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MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN.
—
MARGARET BANGSTER.
Ia the bound of mine ewn inclosure
The flowers are fair to see |
But the rose in neighbor's garden
Is fairer than'allto me:
So white and tender and stately,
So gemmed with sparkling dew.
This rose that bleomsfor another
Is the sweetest ever that grew.
My heart to its grace and beauty
oes forth as to a shrine;
And I sigh to its mystical fragrance--
“If it were only mine?”
And yet if not my nyighbor,
But I, in fee and thrall,
Huld all that marvelous glory
Ou the other side of the wall.
1 might, perhaps, grow weary
Of its royal pomp and grace.
And love with my love some daisy
With a shy, uplifted fuce,
For since the gates of Eden
‘Were shut on Adam and Eve,
The flowers we have are never
So sweet as those we leave ;
And rich within my garden
Though many a flower might be,
The rose that bloomed for another
Might seem the best to me.
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Romance of the Border,
Monte Kate fell dead at Lozier, &
small station on the Texas Pacific, one
day ast week. Everybody on the
southwestern frontier knew Monte
Kate. She has prominently figured as
a border character for the past twenty
years. I never met any one who knew
her real name or aught of her ante-
cedents, I saw her for the first time
here during the summer of 1866. She
was then the talk of the town—Dbrilliant,
witty, young, divinely beautiful and
of an abundance of money
which was liberally supplied her by the
countless friends the witehery of her
smile had won to her side.
She had just come in from one of the
frontier posts, and was scattering her
money right and left. She had sump-
tuous apartments at the best hotel,
drank the costliest wines, ate the very
choicest of viands, and drove about
the Alamo City in a naughty little
phaeton, drawn by a pair of mettlesome
“pied” penies. I saw her every day
for two weeks, One evening on the
military plaza she passed me as I was
strolling with a friend along the bon-
quette.
“A pretty woman,” I observed.
“Yes " replied my friend, *“‘that’s
Monte Kate, She's been here about
three weeks on a regular spree, Yes
terday the sheriff attached her ponies
and carriage for debt, and she was
forced to give up her apartments at the
hotel. She has a friend out at one of
the frontier posts and she has sent for
him to come to her relief. He has to
do it every time she comes to the city.
He'll be here to-morrow, pay her debts
and take her back with him. Next day
she'll make another big stake and she'll
come in here to spend it. She'll never
let up until she’s dead broke, and then
she'll go back to her game and drink
nothing until she's 'way ahead.”
“She runs a game then ?”
““Yes—monte. That's how she got
her name. She's the slickest dealer on
the frontier.”’
The next morning I went down to
the depot to see a friend off. On the
platform at the station was huddled a
little group, a man, evidently a Ger-
man, his sick wife and three children,
the youngest a baby, who was crying
piteously. They were on their way to
New Braunfels, and were out of money,
They had no friends, and no one there
seemed to think it his duty to inquire
into or attempt to alleviate their suf-
ferings. The woman, who was young
and had an interesstng face, was moan-
ing pitifully, and the poor husband
tried to console her, while great tears
rolled down his cheeks and dropped on
the wasted hands of his helpmeet. My
friend made some inquiries from one
of the bystanders about them, and was
going to order their removal to some
place where the sick woman eould re-
ceive proper medical attention when a
street hack drove up and Monte Kate
alighted. Her cheeks were flushed an
she walked unsteadily. The crowd
about the poor family caught her eye
and she camé toward it. When she
saw the man’s tears and the big, hun-
gry eyes of the children, and the wan,
thin face of the mother, her womanly
sympathy was aroused. She pushed
het way forward, and addressed the
man a few words in his native tongue.
He wiped his eyes with his hand and
replied, and for several minutes they
carried on an animated conversation.
Suddenly Kate faced the crowd and
her eyes flashed with scorn,
“You're a fine lot of suckers, you
are!” she cried. ‘‘Here’s this poor
man, with a sick wife and starving
children, been lying on this platform
ever since yesterday, and nobody in all
the city had heart enough to throw
them a bone or a crust of bread. You
.call yourselves Christians. 1am glad
1 ain't, but I've got a heart, and I can’t
see a dog suffer. All of you have
money in your pocket, I haven't-—
I’m busted ; but I think I can raise a
few dollars.” ;
She was very much exeited and be-
gan tearing the rings off her white fin.
gers, She called the hackman up, add-
watch, a necklace of* pearls and a dia-
mond breastpin to the lot and poured
them into his hat. |
“Sam,” she said, ‘‘take these up to
Isaanck’ and get all you ean on ‘em.
