"Oh, yes; it was costly, too."
"What was costly?"
"To get out."—Yonkers Herald.
TIPS FOR AUTHORS.
An author wrote a little book,
Which started quite a quarrel;
The folk who read it frowned on it
And said it was immoral.
They bade him write a proper screed,
He said that he would try it;
He did. They found no fault with it,
And neither did they buy it.
Washington Evening Star.
HIS IMPOLITE QUERY.
"Women claim that the way to get on with a man is to give him plenty of nicely cooked food."
"Well," answered Mr. Sirius Barker, irritably, "why don't some of them try it?"—Washington Star.