PRETTY IS THAT PRETTY DOES. The spider wears a plain brown dress, To see her, quiet as a mouse, She looks as if no thought of ill But while she moves with careful tread, My child who reads this simple lay, "Tis not the house, and not the dress, To see the spider sit and spin, Strut with her webs of silver in, You would never, never, never guess The way she gets her dinner. ALICE CARY. Mine, miner, minus!' This is the general upshot of speculation in mining stock. A little girl, in answer to the question, What is patience?' said, It is wait a wee bit, and dinna get tired.' 'Write foregoes on your slates,' said the teacher to the juvenile class in spelling, and a little girl wrote, 'Go, go, go, go.' 'Isn't the world older than it used to be?' said a young hopeful to his senior. 'Yes, my son.' Then, what do folks mean by old times?' 'It strikes me that our roast beef is always off the neck,' said one lodger to another. 'Yes,' was the reply, it is always neck or nothing here." 'I declare,' said Julia, 'you take the words right out of my mouth.' 'No wonder; they are so sweet,' said Henry. The day was set that evening. A lawyer asked a woman in the witness-box her age, and she promptly replied, 'I sold milk for you to drink when a baby, and I haven't got my pay yet Revenge is a momentary triumph, in which the satisfaction dies at once, and is succeeded by remorse; whereas forgiveness, which is the noblest of all revenge, entails a perpetual pleasure. The Abbé Boileau said of the Jesuits, very epigrammatically. They are the people who lengthen the Creed and shorten the Decalogue.' A wit says In Germany, when a paper says anything witty, they kill the editor; and not one editor has been killed for two hundred years.' The difference between a cat and a comma is that the one has the claws at the end of the paws, while the other has the pause at the end of the clause. 'Tommy, did you hear your mother call you? 'Course I did.". Then why don't you go to her at once?' 'Well, you see, she's nervous, and it'd shock her awful if I should go too sudden.' A debating society having dismissed the question, 'Where does fire go to when it goes out?' have got a new and more exciting one- When a house is on fire, does it burn up or does it burn down?' An old man-of-war sailor, who had lost a leg in the service of his country, became a retailer of peanuts. He said he was obliged to be a retailer, because, having lost a leg, he could not be a whole sailor. CONTUMACIOUS.- Magistrate (in an undertone to his colleague): This man has been so often before us for poaching, I think we should fine him five pounds. Prisoner (overhearing): You needn't pench yourselves, gentlemen, for deil a penny ye'll get ! 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