ART INFLUENCE.
This pretty picture on the wall,
With billows rolling free,
Is full of white clouds in the sky
And white sails on the sea.
And so I'll sit upon the rug
With pail and spade in hand,
And dream that on the silver shore
I'm digging in the sand.
R. K. M.
During a speech at a political dinner in a small Western city, not long ago, a Jingo orator, to the great amusement of his hearers, remarked that "The British lion, whether he is roaming the deserts of India or climbing the forests of Canada, will not draw in his horns nor retire into his shell."
A RAINY DAY MEANS NO BALL.
Cameron. "Papa, I'm saving up for a fine day."
Papa. "Why are you doing that?"
Cameron. "So that I can go to a ball match when I have saved up enough."