The answer was given with proud certainty:

   "Are you ready for the question?"

   "Yes, dearest," the girl confessed shyly. "Go ahead."

   What is the penalty for bigamy?

   Two mothers-in-law.

   *    *    *

   The man was weak and naturally unlucky, and so he got married three times inside of a year. He was convicted and sentenced for four years. He seemed greatly relieved. As the expiration of his term grew near, he wrote from the penitentiary to his lawyer, with the plaintive query:

   "Will it be safe for me to come out?"

   The little girl in the zoölogical park tossed bits of a bun to the stork, which gobbled them greedily, and bobbed its head toward her for more.

   "What kind of a bird is it, mamma?" the child asked.

   The mother read the placard, and answered that it was a stork.

   "O-o-o-h!" the little girl cried, as her eyes rounded. "Of course, it recognized me!"

   The philosopher, on being interrupted in his thoughts by the violent cackling of a hen that had just laid an egg, was led to express his appreciation of a kind Providence by which a fish while laying a million eggs to a hen's one, does so in a perfectly quiet and ladylike manner.

   A shopkeeper with no conscience put by his door a box with a slit in the cover and a label reading, "For the Blind." A month later, the box disappeared. When some one inquired concerning it, the shopkeeper chuckled, and pointed to the window.

   "I collected enough," he explained. "There's the new blind."

   The sympathetic and inquisitive old lady at the seashore was delighted and thrilled by an old sailor's narrative of how he was washed overboard during a gale and was only rescued after having sunk for the third time.

   "And, of course," she commented brightly, "after 

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