Tell him I want the money for a par
ticular purpose. Drive like the devil,
and 1'11 see that you're paid.”
She walked back to the side of the
wretched German as the hackman drove
away, and kneeling down, whispered
a few words of encouragement into the
ears of the sick wife. The woman's
face brightened ; she said something in
a low tone to ber husband, and he dried
his eyes. The children crowded about
and stared at the beautiful, richly
dressed woman in open-mouthed, open~
eyed, wonder, It made a very pretty
picture, and the crowd looked on in sil-
ence. Presently the hackman returned,
and, jumping from the carriage, placed
a roll of notes in Kate's outstretched
hand. Without looking at the amount
she passed it over to the German. He
{atrly capered with joy, and the sick
wife would have kissed their benefac-
tor’s hand, Kate prevented this act of
homage aud drew pack with something
like a flush of shame on her face.
“No. no,” she cried, “not that.”’
“Under her directions the family were
removed to a cheap boarding house near
and a doctor was summoned to attend
the sick woman. The crowd cheered
and the train came in. A man among
the passengers joined Kate and the pair
drove off together in a hack.
The next time I met Monte Kate she
was behind the monte table at a fron-
tier post, deftly manipulating the thin,
gaudily colored Spanish cards, it was
just after pay day, and judging from the
size of the “‘bank’ spread out on the
table before her, she had made a big
winning. It was very cold outside, and
‘he ubode cassine was full of that heter-
ogenous crowd to be found only on the
frontier—soldiers, gamblers, cowbows,
s outs, Mexicans, rustlers, Indians and
negroes. In the back-room a ball was |
in full blast, and the elink of the gam-
bler’s ivory chips kept time to the music
of the asthmatic orchestra, Contrary
to all precedent, Kate was beginning to
drink before her game was closed, but
she apparently knew how much to take,
for she was cool and collected, although
several empty champagne bottles on the |
window ledge beside her, bore evidence |
to the fact that her librations had not
been governed by any great amount of
temperance, A gambler explained her
unusual indulgence :
“Poker Bill was killed last night at
that table yonder,’ he whispered, ‘‘and
Kate's been drinking ever since,”
Poker Bill was Kate’s latest friend
and her backer at monte, She desired
to treat the house and called all hands
up. One alone remained behind ; he
wept at the stove, Kate went to his
side and learned his story. He was a
poor vanquero, who made a scanty
living for a large family of little children
“riding the range,’ on a big stock
ranch. That morning his little son, ten
years old, while riding 8 broncho pony
had been thrown by the animal, and
when picked up it was found that his
leg had been broken.
©] kem in hyre arter ther doctor,”
concluded the man, beginning to cry
again ; “but he "lows ez how he won't
go out thar for less than $100 an’ I
ain’t got that much money. Jimmy,
thet's my boy, mum, is cryin’ an’ takin’
on terrible with pain, an’ I don't know
what to do.”
“1 reckon the doctor will go out,’ said
Kate very quietly. “I think I can induce
him to go.”
Then turning to a Mexican who
worked about the cassino, she ordered
him to saddle a couple of ponies and
bring them around to the door. She said
to the vanquero :
“You shall be here when I come back
to guide us out to your camp. I'm going
out too.’
She buckled a belt about her slim
waist and thrust into it a pair of 45-
calibre six shooters. When the ponies
came up she put two bottles of wine
in one of the saddle pockets, and wrap-
ing herself in a heavy serape, mounted
one pony, and, leading the other, rode
off in the direction of the post. The
vanquero followed her. We saw nothing
more of her that night but the next
morning the whole story came out. At
the muzzle of her six-shooters, she bad
forced the obdurate surgeon to mount
the ded pony, and guided by the over-
joyed vanquero, had conducted the man
of medicine to the poor fellow’s camp,
and had remained there until the
leg had been properly set. Of
late years poor Kate went to the
dogs.
A special meeting of the Western
Nail Association was held here. After
a full discussion of the situation it was
decided to make no change in the card
rates, and it was decided that the mills
should continue in operation until Nov-
ember 5, when all factories will close
_ Every christian should be & man of
courage and constancy, true to his con-
victions, and ever ready to stand up
Recent Legal Decisions.
