d seen one of Ole's legs, and then
I seen one of Ole's arms, and then another leg, and then over one side
Ole's head, and I says, 'My God! Something muster happen to Ole!'"

Facts are stubborn things.--_Smollett_.

_See also_ Witnesses.

EXAGGERATION

_A War Lexicon_

In a letter to the editor of the New York Sun an anonymous writer
gives the following important interpretations of various phrases of
"Desperanto," or the language indulged in by frantic telegraph editors
on American newspapers:

Terrific Slaughter--Sixteen French and seventeen Germans wounded.

Hurled Back--The withdrawal of an advanced outpost.

Thousands of Prisoners--Three German farmers arrested.

Deadly Air Battle--French aeroplane seen in the distance.

Gigantic Army of Invasion--Two troops of cavalry on a reconnaissance.

Overwhelming Force--A sergeant and a detail of twelve men.

Fierce Naval Battle--Mysterious sounds heard at sea.

Americans Outrageously Maltreated--One American asked to explain why
his trunk contained maps of German roads.

Bottled Up--A fleet at anchor.

Trapped--An army in camp.

Rout--An orderly retreat.

Heroism--A failure of soldiers to run away in the face of danger.

Decisive Conflict--A skirmish of outposts.

A man with a look of business on his face came to a hotel-keeper, and
asked him if he would buy two carloads of frogs' legs.

"Two carloads!" said the man in amazement. "Why, I could not use them
in twenty years!"

"Well, will you buy a carload?"

"No."

"Twenty or thirty bushels?"

"No."

"Twenty or thirty dozens?"

"No."

"Two dozen?"

"Yes."

A few days later the man returned with three pairs of legs. "Is that
all?" asked the landlord.

"Yes; the fact is that I live near a pond, and the frogs made so much
noise that I thought there were millions of them. But I dragged the
pond with a seine, drained it and raked it, and there were only three
frogs in the whole place."--_Life_.

A certain young society man was much given to telling exaggerated
stories and was rapidly gaining a reputation for untruthfulness which
worried his friends and particularly his chum, who remonstrated with
him and threatened to disown him if he did not mend his ways.

"Charlie," said he, "you must stop this big story business of yours or
you are going to lose me as a friend. Nobody believes a word you say,
and you are getting to be a laughing-stock."

Charlie admitted that he was