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HUMOR BETWEEN THE RACES Perkins: "I cant make out why I, who am so lucky at cards,- should be so infernally unlucky backing horses." i Thomson: "Oh, you forgot, old thing,, you are not allowed to shuffle the horses." English Saturday Journal. "Now, if there is anything you want explained, just ask .me," said he at the race meeting. "I supr pose some things are meaningless to you?" "Everything Ive seen and heard so .far is meaningless," said the girl. "Some of the things are .positively silly." "For Instance?" "Why do they call the seats the stands?"