"Ya-as."
"Well, Miss Johnsing, I'se got a most important question to ask you."
"Ya-as."
"Will you marry me?"
"Ya-as! Who is it, please?"—Exchange.
A HEROIC RESCUE.
The following sublime paragraph is from one of the latest fashionable novels:
"With one hand he held her beautiful head above the chilling waves, and with the other called loudly for assistance!"—Exchange.
WHY SHE WAS MADE OF A RIB.
A young woman having asked a surgeon why woman was made from the rib of a man in preference to any other bone, he gave the following gallant answer: