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Show The Shepherd of the Black Sheep of Sir Frank Lockwood something that would make a stuffed bird rejoice? And those who listened to the splendor splen-dor of merriment which he could impart im-part by that laugh realize the intense value of that emotional exercise." sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves our-selves by comparison with the infirmity infirm-ity of others, or with our own formerly." for-merly." If a laugh is a benefaction and the provoker of a laugh a benefactor, why are there more statues to dull people than to witty ones? Who was the greatest laugh promoter in history? It was said of Sidney Smith that he was the father of 10,000,000 laughs. "Laughter," said Lord Rosebery recently, re-cently, "Is a physical necessity. We live under a sunless sky, surrounded by a melancholy ocean, and it is a physical necessity for the English nation na-tion even for the Scotch nation and the Welsh nation to laugh. It exhilarates ex-hilarates all social relations. Was not," his lordship added, "the laugh Professor Sir Charles Bell In the Strand Calls It a Convulsive Action Ac-tion of the Diaphragm. "Laughter," says Professor Sir Charles Bell in the London Strand, '".d a convulsive action of the diaphragm. In this state the person draws a full breath and throws it out in interrupted, interrupt-ed, short and audible cachlnnatlons. This convulsion of the diaphragm is the principal part of the physical manifestation man-ifestation of laughter; but there are eveval accessories, especially the sharp vocal utterance arising from the 7lolen teaelon of the larynx and the expression V? the features, this being v a more intense form of the smile. In extreme eass the eyes are moistened by the eft'usioa from the lachrymal glands." There you have a scientific definition. defini-tion. But it is clear that mankind would hardly take the trouble to go through that experience if that Is all that laughter consisted of. They would not regard a Dickens or a Mark Twain as a benefaotor merely because a perusal of their writings produced that. No; even the philosophers philoso-phers know that laughter Is something better than that something Internal that there Is such a thing as silent iaughter. Hobbes calls laughter "a |