(To be continued.)


[VARIETIES.]

More Information Wanted.

Possible Boarder: “Now, I have enjoyed my dinner very much, and if it was a fair sample of your meals I should like to come to terms.”

Landlady: “First of all may I ask if it was a fair sample of your appetite?”

Painting for Posterity.—“What a folly,” said Sir Edward Burne-Jones, on one occasion, “to talk of only painting for posterity. Posterity is only one more drop in the ocean of time. Indeed, I never pass the chalk-artist working upon the pavement, but I think, ‘Ah, brother, my pictures can last but a day longer than yours.’”

Classical Music.

“Mamma, what is classical music?”

“Oh, don’t you know? It is the kind you have to like, whether you like it or not.”