’
——— PEs a. wo
Ninety-one per cent. of ti larmsrs
in Utah own their farms.
Encouraging reports continue to
eome from the cotton manufacturers
of the South.
The average time
British House of Lords in the Nation's
work, according to a contemporary, is
fifteen minutes per day.
Australis isa country without or-
phans or an orphanage. Each waif
is taken to a receiving house, where it
is kept until a country home is found
for it.
The new programme of public ine
struction adopted in France devotes
more time to the study of English and
less to the study of German,
Tu thirty-six State prisons in this
country solitery confinement is used
as a punishment, and in twenty the
prisoner is handcuffed to the wall.
An English widower returns thanks
to a choir for their sweet singing at
his wife's funeral, ‘‘thereby enliven-
ing and brightening up the dullness
and monotony which not nnfrequently
characterizes a funeral service.”
gpent by the
i
i
ter of a billion in the improvement of |
her navy.
outlay in pursnance of a plan to keep
the peace: but the leading powers of
Europe are not stopping at expense.
England will have to meet these
ures, and Fraoce can be relied upon
to slide several big war ships into the
It looks to the Detroit Free
though the test
water.
mi 1¢ nm
far off,
and it may be followed by very mate
Press as
naval improvements was not
rn
rial changes in the map of the easte
continent
Says the New York Gbserver: ‘The
poor we have always with us—and the
lazy. To discriminate between them
is somewhat of a task.
the wood-pile marks the division.
This is a pretty expensive |
| sees,
In some cases | fee, and
| sell
|
Russia has decided to spend a quar | ton
|
There were 200 lynchings in the
United States last year, a decrease of
thirty-six from the year before,
The railways of England and Secot- |
fand derive a larger from |
their goods than from their passenger
traffic, those of Ireland the reverse. i
revenue
The Hartford Journal has noted | © listen! Bells of Dreamland are ringing
that when in its normal condition the
heart beats seventy-five times a min- |
ute. But when a fellow meets his girl
with a rival it reaches 175,
«One effect of hard times,” phils |
osophizes the Farm aud Ranch, “is to |
demonotrate the superiority of agri- | The lights begin to twinkle above us in the
cultural over all other industrial pur-
suits. The grand army of workers, | The star-lamps that the angels are hanging
hora:less and hungry, is not composed
w AN I
of farmers.”
Frederick Remington says that the
revelations of instantaneous photog-
raphy taught him to observe more
closely than ever the appearance of
the horse in motion, and to catch with
the naked eye some of those pecu-
liarities of the legs that made people
laugh when instantaneous photography
was first brought to bear upon the
Mr.
make his horses look
movements of animals. leming-
declines to
like the products ot instantaneous
photography, but he draws what he
less observers
and what acute
sften fail to see.
The Supreme Court of New York has
rendered a decision which confirms the
rich
title of the dead to the graves in wi
they lie, and, it
stop to the desecratn
is hoped, will put a
rest
of pnb
ing places under the pretense
lic improvement. It appears that a
cemetery in Brooklyn had been sold
by the trustees, and one of the lot own-
ers sued out an injunction to have his
The Su-
preme Court held that the owner of a
rights in the matter settled.
lot in a cemetery held it absolutely in
that the trustees could not
it. The
it nor deprive him of
They go to the right or left according | trustees, it seems, got @ special act of
to their disposition. Some of the
the legislature to enable them to sell
hungry go right to work, while by the cemetery, but the judge said that
others the opportunity to labor, and | the legislature cannot give them power
go earn a breakfast,
is left severely | to sell what they do not own, and can
alone. If the newspapers are to be be give no title to.
lieved, and we see no reason for doubt |
to Ahan Ta
ing Siw puv yoo w
‘ut
~ fiftean cents ud hot
work.
for from Milwaukee by a Chicago busi-
ness firm, the answer came that while
there was plenty of steady work in the
Wisconsin woods for willing men at
fair wages, the
had.
workers enough, but the men were shy
and refused to be introduced.”
men were not to be
There was work, and there were
The New York Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin, which keeps
a daily record of the fires in this
“country, and is deservedly high su-
thority on all questions of insurance,
reports the total losses by fire in the |
United States and Canada in the year
1893 at 8156,445,875,
704.700 in 1892. In but one month of
1893 did the total of fire losses sink
below $10,000,000, that
February, returns
against $132.
and was in
of the
Journal of Commerce place the figures
when the
at $9,919,900. The same paper reports
235 fires in December of a greater de-
structiveness than $10,000 each. It
says that the underwriters attribute
much of the loss to careless installa-
tion of light
plants,
ought to be the occasion of more than
insurance
electric risk is being investigated by
experts who are gathering particulars
of all the fires traceable to electricity.
