and drawn up by an eminent authority: "Tickets are nipped at the Barriers, and passengers admitted to the platforms will have to be delivered up to the Company in event of the holders

   subsequently retiring from the platforms without travelling, and cannot be recognized for readmission."

   A college professor, describing the effect of the wind in some Western forests, wrote, "In traveling along the road, I even sometimes found the logs bound and twisted together to such an extent that a mule couldn't climb over them, so I went round."

   A mayor in a university town issued the following proclamation: "Whereas a Multiplicity of Dangers are often incurred by Damage of outrageous Accidents by Fire, we whose names are undesigned have thought proper that the Benefit of an Engine bought by us for the better extinguishing of which by the Accidents of Almighty God may unto us happen to make a Rate togather Benevolence for the better propagating such useful Instruments."

    Two

   young women want washing.

   Teeth extracted with great pains.

   Babies taken and finished in ten minutes by a country photographer.

   Wood and coal split.

   Wanted, a female who has a knowledge of fitting boots of a good moral character.

   For sale, a handsome piano, the property of a young lady who is leaving Scotland in a walnut case with turned legs.

   A large Spanish blue gentleman's cloak lost in the neighborhood of the market.

   To be sold, a splendid gray horse, calculated for a charger, or would carry a lady with a switch tail.

   Wanted, a young man to take charge of horses of a religious turn of mind.

   A lady advertises her desire for a husband "with a Roman nose having strong religious tendencies."

   Wanted, a young man to look after a horse of the Methodist persuasion.

   A chemist inquires, "Will the gentleman who left his stomach for analysis please call and get it, together with the result?"

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