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An American paper says that a well-known merchant of a neighboring city, after making his will and leaving a large property to trustees for his son, called the young man in, and, after reading the will to him, asked him if there was any alteration or improvement he could suggest.
 
“Well, Father,” said the young gentleman, lighting a cigarette, ‘I think as things go nowadays, if you left the property to the other fellow, and made me the trustee.’
 
The old gentleman made up his mind then and there that the young man was quite competent to take charge of his own inheritence, and scratched the trustee clause out.
 

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We all remember the quaint saying of Rufus CHOATE, who,  when told that if he pursued his hard work he would ruin his constitution, replied that the constitution was gone long since, and that for years he had been living on the byelaws.
 
Of Sheridan the counterpart is told. He was somewhat given to indulgence in strong drink. When remonstrated with and warned that the quantity of brandy he drank would certainly destroy the coat of his stomach, he quietly poured out another glass and replied, ‘Well, then, my dear friend, there is nothing for my stomach to do but to digest its waistcoat.’
 

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She hung upon his arm so lovingly - he was her Heaven - and beamed up in his face with all the radiance of these pale blue eyes. Her heart would speak, and yet the tongue refused its utterance. But love and admiration broke the spell, and from the rapture of her soul she breathed forth, ‘ Your moustache is beginning to grow, Georgie.’
 
-American paper.
 
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A popular concert singer, advertised to participate in an entertainment in a Missouri village, excused her absence on the ground of having a cold in the head; the next day she received the following from an admirer: -
 
“Thiz is gouse greze; melt it and rub it on the brige of yore noz until kured. I love you to distraxshun.”
 
 
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