A NEW COUNTRY.
A party of tourists were examining one of the large trees of California. One of the party remarked:
"What a magnificent specimen! Surely it must be the oldest tree in the world!"
An Irishman who was with the party cried out: "Now, faith, how could that be?" and burst out into laughter. "Sure any one knows this is a new country, and how the mischief could that tree be ould?"