like to know
what Pa and Ma and the hired girl thought. I am the only real healthy one
there is in our family."

THREE INCHES OF LEG.

Blanche Williams, of Philadelphia, who met with an accident at Fairmount
Water-works, by which one leg was broken, and rendered three inches
shorter than the rest of her legs, has recovered $10,000 damages. It would
seem, to the student of nature, to be a pretty good price for three inches
of ordinary leg, but then some people will make such a fuss.

MORE DANGEROUS THAN KEROSENE.

The regular weekly murder is reported from Peshtigo. Two men named Glass
and Penrue, got to quarreling about a girl, in a hay loft, over a barn.
Glass stabbed Penrue quite a number of times and he died. There is nothing
much more dangerous, unless it is kerosene, than two men and a girl, in a
hay loft quarreling.

TEN DAYS IN LOVE.

There is a fearfully harrowing story going the rounds of the papers headed
"Ten Days in Love." It must have been dreadful, with no Sunday, no day of
rest, no holiday, just nothing but love, for ten long days. By the way,
did the person live?

BOYS WILL BE BOYS.

Not many months ago there was a meeting of ministers in Wisconsin, and
after the holy work in which they were engaged had been done up to the
satisfaction of all, a citizen of the place where the conference was held
invited a large number of them to a collation at his house. After supper a
dozen of them adjourned to a room up stairs to have a quiet smoke, as
ministers sometimes do, when they got to talking about old times, when
they attended school and were boys together, and _The Sun_ man, who was
present, disguised as a preacher, came to the conclusion that ministers
were rather human than otherwise when they are young.

One two-hundred pound delegate with a cigar between his fingers, blew the
smoke out of the mouth which but a few hours before was uttering a
supplication to the Most High to make us all good, punched a thin elder in
the ribs with his thumb and said: "Jim, do you remember the time we
carried the cow and calf up into the recitation room?" For a moment "Jim"
was inclined to stand on his dignity, and he looked pained, until they all
began to laugh, when he looked around to see if any worldly person was
present, and satisfying himself that we were all truly good, he said: "You
bet your life I remember it. I have got a scar on my shin now where that
d--blessed cow hooked me," and he began to r