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' ' , 1 11 Below the Sea. Deep in the bay the old church lies, ] Beyond the storm-wind's power. The waves that whelmed it overplay > In ripples round the tower. And if you look down through the tideMany nnd many a time? You may catch the glimmer of the stones, ^ Or hoar the swent bells chiiue ! ^ t For they that dwoll deop in the sea, .Below the wind and rain, v. Tlio Mermen and tho Mermsidons, Have built it up tij?iiin ! S They havo mado last tlio ruined walls j] With thoir iuiniuital hands, r 1 And Mrown dm uitjlo with rod sca-flowors, N Ami with llio wet pl*q aaudt). i Anil wli?n n drifting boat comes back ^ Rock shattered to llio aliore, Willi never enptain nt tiiu helm, 8 Nor Bailor at tho oar, v Then down hulow tho ?lormy foam h The wwt old bolts ring !ieo, J Tlify cull upon ih*? uiariucre ^ That coiuc no moro from sea. ?May A'cmtiill, in Jltognzinc of Art. P l'A Secret of the Sea," St Tho following story was told me a short time ago by a friend, who had It it only at second hand from an eye-wit- n ness of the whole affair. My friend fi began thus: v "The strango thing I am going to tell yon is true; I know it because 1 have it from a friend, or, rather a re~ - - a: iauon, 01 one 01 ine omeers on Doard the ship. "Some years ago, before the existence of the Suez Canel, a large East tl Indiattian was making her way easily, fc. with light Summer winds, along ri through the Indian Ocean to Calcutta. tl The Cape had been passed several days ^ before, and now, with charming weather, officers and passengers, to say nothing of the crew, were looking forward to the end of what had been a ! pleasant, though quite uneventful, voyage. ( "They had had nothing more serious than a 'half-gale o' wind,' had met only three or four ships, homeward bound; and in spite of a score or more agreeable passengers, fn spite of the last sen- * safUn 1 1 * ' ' ^ uuvQiOf ui ujusictu entertain- ^ menta, of flirtations by moonlight on deck, and even in spite of unlimited m gossip, the days had grown very mo- ^ notonous.and the weeks unaccountably long; even light-hearted middies had S1 begun to chafe and fret over the long confinement on shipboard, and the young ladies to sigh for an excitement. "I take it for granted that you know ^ that the service of the East India ^ Company's ships was like the Naval in its organization; there were captain, ^ lieutenants, midshipmen and petty officers; the ships were mounted with cs heavy guns, and were well armed, and 86 manned with men trained for fighting. m The voyage was long, and in time of 80 war the Indiamen were regarded as very desirable booty. The ships were large, strongly built and verv com mo ? " w CE dious, and often luxuriously fitted up. "The day had been hot, and the light wind had died almost entirely away; ^ the great ship rose and fell on the waves, and her sails hung loosely from ^ the tall masts that slowly swayed back and forth with monotonous, cracking sound one knows so well who has been much at sea. It was 'sundown,' and Cfl the Bhort twilight of the tropics was fast deepening Into night; everybody ^ had come upon deck to enjoy such whiffs of air as might be stirring, the 85 passengers and officers on the quarter- st deck, while the crew were hanging over the side or lazily lounging on the ' neat coils of rope about the deck. 1 i of "Suddenly a faint, very faint sound cjft fqinf rvna lrnon? ^ WW .M.uvt vuw auoir aut W11 Ob lb W(43 {II whence it came?or scarcely if there had been a sound at all. People asked each other about it; some had heard it 8C and others had not; and after some ^ discussion it was decided there really ^ was nothing at all. And just as they reached that conclusion the sound ^ came again, and a little clearer, more positive than before, so that every one heard something. 'It was the moan of the breeze through the rigging!' 'No, it was the bell for'ard 1' It was fifty g( most ordinary sounds in the world, and quite a matter of course that it should have been heard; and then? Q| again it came?as if it dropped from ' the air, and were the sob of some sadhearted spirit floating by. And then the thing was talked over and ^ over, ana everyoody had .a theory, and nobody was satisfied with any of them. a "Meantime it grew darker, and the great stars of the Southern World started out, making the night luminous with their wonderful glory. A silence fell upon the busy tongues, and all eyes were gazing upwards, when u suddenly through the hush broke the ? tone of a bell. Full, clear, musical it rang out, then died slowly, seeming to go