You see a good deal of advioe in the papers now about raising small fruit, but none about raising small potatoes. He; “I don't see why there should be no marriage or giving in marriage in Heaven." She: “ Probably beoause there won’t be any men there."

Miss Vera Ocdtjn : “He said I was as sweet as sugar." Miss Minnie Ball (with t. glance at her friend's oomplexion) : “ Pow dered sugar f" Minister: “This is very fine wintei weather, my dear little man 1 But I bop -. you don’t skate on Sunday Littls Man : " No. sir. I always skate on ioe.” “ What I admire about Josephine is her self-possession.” “Yes, I hear she can’t help it. 1 don’t know anybody else who would have her.”

He: “Will you share my lot?" She: “How large is your lot?” “The wovid is my parish.” •• No—l don’t want the earth."

' How to Read Books. “Concerning hobby horses there is no disputing.” And so of books. Everyone to his taste. In all the discussions pub lished in the newspapers about the books to read, one sees this diversity of ideas cropping out everywhere. No two of the distinguished writers who have written on the subject agree on what books or how many we should read in a lifetime. Sir John Lubbock gives a list of one hundred books that workingmen should read. One difficulty with his list is that very few workingmen are graduates of Cambridge and Oxford, and none else could intelligently read the tremendous list which he has made up. Ido not pre : tend to know just what books working men ordinarily read, for among them, as among the educated classes, there is a 1 great diversity of gifts, opportunities, and : attainments. One could read Cicero or Plato even in the original, while another could not read or understand either in any language, even in the vernacular. Few : have the time, few the inclination, few the i ability, and fewer still the education, to enable them to conquer that portentous list, the reading of which would furnish a complete equipment for the most ; talented professional men of this century —with much leisure and a wide and pro found acquaintance with the fundamental branches of what is known as a classical education to commence with. 