124 PUFFS. 



IN the Quartier Latin of Paris the pipe 

 has ever been the great consoler in the 

 bachelor homes of Bohemian artists, and 

 has ever usurped the sway of woman, 

 as in the case of the artist Gavarni, who 

 on his deathbed is reported to have said 

 to a friend : " I leave you my wife and 

 my pipe ; take care of my pipe." 



NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



AN Englishman and a Frenchman 

 were traveling together in a diligence, 

 and both smoking. Monsieur did all in 

 his power to draw his phlegmatic fellow- 

 passenger into conversation, but to no 

 purpose. At last, with a superabundance 

 of politeness, he apologized for drawing 

 his attention to the fact that the ash of 

 his cigar had fallen on his waistcoat, and 

 that a spark was endangering his neck- 

 erchief. 



The Englishman, now thoroughly 

 aroused, exclaimed : " Why the devil 