further and further away, until the ^ last faint sound came from a long distance off; then p^ain silence, and people looked strangely at each other, and * Imost as if thoy were fearful of break<ng that stillness by speaking the 1 / ,Torus ihat hung on every lip. At ' Inst Captain Stanley hailed the mast- 1 .heai . f V *,; . ( ' ,' " 'No, sir, nothing in sight. It's a ittle misty up to windward.' " 'Keep a sharp lookout?d'ye hear?' 44 4 Ay, ay, sir I' "A slight puff of wind blew past the hip?just enough to bear the distinct one of the mysterious bell, and also to ell from which direction it came; it vas deeper, clearer, fuller than before. L'he mystery deepened, but Captain itauly said, quietly: 'That mist unloutedly holds the solution of the afair; it is some ship's bell, as we shall ee as soon as it lifts a little.' But tour after hour went on, and still the uidst hung low ou the water, and till the mournful sound of that bell pas borne to the ears that listened all trough the night on board the Dare. rew left the deck, and all night long hat sad, weird tolling kept them comany?now seemingly closer to them, nd again so faint and far away. It fas uncanny, and to the sensitive ones DuiKled like the strokes of doom. "Just before the early dawn, while ; was yet only a clear starlight, the list lifted, and at once came the cry rom the masthead: Something to windward.' " 'What is she like?' " 'Well, it's a queer sort of a craft [together.* " 'Mr. Crabbs, will you go up and J.e what you make cf her?' said Capita Stanley; and Mr. Crabbs. a light>oted young middie, sprang up the gging, and in a few moments relrned, saying: " 'She, or it. w a very queer-looking ling, sir; it is pretty dark yet, but, as ell as 1 can see, it looks like a big Eitboat with a sort of house on it?it 3ais low in me waier. Alia mat oen r?keeps oil tolling sir,' said little rabbs, hesitatingly.' ? ?Yes?yes?we can all hear the ?11 plainly enough, Mr. Crabbs!' and iming to the first lieutenant, CapLin Stanley went on; 'Mr. Fraser, see boat lowered away at onpe: send Mr. rabbs in command of her, to board lis stranger and find out what this eans.' " 4 A few minutes later one of the lip's boats, manned with a crew of x men, and little Crabbs in the stern, as pulling towards the (latboat, which id become visible, from the ship's ;ck. There was no steady wind, but slight puff or two had been made le most of to draw a little closer to le strange thing, and the Dare now y almost or quite becalmed about vro miles distant from it; the house or ibin?the top of it at least?could be ien, and a sort of crossbeam arrangeon t. nn wllioh hnnrr fVin Kail nrhnoo ? ? W? ?? .?awM M v?ug VMV WVIt UUUOU ilemn voice was heard as the boat >se and tell with the waves; but no ving soul was visible. Every glass as directed upon the little boat as it ime up alongside. Mr. Crabbs was en to climb up the side and instantdisappeur, while in the same raoent the boat pushed off and made >r the ship, pulling in a disordered, ?sitating manner, stopping for a' few mutes' discussion seemingly, then leir way with a long, regular stroke. "Arrived at the ship's side, they ime on board in a dazed sort of a way ith white scared faces; and upon ttptain Stanley's stern demand for an tplanation, they managed to tell their ory. "They saw no human being, they jard sound of human voice on that lunted thing; but as Mr. Crabbs epped upon the top of the high bulark, a large black (lgure reached up id seized him with its long arms and ragged him down; and there was a tund of rattling of chains and shrieks id yells of fendish laughter; and the dng was loaded with devils, and the oul Fiend himself had got poor Mr. rabbs, and they got away as fast as ley could. "And sad and terrible enough it all as, and that horrible bell went on riling an awful knell for poor, brightanrf arl liffla P.rohha ThorA XX7&VC* UUL L(/U IIVV^U V/EUt/M0i f| V<- V )bs and tears, and pale cheeks, and iowning for the lad; and after a lite the captain said, with a hard voice, od a set, stern look on his pleasant ice: " 'Mr. Fraser, send that boat back rith a fresh crew? or, rather take commnd yourself, sir?take the best men nd plenty of arms.' "And in a few moments the little oat went ba^k, carrying men who ad rather fight a man-of-war twice heir size than face a foe that was unnowo, and doubtless belonged to the inseen world; but they went, and reslutely, for everybody loved little Jrabbs. "How earnestly and anxiously they vere watched from the decks of the Jam one can well imagine. Mr, ? * ~ ? *. ? II J jTftser ana ine ooauswain, wen armeu tnd revolver in hand, ^limbed cautious7 up the sides of the flathoat, and vere seen to raise their heads slowlj ibove $he bulwark. And this is whal hey saw: a magnificent Bengal tigei the finest breed 'just finishing hii " 's&k*'. './ ' Y" ^;1 :'r > * , ' ' < t. ^ .. ' - ,' iff-ltfiJf "tJfe ffe .? 