Electricity is a good servant who will
bear a lot of watching.
electric and
interest to
The Baltimore San's tribute to the |
South m worthy of reproduction:
*‘Less complaint has been heard from
the South during the last eight or ten
months than from any other part of
the country, but this is not becuse
the people of this secyion have not felt
the financial stringency, but becanse
they have learned to suffer and be
strong sud silent, too. They are not
given to making an outery every time
they come to rough places in the road
of life. For a people who, prior to
1860, enjoyed an exceptionally lux.
urions existence, the manner in which
they bore the poverty and privations
that followed the war was smazing in
ita calm strength and quiet endurance,
and was fully as heroic astheir bearing
duri. that conflict. The bravery nnd
patience with which they have since
struggled to redeem their fortunes
Lave been no less admirable, and their
progress toward prosperity has been
noted with heartfelt interest by their
friends in other sections.”
i Philip
|
| Taine,
| Maupsssant,
power
Under these circumstances it |
Jo Suns to | will
When men were recently asked |
ho have died dan
mon bod
¥
A wngy
men w
the men
: Alex-
once ‘the Prince
ex-President Hayes,
Butler, Chief
Justices Lamar and Blatchford, Ham-
ilton Fish,
Confederate
ander of Battenberg,
of
General
Bulgaria ;
Jenjamin F,
jeauregard and Smith,
generals ; Earl of
Miribel,
general staff; MacMahon,
the
Derby, chief of the French
ex-President
Jules Ferry,
Stanford, the founder of Leland Stan-
Sir A. 1
ex-Premier of Ca:
of France; Senator
ford University ;
John Abbot,
“Uncle Jerry"
Galt, Sir
Aa Ia;
Rusk, Tirard, a former
Premier of France, and Admiral Tryon,
of the Victoria, first of English naval
officers of the day. The church, in its
lost Phillips
Brooks, who is claimed by the charch
Dr. A. P. Peabody, Dr.
Schafl, Frederick Evans, the
Bissell and
ranks of
various members, has
universal ;
Shaker ; Bishops Kip and
Brother the
men of letters show few breaches, but
Azarins. The
| among these are places once filled by
Francis Parkman, Guy de
John Addington
Maria Lamb,
Sym
Mrs. of
the Magazine of History; De Yille,
onds, founder
Luoy Larcom, Pr lessor Jewett and
Dr. William Smith, the lexicographer,
| Among the scientists who have been
learn that the |
|
taken away the names of Tyndall,
Charcot and Professor Horsford, of
Harvard, are the most prominent
names, Others of this class are
Craven, the inventor of the sub-
marine cable; Lichtenthaler, the con-
chologist and marine botanist ; Deoan-
dolle, a French botanist ; Captain An-
who commanded the Great |
Eastern when laying the first Atlantic
eable; Joseph Francis, the inventor
of the life-boat; Colton, the map
publisher ; Viner, the meteorologist;
Stephenson, builder of the first street
car; Rae, the great Arctic explorer;
Harvey, the inventor of the armor |
plate. Few men have died in 1808
whose loss has been more severely felt
and whose name has been more widely
honored than General Armstrong,
founder of the Hampton Instituto and
friend of the freedman and the Indian.
In this eategory, among those who did
much for their fellow-men, may be men-
tioned also Anthony Drexel, George I.
Seney and Colonel Auchmuty. Last,
but by no means lenst, in the ghostly
procession we notice Edwin Booth,
greatest of American nctors and a
very rare character ; Fanny Kemble,
J. B. Mugdock, Oounod, the -com-
darson,
| was what I meant to say.
! uncle isn't at home,
| tered the lady.
| her nunt goo
ON THE ROAD TO DREAMTOVYN,
Come hers, my sleepy darling, and hm
n trusted steed
upon my knee,
And lo! all in o moment,
"twill be
Pe
To bear you to that country where troubles
are forgot,
Ard we'll set off for Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
soft and low !
