-ring liquid; a pleasure ol a few volts is tbsn applied between the liquid and the table, which -pens the pores of the skin and allow* the color to sink in. Opposition to the use of the anti-toxins treatment for diphtheria has already taken an organize.! form iu Knglaad. A deputa- tion headed ny Lord Coleridge has protest- ed to the authorities againat its use in the bonpitaison the ground thai" public money ought not n be devoted to experiment* in psychology. N.ckel steel armor plates made by Krupp on a nsw system were suoceasfully tested at Meppen. The plates were about 5} inches lick and showed resistance equal to plates of 94 inches made by the old process. The plates were struck without injury by five tots ei-ch from six-inch and eight inch gut a. if the Government. Two oo-nrD'-ii of m- aatry occupied the marker place, out tneir nresence was not needed. The people kept Diloors ; ths stores, cafes, and public lUiidinut were closed ; the houses were iraped with black, and on the shipping in ihe harbor the flag* were at half- maal . At uoon the women and children appeared in me streets dressed in black ; the men were nowhere i be seen. stopped. All U attic in the town P3INCE 0? WALES IH RUSSIA. Tke fle.r rassllj Tin Between mn4 sualsw Bey-ally. A writer in the Paris "liaulois" givssi some impressions of his visits to Su Peters- burg and some advice to Frenchmen on ths attitude which they should now adopt. After speaking of the strong liking for England formed by the nsw Czar during his stay there, hs ssys : " No otner Prince iu the world, perhaps, likes his ease better than the heir to the English throne, yet see the terrible task undertaken by him for more than a fort* night, from Uvadia to ths day of the funeral of Alexander III., accompanying tbs Russian family twice a day to the re- ligious ceremonies solemnized before ths Sir Charles Algernon Cuote, Bart, of opsn ootfin of ths late Emperor, and after Donnybmok.lhe last mala iescendant uf the Earl of Bellamont, who was (iovernor of New York in King W ilium'* time, is pillor- ied in Truth as a professional writer of begging letters. His gre.t grandfather was made a baronet because be was the illegit- imate son of the last Karl. mounting ths step* of the catafalque behind '.be Empress and Nicholas Il.to kiss the brow of the August deceased. His attitude was not lees remarkab e in the private circle of ths Anitchkoff palace. I jv**t IICMU pun BIIIU wye 011 bile au.'ay i , * .1 ! column, of the London papers and wait till I wUofc w " t <1 ''I-rown man navmg i you hear from me. I'll take charge ot these article* and give you a receipt for them, but don't be surprised it you see them still advertised as missing." A few days later the inspector set his trap. It took the shape of an advertise- ment begging the genllrmaa with whom " G.C. ' inadvertently exchanged bags to communicate with <. C. at the address ha would bnd in G. C'* pocketbook. Personslly, I didn't think our fish wojld I be foolish enough to rise u> this bait, but I my friend, the inspector, wa* more hope- ful Luckily for u., Mr. Comer,'' said he, when I took advantage of my next visit to the quarri*s to call anon him. "there'* al- ways a sort jf wary or twi.it in the mind of the habitual criminal which prevents him from believing in the honesty of othsr folk*. I Now, not a soul but you and I and tne chief | constable know* those jewels area* gocd as back on Lady Yerbury dressing-table, or ! wherever shs's in the habit of leaving 'em i lying about. Therefor* the hue and cry i after them's not likely to die away yst i awhile, and there'll be a gsnuins ring about it which should persuade our unknown friend that you've got 'em and mean to convert 'em to your own use, as we say in the profession, but, being an amateur.don't, know how to go about turning 'em into more cash than the reward comes to, and that, consequently, you are anxious to couie to term* with him. Sse?' For a month Lady Yerbury 's diamonds were sought in vain and for a month "ii. C. " continued to appeal to his late fellow traveler, also in vain, but at the end of that time his patience was rewarded by the ap- pearance of an advertisement, telling him, if be really meant bunmess, to writ* to "B. H." t a given address. The letter I wrote of Inspector Hlan.l was more cautious than incriminating, but aa it produced a reply which ths inspector deemed satisfactory it was followed by others less carefully worded, until at last it stood pledged to personally deliver, for the consideration of I'-'.iHHi, the stolen jewels to one lienjamm Hurst, whom 1 was) to meet at a public house in Chilling- ham Now, I don't pretend