Thirty years previous (to the thirteenth of May, not Euclid) some benighted beggar invented the Chinese puzzle; and tonight, many a frantic policeman would have preferred it, sitting with the scullery maid and the pantry near by.

Simple matter to shift about little blocks of wood with the tip of one's finger; but cabs and carriages and automobiles, each driver anxious to get out ahead of his neighbor!--not to mention the shouting and the din and discord of horns and whistles and sirens and rumbling engines! "It's hard luck," said Crawford, sympathetically.

"It will be half an hour before they get this tangle straightened out." "I shouldn't mind, Jim, if it weren't for Kitty," replied his wife.

"I am worried about her." "Well, I simply could not drag her into this coupe and get into hers myself.

She's a heady little lady, if you want to know.