g through life," says Rear
Admiral Buhler. "But even a sense of humor may exist in excess. I have
in mind the case of a British soldier who was sentenced to be flogged.
During the flogging he laughed continually. The harder the lash was laid
on, the harder the soldier laughed.

"'Wot's so funny about bein' flogged?' demanded the sergeant.

"'Why,' the soldier chuckled, 'I'm the wrong man.'"

Mark Twain once approached a friend, a business man, and confided to him
that he needed the assistance of a stenographer.

"I can send you one, a fine young fellow," the friend said, "He came to
my office yesterday in search of a position, but I didn't have an
opening."

"Has he a sense of humor?" Mark asked cautiously.

"A sense of humor? He has--in fact, he got off one or two pretty witty
things himself yesterday," the friend hastened to assure him.

"Sorry, but he won't do, then," Mark said.

"Won't do? Why?"

"No," said Mark. "I had one once before with a sense of humor, and it
interfered too much with the work. I cannot afford to pay a man two
dollars a day for laughing."

The perception of the ludicrous is a pledge of sanity.--_Emerson_.

SENTRIES

_See_ Armies.

SERMONS

_See_ Preaching.

SERVANTS

TOMMY--"Pop, what is it that the Bible says is here to-day and gone
to-morrow?"

POP--"Probably the cook, my son."

As usual, they began discussing the play after the theater. "Well, how
did you like the piece, my dear?" asked the fond husband who had always
found his wife a good critic.

"Very much. There's only one improbable thing in it: the second act
takes place two years after the first, and they have the same servant."

SMITH--"We are certainly in luck with our new cook--soup, meat,
vegetables and dessert, everything perfect!"

MRS. S.--"Yes, but the dessert was made by her successor."

THE NEW GIRL--"An' may me intended visit me every Sunday afternoon,
ma'am?"

MISTRESS--"Who is your intended, Delia?"

THE NEW GIRL--"I don't know yet, ma'am. I'm a stranger in town."

"And do you have to be called in the morning?" asked the lady who was
about to engage a new girl.

"I don't has to be, mum," replied the applicant, "unless you happens to
need me."

A maid dropped and broke a beautiful platter at a dinner recently. The
host did not permit a trifle like this to ruffle him in the least.

"These little accidents happen 'most every day," he said apologetica