1 \ revolting meal t They fired together, and the great creature fell over and died without a struggle. "Then the boat's crew were ordered to come up, and they carefully climbed on board, and with a pistol in each hand, began an exploration of the cabin; there was no door to it, and as they entered the wide doorway, there right before them they saw two skeletons? of a man and a woman, chained, ono against each side of the room. Between them, in the midst, was a broken chain, one end still riveted to tho floor?the other hung to the neck of the slain tiger ! "Fronting the doorway, on the wall was written in Arabic: 'Such is my vengeance upon those who rouse my jealousy.' The ghastly tale was told, j "Silent from horror, they gathered 1 A 1 A ? ~ ' bugctiiiei mi mai was ien or ine gay middie, and covering them with a boat-cloalc, the Dare's men rowed back and told their story. "Lieutenant Fraser told it all to the person who told it to me, and strange and horrible as it is?well, you know, 'nothing is too strange,' or too horrible to be true'; and my story in true." Great Salt Lake. Great Salt Lake is in fact not a branch of the Sea at all, but a mere shrunken remnant of a very largo fresh water lake system, liko that of the still existing St. Lawenco chain. Once upon a time American geologists say a huge sheet of water, for which they have even invented a defiuito name. Lake Bonneville, occupied a far larger valley among the outliers of the llocky Mountains, measuring 300 miles in one direction by 180 miles in the other. Beside this primitive Superior lay a great second sheet?an early Huron?(Lake Lahontan the geologists call it) almost as big and of equally fresh water. By and by? the precise dates are necessarily indefi nite?souie change in the rainfall, unregistered by any contemporary, raadt the waters of the big lakes shrink am) evaporate. Lake Lahontan Bhrank away like Alice in Wonderland, till there was ahsr?lut.??lv nnthinc* u>Ft nr it J Lake Bonneville shrank till it attained the diminished size of the existing Great Salt Lake. Terrace after ter race, running in long parallel lines on the sides of the Wahsatch Mountain: around, mark the various levels at which it rested for a while on its grad ual downward course. It is still falling indeed, and the plain around is be ing gradually uncovered, forming th< white, salt-encrusted shore with whicl all visitors to the Mormon city are sc familiar. But why should the water have become briny ? "Why should th< evaporation of an old Superior pro duce at last a Great Salt Lake? Well there is a small quantity of salt in t.n1??lnt> /...nn ln ?*_ 1 * - ?" > -- > uiuuuu cvcu in 1.110 iicsucat Ul litivr? ani ponds, brought down to them bj the streams or rivers, and, as the watei of the hypothetical Lake BonnovilU slowly evaporated, the salt and other mineral constituents remained behind. Thus the solution grew constantly more and more concentrated till at the present day it is extremely saline Prof. Geikie (to whose work the present paper is much indebted) fount that he floated on the water in spite o; himself; and the under sides of tlx steps at the bathing places are all enencrusted with short stalactites iv salt, produced from the drip of th? bathers as they leave the water. Thi mineral constituents, however, diffei considerably in their proportions frou those found in true salt lakes of marim origin, and the point at which salt ithrown down is still far from havinj been reached. Great Salt Lake in us simmer in the sun for many centurie yet before the point arrives at whicl (as cooks say) it begins to settle.? Cornhill. She PAid Extra. A widow, whose age might have been forty, went into business on Grand River avenue a few weeks ago, and the first move was to get a sign painted. The services of a sign painter were secured, and when he finished his work he put on his "imprint" by placing his initials 4W. A. II." down on the left hand corner of the sign. When the widow came to criticise the work she queried : "What does 4W. A. H.' stand for ?' , "Why, 'Wanted, A Husband,'" ret plied the painter. "Oh, yes?I see," she mused. "It , was very thoughtful in you, and here is a dollar extra."