to be braver than the average man of peaceful and sedentary habits, and when I saw what sort of a house the "Spotted Dog" was I began to wish I had refused to have anything to do with Inspector Bland'* scheme. The little company of disreputable-look- ing loafer* hanging about the bar eyed me curiously a* I entered, and whsn I asked the landlord if Mr. Hunt was In, one of them raised a general laugh by odenug to carry my luggage up to him. "No larks. Bill, ' Mill ths landlord itern- 3"Maiy, show the gentleman Mr. ant's room." I found Mr. Hunt a decidedly surly rascal. He began by grumbling at the hardness of the bargain I was driving with him. and swearing at hi* luck generally. Then being perhaps emboldened by the conciliatory manner I thought it prudent to adopt, he tned to make better terms, offering me first 500 less, and finally in- sisting that he ought at least be allowed on his lap a little child. It is on record that a l-ermsn called Buchholx lifted with his teeth a canuon weighing about M) Ibs. and fired it off m that position. While performing at Kpcrnay, in France the asm* feat, the barrel of the gun burst. Miraculously, he was not killed, although several of ths fragments were thrown over 30 yards away. There are stories of othsr strong men who did not appear in public. A batcher lived in Suuth Holland who killed calves by (trangling them. A Hutch count, in a private entertainment, bent an iron bar by beating it with bis right hand against his left arm, protected by a leather bandage, bending it afterward straight again by beating it the other way. Charts* Louvisr. a carpenter of Paris, found it child'* plsy to roll a tin basin between his fingers into a cylinder. Ou one occasion be carried off a soldier on guard who had gone to sleep in the (entry box, depositing both on a low churchyard wall close by. An equally amusing story is told of a Dane, Kuat Rnadson, a locksmith, who, while standing in a window on the ground floor, lifted with one hand half a bullock from thethoulder ot a butcher who was toiling past with his load. Notes on Lions. The tongue of a lion is so rough that a close look at it will almost tak< th* skin off ths looker. It is not safe to allow a lion to lick your hand, for if he licked the skin off and got a taste of the underlying blood tupposing it to be there, he would want ths hand and everything adjoining thereto. Nothing more perfect in modern machinery exists than the mechanism by which a lion works his claws. Hs has five toes on each of his fore-feet and four on each of his hind-feel. Each toe has a claw. Nothing about a lion is without reason, and the reason hs hse more toss and claws on his fore than on hi* hind feet is that he has more uss tor them. If this were not so, the majority would be the other way. The lion is nocturnal by choice. He has no particular objection to daylight, but likes to spend it in the bosom of his family, or at least adjacent to it. It should not be supposed that becauss he roams about at night he neglect* his family. He roam* in order to fill the family birder . He kills to eat, not for amuse-nent, He never bothers small game so long as there is big game within reach. When feeling hi, he can take an ox iu his mouth and jump fences sad ditches like a professional steople- High angle fir. gun mounting, and turret- | Th J~or*d, aft each ol :b. tried on the Centunou.Admiral Fremantle'* i iad remon:es. "> *' consoling reae- flagship in China, and with electric motors tiuo against grief, being affectionate toward , lh * ,, B * rfl<;ur ' hav P roved ieiiBfastory. ' all, and even joiag the length of playing and will be .ppiied 10 the nsw rUnowu. The system nods favor because it is in dependent of (team and hydraulic power ami can be woiked by hand. At Staroja, in ths Government of Nov- gorod, Russia, a girl of 14 was lately ar- rested on ths charge of strangling a two- year-old child, which she wae employed to look after. She thereupon confessed to hsving killed sixteen children in 'bis way, and gavs as her reason that she did not like the trouble they gave her. Iron, through lU uses for electrical pur- posse, seems to have developed a new qual- ity, magnetic fitigne. In tests made of transformers lately in London to ascertain the open circuit loss, it has been found tht the loss increased steadily for the first 200 days until it reached a fairly constant value of 4U per cent, more than at start- ing. with the children. This attitude tamly deliberate, hut who can say that it was not sincere ! How could it help being highly appreciated, and how uould it help bearing truit ! The Russian royal fan*ily, particularly ths Emptror Nicholas and the Empress, are deeply grateful for it. Ties have been formed in these day* of mourn- ing, and they have assumed a political character which will perhaps last longer tliau is imagined, and which, as the first result, have inspire. 