Philadelphia Ledger.


While there is a great variety of conditions submitted with the handsome donations made to aid the fair, it is noticeable that there is entire unanimity in one thing—the "if."

V. S.


An Accommodating Boss.


A gang of men were at work on a city street, when a slight, beardless youth laid down his pick, and approaching the foreman, said to him:

"Can I take a fit, sir?"

"Take what?" asked the foreman.