19. A man selling a horse was asked if it was a first thrower. "By Jove," said he, "he's a second thrower, for he threw both me and my father."
20. A fellow had to cross a river, and entered the boat on horseback; being asked the cause, he replied, "I must ride, because I am in a hurry."
21. A student in want of money sold his books, and wrote home, "Father, rejoice; for I now derive my support from literature."
We thank the wits of the Athenaeum for these piquancies: they are in the right true Attic vein, and are therefore characteristic of that clever Journal.
KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE.
(From Part xiii.—Botany.)
Why have vegetables the function of transpiration?
Because the sap, on arriving in the leaves, loses and gives out the superabundant quantity of water which it contained.
Why are limpid drops often observed hanging at the points of leaves at sunrise?