What a pleasant, pleasant
through which we go}
And little, nodding travelers are 8504
every spot,
All riding off to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
country |
Trot!
sky,
out on high,
To guide the drowsy travelers where danger
lurketh not,
As they ride off to Dreayntown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
| Snug In a wild-rose cradle the warm wind
rocks the bee;
The little birds are sleeping In every bush
and tree,
I wonder what they dream of?
y They dream
and answer not,
As we ride by to Dreamtown,
Trot,
I'rot,
I'rot
Our journeys almost over. The
town's in sight
Wherein my drowsy darling must tarry over
night,
w still it is, bow peaceful, in thi
H s delight
———
RESCUED AT LAST.
PY HELEN FORREST GRAVES,
BORWARD,
counter!’ shouted
the floor-walker
“Miss Garrick
what are you think
ing of ? Show these |
heliotrope
be
ladies
chiffon and
quick about i!"
Isola
hurried to her post
with one
Sop ———
1
sleepy
lsce
hand
dry goods house where she received
the smallest possible salary for the
largest possible amount of work.
As it happened, Mr. Benjamin Gar-
rick, of Rio Janeiro, was staying at
the honse on Lexington avenue, the
“household of company,” mentioned
by Mrs. Garrick,
In his younger days Cousin Ben had
been the black sheep of the family.
But the Pierson Garricks, who had
been the loudest in
he was under a financial cloud, were
his most devoted adherents, now that
he had come home the lucky possessor
of ruby mines, railway shares and
thriving coffee plantations,
“You must do your very best, Cor-
him,” said Mra,
daughter. “Who knows how he may
decide to leave Lis money?”
“Oh, by-the-way !” said Cousin Ben,
dinner, ‘I met Burley in the Ex-
change, and he was telling me that
Alfred was dead.”
soup, Benjamin?
and very nice,
mortal!”
1 “Well,” quoth Ben, smiting the
table with his fist, ‘‘there isn't 8 soul
that I've ealenlated more on
when I came back than Alfred!
It's lobster bisque,
Oh, yes—wo are all
Alfred was to me in the days when all
yes, Louisa, you and Pierson, too
arned their back upon me. Ah, you
pever knew it, but I went up into the
ld garret one day, with a clothes line,
| hang myself. There didn't seem to
{be anything else to do. And Alfred
“ | Ine it was when that little
by of theirs was so ill of eroup, and
king for herbs t herb
and I tell ye he talked to me as
yo one else had ever And he
wok his last five hundred dollars
if the bank and packed me off to Se
smerica with it
nonevy
after me
{
ie
| eR
Wis loc o make
a
done,
uth
Oh, 1 sent back the
long ago! Bat what could pay
kind 11
eh? oor
And that
the
or the
jand
ead ?
w and the helping
Alfred! So he
pretty little wife of
She
s
child?
What has become
out to
{is and
jidn’t she?
1 |i mean to go Elmville
pw snd the child
: | mlled her some strange Spanish name
4 Isidore or Alfred's wife
of
10O- mi
see after
Isola. was
flways fancifal
Mr. Pierson Garrick swallowed his
{pup silently. Mrs. Garrick and her
wanghter exchanged glances behind the
g
Garrick {a urn.
How lucky it was that they had sent
| heir country cousin away!
For the
sressed to her fore- [Harricks were money worshipers, and
I 3
head
she
had
All day long he idea of
suffered
diverting one cent of Ben's
ortune from their own coffers was
from a racking headache, but in this errible to them.
promising dry goods fi
ances were made for them.
J ** whis
velvet toque, nod
jets » Cousin Isola!"
“Hush-—sh 1” said the othe 3
who was stout and short, with 4 gold
eyeglass and big diamonds in befears
“We are not supposed to
her now. No"--to the young girl be-
hind the counter— ‘this is n@ the
right shade. This is violet, ang I in-
quired for heliotrope. Some ppople
seem to be absolutely color bligi 1”
Isola loo
Surely
d wistfully at hefaunt
surely she could not tend
entirely to 1gnor ! :
jut Mrs. Pierson Garrick’ gaze
was wholly anrecognizing
“We have heliotrope also,” s®d she,
taking down another box,
But the tall young lady tosstd her
bead impatiently.
“It isn't the right color sf all!”
said she. “Come away, mamma."
her
The floor-walker administered nsharp |
rebuke to Mise Garrick, when the cus- |
tomers were gone
said, ‘it would seem
as if a sale might have been made”
“Really,” he
Isola's eves brimmed over with tears |
which it would have been *“‘unbusi-
neas-like” to shed. Six months ago
she had come, a timid, inexperienced
orphan to New York, and natarally
her first idea was to go to her father's
brother, Mr. Pierson Garrick.
That gentleman, however, was not
at home--he generally contrived to be
out of the way when any embarrassing
circumstance occurred--and his wife
gave Isola to understand that it was
quite impossible to do anything for
her.
In the old Connecticut farmhouse »
gencrons hospitality had always pre
vailed, and the girl could hardly be-
| lieve that she was unwelcome to these
relatives,
“I dare say,” said Mrs. Garrick, ab-
| ently, “you can get something to do,
‘for satan finds some mischief still’
| Oh, no, that isn't the right quotation!
‘Where there's a will, there's a way,’
But your
and Cornelis is
just going out, and the house is full
of company.”
“I sould wait a little while,” hag
arded Jsola, glancing at an inviting
| easy-chair,
“It would be of no une,” sharply ut
“We really can't un-
dertake to open a hotel for all our
conntry consing,’’
Isola rose, with burning cheeks and
indignantly -sparkling eyes, and
ff morning. Where to bo-
take herself she did not know, but of
one thing she was quite certain--she
would be n¢ burden on these supers
cilious people.
A kindly country neighbor bad a
daughter married and settled in a
confeotioner's shop on Third avenue,
and here she took refuge.
“Surely,” she argned within her
self, ‘'my eduestion must stand
me in here!"
But she was destined to be
| alter
poser, aud Tschaikowsky, the Russina
musician.
vals
rm headaches
were not “*business,” snd no allow |
recfguize |
the next day. but to no purpose.
The old house was closed, padlocked, |
d drifted knee
hh =. had Become of the |
child with the strange Spanish name. |
And no one sympathized more deep-
ly with him in his disappointment
than Cornelia Garrick!
Isola had heard her father speak o
| the wayward consin who had drift
off into the anriferous South, but tha
was all i
ing, or she
ful that evening when the floor-walker
{
i
t
Of his return she knew noth
might heave felt more hope
notified her in an incidental way that,
as it was necessary to cut their
expenses after the holidays, they had
decided to dispense with her services
thereafter
Poor Is 1 Did the or-walker
know that had but twenty-five
cents in her pocket ? that she was in
debt to the confectioner’s wife? that
in all the great, dreary city she knew
| not whither to turn?
The man made some little careless
jest as he counts do
Ary, minus
| the five otl
| discharge list
They looked blankly at each other,
| but went quietly away
| there to do?
“I must go to Mrs. Pierson Garrick
Inow,” ssid Isola, ‘‘even though she
down
a
fio
la
she
1t their week's sal
fines, to her and
wr victims who were on La¢
sundry
What else was
| stared me full in the face and never |
Bhe is |
{ chose to recognize me to-day,
{at least a woman, and she has a daugh
ter of my own age.”
The next day she paid her small
stock of money to the confectioner’s
wife for the board bill--it was little
enough, and the poor woman had sore
need of it—and walked through the
deep snow to the handsome house on
| Lexington avenue.
| As she stood hesitating at the foot
{of the steps, a stout, elderly gentle
man, dressed in a tail silk hai and a
{ fur trimmed overcoat, came down
them,
| He glancod casually at her, but she
| bad turned away her face. It seemed
as if everybody must know that she
was a beggar, and the shame of it—
oh, the shame of it!
“Pretty girl,” said Comsin Ben to
himself, ‘Hangs down her head too
much, though.”
*“He has a kind face,” thought Isoia.
“I wish Uncle Pierson was like him.”
And then she timidly ascended the
slippery steps and rang the bell,
re. Plerson Garrick was adding up
her housekeeping accounts in a pretty
little room opening from her husband's
library, Between the two apartments
hung a portiere of riohly-colored Ital
ian silk.
She looked up indignantly as the
parlor maid nakered in the unwelodhe
visitant, Fair Cornelia raised her
from the novel she was reading.
“Well, I declare!” cried she, ‘‘And
what is it that brings you here, Isola?
Did not mamma you that you must
on
‘I never saw wich assurance in my
life 1" said Mrs, Pierson Garrick, grow
I Joga piteously from ome to
one sole guest who represented the |
his censure while |
nelis, to make yourself agreeable to |
Garrick to her tall |
the first day that he came home to |
“Yes,” smiled Mrs, Garrick. “Some |
seeing |
No- |
» thody but myself ever knew how good |
Benjamin Garrick went to Elmville |
|
said she, ‘snd i nave failed. Please
don’t look so cruelly at me. All 1 ask
| is a little money to take me back to
| Elmville. I can get housework to do
| there, or I can work in the factory.
| But oh, this cruel eity is killing me!”
