"Are you sure," she asked, "that these pears were not picked on Sunday?"
"I don't know 'bout that," said the man, with a grin, "but I do know they growed on Sunday."
WHAT THE AIR LACKS
It is said that Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, returning late from a party in a neighboring city, once awakened his son to tell him a story he thought too good to keep till morning. A lady had been introduced to him, and, considering him scientific man, wished to direct her conversation accordingly.
"Doctor," said she, "don't you think the cause of so much sickness is the want of sozodont in the air?"
CONSOLED
While speeding along the pike in his automobile, McC---- saw a man and a dog far ahead of him, the dog running in and out of the bushes. As he whizzed past a moment later the dog darted out ahead of the machine to bark at it, was run over, and instantly killed. McC---- stopped his machine and returned.
"I'm very sorry, sir," he said consolingly to the man, "will that make it all right?" He held out a ten dollar bill.
"It will," replied the man, coolly taking the money and putting it in his pocket.
As the automobile flew down the road he looked sympathetically at the remains and soliloquized: