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POSTAGE All persons who mall the Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear in mind the fact that the post Bge thereon is Tno (2) Cents. All double nnd triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt delivery. I'lTTSBLKG. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 21. The statistic estimate of average resources of immigrants coming to this country be ing between 5100 and 5150, it is evident that the tax of ?100 would take away the greater part of the resources now relied upon by them until they find occupation. A practical obstacle to the passage of such a law, is that it will be submitted to the votes of Congressmen, many of "whom could never have come into this country, if the tax had been levied on them. Of the "Wisconsin delegation, one-third, and of the Minne sota delegation, two-fifths, came to this country In childhood and their parents could not have raised the $100 each to admit them. 'Whether or not this -would induce them to vote, against the proposi tion, as the Xew York Fost sugcests, it has more force as suggesting that it is not the mere slenderness of resources against which we need safeguards. The poor im migration which furnishes as large a share of our national representatives as it notably does of our industry and wealth, can hardly in the light of national experience be regarded as a drawback. It is plain that there is a necessity for regulating immigration; but the time has not yet arrived when we need to shut out honest and capable industry because it lacks the sum of 5100 for each member of a family of immigrants. Vice, disease, incapacity and inability to comprehend our laws should be excluded. It is hard to see how any of these qualities would be rendered more desirable by the possession of money enough to pay the proposed tax. A much better plan would be that sug gested in these columns a few days ago, of putting a tax upon the steamship companies proportioned to the numbers carried by them and thus making a fund to reim burse the local governments of the country upon such pauper immigrants or criminalsas might become a charge. This would insure vigilance on the part of the steamship companies. serve to maintain the silver certificates at J par with gold, there is a good deal of foundation for that silliness.. -The pay ment of current obligations is an obvious necessity, and if the Secretary resorts to silver payments for that purpose, and then redeems the silver with gold, he will have arrived at the practical result of paying current obligations out of the gold reserve. The only real meaning of the later deliver ance is that the Secretary thereby per forms the operation of swallowing the earlier announcement Having thus taken back his indiscreet declarations of last year, made for politi cal effect, it is satisfactory to hope that Secretary -Foster will be wiser for the rest of his term. accuse Hill of being la favor of "a "Freeze Out" convention. If this is so it must be be cause the convention is frozen solid for Hill. If, as is reported, Senators Gorman and Brice haye deserted Hill, it gives a now op portunity for proverbial remarks from Gov ernor Flower on the subject of rats. Possi bly, howevor, the Now York Governor will profor to resorvo the remark until he de serts the sinking ship himself. 1SAKUAKISSI CROPPING OUT. The news from Texarkana is that a mu latto has been burned at the stake by a mob. It is Lynch law in a form more re volting than usual. Xothingmore terrible in form cf punishment is conceivable. Judge Lynch has gone to the limit cf bar barity. But whether he has also reached the limit of public toleration is doubtful. The boasted civilization of these end of the century days puts up with a great deal. The "Sew Orleans lynchings have re ceived great attention in public utterances but simply because an international ques tion was involved. As a nation we have been singularly apathetic in regard to the most pronounced of our national failings. It requires something extraordinary, such as the slow sizzling of a human being in the presence of a ferocious mob, to excite a recognition of the eviL And now that this has occurred, the Arkansas authorities should proceed at once with all the vigor the State's law permits. The question of guilt or innocence of the victim is not a consideration, except that the possibility of lynchinj; the wrong man accentuates the eviL Xor is it a sec tional matter. The honor of the native as a native is concerned, The South pwes it to herself to act first, perhaps, for unfor tunately for that section her people seem to be the more given to this spasmodic lawlessness. ITS FORMER STANDARD. The complaints of A J. Cassatt and Terence V. Powdtrly against the consoli dation of the anthracite coal roads, fur nishes what was intimated to be lacking by the report that the Attorney General would await complaint from some injured person before taking steps to investigate that gigantic combination, ilr. Cassatt's complaint is open to criticism as coming from a rival corporation, but ilr. Powder ly's letter places the objection on the cor rect ground of enforcement of the consti tution and the maintenance of a correct