She burst into tesrs; but Mrs. Pier
| son Garrick did not relent one whit.
“This is all nonsense, Isola,’ said
| she, *‘I have already told you that
{ we .can do nothing for you. Why
{ don’t you go to the intelligence bu-
resus or the employment
| Mr, Pierson and myself have all we
| oan do without providing for all our
{ penniless relations. And I beg you
| will go away at once This is dear
Cornelia’s at home day, and I can't
| have her nervous system upset, I"
“Hello! what's all this?’ spoke =»
deep voice, and Cousin Ben appeared
from between the rich Roman por-
tieres. ‘Who is this girl? Not Isola,
Alfred Pierson’s daughter? By Jove!
I believe she has her father's very
eyes! And what are you bullying her
for, Louisa? Turning her out of your
| house? Then, as sure as the world,
I'll go, too. Come here and kiss me,
| Isola. I've held you on my knee many
|& time when you were a baby. I'm
agencies?
| your Cousin Ben, and your father was |
| the best friend 1 ever had in the world.
| And I've looked for you—1I've
high and low, and these people Lave
allowed me to believe you were dead.
Yes, Louisa,” in answer to Mrs.
rick's pleading glance, 4]
hunted
Car
behind me in Pierson's study, and so
I heard it all.
| a woman could have been
eruel. Little Isola,
me and be my adopted daugh
Owe
will vou come to
ter? 1
more thai to your f{
child.”
And Isols
Is
hat was the
! hie hs i ndu
too good thenceforward
Ben's a lopte i child
But Mr. Pierson
ra He
shoulde:
‘
}
slher s
il
dave 8
(Garr: K
WAN
ways laid the blame of thing
shoulders
sy ontmanayz
he
—
Poisoned Arrows,
Satur
Poise have been in nse
10TY. We have
sth Strabo and
poi
ned arr
ut of
it on the suthority of |
Aristotle that the ancient
WE
since tame « mer
Gauls
soned both their arrows and the shafts |
of their spears with a preparation of
vegetable poison extracts i
of hellebore. The Seythians went o
step farther and used the venom of
serpents intermixed with the virus of
putrid blood, the latter being one of |
of the
the most active and arabie
poisons known even to day.
The natives of Japan, the Ainos,
! prepare their arrow poisons from a se
eretion of the bamboo, snd the same
Ae rE rt FR hf 1 he
0, Java and New Jalnes.
1
“Woorara” poison way the terror of
the early explorers, as well as of the
modern scientific expeditions. Analyses
of several specimens of arrows rubbed
with this poison prove it 1
tare of }
blood and Jue
y be a mix
rattlesnake venom, putric
from the ant
the
or tree
which
produc strychnine of
commerce
Am the North A
Sioux, the
"OF
a
yerican Indians
the Apaches,
the Bannocks i
Blackfeet were the
War
teined their suppi)
rattle
repea
eed poisons i
Sioux ol
and virus by forcing large
to strike their
the liver or kidney
fangs ] tedly nto
Wf a deer or buf.
falo. and then allowing the meat to
putrefy When a war party went out,
of their bearer
of this putrid, ven ym-soaked mass,
i whenever a8 battle was
would take turns
arrows into the
ne number was made
imminent
al Jab-
poison.
All
ench brave
bing his
Among the other tribes mentions 1, al
though the process of obtaining the
poison supply was not always inden
tical with the the general mo-
dus operandi and results were very
similar. --St. Louis Republic.
eo ——
Much Like a Man,
The Kulu Kamba is more like a hn
man being, according to Professor
(Garner, than any other animal. The
principal difference between the phys
ab ve,
| ical organization of a human being |
and a gorilla, according to the same |
authority, is that the spine of the
| gorilla is not so regularly jointed ws |
| that of a man, some of the joints hav- |
| ing seemingly gone into partnership. |
| The difference, or to put it more finely |
| the distinction, between the chimpan
| gee and the Kulu Kamba is still a mat
| ter of conjecture, Professor Garner
| says, as he does not possess a skeleton
lof the Kulu Kamba. Skeletons of
gorilins and chimpanzees are the same
to him as a varied collection of pipes
just as well supplied with the inani-
mate remains of Kulu Kambas some
day. Having been in Afriea on scien-
| tific axploration bent, he naturally in-
tends to zo again. The African fever
seldom leaves a man upon whom it has
once taken a grip. Pall Mall Budget.
