“It’s very simple. For instance, I am teaching a boy French, and on the first day of the quarter his folks don’t send the money for the lessons. In that event I give him the following sentences to translate and write out at home: ‘I have no money. The quarter is up. Hast thou got any money? I need money very much. Why hast thou not brought the money this morning? Did thy father not give thee any money?’ That fetches them.” WHERE’S THE JOKE? Daniel Webster liked to make remarks of a character intended to puzzle simple minds. Stopping to dinner one day at a country inn on his way to Marshfield, he was asked by the hostess if he usually had a good appetite. “Madam,” answered Webster, “I sometimes eat more than I do at other times; but never less.” The inhabitants of the village where this profound Hibernicism was uttered, have probably been at work ever since trying to comprehend its exact purport. * * * * * THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS. Eat More Corn Bread. The suggestion that the American people get better acquainted with corn as a breadstuff, made in Mr. Boyce’s talks recently, has brought many commendatory letters. Mr. Boyce called attention to the fact that corn is a universal crop in the United States. Demand from Europe has made wheat prices high, but Europe has not yet learned to eat our corn. “Your advice should be heeded by everybody, in the cities and in the smaller places and country,” says one letter, from an Iowa town. “Corn has been selling at from seventy-two to seventy-seven cents a bushel. Bulk cornmeal of good quality can be bought for three to five cents a pound. As you say, there is no better food in the wintertime. People have been eating too much wheat.” Another says: “We should eat more corn, instead of so much wheat, and also more graham flour and oatmeal. They all furnish the best kind of nutriment.” Eating of potatoes, rye bread, rice, oatmeal, and similar foods is also advocated. More attention should be paid to vegetables as a partial substitute for bread. Corn is as healthful as it is economical. Those who make a practice of eating corn bread rarely suffer from indigestion, constipation, or kindred complaints. Eighty-three, But He’s a Speeder. Though Alfred S. Hensley, of Stanhope, N. J., is eighty-three years of age, he would not be “dared” by some of his cronies, who wagered that he would not ride a motor cycle. Hensley was telling them how some years ago he was a “speed maniac” with a motor cycle. They laughed, and the old man jumped on the seat of a motor cycle and was off down the Stanhope-Newton Road like a shot. He went about half a mile and then turned back, covering the last quarter of a mile in sixteen seconds, and as he set the machine against the curb, he pocketed a wager with the remark: “Well, I guess I’m still one of the young uns.” All Five Shots Hit Villain of a Play.