A Question With Only One Answer

A young man írorn the provinces, who was sent to Paris to finish his educat.ion, uid the misfortune of getting into bud oiupany. He went so t'ar as to wish and íiy there is no Gud, God was only a vord. After staying Beveral years at the apital, the young man returned to his aiuily. One day he was invited to a espectable house where there was a nanerous company. While all rere enteruiuiíig theraselve8 with nows, pleaaures ml business, wo giris, aged respectively wel ve and tbirteen, were seated in a by vindow reading tosjether. The young nuil approaehtd Ihem and asked : " WhiiT 1 e lUtiful romance art; you readng bii atli'iitively. young hidies-"" " We aro readiiiíf no romaneo, sir ; we re reading the biatory ot' God's chosen „.,,-),),.." "Yon believe, then, that there is a Gnrl r" Aston ished at snch a question, the girls ooked at each other, the blood Dionoting o their cheeks. "And you, sir - do yon not believe it y" "Once I believed it, Imt after living in Paris, and Btudying philosopby, mathematica and politics, I ani convineed that God is au einpty word." " I, sir. was never in Paris ; I have never studied philoflophy or mathematica, or ail those beautiful things which you know - I only know uiy catechism ; out since you are so learned, and say there is no God, you can easily teil me whence the egg coini-s r" "A funny question. Truly the egg comes i'roni the hen." "And now, sir, whence comes the hen Y" "You know that as well as I do, miss; the hen comes frura the egg." " Which of them existed first, the ega: or the lien 'r" "I really do not know what youintend with this question and your lien, but yet that which existed first was the hen." "ïhere is a ben, then, whieh did not come from an egg?" " Beg your pardon, miss, I did not take notice that the egg existed first." "There is, then, an egg wbich did not come trom a hen t"' " Oh ! if you - beg pardon - thatis - you see- " " I see.sir, that you do not know whether the egg existed before the hen or the before the the egg." " Well, then, I sy the hen." "Very well, hei e is then, a hen which did not como from an egg. Teil me, now, who made this first hen from which all other hens and eggs caineV" " "With your hens and eggs, it seems to me you take me for a poultry dealer." '■By no means; I only asked you to teil me whence carne the niother of all hens and eggs." " But for what object?" "WbII, since you do not know, you will pormit nie to teil you. He who created the tirst hen, or, as you would rather have it, the first egg, is the same who created the world, and this being we cali God. You, who cannot explain the existence of a hen or an i-atx without God, still wish to be able to explain the existence of this world without God." ïhe young man was silent. He quickly took lus bat, and, t'ull of shame, departed Punch thinks that if a young lady wants fco keep her hands l'rce tl om chaps, all he has to do is to drees in the ])iesent fasbion, and let it be known that she has no mouey. Chaps, especially if they be sensible ehaps, will then let her hand alone very severely. Undergoing hisexamination, a medica] student was asked what was tho mode of art; a of di8Ínfectntg. He replied, "They smell so badly that the peuple open the windows, and the fresh, air gets in "