Perhaps JACK sat down to dinner next to cross-eyed SUSAN ANN, "by Brother BILL'S gal," and perhaps JACK'S nose was tickled by a little blue-bottle, and that he sneezed right into her soup-plate; and then he was hurried from the table for blowing a fly into SUSAN ANN'S soup!

Aunt Nancy indulged in four pinches of snuff in rapid succession, sneezed an amazing number of times, and then acridly informed Ruby Lee that she was a "jealous cat" and always had been one.

But one day, a window was left open behind himand he sneezed, and then he got right up and shut itDo you remember that day, Mr. Steadman?" He shook his head impatiently, and the expression of his face was not pleasant.

"My! I was glad that day," she said, "when you sneezed, it was a quick stop to the rumorI tell

She sneezed so hard she nearly sneezed her head off!

She sneezed so hard she nearly sneezed her head off!

" Then Bunny and Susan laughed, but soon Bunny Cotton-Tail coughed, and Susan sneezed, so Tippy Toes knew something must be done at once.

" Bunny Cotton-Tail coughed, and Susan sneezed, and Grandpa Grumbles said, "Into the kitchen, one, seven, three, You are as careless as can be.

" Then Snubby Nose coughed and Tippy Toes sneezed.

The Seventeen Little Bears sneezed all the way.

Then Susan began to laugh, and then she began to sneeze, and then she laughed and sneezed together, and what do you suppose was the matter?

Sure enough, there was the captain, himself, andand" Here Joel sneezed, repeating the word "and" several times, in hopes the chaplain would supply the name he so much wished to hear.

There was no apparent cause for the collapse, but the man is supposed to have sneezed.

"As Nanahboozhoo continued to sing this over and over, one after another his brothers sneezed and opened their eyes.

Then he sneezed violently, raised his head, and opened his eyes.

The practice of saluting the person who sneezed, existed in Africa, among nations unknown to the Greeks and Romans.

The author of the "Conquest of Peru" assures us, that the cacique of Guachoia having sneezed in the presence of the Spaniards, the Indians of his train fell prostrate before him, stretched forth their hands, and displayed to him the accustomed marks of respect, while they invoked the sun to enlighten him, to defend him, and to be his constant guard.

Xenophon was haranguing his troops; when a soldier sneezed in the moment he was exhorting them to embrace a dangerous but necessary resolution.

He sneezed, and did not die; and this sign of death was changed into a sign of life.

Notice of this was sent to all the princes of the earth; and they ordained, that in future sneezing should be accompanied with forms of blessings, and vows for the persons who sneezed.

Thus the custom of blessing persons who sneeze is of higher antiquity than some authors suppose, for several writers affirm that it commenced in the year 750, under Pope Gregory the Great, when a pestilence occurred in which those who sneezed died; whence the pontiff appointed a form of prayer, and a wish to be said to persons sneezing, for averting this fatality from them.

[Sings] On me the young Loves sneezed: for hapless I Am fain of Myrto as the goats of Spring.

The fact that Lord GLANELY drew his own horse in the Baltic Sweep was not to be sneezed at either, said some one.

"Why, the teacher asked us this morning how to pronounce C-h-i-h-u-a-h-u-a, and nobody knew," said Willie, "but when she got down to me I sneezed and she said that was right.

If he had spoken out in the clear American fashion I expect his voice would have gone clear through the waiter without his knowing it, like the person in the story, whose neck was sliced through and who didn't know it until he sneezed and his head fell off.