——
1. Drives WELLS—PUBLIC USE—
KNOWN USE. —2, SAME--RESSUE —
Nelson W. Green, a Colonel of NeW
York Volunteers in the late war, to
give the men of his command pure
water devised, in his own mind, a me-
thod by which this could be done. He
first explained his idea to hisdrill-equad
and afterwards to the officers of his |
regiment, and it was this: To drive
a rod sharpened at the end through the
ground into the water-bearing stratum,
and inserting in the bore a tube through |
which the water could be drawn by
any ordinary style of pump. A test of
this method was made successfully in
1861 on the place of Green, and in the
game year on the Fair Grounds at
Cortland, New York, at the expense of
one Graham, who had a contract to
supply food and other necessary articles
to the soldiers encamped there, This
well was used generally by the men in |
camp, and by G. and his employers,
In 1868, Green procured a patent for
this invention and in 1871 had a reissue
thereof, in which he claimed as his in-
vention the creation of a vacuum in the
lining of the well for the purpose of
using the pressure of the atmosphere to
bring up the water, In a suit—Andrews
ve. Hovy—brought is the United
States Circuit Court for the Northern
District of Iowa for an injunction and
damages for the infringements of this
patent, the defendant first, denied that
Green was the inventor of the driven
well ; second, averred that if he were
the inventor he had abandoned his
right to a patent by allowing a public
use of the invention for more than two
years before the granting of the patent ;
and, third, that the claim under the
reissue than in the first
pateat, On the trial the foregoing facts
were shown, and it was also proved
that this m-thod of driving wells was
ustén at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849,
and at Independence, Missouri, in 1851,
And it was
pal invention did not claim the crea-
tion of the vacuum and the effect of
the atmospheric pressure, Judge
Shiras in dismissing the bill said ; ‘1.
Whatever may be the intention of the
inventor, if he suffers the invention to
was broader
also shown that the origi-
whatever, without an immediate asser-
tion of his right, he is not entitled to a
patent ; nor will a patent then ob-
tained protect hisright. 2. Itisshown
that in 1881, at Independence, Missouri,
a tube was driven into the water-bear-
ing stratum and by a pump attached to
the tube, water was drawn through it,
in an apparantly inexhaustible quantity.
Tuis might be treated as a mere isolated
experiment, which would not be held
to defeat the right of an independent
inventor. But in 1849 and in 1850 E.
W. Purdy, a witness in this case, as he
testifies a wellomaker in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and he used iron-rods about
two inches in diameter and coupled to-
gether, The first rod was sixteen feet
long, with its lower end made for a drill,
arn! it was worked in the earth by being
run over a gin-pole ; and so the earth
was displaced. Then four-inch tubing
was driven into the opening as the bor-
ing progressed. No soil was removed
from the ground except where quick-
sands were struck. A long sheet-iron
bucket, with a valve at the bottom,
was employed to bring up the quick-
sand. When the water was reached if
it did not come to the surface a pump
was attached to the tubing which
formed the lining of the well. Purdy
testifies that he drove a number of
these wells——some of them to the depth
of sixty and 100 feet. We must con-
fess that we cannot see any substantial
difference between these wells and
those made by the Green wethod. oH.
It is urged that the great merit of Co!-
onel Green's invention consists in the
discovery of the effect of the vacuum
created. According to the view we
take of the original patent, it did not
cover or describe the application of this
principle. It follows, therefore, that
the reissue embraces the application of
an important and material principle
not found in the original. The rule is
well settled that a reissue can be valid-
ly granted only for the same invention
which was originally patented. If the
reissue goes beyond this, and covers
other and different inventions or im-
provements suggested by the use of the
original invention, it will be void.”
