A receipt to g-et married, was what a young- man ap
plied for to the clerk of a court in a North Pacific town.
As leap year will come, a g-ood man}' young- men are
procuring- bog-us marriag-e certificates to earn" about their
persons as a means of protection.
A family in this city have a dog- twenty-five years old.
He was originally a hound, but he has stayed with them so
long that they could call him a tarrier.
Daughter—Don’t be angry, papa, because the young
man is going to marfy me and take me away from you.
Father—Angry, my darling? Never. Bnt 1*11 never
forgive him if he ever does anything that causes you to
come back to me again!”