Installed in a cute Installed in a cute little cottage, built little cottage with a for two. pair of twins. —H. A. Perrill. * * * * * Mary had a little ruffle, I discovered it by chance; Just a dainty little ruffle On the bottom of her underskirt. * * * * * =Sayings of the Famous= Billyus Plutocrat—“Rave on, Red Raven, you shall not split tonight.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =_Formation of Women_= ANCIENT mythology and folklore contain innumerable stories of the creation of the world and of man. Most of them have this in common that they relate that, when it came to the creation of woman, the being who had the task in hand experienced immense difficulties. According to a supposed legend, for instance, this is the origin of woman: “Twashtri, the god Vulcan of the Hindu mythology, created the world, but on his commencing to create woman he discovered that for man he had exhausted all his creative materials, and that not one element had been left. This, of course greatly perplexed Twashtri, and caused him to fall into a profound meditation. When he arose from it he proceeded as follows. He took: =The roundness of the moon. The undulating curve of the serpent. The graceful twist of the creeping plant. The light shivering of the grass blade and the slenderness of the willow. The velvet of the flowers. The lightness of the feather. The gentle gaze of the doe. The frolicsomeness of the dancing sunbeam. The tears of the cloud. The inconsistency of the wind. The timidity of the hare. The vanity of the peacock. The hardness of the diamond. The cruelty of the tiger. The chill of the snow. The cackling of the parrot. The cooing of the turtle dove.= All these he mixed together and formed a woman.” This is widely accepted as an ancient Hindu legend and nobody would suffer very much for continuing to believe such to be the case, but a gentleman, in answer to a query the other day, completely destroys the foundations for this belief. He says: “The legend of the creation of woman is the creation in English of an English mind; its author is F. W. Bain, and it is to be found in his charming book, ‘A Digit of the Moon.’” * * * * * =They Answered Him= He had only ten dollars left and thought he would have a tour on the railway. So he hied himself to a big ticket office where there was a host of booking clerks and inquired: “Here! Can I go to Halifax for ten dollars?” “No,” answered the booking clerk. “Well, can I have a return to Montreal?” “No,” replied the clerk again.