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Show Dest Substitute for Wisdom. An acquaintance of the lata Josh Billings Bil-lings was one day talking with him nbout the romarkablo increase ot imitations imi-tations and substitutes for orlgtnal articles, as oloomargarino for butter, celluloid for Ivory and so forth, "and," said ho, "many ot tho substitutes go ahead of the real thing. I guess in tlmo there will bo n substituto for everything though I don't know about 'wisdom'." "No"' roplied tho humorist, "up to tho present tlmo, at loast, thoro Is no really good substituto (or wisdom. But silence Is tho boat tha,t h&$ bom discovered." dis-covered." tjr,vik |