ure?

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MEMORY TESTS FOR THE HOME.

Sir: Friend wife was naming authors of various well known novels, as I
propounded their titles. Follows the result:

Me: "The Last Days of Pompeii." She: "Dante."

"Les Miserables." "Huguenot."

"Adam Bede." "Henry George."

"Vanity Fair." "Why, that's in Ecclesiastes."

"Ben Hur." "Rider Haggard."

"The Pilgrim's Progress." "John Barleycorn."

"Don Quixote." (No reply.)

"Waverly." "Oh, did Waverly write that?"

"Anna Karenina." "Count Leon Trotsky."

J. C.

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We see by the Fargo papers that Mrs. Bernt Wick gave a dinner recently,
and we hope that Miss Candle, the w. k. night nurse, was among the
guests.

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LEVI BEIN' A GOOD SPORT.

Sir: Levi Frost, the leading druggist of Milton Falls, Vt., set a big
bottle of medicine in his show window with a sign sayin' he'd give a
phonograph to anybody who could tell how many spoonfuls there was in the
bottle. Jed Ballard was comin' downstreet, and when he seen the sign he
went and he sez, sezzee, "Levi," sezzee, "if you had a spoon big enough
to hold it all, you'd have just one spoonful in that bottle." And, by
Judas Priest, Levi give him the phonograph right off.

Hiram.

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"Basing his sermon on the words of Gesta Romanorum, who in 1473 said,
'What I spent I had, what I kept I lost, what I gave I have,' the Rev.
Albert H. Zimmerman," etc.--Washington Post.

As students of the School of Journalism ought to know, the philosopher
Gesta Romanorum was born in Sunny, Italy, although some historians claim
Merry, England, and took his doctor's degree at the University of
Vivela, in Labelle, France. His Latin scholarship was nothing to brag
of, but he was an ingenious writer. He is best known, perhaps, as the
author of the saying, "Rome was not built in a day," and the line which
graced the flyleaf of his first edition, "Viae omniae in Romam
adducunt."

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"It is a great misfortune," says Lloyd George, "that the Irish and the
English are never in the same temper at the same time." Nor is that
conjuncture encouragingly probable. But there is hope. Energy is
required for strenuous rebellion, and energy is converted into heat and
dissipated. If, or as, the solar system is running down, its stock of
energy is constantly diminishing; and so the I