BHIPPIN G—NEGLIGENCRE~OPEN
HATCHWAY AT NIGHT.—-S, was em-
belonging to H., and at night, while he
was executing an order of the Captain
commanding the vessel, he fellinto an
open hatchway, where no light had been
put by the porter, as was his duty, and
was injured, In the action-—Surrey
vs. Holt—brought in the United States
Cireuit Court for the Northern district
of Ohio to recover damages, the plain.
tiff got a judgment for $4000. A mo-
tion was made for a new trial, on the
ground that Judge Welker had erred
in charging the jury, but the motion
was denied, Judge Baxter concurring
with Judge Welkerin his view of the
for the right in the face of every foe, I
The charge was as follows:
“The plaintiff can only recover by
showing that the defendant, through
the negligence or improper conduct of
his agents on the vessel, caused his in
juries. Negligence is the failing to do
what a reasonably prudent person would
‘ordinarily have done under the circum-
gtances of the situation, or doing what
said person under the existing circum-
stances would not have done, If the
plaintiff so far contributed to the in-
jury by his own negligence or want of
ordinary care or caution, that but for
such negligence or want of care he
recover, The defendant was bound to
use ordinary care in guarding the
hatchway at night, and he cannet re-
lieve himself from his liability te his
the vessel and about the hatehway, if
they were left open, aud that as he wus
a fellow-servant with the plaintiff he
must suffer for his negligence. In per
forming his duty in regard to such
lighting of the vessel he was the agent
of the defendant, and his negligence is
the negligence of the defendant.”
ACCIDENT INSURANCE—INVOLUN-
TARY ActioN—Uxcoxsciovs CoNDI-
T10x OF MIND. —In an action to recover
the weekly inderanity upon an accident
policy—8cheiderer vs. Travelers’ In.
surance Company—the complaint stated
that “‘when it was quite dark, and
while he was in a dazed and unconseious
condition of mind, and not knowing or
realizing what he was doing, he invol-
untarily arose from his seat and walked
unconsciously to the platform of the
car, and without fault on his part, fell
therefrom to the ground, and was
thereby injured.” The company in-
sisted that they were not liable for this
casualty, as it was not accidental, but
the result of the action of the plaintiff,
The trial Court sustained this position
of the defendant, and the plaintiff ap.
pealed to the Supreme Court of Wis
where the judgment was re-
Judge Orton in the opinion
said: “It is not necessary to wander
away and get lost in ‘that wilderness
more dark than groves of firon Huron's
consin,
versed,
tain the precise condition of the mind
plaintiwhen the accid nt occurred ; and
it is useless to speculate as to Lhe re-
mote causes of that condition—whether
drunkenness, utter prostration, som-
nambalisto, brain disease or derange-
ment of faculties—beyond, aside or in
contradiction of the complaint. The
allegations of the complaint show a
cause of action against the company.
What occurred happened, it is stated,
while the plaintiff was unconscious,
and that his action was involuntary.
These are the strongest words which
could be used to negative self-implica-
tion, design or voluntary exposure,
which are the only conditions material
to the case which exempt the company
from liability. In respect to the causes
of this mental condition of the plaintiff
it must also be accepted as true that he
went to sleep from weariness and the
motion of the cars, and naver awoke to
consciousness or volition until the in-
jury had happened. It is evident that
he was entirely irresponsible,” — Pnila.
Record,
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Keerivo Frowenrs Fresa — All
that is necessary to keep flowers fresh
is to keep them moist, fresh and cool.
If people, instead of dipping flowers in
water, would simply wrap them up in a
wet pewspaper they would find that
they would keep far fresher over night.
A wet towel or napkin would be too
heavy, and crush the blooms too much,
and besides, it would allow the moisture
to evaporate too easily.
Caoep Birps.— Never let a bird
cage hang in a room where the gas is
alight, unless it is exceptionally wel
ventilated ; the air near the ceiling is
always the most impure at night. Set
the cage on the floor, and you will find
the bird's health improves. After the
gas has been alight for some time, put
your head near the ceiling, and see how
you would like to sleep in such an at-
mosphere, :
How 10 Wasi Spaxisi Lace 1
saw a fichu which a friend cleansed
which looked almost as well as new.
She put ammonia into water sufficient
to make it feel slippery, and soaked the
lace in it over night, then squeezed (not
rubbed) it out, rinsed, and pressed it
slightly. A trifle of sugar added to the
inst water is better than starch,
Tue Oper oF FLOWERS. The odor
of flowers sometimes comes from the
petals, as, for instance, from the petals
of the rose. The petals or floral leaves
of the rose give out an odor long after
they have been gathered, This is not
the case with most flowers, A recent
writer has called attention to the fact
soon after it is cut, as are most of the
sweet flowers used in cut-flower worky
The mignopette and heliotrope were
supposed to be exceptions, but as these
tinue to open new flowers when out
placed in water, it is probable the
odor comes only from the opening
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no—
world on the line of the equator, the
sun rises and sets at six o'clock the
year round,
—In melting coarse gold, blow the
fire to a great heat and stir in the met-
al with a stick of carbon, or the long
stem of a tobacco pipe to prevent
honey-combing. If steel or bron filings
get into gold while melting, throw in a |
piece of saltpeter the size of a walnut ;
it will attract the iron or steel from
the gold into the flux ; or swblimate of
mercury will destroy the iron or steel.
