"Your name sueme very familiar," said the lady. A gcntieman well known in the literary world was presented to a lady tin* other evening at 11 fashionable gathering. They are the boots are supplied with the old maid's wedding button, a new invention." Why is it called < the old maid's wedding' button?" Because it never comes off." Fame.-Famo is an uncertain possession. "Do you think the lyutfcous are sewed on securcly she asked. You don't want to buy a good dog, do you r" el Fair patient: "Have you any idea what is the matter with me, doctor?" Doctor: Why, I can diagnose your case with my eyes shut! There is nothing the matter with you i except that you need rest." Fair patient r Why, I have just comeback after a whole month at Scarborough Doctor: Yes as I s^id, you need rest." The New button.-"Yes, (Lev are excellent boots, said the bootmaker to the youn°-lady purchaser: "they will wear like iron. looked very striking on the box See here, my friend that dog of yours killed three sheep of mine last night, and I want to know what you propose to do about it F" "Are you sure it was my dog P" "Yts," "Well, I hardly know what to do. "Ob, yes," he said it was a well-matched team enough, and young X. Tell this when you light the gas.-Bernal Osborne was once asked at Ascot if he bad seen the coach driven by one of the partners in a well known match makng fiim. "H'm! So should I, my dear-so should I!" said Mr Smith, with exceeding earnestness. I should like to see somebody abduct me said Mrs Smith at the breakfast-table the other morning, looking up from the newspaper. Ain't you got any for threepence- <«aufpe"ny r" "No," said the proprietor but, he added, "we can soon make you some." J Echoing thA wish of the dear better half. "So am I, ma'am," was the calm reply I thought you was gone out." Meissonier, since the opening of the exhibi- tion of his pictures, has apparently a dislike to paint women his reply to critic who asked him for his reason was merely, "They can paint themselves better than I can." What do you charge a quart for your milk here ?" asked a man, as he put his head in at the door of a milk-shop. About a father.-Smack-owner, to fisherboy H I'm sorry to hear you were the worse for liquor last night, Sam you take after your father." Sam: "No, sir father never leaves none to take I'm surprised, John I" said an old lady, when she found the butler helping himself to some of her finest old port. Note for "Artists on Wood."-Two men were arrested in a timber-yard the other day, because they were suspected of a design on wood. when he hap- pens to go home late, his wife always makes it hot for him. Gibbons the bachelor asserts that a married man never has a cold dinner, for. What is the difference between a watchmaker and a gaoler?-One s"!lls watches, and the other watches cells. A child's duiiuition of snoring.-" Sleeping out loud." I The height of sympathy.-To catch cold in your head upon being told by your other adored one that she feels cold in the feet. Eastward in life he gaz'd Now shrouded Death with still majestic mien Approaches slow, his hand prophetic rais'd Aloft to heaven-then like a shatter'd thing Earth's fetters fell-"More light he cries -away Through azure depth, and misty cloud-rack grey, Exultant soars on atarward-mounting wing, To seek mid realms of Everlasting Spring, Tho Mndlcss Eight, the One Eternal DayĪ simple- lay.-AH egg. Silently assnr'd I IJ," Traits the daw-n of fadeless light, unseen By mortal eye. J'.ixi now those eagle orhs from light terrene Disdainful turn, as Stygian gloom, matur'd For flight Olympic. Though fourscore year Behind him la,y, like shadow looming vast O'er Hist'ry's page, and Europe's annals, cast By one gigantic figure-yet how clear That subtle glance, nor dimm'd, nor haz'd by time Aye, on that light he fixed his look sublime, And bade the Trnth in radiant form appear, Though hid in wild tnrmoi), chaotic, blear. Gertnauia's haughty seer- Then still d that mighty heart, then ceased the breath, Then o'er those pierciDg eyes reluctant Death His curtain filmy drew.