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Show NERVE ENOUGH FOrt ANYTHING. A 'fioy Wh Could Not Be Frightened by Displeased Corpse or a FrofMsor's Trick. Dr. McTavish of Edinburgh was Bomfr thing of a ventriloquist, and it befeD that he wanted a lad to assist in thi surgery who must necessarily be strong nervea He received several ap plications, and when telling a lad whai the duties were, in order to test hi? nerves, he would say, while pointing to a grinning skeleton standing upright ijp a corner, "Part of your work would bo to feed the skeleton there, and while you are here you may as well try to do 00." A few lads would consent to a trial and received a basin of hot gruel and a spoon. While they were pouring the hot mess into the skull tho doctor would throw his voice so as to make it appear to proceed from the jaws of the bony customer and gurgle out, "Br-r-r-gr-uh that's hot!" This was too much, and without exception ex-ception the lads dropped the basin and bolted. Tho doctor began to despair of ever getting a suitable helpmate until a 6mall boy came and was given the grue) and spoon. After the first spoonful the skeleton appeared to Bay, "Gr-r-r-uh-r-br, that's hot!" Shoveling in the Bcalding gruel as fast as ever, the lad rapped the skull and impatiently retorted, ' Well, blow it, carn't yer, yer ould bony!" Tho doctor s,at down in his chair and fairly roared, but when ho came to hi engaged the lad on the Fpot. London Tit-Bits. Empress Josephine owned the finest opal of modern times. It was called "The Burning of Troy. " Its fate is unknown, un-known, as it disappeared when the allies al-lies entered Paris. |