I —
Remarkable Little Magnets,
A magnet which the great Sir Laac
Newton wore asa «ot in his finger ring
in said to have been capable of rising
746 ne, or about 250 times its own
of three grains, and to have
been much admired in of
phenomenal power. Ome which
*
its
fl belonged to Bir John Leslie,
pipes dr is now in the Roysl So
cioty's collection st Edin has
still great powers. It weighs but lit-
tle more a Newton's cuiostiy es
even 8 ns ~yet it is capable
: 1560 and is, there-
; of ith sine
the other,
“I have tried to depend on mywelf,"”
fore,
in the
did go out, |
| but I returned after a paper 1 had left |
I couldn't believe that |
y false and |
from what |
is now believed to have beens species |
Iu Central and South America the :
are to some mea, and he expects to be |
POET AND PEASANT,
A poet and peasant, side by side,
Together dwelt within the self-same town §
The poet's lame wae noted far and wide,
The peasant’s not beyond the township's
bound,
The post sang of love and houssh
But neither wife
glad
The peasant had a wife,
nor children
two girls and bo ye
Who with him lived and his soil ttagd
shared,
The poet mused, ‘What is this gift of mine?
Tis but a dream, a hollow dream of
I would exchange it gladly st the
Of Hymen's altar for a young child's
bliss §
surine
kiss,”
The peasant sighed while at his dally task,
Turning the furrows while he held the
plow,
“Had I my neighbor's gift I would not ask
For higher honors t«
bedeck my brow,
Ah! such is life, common fate of all
With pain and pleasure
bleat
The gifts we crave
ever
on others lightly
And with our own we never seem «
~ Boston Pos
a —
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The man who labors under
gion works for a bad paymaster
Anybody can see
who
through
make spectacies of thems
Dallas News.
The
crust
sweet,
borrower
ne is
Truth,
Whe ne?
him
the nobility
iT. ff gOO 1 desl
very ‘short anda
he must fe
Eating
A large par
MAN & sue
the averaw
PRE IR ( i
knowing how
Courier.
“T owe
Fre d
remain
Pack.
Clarissa
dearest.”
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tor
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relations to visit v
deed. "
to get
You see they are all
here Judge.
“‘Bilkein’s is a strong face, or I'm
no judge of physiognomy,” “It ought
Pha 08 ne ana aw wale a 4 are
"wBullalo Courier
Mamma-—““Aren’t vou home from
school earlier "usual to-day?"
Bobby —*Yes, mamma, I wasn’t kept
{ Harper's Young People,
living on it,
than
in So-daay.
I wonder what this imag repre-
sents?’ “The god of hun
bly. ; that it is
little funuy cracks? ludiap
nal. ;
“Why in the
get your
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but
dau
ail N
Judge.
Vion
Jinks ‘I dor
for a minist
Ellkins— “Why
sermons in si
Washingt
n is. ™
there
si Field's
an.
“1 wonder 1}
overad
that fish was a She
“Probably by the
that men
cago inter-Ocean,
He--*Did ye
son wif
tell wi
Chi-
1 ever he hat Jag.
ar
5 two languages?”
She-—“Y “What they?
“The npany and the other
for Jagson In
“Now, what must
wedding cake to
gushing
young
ok
are
one for o
ter-Ocean
dream of it*
n
with this
asked a
of matter-of-fact
“Just eat it, that's
~Tid-Bite.
now, have your af
fections always remained constant?”
He--*“l ean truthfully say that they
have, though I admit that their object
has often changed.” —Boston Tran.
script
ao
damsel
man
all,” was the reply
She Tell me,
Muggins— ‘Some people are never
satisfied to know that certain thinge
ere 80, but are continally wanting to
know the why and whereof of it."
Buggins— ‘Yes, 1 wonder why it is?"
— Puiladelphin Record.
“It's bad luck,” said the bad boy,
‘to give a person something sharp or
pointed. 1 shouldn't be a bit sur-
prised if young Mr. Jinkles and I
were to part friendship after 1 leave
this pin in his chair for him. "~~ Wash
ington Star,
Bartender “Took here, there!
That'll do! I've counted ten crackers
and seven junks of beel you've eaten
already.” Hungry One-'“They hive
on to tend here, don't they? One
unch counter is enough-—see "Bos.
ton Transcript.
Timid Young Anthor— ‘Haven't you
read my poem too hastily? I'm sure,
wir, it has some good features about it
that yon would see on 8 more careful
reading.” Editor (with a sudden sus-
picion)— ‘You are not trying to work
off an acrostic on ux, are you, nies?
Tribune.