A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.

"Jimmie, you wasted your breath talking to old Mr. Wilbur this morning. He's as deaf as a post."

"I know that," said Jimmie, with a smile, "but posts don't have ten-cent pieces in their pockets to give little boys, and Mr. Wilbur does."


"Is this a sleeping-car, papa?"

"Yes, Johnny."

"Does it travel all night?"

"Yes."

"Humph! Must do all its sleeping in the day-time."


GETTING A FEW POINTS IN NATURAL HISTORY.