deeds of our own sword and those of our gallant warriors?" asked the bold Jarl.

And Bear the Virtuous, well versed in ancient lore and of venerable appearance, walks up to the elevated seat and sings before the Jarl a beautiful song of Hagbart and fair Signe, and how Signe followed her lord and master to the funeral pyre, where she was burned with all her treasures and the gold of her teeth, filled by Dr. Younger, and her library of dry-goods bills; and then he sings into the golden strings of his harp of ancient times, and how Christmas was celebrated with our glorious ancestors; and then he puts his harp into his coat pocket, walks gracefully up to the Jarl, and asks for a drink.

WHEN I received a notice from our most gracious Sire that he expected me to make some appropriate remarks on Ideal Bohemia, I immediately began to ponder on the beauties of Bohemia, the high objects of its organization, and the inscrutable wisdom of our most gracious Sire in having appointed me to lecture on such an exalted subject. From pondering over this subject, my mind soon fell to wandering, a habit to which I incline more or less after nine o'clock P. M., and roamed through the vast realms of other memorable things. I made some exceedingly valuable discoveries. Experience has shown me the lamentable fate of all my discoveries made after nine o'clock P. M.-I do not recollect them the

following morning. Therefore, this tim reduced the result of my philosophical searches to writing, and I am here to lighten you on inscrutable things in gen and the different species of inscrutable dom in particular.

Amongst inscrutable things there three that have occupied the human m in all ages. It is immensity of time, called "Eternity"; immensity of space the "Universe"; and, thirdly, the bound line between necessity and free will.

Of the immensity of time anybody form an idea who enters a dentist's of and finds there a notice: "Doctor back five minutes." These five minutes are immensity of time.

As to immensity of space, a San F cisco horse-car is a good illustration-a verse that has room for another univ and plenty of room on the top.

As to the boundary-line between capa and free drinks, its limitation is found multiplying capacity by the figure of re

cash, and then adding the credit strained to its utmost extent in regard to time and place.

The most useful of inscrutable things is the inscrutable wisdom of Divine Providence, which is indispensable to the daily press. For example: It has pleased the inscrutable wisdom of Divine Providence to take from our midst our dearly beloved mother-in-law, Barbara Scoldum. Now, there is something incomprehensible at first look in this action of inscrutable wisdom. Divine Providence in taking that particular mother-in-law will soon find that he has caught a tartar. But, in carefully studying up the case, we will find that inscrutable wisdom keeps a place in some distant part of its premises where all the good mothersin-law go, which place will be considerably warmed up immediately after the arrival of mothers-in-law. There is an arrangement that as soon as the thermometer of that place sinks below the temperature of Fort Yuma a mother-in-law is introduced to save fuel. The natural philosopher calls this ar