?Dettoii Free Press. i ?? The Student's Recommendation. Professor to medical student: "We i will suppose another case. By tho , blunder of a prescription clerk a man I has taken twenty grains of cyanide of . .potassium. What would you recomI mend?" r "I would recommend that the ob; sequies be conducted in strict accordr ance with his bank account and stand* i lng in society, sir.7'?Chicago Ledger* 4* < nk $ r. ..'J . . ' # ' :i :' "-/. \ A: ,< ;>. >>.,.d'V V.,-?'. > , . i ISTORY OF TWO CORPORALi j An Ex-Confederate's Reminiscence of the War. ,TThy the Hatred of One Man for Anothe Turned to Affection. Being, as I am, a man of no educa | tion?never have been given a fai , Bliow In my younger days?the reade ; Is asked to excuse my plain languag and bad grammar. You must know that I belonged t< the Fifteenth Alabama infantry, an< that we went to the front pretty earl: In the war. "We thus had our pick o good men. In my company the thin corporal was a powerful big cha] named Sam Chapin, who had beei overseer on a plantation near Hunts ville. He was not only big and pow erful but his habits had made a selfish 1 overbearing and cruel man of him He hadn't been in the company a weel before half the men were down or him for his meanness. Big Sara also had his dislikes, bu there was ono man he hated in partic ular. I shouldn't have said man, foi he was only a boy 17 years old?slim pale-faced and as timid in look as i girl. Sam took a hatred of this bo] on sight, and he let no occasion pasi to nag him and rentier his hard lo Btill harder. Jimmie. as the boy wai called, had no complaint to make. II< was o? a forgiving disposition, and nc matter what he felt or thought, \v< never heard him condemning anybody by word of month. Some of us woulc have killed liig Sam iiad we been ii Jimmie'a place, but such a thing a: striking back seemed never to hav< occurred to the boy. Well, one da] when a part of our regiment was cut oft from the brigade by a ilank move ment of the Union troops, and om situation was desperate, our captair steps out and says: "Hoys, 1 want to send word t( Colonel . Where's the man who'l take it?" lie was looking right at. liig Sam al the time, but that individual turnei two shades whiter, and hid himself ir thw rrtiir riinlru mnMorin.. ?K..f ? 1 - ?... in**uuui iu^ tnat uuuuiij but. a fool would try to push past 300( Yankee muskets with the message The first thing we knew Jitnmie hat mounted a horse from which some of Gcer had been shot and was riding away. IIow he ever ran that gaunt iet with his life was more than I coulc tell, but he did get through, and dowr came enough of our forces to help ut Dut of the box. This was new cause for Big Sam ti Sate Jitnmie. The boy had not onlj jxhibited greater courage in the face 3f danger, and right before us all, but ae was promoted to second corporal This was a promotion right over th< aead of Big Sum, and he felt it to th( 3nds of his lingers. lie couldn't nap ;he boy any more, and I have no doubt he swore a solemn oath to kill him at tho first opportunity. Indeed. h< hinted as much, and became so ugl} and abusive to all that some of us wanted to kill him. Well, in about six weeks we had another tussle with the Yanks. W< got into it hot and heavy, and as wt were driving them for the moment ] found myself alongside of Big Sam Wo were disputing for a rise of ground and far in advance of us, carrying th< ilag which the color-bearer had dropp Bd as a bullet had hit him. was Corpo ral Jimmie. I was feeling proud t< Bee him there, when, as heaven is mj Judge, 1 saw Big Sam raise his musket take deliberate aim at the boy, ant next moment Corporal Jimmie went UUH 11. It was a hurlyburly time, with grape unci lead cuttiug a.11 around us, and ] fet the incident pass for a time, de termined, though, that Big Sam ahoulc pay the forfeit after the battle. We kept on and on, but as we ros< Ihe hill we were checked. In fiv< minutes more wo were being driven tnd that was how it came about thai Corporal Jimmie, with his left arn broken by Big Sam's bullet, fount himself lying beside the ex-overseer who had a Yankee bullet in his leg There were plenty of others wounded, ind some dead ones, too, but our tw< men lay almost side by side. Big San was groaning, cursing and whininj ike the coward he was, when a can teen was hold within reach and a voic< laid: "Take it, comrade?a drink wil ease your pain." 'W-what! is it you?" exclaimed th overseer as he rose up on his elbov | anu gazeu at jiuiime. j "Yes; both of us are down, but yoi are hit the worst. Can I help you ?" | "You help me?" , "Of course." It paralyzed Big Sam to meet witl such words from the man he had trie< to kllL After a time he groaned out "Say, Jimmie, you orter shoot m through the head.'