To cause gold to roll well, melt with a
good heat, add a teaspoonful of sal
ammoniac and charcoal, equal gquanti-
ties, both pulverized, stir up well, put
on the eover for two minutes and pour
—Jewelars’ Journal,
Savery From LicarNixa, — Col
Parnell, late of the Royal Engineers,
furnishes the English press with the |
results of his investigation of some six
or seven hundred lightning accidents,
and gives seven rules for safety during
thunder storms. Reduced to its sim-
plest terms bis advice to people who are
eaught out in storms in which there is
lightning, is to avoid all shelter. He
says the safest plan i to lie down flat
on the ground till the cloud be past.
Most people under such circumstances
will ‘continue to unscientifically make
for indoors, however, or even for an
waning, if such shelter be handy.
AX Uxvapixe INk.—Rainwater, 1
pint ; galls, bruised, 1§ ounces; green
copperas, 6 drachms ; gum arabic, ten
drachms. The galls must be coarsely
powdered and put into & bottle, and
other ingredients and water added.
Tre bottle, securely stoppered, is placed
in the light (sun if possible) and its
contents are stirred occasionally until
the gum and covperas are dissolved,
after which it is enough to shake the
| for use. Add 10 drops of carbolic
i
| to the quality of the ink.
| A single spot has measured from 40,000
| to 50.000 miles in diameter, in which, as
| will be readily seen, we could put our
earth for a standing point of observa-
waves roll and leap about the spot, and
also how the metallic rain is formed
week visible to the naked eye, having a
diameter of about 77,000 miles; and
in 1857 a cluster of spots covered an
area of nearly 4,000,000,00 square
miles. When we call to mind that the
smallest spot which can be seen with
the most powerful telescope must have
an area of 50,000 miles, we can readily
see how large a spot must be in order to
| be visible to the naked eye. Pasteroff,
in 182%, measured a spot whose umbra
| had an extent four times greater than
| the earth's suriace. In August, 1858,
a spot was measured by Newhall, and
it had a diameter of 58 000 miles—
more, as you will see, than seven times
the diameter of the earth. The largest
spot that has ever been known to as
tronomy was no less in diameter than
' 153.500 miles, so that across this you
would have placed side by side 18
worlds.
ntl AI cni—
Mirth,
— When a river is in its bed, its only
covering is a sheet of water,
— A paradox : Nearly all our domes-
tics are of foreign production.
—A philosopher who had married a
vulgar girl used to call her “‘brown
sugar ;” because, he said, she was
sweet, but unrefined.
~T am speaking,” said a long-
winded orator, ‘‘for the benefit of pos-
terity.”” “Yes,” said one of his hear-
ers, “and if you keep on much longer
your audience will be here.’
~The craze on electrical study is
beginning to bear fruit : ‘‘Are you the
conductor ? asked a lad on an excur-
sion train, ‘I am,” replied the cour-
teous official, ‘and my name is Wood."
“Oh, that can’t be,’ said the boy, ‘‘for
wood is a non-conductor.,”’
‘Who held the pass of the Ther-
mopyle against the Persian host 7’ de-
manded the teacher, And the editor's
boy, at the foot of the class, spoke up
and said: “Father, I reckon. He
holds an annual on every road in the
country that runs a passenger train.’
«Charlie went to see the apple of his
eye the other evening, and, after a
proper amount of affectionate conver-
sation, said: “I'll give you a pair of
earrings, dear, if you'll earn them by
letting me bore your ears.” “Haven't
I earned them already, then ?'° queried
the fair object of his affections.
