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Show Ail Directors. He was the wag of a merry party on the train, and when the conductor appeared be leaned back and assumed as-sumed the expression of a man who owned the line. "Ticket, sir?" The joker nodded. "Ticket?" Then the joker spoke freczingly : "How long have you been stationed here, my mau? Don't you know me? I'm Hank, director"' But the ticket collector wasn't impressed. im-pressed. "That's funny," he said, "so am I we're all directors about here. I'll direct ye to the stationmaster, he'll direct ye to the policeman, and he'll direct ye to the magistrate, and hc'il direct ye to pa) the fine unless he directs ye to jail---and then--" Bat the joker directed his hand to his pocket and produced the ticket. Verne's i.ifs of Routine. Jules Verne, author of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," required re-quired no legislative enactment to make him get up early. He rose at four in tho morning, in the summer, and cj'mbed up a sort of watch tower wl.iic.li dominated his house in the Bou'evard de LongucviHe, Amiens, where his study was situated. He called this room his "cabin." There he used to work until ten o'clock. In the winter when ho awoke he would ? wait daylight, either reading in bed or evolving scenes for his novels. After lunch it was his practice to walk along the boulevards, which form a beautiful green cincture around the o!d Picai'dy tnwn. Then he would make for his c'nb and read the newspapers news-papers ami study the scientific reviews, re-views, from which he der'ved great aid in the ccmposiiion of his books. |
