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" Put a striDg round her leg and pull her out of bed," was the singular advice given by Mr Kennedy, S.M., at the Greenwich Police Court to a woman whose lazy daughter (twenty-one years old) would not get up in the morning. Mistress : " Look here, Jeanette ; you have brought me two shoes for the same foot." Maid : " How strange ! This other pair are both for the same foot, too." In the manufacture of knives the division of labor has been carried to such an extent that one knife is handled by seventy different artisans from the moment the blade is forged until the instrument is finished and ready for the market. A bright little girl returning from schoo was asked by her father what she had been learning that morning, " All of us have been learning to spell," said she. " What did you learn to spell?" "Learned to spell rat." "Well how do you spell rat?' *' R-A-T rat." " Now, how do you spell mouse?" "Just the same only in smaller letters," said the little maid. Rabbits, it is said, have white tails so that, in case of pursuit, the young may distinguish their mother when she is leading them to the warren. The natural color of the rabbit is so like the surrounding earth that otherwise this would be difficult. There arc now practically four cities in the United States with a million of population each. According to the published estimates the figures arc: New York 1,617,±27 inhabitants, Philadelphia I ,t>l«, i 4% Chicago 1,000,01X1, and Brooklyn 988,671. Miss Pcachbloasom (to her brother): 11 What do yon think is the most stvlish color for the bride 1" Brother Jim : " Well, I don't know much about style, Sis,, but for myself I should prefer a, whit? om^