So mnoh of our life is mode up from
books and papers that we can scarcely
imagine what people did in the old
times before they hod snch things. It
is said, however, that they spent a good
deal of their time in the evening tell
ing riddles and guessing hard questions;
and an old book printed in 1511 gives
the following specimens ;
Q. Who was Adam’s mother ?
A. The earth.
Q. How many calves’ tails would it
take to reach from the earth to the sky?
A, One, if it were long enough.
Q. What is that that never was and
never will be?
A. A mouse’s nest in a cat’s car.
Q. Why do men make an oven in a
town?
A. Because they cannot make a town
in an oven.
Q. Which was the first, the hen or
tho egg ?
A. Tho hen, at tho creation.
Q. How many straws go to make a
goose’s nest ?
A. Not one, for straws not having
feet can uot go anywhere,
Q. 'Who killed the fourth pact of all
he people in the world?
A. Gain, when he killed AbeL— Ad-
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EARLS OF THOUGHT.
What frenzy dictates, jealousy be
lieves.
Judge not from appearance lest you
might err in your judgment.
To love is to admire with tho heart,
to admire is to love with the mind.
Crafty men contemn studios, simple
men admire them and wise men nse
them.
Poverty often deprives a man of all
spirit and virtue. It is hard lor an
empty bag to stand upright.
It is with you as with plants; from
the first fruits they bear we leam wha
may be exepeted in the future.
