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Not tiie Same.— Says Jones: "When I see Mrs J. in the clothes yard, both arms as red as a boiled lobster, bared to the elbow and stretched high above her in their struggles with an unraly sheet, an apron over her head, her hair in her eyes, and a clothespin protruding from her mouth, it seems impossible that she is one and the same with the Miss Stebbins I used to feed on peppermint and about whom I used to rave so."— "Boston Transcript." An anecdote is told of a well-known lecturer on " Artificial Memory," who was expounding his theory in a provincial assembly room, asserting that, under his system, the memory was so disciplined that it never failed. One of the attendants, who had listened to the end with rapt attention, was about turning down the gas, when he espied an umbrella in the corner of the platform. The attendant's confidence received such an nnexpected shock that he exclaimed, in tones of the greatest wonderment, " I'm blessed if that there artificial memory man hasn't gone and forgotten his umbrella?" A: Chicago editor shouts:—"We have tilled 804,000 hogs since the first of March." The " "Waterloo Observer " says if that's the cue it will hardly pay to get out a directory iiye*r.