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'Quotations'

His Thirteenth Labor.—Jones, rather late in life, began to study law, and became disheartened at his slow progress. « Cheer up man, » said his friend Brown, with hearty sympathy: « Didn't Hercules translate the Bible after he was sixty years old? »

And now the honest farmer packs
His apples up for town—
This is the top row of his sacks:
O O O O O O O O O O O O
And these, those lower down:
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

« Fellow-citizens! » shouted a stump orator, « I know no north, no south, no east, no west! »

« Then, » interrupted a farmer in the crowd, « it's time you went to school and larnt jography. »

A Circular Letter—O.

A Letter of Marque—X.

A contemporary says that « an old resident, Miss —, has entered the matrimonial state. » We wonder if the bride and bridegroom liked that way of putting it.

« Can you use this? » timidly inquired the poet, as he laid a bundle on the desk. « I think I can, » said the editor, affably. « I am just about to start a fire in the office stove. »

In his account of a ball the editor wrote of a lady of commanding presence: « Mrs—, who possesses a form that Juno might envy. » The sub read the proofs, and the horrified scribe next morning found the name of the goddess transformed into « Jumbo »!