The woman indulged him in his request; he ate the herring, drank the liquids, underwent the required perspiration, and recovered.
The French student, thinking this very clever, inserted in his journal, "Salt herring cures an Englishman of fever."
On his return to France he prescribed the same remedy to his first patient with a fever. The patient died. On which he inserted in his journal: "N.B.—A salt herring cures an Englishman, but kills a Frenchman."
A LONG CHASE.
It was noticed, at one of the boys' clubs over on the East Side, that a little negro who attended regularly always sought a certain book each evening, and laughed uproariously apparently at the same picture. One of the supervisors approached and saw that the picture represented a bull chasing a small colored boy across a field. He asked the little fellow what amused him so.
"Gosh!" answered the boy, "he 'ain't kotched him yet!"
A new pair of shoes came home for Davy, aged five. He was delighted with them until they had been put on his feet. Then he exclaimed, with a pout, "Oh, my! they're so tight I can't wink my toes!"