“SHE” AGAIN.
The country spark that asked the charming “she” How many years of age that she might be, Again asked her to tell to him in haste How many inches she was round the waist. “My waist is such if multiplied by four, Four-fifths of product add on my age more, The square root of three-fifths of this is six: Now find my waist, and get out of this fix.”
SOME LONG WORDS.
The eight longest words in the language are philoprogenitiveness, incomprehensibleness, disproportionableness, transubstantiationalist, suticonstitutionalist, honourifibilitudinity, velocipedestrianistical, and proautionsubstantionist. The last four are not found in the best dictionaries, but that most hideous word, “Dacryocystosyringokatakleisis,” is in some of the new lexicons.
HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.
The complication of relationship brought about by marriage is the cause of many a family squabble, but it is seldom one hears of fatal results attending such matters. According to an American newspaper, a resident of Pennsylvania committed suicide a few days ago from a melancholy conviction that he was his own grandfather.