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A FEW days since, a wedding breakfast was given by a substantial farmer blessed with five daughters, the eldest being the bride, when-a neighbor, a young farmer who was honored with jon, thinking no doubt he ought to say ing smart and complimentary upon the ldressing the bridegroom, said, “ Well, you have got the pick of the batch!" The coun- tenances of the four unmarried ones, as may be imagined, were a study. Bupsy stubbed his toe and came crying to his mother. ‘* There, there, Buby,” she said, after she had ascertained that the injury was trifli “ you are too big a boy to cry over a little thi like that.” ** B-but what a-am I todo, mamma he asked sobbingly; ‘I ain't b-big enongh to s-swear.”"—Kehcboth Sunday Herald, Ict ON PARLE FRANCAIS.—A French gentle- man entered a shop in London on the door of which stood in large letters : /cé on parle Frangais. “Who speaks French?” be inquired. An assis- tant came forward and replied with an air of self- possession, ‘* 9, sir?"—Nouvelles d la Main. Tue practical genius of the English people occasionally receives homage even from the most patriotic French papers. Le Gautois tells a story of “tun Anglais” who married a rich wife for her money, and who, upon discovering too late that she had a wooden leg, did not give way to useless repining, but promptly insured his better half against fire, “You've got my seat, sir,” said aman in a train, who had left his seat for a moment. ‘There is nothing to show that you have re- tained this seat.” ‘‘Look up there! There is my hat-box on the rack over this seat.” ‘* Well, then you sit up there on your hat-box if that's where you have retained your seat.” : LIFE . FOR Vol. 1., Jan. to June, 1883, inclusive; Vol. II, Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants. With Illustrations trom Nature by Hagia Stewart Mone: Cloth, full gilt, $13.00. 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