~(irowing up with the country: *‘It
is ten years since Johnnie went West,"
said the old man, wiping away a tear,
“and it is just nine years and six
months since he was hanged and plant-
ed.” “Planted,” repeated a sympa-
thetic friend, ‘‘so’s he could grow up
with the country, I suppose,”
~A small woman, dressed neatly,
s
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New York city on Saturday, with a
her right side a card about six inches
by four was slung by common twine
from her shoulder so that it hung at
her hip. On it had been printed in ink
with a stub pen: “ll am a widow,
worth $20,000 and I want a husband.’”
She had come at a bad time. The pub-
lic offices were closed, und the politi-
cians were ai Saratoga. She had no
luck in the park, and she set out for
Wall street.
—A good story is told of a grocery-
man in this city, showing what a
thorough faith he has in nis wife re-
garding household affairs. A faithful
servant-girl had worked in the family
for a number of years. ©One day she
was sent to the store to get some gro-
ceries, She went to the store of her
employer and gave the order. The
package was done up, when she said :
“You can put these down,” “Who
shall I charge them to?’ said he.
“Why,” answered the girl, “don’t you
know me?’ “No,” said he; “who
shall 1 charge them to ¥’ Said the
girl somewhot abashed, *‘1 live at your
house ; I'm your girl” “Humph!”
eame from the proprietor, “‘is that so 2
Well, take the things and go on, then.”
— Kingston Freeman,
He Cuessed It.
“I don’t know,” said the thin Chica-
go drummer, with the tight pants and
toothpick shoes, as he sat in front of
the Grand in the most killing attitude,
‘“‘why all your Cedar Rapids ladies g
at me so. Don’t you have i
men of your town here ¥*’
“Oh, yes, we have a few ,”’ said the
drug clerk.
“Then why do they eye me so closely ?
| I've made more mashes sitting right
| here than I ever did in any town be-
| fore,”
| “Yes. Butl don’t think these were
| mashes you made here exactly.”
“Well, what makes them eve me 80
| closely, then?”
“J tell you what 1 think,” said the
clerk ; “the women here have all the
| croquet fever, but they can’t get mallets
| to suit them, They are probably think-
ing what nice, light mallets your legs
| would make if they were cut off and
| dried, and, with your feet left on the
| end, they could shut their eyes and
| strike and never miss a ball. They'd
sweep off every ball on the whole
| ground.’ — Detroit Free Prese.
| The Sharpest Blade He Ever Saw.
{| The follo ving dialogue took place an
the Ohio Railroad :
“Hullo, stranger, you appear to be
{ traveling.”’
“Yes, I always travel when 'mona
journey.”
“] think I
where 7’
“Very like ; I've often been there ?”
“Mightn’t your name be Smith
“Well, it might —if it wasn’t some-
thipg else |
have seen you Bsome-
*
“Have you been long in thess
parts 7°’
“Never longer than at present, five
foot nine.’
“Do you calculate to remain here
some time 7’
“Well, I guess I'll stay till I'm ready
to leave!”
“I reckon you were born in New
England #7
“Well, my native place was either
there or somewhere else.’’
“You travel as if money were plenty
with you.”
“Well, I might have more, and be
richer.”
“Have you anything new ?"°
“Yes, I bought a whetstone this
morning."’
“I thought so; you're the sharpest
blade 1 ever saw on this road.”
I
How He Stretched Himself.
S—
Now that Tomb Thumb is gone old
anecdotes are of course expected. One
which is not well known here is told
in France of a country notary who
made a journey of 300 miles expressly
to see the little man. Arriving by
mischance too late for the last public
exhibition, they told the notary at the
place of exhibition that he had some
chance of seing Tom Thumb at the
hotel whence the Barnum Company
were soon to depart. He came how-
ever, even there too late, and being
shown to Tom Thumb’s former apart-
ment, he found in the sitting-room a
latter arrival in possession. Unaware,
of course, of the evanishment of the
former tenant, or of the installation of
the later one, he knocked at the door.
“Enter I” responds a stentorion voice.
‘Monsieur, I should like to see Tom
Thumb.” “I am he, monsieur.” The
notary is nonplussed, for the man who
addresses him is a giant of six feet two,
with a formidable moustache.” “Mon
dieu, monsieur! I beg pardon, but
they told me you were ofa statute—of a
statute quite lilliputian!” *“‘In public
yes, monsieur; but when I am alone I
take my ease a little, you know.” “Oh,
exactly, monsieur, I understand. Oh,
certainly, Good morning, monsieur.’
blossom,
walked around the city hall park in
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The notary goes away in medita
tion, .