1 the two countries with a desire to live on friendly terms." After remarking that France by intelli- gence and tact might benefit by this under- standing, but that the outcry against mili- tary attaches and the series of press scan- dals tend to discredit her in Russian minds, ths writer says : " The Anglo- Russian understanding im- i poses on France the obligation of arranging In Manchester, England, the Town i once for all with England the long-standing Council i* about to put 9I.290.UOU into clearing the alums. An overcrowded and unhealthy space o five acres in the centre of the city will be taksn, the building* torn down, and new model workmen 'id welling* erected in thsir stead, with large areas for playgrounds, and trees and flowers planted in the open spaces. Badges worn in the buttonhole have taken lhe place of commutation tickets) in Belgium, where the nsw system of fort- differences between them. Not that Russia makes this obligation, it is not for her to utter the word, but I can atfirm without f*er of contradiction that there is an august desire there for a good undemanding between Paris and London. The Franco- Kua*ian understanding may evidently exist concurrently with the Anglo- Russian rap- prochement, but henceforth it can not havs tree solidity unless we at once, or at least a* speedily as passible, amicably settle our " nightly season tickets good on the railroads ' *"* wlth England." over the whole Government system has ..* wriur . ^"'V ?* ' "> friendly used to pay the men. Inspector Bland had allowed me a quart- er of an hour for Degotiations. At t'us snd of that time he proposed to make a raid upon the house. "And nun. I, ' he had said in his jocular way, "w don't rind the properly still m your hands, Mr. Corner. It would be a ptctty kettle of Huh if we had to prosecute you for unlawful possession, wouldn't it!" In accordance with these instruction* I haggled with Mr. Hunt a little wiulb and theu allowed him to have his way, where- I _~ '" upon he, having satisfied himself that the bag which 1 restored to him still contained his spoils, handed me 1,900 in what after- ward turned out to be vury creditable imitations of Bank of hogland uotes. "At Home." An amusing story i* told of the late Prin- cipal 1'irie, of Aberdeen, Scotland. Just after "at home" card* became fashionable, one of the dryest specimen* of the old pro- fessional regime was surprised to receive lasive, which read as follows : "I'rinci- coinpli met ts to Professor 1 , and hope be is well. Principal and Mrs. Pine will be 'at home' on Thursday evening, at S o'clock." This wa* something which evidently requir- ed an answer, but the recipient, of it was quite equal to the occasion. He wrote : ' "Professor T , returns t. hscompliment ! of Principal and Mrs. I'm-" and ml >i m* them that be i* very well. Professor T I is glad to hear that Principal anil Mrs. ' at S o'clock. Professor T will also be at "I suppo*e you don't want no receipt T" he grow. <<!. "No, thank you." naid I, "I think we may mutually dispepsa with that formality, liood morning.'* I turued to leave the room a* I spoke, but before 1 could unlock the door u was burst open from the outside, not, unfortun- ately forme, by u>o police, but by the man whom the landlord had .'sjleii Bill, a pow- erful ruffiitn, who promptly kuooked me town and knelt upon my chest. "Quick, Ken, get out of this," hs cried. Tea Drunkards. It seem* that tea is to be no longer oon- suleieil the cup that ohesrs but not ineb- riates. A New York doctor declares that of the patistts applying to the dispensary fully 10 per oenu are tea drunkard*, and that tea ranks a* an intoxicant only second to alcohol. These patients sutler from vertigo, heartache, insomnia, palpitation of the heart, nightmare, nausea, hallucination, depression of spirits, and sometime* suici- dal impulses aurely a formidable list of ympinnm. Or. Wood think* that tin* evil may be greatly lessened if only freshly- steeped tea is drink. , greatly increased the number of commuters. Difference* in color distinguish the nature ol the ticket and ths class by which the holder 11 entitled to travel. la Prussia he Catholic Church seems to retain iu vitality. In 1872 there were in tbs kingdom 914 conventual establishment*, with 8,795 members; three years later, in consilience of the repressive legislation of the "May laws," over a third of the in- stitutions wsre