Dullwum--How do you make that out?
Fennicus--They're mound builders, aren't they?
A BAD SPELL OF WEATHER.
Dear Paw--I am having a luvly time, so do not expeck me home ontill next week. All are well and send luv. The wethur is brite and fare. Yure sun, WILL.
FOR AN EVENING GAME.
At a club social the hostess proposed a game of "sobriquets," offering a prize for the one who would identify the largest number of the assumed names.
She gave to each one a slip of paper on which were typewritten the assumed names of numerous persons, mostly writers, and at a signal allowed them twenty minutes in which to write the correct names opposite. A few illustrations are here given, but others may be added:
1 Currer Bell - Charlotte Bronte
2 Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens
3 Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
4 Boz - Charles Dickens
5 Bard of Avon - Shakespeare
6 Peasant Bard - Robert Burns
7 Poet of Nature - Wordsworth
8 Immortal Dreamer - Bunyon
9 The Traitor - Benedict Arnold
10 Little Corporal - Napoleon Bonaparte
11 Mr. Dooley - Peter Dunne
12 Oliver Optic - William T. Adams
13 Gail Hamilton - Mary A. Dodge
14 Grand Old Man - Gladstone
15 Poor Richard - Benjamin Franklin
16 Swedish Nightingale - Jennie Lind
17 Brother Jonathan - Jonathan Trumbull
18 Father Endeavor - Francis Clark
19 Tippecanoe - General Harrison
20 George Sand - Mme. Dudevant
21 Ian Maclaren - John Watson
22 Timothy Titcomb - J. G. Holland
23 Ik Marvel - Donald G. Mitchell
24 Mrs. Partington - B. P. Shillaber
25 The Learned Blacksmith - Elihu Burritt
26 Peter Parley - Samuel G. Goodrich
27 Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
28 Uncle Sam - United States