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248 failed to see the point, and replied: "I have not got a nephew. The young man is an impostor."

A Boston woman, returning from a shopping tour, was robbed of $15. So the story goes, but we do not believe it.

Two microbes met and they said, "We shall often meet like this!" For the one was on the young man's lip, and the other on that of the miss.

Birds, when perched on trees or bushes, are natural weathercocks, as they invariably roost with their heads to the wind.

The world's annual production of India rubber is at present fully 57 million pounds. Of this nearly half is used up in the United States.

"All the little boys and girls who want to go to heaven," said the Sunday-school superintendent, "please rise."

All rose but Tommy Twaddles.

"And doesn't this little boy want to go to heaven?"

"N-not yet."

Prof. Shailer Mathews says marriage is no picnic. But that is only his opinion. By reference to our scrapbook we find where Mr. Grover Cleveland declared married life to be one grand sweet song, which is much nicer than any picnic we ever attended.

The number of different species of animals known