Her tracks were, of course, left ill the piles of sugar, and when it was noticed that the spots where she had stepped were whiter than the rest, the process of bleaching sugar with clay was adopted. An 3'lnglish stationer oucc adopted a fanciful inode of dressing his window, by placing iu it piles of stationery so arranged that pyramids should be formed. In order to finish these piles accurately, lie cut some cards to bring them to a point. Some of these cards were sold for writing paper, and as they were too small when folded, to be addresed, the stationer invented envelopes to contain them.
Hardup: “The amount on your bill, doctor, has made me feel quite ill." Doctor (gleefully): “Hus it, sir? Then i suppose you wilt want me to attend you profession ally again ?” #

Knew What it Was.—“ Absolom, my son, what was that note the messenger just brought you ?” inquired old man Clarn whooper. “Nothing in particular, father, only a billet deux from a friend.” “ Indeed, how much did he say there was deux ?”

He Knew Better.—“ Are you going away for the summer?” “No,” replied the crabbed man, “I ain’t.” “Why not?” “Because I don’t have to. There’s every reason to believe that if I stay here the summer ’ll be brought to me.”

The teacher asked the class wherein lay the difference in meaning between the words “sufficient” and “enough.” “‘Suffi cient,’” answered Tommy, “is when mother thinks it’s time that I stopped eat ng pie; * enough ’ is when I think it is.”

WANTS TO DETERIORATE.