* . "What for?" , {raft'/j ' -.!*& ^ "Cause, I'm the man that fired that bullet into you." "Well, 1 don't want revenge. I'm now able to crawl away, but 1 won't leave you." r The Yanks were massing artillery to play on the rise of ground and what does Corporal Jimmie do but get up in the face of all the sharp-shooters and r wounded and faint as he was, half ; r drag, half carry Big Sam into a shcl0 tered ravine. More'n that, he binds up his wound, and makes him pretty cora9 fortable, and there we found'em along 1 towards night, when a grand charge y finally gave us the ground. f You remember, 1 had seen Big San. I draw a bead on the boy, but when I a went to make a stir over it Corporal i Jimtnie said: "Please don't! He has . been punished enough. 1 think he J . will be a changed man." t And so he was. They took to eacn t . other like twin ducks, and were the1 c fasted, firmest friends you ever saw. | i Big Sam dropped all mean ways, and I within a year was orderly sergeant of | t the company, while Corporal Jimmie . was a lieutenant. r The Kite of "Suttee." ' Since the advent of the British into 1 power in India the fearful rite of sutr tee, which condemned to be burnt 3 along with her husband his widows, has been prevented; and though, even s at this day, a Ilindostani burning is a * sight by no maans pleasant, it was } much more fearful when alons with 5 the burning dead husband were burned ' ' oile or more of his late wives. * The first time when that sacrifice 1 was clearlv brought home t.n v.n.riiah * o? 1 men was when Job Charnock, half 3 pirate, half adventurer, saved the life 7 of a beautiful Bengalee widow as she was being thrust upon the burning pyre of her late husband. Job Charr nock laid the foundation of the pres1 ent Capital of India, Calcutta, and it j was at its present site where the gal lant sailor performed this hazardous I ^ saving feat. Charnock had penetrat- I ed up the Iloogly, in quest of advent1 urea, and seeing from his vessel prep' aration for the burning of a Hindoo ho 1 watched the process with curious ex7 citement; but when it came to cremat' ing living people, and above all a young woman, all the generous impul' ses of the sailor's heart were stirred, " and calling to his comrades he leaped f ashore, and with the aid of their knives he dispersed the heathens, and ' afterward married the woman and 1 founded Culcutta.?San Francisco Ex5 a miner. ) Tho .lolly Japanese. r "All life is a joke to tho Japanese," ? said Lieut Wyckoff of the hydrographL ic bureau, who lived in Japan for live years. "During all that timo I never s saw any one angry. I hardly .believe ? they could lose their tempers if they r should try. They can kill or be killed t with the most p'erfect aacoir faire. t, The trades-people will cheat you out > of your eyes if you let them, and a ; good many would rather lie than tell 5 the truth. But there is really no malice in it all. If you find thern out I they will simply laugh in your face, as , if to say they thought they were clev, er in trying to take you in, but that [ you were still more clever in catching them. I was personally acqainted with the Cabinet, who really constitute , the ruling power. They carried on . the Government as if it were a big piece of fun. The Mikado is the only ) one who is expected to look at life grave, ly, and he makes up in his existence for the levity of all his subjects. He is so I completely secluded that he may bo t said to live in a tomb. Altogether, Japan is a delightful place to live in, , and American and English naval [ officers who go there always liato to . leave. Aside from the charms of I country and climate, I put its people for hospitality, warmth, and cheerful5 ness against any nation on earth."? 3 Omaha Herald. I Sam Jones, the Revivalist. j Sam Jones was born in Alabama 1 about the year 1847. In his youth his parents moved to Georgia, where ho was brought up. He comes of a family of Methodist preachers, but in 3 his youth was wild and dissipated. lie j studied law, and had just entered upon t the practice of his profession when . his father died. The ofd gentleman, B who was a most sincere, God-fearing man, on his death-bed urged his son 1 to repentAnce, and the young man dates his conversion from that hour e Having forsaken his dissipated habits v and his wild companions, he also decided to give up the profession of tho j law and enter the ministry. He was first licensed to preach by the Atlanta conference in 1872, and since that time he has preached with great suci cess and conducted revivals in nearly A fivprv pit* tn thA Smith anH Rmithwpat ; Shortly after entering upon his career e as an evangelist Mr. Jones married Miss Laura McElwain of Eminence Ky.