He had no stomach for the army, but had presented himself for examination with a "sure trick" up his sleeve to "work his ticket." He physically perfect, but his eyesight was shaking so bad, indeed, that the sergeant thought the doctor should see him.

First-class physically, pronounced the doctor but when the medical man applied the eye to the would-be recruit's sight appeared much worse than when the sergeant had him in hand. "No, no, my man; with sight like that, you're used for the army," said the medical man. "But ought to get glasses. Say, I've a pair like my microscope, and if you see with them you can have them."

The spectacles were ordered and fitted on, and the recruit at once began to feel splendidly. "Do you now see, sir, with sarcasm, take him along, sergeant, at him sworn in? There's no glass in the place," Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.

Laughter, Frigidity.
Fairbanks is running now for V. -e.
When folks near that cake of bread, they will not pause a word to vary. But run themselves the other way.

Health Talks, by Dr. Wm. Brady
Knit Luncheon and Sunstroke.
Most instances of alleged heat exhaustion or sunstroke reported in the press are in reality not what...  They seem. Extremely warm weather brings in many chronic diseases, and this collapse is popularly supposed to be sunstroke or exhaustion. Most cases of general heat exhaustion nowadays are seen on board ships, is the stoke's hole, where the heat is terrible. 