diosolved, but iu 1393 we find 1,215 establishments, with 14,044 monks and nuns. At a recent sale at Christie'* in London a sheet of pen drawings by Michael Angelo is discovered thrown in with a lot of unimportant drawings, and brought $1,<JOO. Ou one side of the sheet are two oompoei- tions for Holy Families or charities; on ths othsr an allegorical group, a woman and child seated on the ground. There are on it also some satirical verses. Mrs. Gladstone's nephew, the Honorable Alfred Lytlleutn, has been proposed :..r election to the Liberal Unionist Cluu, hi* sponsors being the Duke of Devonshire and Sir Henry James. He will stand for Parliament at the general election as a Liberal Unionist. Only a few weeks ago Mr. Lyttleton wa* appointed Recorder of Oxford, s place which he still holds, by Lord Kosebery'* Government. At Brighton, England, a Christmas dole ot half a sovereign has been disiributed for years to the oldest poor inhabitants. It was given this year to 150 persons, 95 women and .">."> men, who averaged over 83 years of age, and, as ths day was fine, 96 of them appeared in persons heeded by an old lady of 95. She was followed by sight more old ladies who were over 90. The oldest msn present was 89, but an old gentle- man of 100, who could not come, beaded the list This season s crazes in Europe have been collected by an Italian editor. In England it is olay modelling, the chief victims being Mr. Gladstone an<l Sir William Harcourt; in Paris it IB riddles, in Italy and southern France it is jumping beans, painted to represent prominent persons; they jump best on hot plates. In Belgium they have slow smoking races; the pipe* are tilled with half an ounce of tohaooo each and the win- ner is he who can hold out longest without rulighting. The record so far i* sixty-seven minutes. Alfon* C/.ibulka, whose "Stephanie li\t to has been played in almost svery country in the world, died of apoplexy last month in Vienna. lie was horn in Hun- gary and began hi* musical career a* an in- fsni phenomenon, playing for several seasons in southern Russia. Ho wrote " Amorita," which wss ono of th success- ful comic operaa of the earlier Casino days, and the waliz " 1 ream After the Ball," which is still popular. Anton Seidl pla>ed it on last Sunday night at the Metropolitan Opera House and was compelled to repeat IU Cr.ibulka was 54 ye.ua old, and had been OB late years the leader of a military band. At Pirano, in Istria, the tablet with in- scription* in Italian and Slovenian, which has sxoited all the Itallao-speakinn prov- inces of Austria, was lately set up again on the Court Houss, according to the decision disposition of England, perhaps a result of ths rapprochmsnl with Russia, and dwells on the peculiar fitness of Baron de Courosl for restoring gtod relations, as also on the duty of Frenchmen not to interfere with diplomatic action. Hs concludes by exhort- ing the Colonial party not to obstruct, by xoess of zeal or un abls words, an understanding which they must themselves dosue. Mrs. Soiled by Trade. Wayupp " Don't invite those Uighupp girls again. Their faiher has dis- gtaoed himself." Miss Wayupp " Impossible ! He is s noted scientist, snd president of a college." Mrs. Wayupp" Yes, but the vulgar fallow has recently bevu making a study of ths trade wind*. It'* in all tne papers, too." Abundant Proof. She" I wonder whether Chinamen ever use intoxicant* to excess) T" He " The war has demonstrated that they don't. You don't hear of their doing anything but taking water." The Very Latest. " What's ths latest thing out ?" Asksd a gossipy she. " I think," was tbs answer, " My hnsband must be," The Its Equivalent. prisoner had been before the court so m\n> times for vagrancy that the judge concluded to give him a doss he wonldnH forget. "So," he said sternly, a* he looked down on the chronic, " you are her* again ?" " Yes, yeronner," replied the prisoner humbly. "Same old ohsrge, I suppose!" " Yen, yeronner." "All right; I'll just tine you a hundred dollars and send you dowc." The prisoner threw up his hands like a drowning man. " (ieer-.isalem ! yeronner,' h exclaimed : " why don't you give me a life sentence and be done with it T'' Papa Caught. First Little Boy" What you laughin' t!" Second Little Boy" Papa is sooldm' everybody in the house, 'cause he says he oan't. lay a thing down a minute without somejne pickm' it up an' losm' it he, he, hu !" What's he lost?" " Hi* pencil.'' Where i* it!" " Behind hi* ear." Sorry for Bobby. First Boy" I feel sorry for Bobby Itluuui.. He's got a step-mother." ml Boy" Is she strict!" First Boy "Awful : Shs make*) hint wear rubbers every time it rains."