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. * taHib- iy-jJ' A CLIPPINGS FOlt THE CURIOUS. The drumfiah chews his oyster, shell H r 3d nil. It was customary in England to ap- H plaud the preachers in the pulpit of I 200 years ago. I A lemon weighing four pounds and thirteen ounces was recently picked at I Panasoffkee, Pla. At the Armstrong Works, in Eng- B land, a gun that will cast a one-ton H shell fifteen miles has been made. <1 On recently cleared land in Kansas I red clover was grown that was seven ' feet high, and white clover five feet six inches high. The smallest book in the world is half the size of a postage stamp, and is an edition of the sacred book of the Sikhs, belonging to the Earl of DuCferin. v .Accoruing to a popular error in old I times the porcupine could dart his 1 quills. They are easily detached, very I bharp and slightly barbed, and may I easily stick to a person's legs when he . !s not a\yare that he is near enough to touch them. The Patagonians, including both Bexes, have an average stature of live feet ten Inches according to Mr. H. > Hale, who considers that the adoption of equestrian habits has shortened the legs of the people two inches in two centuries, their former height averaging six feet. Elephants are not numerous on the western slope of equatorial Africa, 1 being found only along the fertile river 1 Valleys, and rarely ever going near the 1 banks of the Congo until the hilly and | barren country is passed. Above Btanley pool they increase in numbers, Seldom being molested or hunted by '.he natives. A relic of the great forests which once covered the south of Sweeden was recently dug out of a bog at Kin- ' neved in the shape of a boat six feet tn diameter, hollowed out of a log. !rhe tree from which it was obtained must have been twenty feet in circum- I Terence. The wood, which was blue I la color; was very hard, and the boat so heavy that two bullocks could not move it. Chicago frequently receives 1.000. 000 bushels of grain in st ningle day. IIow long a train j would be required to carry that j amount ? Let us figure : A bushel ol corn weighs fifty-six pounds. A million bushels would therefore be 56,000,000 pounds. Allowing ten tons (20,000) pounds to the car, it wouldtake 2800 cars. There are 320 rods tothe mile and two freight cars to the rod. Divide 2800 cars by the 160 to the mile, and you have a train 17? miles long. A JL vellum JLTI1UK* And while on the subject of sirups let me give the receipt of a very j poetical drink, which I am certain j will find favor with all the spring ^ i poets, young lovers, and dear little- < children that come to you to be re- ' freshed. It is known in Paris as strop de violettes, or violet sirup, but you can give it any name that suits your poetical fancy. You will want 250 grammes of wood violets, which must I be pounded up in a perfectly clean mortar. Then pour 2 pints of boiling water on them, stir, and afterward add 2 more pints. Pour all this into a perfectly clean, newly tinned \ saucepan, and let the infusion proceed during nine hours. Pass the mixture through a clean linen strainer, pressing all the moisture out of the leaves.. Let the liquid settle, and then decant1-1 At. * * * " il on iuio me same daucepan in wbicb the infusion took placa Add 4 1-2. lb. of first quality lump sugar, and dissolve this by placing the pan in a bain-marie. When dissolved, with- . draw, cool, filter, bottle, cork, and let stand. And may Oberon and Titaniaforgive you. Aprovos, wouldn't "the Titaijia something or other" be a suitable name ??Caterer. Told It Wrong. A joke is a mystery to some poeple,. Bays the Lewiston, (Me.,) Journal. In. a certain court-room in this "state once , on a time the proceedings were delayed by the failure of a witness named Sarah Mony to arrive. After waitinga long time for Sarah the court concluded to wait no lnncrer. nnrl O * ...?.UIJ. to crack his little joke, remarked: "This court will adjourn without i iiarah-Mony." ' 1 : Everybody laughed except one' man, who sat in solemn meditation for < i % five minutes, and then burst into a. uctii tj ^uua>V) cAUiaiuilllg* "X SCO It ? 1 see it !,f \y*4 When he went home he tried to telt the joke to his wife. "There was a: witness named Mary-Mony who didn't. come," said he, "and so the court said^ 'We'll adjourn without Mary-Mony/'* r "I don't see any point to that," said ais wife. "I know it," said he; "d didn't at first; but you will in aboui 3ve minutes.'*