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A FAIR ELECTION.

"Elect forty-seven hours, and don't specify what are extra. Then you'll have thirty-seven cuts a week. Five dollars, please. I think we will have a very pleasant day. Good morning."

I have since had reason to suppose that I only saw the gentleman's clerk, but the advice is good enough to follow. But, O Lord, I hope the Advocate is not mistaken.

M. B.IN prehistoric ages,

When man clothed himself in skins,

And stone dippers and stone milking-pails

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Were used instead of tins,

In the elevated mansions

Which in Alpine lakes are found,

There dwelt two ardent lovers

Who their plighted troth had bound.

Now the story of their trysting

And the consequence severe

Has been gathered from inscriptions

On an ancient stone-age bier,

And these entertaining relics

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