Some Holy Missionaries in China having been deprived of life by the Bigoted Heathens, the Christian Press made a note of it, and was greatly pained to point out the contrast between the Bigoted Heathens and the law- abiding countrymen of the Holy Missionaries who had wickedly been sent to eternal bliss. "Yes," assented a Miserable Sinner, as he finished reading the articles, "the Heathens of Ying Shing are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. By the way," he added, turning over the paper to read the entertaining and instructive Fables, "I know the Heathenese lingo. Ying Shing means Rock Creek; it is in the Province of Wyo Ming." A Ship and a Man Seeing a ship sailing by upon the sea of politics, an Ambitious Person started in hot pursuit along the strand; but the people's eyes being fixed upon the Presidency no one observed the pursuer. This greatly annoyed him, and recollecting that he was not aquatic, he stopped and shouted across the waves' tumultous roar: "Take my name off the passenger list." Back to him over the waters, hollow and heartless, like laughter in a tomb, rang the voice of the Skipper: "'T ain't on!" And there, in the focus of a million pairs of convergent eyes, the Ambitious Person sat him down between the sun and moon and murmured sadly to his own soul: "Marooned, by thunder!" Congress and the People Successive Congresses having greatly impoverished the People, they were discouraged and wept copiously. "Why do you weep?" inquired an Angel who had perched upon a fence near by. "They have taken all we have," replied the People--"excepting," they added, noting the suggestive visitant--"excepting our hope in heaven. Thank God, they cannot deprive us of that!" But at last came the Congress of 1889. The Justice and His Accuser An eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Patagascar was accused of having obtained his appointment by fraud. "You wander," he said to the Accuser; "it is of little importance how I obtained my power; it is only important how I have used it." "I confess," said the Accuser, "that in comparison with the rascally way in which you have conducted yourself on the Bench, the rascally way in which you got there does seem rather a trifle." The Highwayman and the Traveller A Highwayman confronted a Traveller, and covering him with a firearm, shouted: "Your money or your life!" "My good friend," said the Traveller, "according to the terms of your demand my money will save my life, my life my money; you imply you will take one or the other, but not both. If that is what you mean, please be good enough to take my life." "That is not what I mean," said the Highwayman; "you cannot save your money by giving up your life." "Then take it, anyhow," the Traveller said. "If it will not save my money, it is good for nothing."