Part 1 — LOST HIS BEARINGS.

"Begins to work kind of hard. Guess I'll stop and look into her."

"I'll fix that in just a minute."

OSTRICH (sotto voce.). "So will I."

"Great scott! Where have those bearings gone to?"

A MATTER OF LETTERS.

"I'm afraid you're a tease," said the old farmer to Aleck.

"I may be a tease," said Aleck, "but I'm not one of the jays."

FULLY OCCUPIED.

"Well, Charlie," said his aunt, as she met him on his return from the summer hotel, "what did you do with yourself all summer?"

"Oh, I was losin' my hat about half the time," said Charlie.

"Indeed! And what did you do the other half?"

"Oh, I spent that lookin' for my hat."

It is a hard matter to get the better of, or at least to convince, an Irishman in an argument that you are right. Not long ago, in one of the cabins of a coast-line steamer, the conversation turned round to astronomy. A gentleman observed that the sun made a revolution around the earth, and what more wonderful thing than that could be found in astronomy? This somewhat amused the other passengers, but their laughter developed into great hilarity when an Irishman near by, exclaimed:

"That's not so! The sun, I am certain, does not revolute the earth!"

"But," said the gentleman, "where does it come from when it rises in the east, and where does it go when it sets in the west? It has no other thing to do but to pass under the earth and come up again."

"Arrah, now, that's plain enough. Shure yer shouldn't be puzzled at that. If the sun goes from the east to the west, it returns the same way, and the only reason yer don't see it is because it comes back at night-toime."

A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.

"Jimmie, you wasted your breath talking to old Mr. Wilbur this morning. He's as deaf as a post."

"I know that," said Jimmie, with a smile, "but posts don't have ten-cent pieces in their pockets to give little boys, and Mr. Wilbur does."

"Is this a sleeping-car, papa?"

"Yes, Johnny."

"Does it travel all night?"

"Yes."

"Humph! Must do all its sleeping in the day-time."

GETTING A FEW POINTS IN NATURAL HISTORY.