BOBBIE'S PLAN.
Whene'er at night I'd know the time
And cannot see the clocks,
I feel about beneath my crib
For those upon my socks.
"It is very naughty of you, Wilbur, to answer back to mamma in this way. Where did you ever learn to do that?"
"Watchin' papa, I des, mamma," said Wilbur, "He most generally answers back."
SINGULAR CLOCKS.
In an answer to a correspondent who asks, "What is the most curious material out of which a time-piece has been made," a London journal prints the following rather interesting item:
Bread, we think, is the most curious material out of which a clock has ever been constructed. There was, and may still be, in Milan a clock made of bread. The maker was a native of Milan, who devoted three years of his time to the task. He was very poor, and being without means to purchase the necessary metal for the making of a clock, he sat apart regularly a portion of his bread each day, eating the crust and saving the soft part. To solidify this he made use of a certain salt, and when the various pieces were dry they became perfectly hard and insoluble in water. The clock was of good size, and kept fair time.