The Arizona champion., 1888-06-16
BITS OF FUN.

ether night. A chorus girl m male attire, which was of the GUS tomary scantiness, while toying with her hair, which was decoratd ed with a green leaf, detached the decoration and it fell to the floor Quick as a flash came the voice of the libretto boy:
 "Hi, there, Adam, you've dropped your leaf!"-Philadelphia Press.
 The eldest girl was instructing the younger brothers and sisters. She was not very old herself, but she vas ages older than the others Eleven is about 20 more than seven in 'the ages of children. They had been discussing purely family matters.
 "What's twinSp" said the youngest boy of the family.
 "Twins is two. You and George are twins" said the II year-old.
 "And when its three?"
 "I guess three is triplets.
 "rriplets! Three's tripletsl And when there's four1'
 "Four! Four's quadrille. |" San Francisco Chronicle. A little boy had been extremely naughty at dinners and had been sent away from the table just as his iavorite deSert-cabinet pud- ding, with butter and sugar sauce was being served. About 9 o'clock that evening, when the other children had gone to bed and his parents were alone in the sitting room. a tear stained little face and a white robed figure ap- peared at the door, Ma nma, tt said, bravely between sobs, "you told me never to go to sleep when anything wrong had been done until it was all fixed up right, so came down to tell you that-thlt-that-I-forgive you and papa for what you did to me at the dinner table. ."-Harper's Bazar.
 "Yes." said the principal of the Young L'dies' Seminary to the proud parent, "you ought to be happy, my dear sir, to be the father of so large a family, all the members of which appear to be so devoted to one another."
 "Large family! Devoted?" gasped the old gentleman Tn amazement: "What on earth do you mean, ma'am?"
 "Why, yes. indeed" said the principal. beaming through her glasses; "no less than eleven of Gussie's brothers have been here this winter to take her out sleigh rlding, and she tells me she ex poets the tall one with blue eyes again tomorrow. "-Puck.
 First Baker-Just opening, see. I suppose you will ln tn. bakers trust1
 Second baker-I have no us for a trust, sir.
 "Ah, hal 1 thought so. You ] intend to cut under Us in prices Wen just show you, sir, hrat--"
 al nave no intention of cutting under ID prices, 1 shall charge the full market rates whltever they are
 "Eh?"
 "I expect, sir, to gain custom by the superior excellence ot m. bread !"
 Firs, baker (sprnging for tho door and dasnins into the street -Heaven preserve u! Waat an escdpe! He's mad, mad as a MIrcn har !-0uIha World. A teacher was telling class O | little ones about the beauty of tn, scenery in the Adirondack m)un tains She spoke especially of tn, number of little lakes among then some oi tnem," she said, Gar surrounded with high cliffs and 5, | guarded by them from every brean of wind, that their surfaces ar, perfectly clear and qmet; and whe II IS night, and stars shine out Ii the sky above, the waters of tn, lake reflect or picture them exact Ily It you could be standing o the border ot one of those llttl' lakes some night, you would al most tnlak that real noon an, ,val stars were shining in a req ky al your feet.
 rne children were quite que' TOT a miuute, thinking ot the sceIe de. cribed to them, and then one ltlle one raised hIs hand, ana a sed, with the ar of one who ha, al last solved mystery.
 And was that the way the co" juIaped over-tae moon? f Up to recent date there w,s pat C t in one of the New En land insane asylu,ns who for se'era years had most positively refused % speak. He labored under tn drlusion that he had been strlc&el dumb. With the exception O thus trouble his mind was particu ld-ly aclive, Every effort had been made and subterfuge resorte' lto. to catch him unawares an(