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Show She Remembered. Tho theory held by a clerk In a Beading store that results wero altogether alto-gether dependent on tho conversational conversa-tional ability of the salesman was Jarred somewhat the other day by a woman shopper from the rural districts. dis-tricts. Tho latter was hesitating over a purchase when the clerk, thinking that tho display of a llttlo geniality would bo effective aid, remarked pleasantly: "Didn't I sell you a carpet on one occasion when I was In the employ of Mr. H ? I know we are not strangers." strang-ers." "Yes, I remember now," sho replied, coldly, after eyeing him thoroughly for a few moments. "It faded all out." Philadelphia Public Ledger. Explaining Norway' Handicap. According to n recent -vork on Norway, Nor-way, the scantiness of tho soil In that country Is explained by some of the country people as follows: At tho creation of tho world the angels whoso d"ty it was to scatter the soil forgot Norway. Seeing this, tho guardian guar-dian angel of the lnnd made complaints com-plaints to the Creator. What was to bo done? Impossible to restnrt tho whole of tho crentlon tor tho sake of Norway. "Come, my llttlo angels." said ho, "look carefully and perhaps you may still find a little enrth." Tho conscience-stricken nngels -wet the floor of heaven and the little dust they found they- gathered In their draperies and scattered over the Norwegian Nor-wegian rocks. New Portion of Scripture. John Thompson (ono of tho famous Thompson twins) tolls about a party of ministers who, while passing through the South on their way to somo religious convention, stopped over Sunday at a little Kentucky town. In the morning they strolled Into a llttlo tumble-down church, occupied by tho colored Baptists, and presided over by a very old and Ignorant darky preacher. They almost rolled out of their pews when tho old preacher began: be-gan: "Bredern, do subjalct o' my ills-co'1.0 ills-co'1.0 ills mnwnln' Is foun' la de one-eyed one-eyed chap of two-eyed John!" New Yorli Times, Not Letting a Sinner Escape. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, the nov. Charles O. Kinney, former president presi-dent of Obcrlln college, wns cnrrylng on n series of revival meetings In Boston. Bos-ton. One day a gentlemnn called to see him on bi.finess, and wns admitted ad-mitted by Mr. Kinney's daughter, perhaps per-haps llvo years old. "Is your father in?" nsked tho stranger. "No," replied tho demuro maiden, "but walk In, poor, dvlng alnnerl' Mother can pray for you." Lilac an Eastern Tree. Like tho tulip, tho lilac Is believed to havo como westward from Persia via Turkey, In the sixteenth century. Its namo Is Persian. In the Kngllsh langungo tho color Is called after tho tree, hut the treo orlglnnlly received Its namo from Ita nnlnr ulf.n. o i I its name from Its color, slnco it Is clearly traceable to certain Persian and Sanskrit adjectives meaning "blue" or "indigo-colored." Thu "lllnj" of Persia wns tho Indigo plant. Prob-ably Prob-ably the first mention of the lilac In English Is In Bacon's essay on gnr-don gnr-don . He Invored the spelling "Ie-lacke." "Ie-lacke." No Need of Duttons. "I Isn't nnmin' no names, mnh friends," said good old Parson Wool-llmon Wool-llmon a utile ominously "nor stigma-tlzln' stigma-tlzln' nobody In e-special; hut I de-slahs de-slahs tc call you-all's attention to do. aphorism dat do heathen don't wear no clothes. I)ey don't wear no clothos! Dar'fo' and consecutively, dey ain't got no mnnnnh oh uso fo' .Ie buttons dat am sometimes Insinuated Insinu-ated Into do collection. Do choir will pleno vociferate while de contribution contribu-tion box nm clrcumnavlgatln'." Tho Sunday Magazino. |