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[Illustration: THE CIRCUS TRAINING SCHOOL--AN UNPROFITABLE PUPIL.]

CARAWAY SEEDS.

I'm going to plant these little seeds,
And some fine day I'll wake
To find a pretty spreading stalk
All bending down with cake.

HARD WORK.

"Well," said Jack, "vacation has begun, and I'm just as busy as ever."

"Doing what?" asked his father.

"Finding something to do," said Jack. "And I tell you, Daddy, it's hard
work."

PROOF POSITIVE.

PERCY. "Don't two negatives make an affirmative?"

PAPA. "Yes, Percy."

PERCY. "Then I'm awful smart."

PAPA. "Why?"

PERCY. "Because the teacher says I'm a 'Know-nothing.'"

All great artists have queer experiences during their lives, which the
biographer loves to dwell upon in his books of anecdotes. Here is one
that occurred to the great pianist Paderewski in England. He received a
polite letter from an invalid lady, asking him if he would spare the
time to play her one piece during an afternoon, as her health would not
permit of her going to any crowded concert-room, the letter closing with
an offer of a half a guinea reward.

Paderewski replied with an invitation to call at his hotel, appointing
an hour when he would receive her. The lady called, and Paderewski,
after pleasantly greeting her, sat before his piano and played a
prelude, a nocturne of Chopin, and Songs without Words.

The little impromptu concert over, the lady rose, thanked the virtuoso
most graciously, and extended her hand to bid him adieu, slipping the
promised half-guinea into his palm.

"Ah, what is this?" Paderewski inquired.

"Why," she said, sweetly, "it's the half-guinea I promised you."

"Now, I really believe," he answered, with a smile, "that I shall be
able to get to the next town without it." And pleasantly returning the
coin, he bowed the lady out.

Napoleon's smooth face was a sure evidence of his dislike for a beard.
In some anecdotes of the Russian campaign there is a story told of the
great Emperor and a poor but witty barber, who had occasion to shave
him.