SNAPSHOT STORIES.
The late Ignatius Donnelly was once rudely interrupted in the course of a political speech by a head of a cabbage thrown from the audience. "Gentlemen," he said mildly, " I only asked your ears ; I don't care for your heads."

It has been said that ladies have generally a great fear of lightning, and this has been superficially ascribed to their natural timidity; but.the truth is that it arises from their consciousness of being attractive.
The grasshopper has, according to its size, 120 times the kicking power of the average man. It must be an exciting time for the young grasshoppers which go courting and find the old man at home.
Years ago, when Bret Harte, fresh from the Pacific Slope, heard the list of famous men living at Cambridge, he said to Mr. Howells: " Why, you couldn't fire a revolver from your front porch antewhere without bringing down a two-volumerf'

The painter Makart, who was sometimes as taciturn as Von Moltke, sat for an hour one evening at dinner next to the soubrette, Josephine (lallmeyer, without volunteering a word. Finally she lost patience, and ex claimed : '.' Well, dear master, suppose #« change the subject."

A stammering man was at a garden party one.afternoon, when a young lady said to him :" What time is it, please ?" He took / out his watch, wabbled his mouth awhile, l blinked, and finally said : " It'll be s-s-s-six . o' c-c-c-clock by the time 1 c-c-can say it!" It really lacked five minutes of six when he began.