public policy. Xow that the matter has been formally brought to the notice of the State admin istration, it is to be hoped that it will not place itself in the false position of hearing the matter only on outside motion. By doing so it would register a deplorable falling-off from the high standard set by Governor Pattison's first administration. The policy -which made the Gover-" sor's first term one of such strength as to redound to his credit in the election of 1890, was the as sumption of the high ground that it was the duty of the administration to defend the constitution and maintain pub lic rights against all aggressions, of its own motion. It was especially indicative of the clear judgment of Attorney General Cassiday that he refused to base the pro ceedings against the South Penn on a pri vate interest, but urged them solely on the duty of lespectingthe constitution and upholding public rights. It was this stand which gave Governor Pattison his reputation as an official whose independence of corporate influence and loyalty to constitutional law enabled him to hold the greatest corporations in check. It is sincerely to be hoped that he will not permit his second administration to fall below the high standard of his first one. It is especially desirable that thero ceedings shall be kept clear of any inspira tion by private interests, in order that the administration may bo at liberty to in quire into the means by which the South Penn decision was nullified, at the same time that it calls a halt on the anthracite consolidation. AN IMMIGRATION TAX. General T. A Walker lias proposed the regulation of immigration by a capitation tax of $100 on each immigrant The logic of the proposition evidently is that the country has reached the point where it -wishes to check the influx of the poorer class from Europe; and those who arc un able to pay the tax would be kept out and ranked in the pauper class. It is hardly possible to avoid tho reflec tion that after the tax was paid, it would not improve matters much. The immi grant who lands with one hundred dollars in his possession, would, after paying such a tax, have exactly the same resources as the immigrant who now lands with noth ing. The general effect of tho law as bearing on the resources of Immigrants maybe illustrated by supposing three Im migrants to land, one with no money, one with a hundred dollars and one with two hundred dollais. Here are three, immi grants with a crage means for their self support until they find occupation of one hundred dollars each. General Walker's proposition would exclude one and admit the other tWo, taking away from them 5200 as thejpricc of their admission and re ducing thoir average resources to $50 each. TDJE STRENGTH OF THE MACHINE. The assertion of a Tammany man that the anti-nill movement in New York does not amount to anything because theDemo crats concerned in it will not bolt the ticket, is quoted b3r the Philadelphia Frets with some comments on the futility of Democratic opposition to politicians of the Hill stamp when it does not go to the length of bolting. The remark is an illustration of the reliance of machine politicians on party fealty, and the com ment on it applies equally to both parties. It is true that the strength of politicians of the Hill stamp on both sides of the political fence lies in the general respect paid to the fetish of party loyalty. "We are all right if we get the nomination by whatever methods of thimble-rigging," is the open or secret belief of the profes sional politicians; "therespectable voters may grumble, but they will not bolt" While this faith sometimes proves mis placed, there are cases which give it a good deal of foundation. The esteemed Philadelphia Press itself has furnished a very eminent example of the sort by its political course in the past two years. Yet the avowal that Hill is all right be causc'the Democrats who are in favor of respectable politics will not bolt, should show their true course to men who are in earnest The moment that the respecta ble element in either party demonstrates that it will bolt, that moment the machine politician has got to alter his course. There is no issue in this country more im portant than honest political methods; and tho way to enforce it is for men who wish honorable party government, to prepare themselves to bolt any candidate w,ho rep resents the opposite course. INNOVATION IN THE CAPITOL. The New York gastronomer who was wafted into the control of the restaurant of the House of Representatives by the Democratic landslide is putting on new frills in the manner of managing a res taurant which are calculated to arouse feelings of indignation in the breast of the. sovereign people. Such aristocratic notions may do for New York, but at a Democratic Capitol they will not go down. Tie new purveyor causes to be printed on his bills of fare the following announce ment: "Strangers are not allowed to send cards, or in any other way annoy members while they are dining. Waiters present ing cards without permission will be sum marily dismissed." This is intended to be gratifying to the Congressmen, and no doubt it is so. When the Congressman Is refreshing himself his digestion will doubt less be enhanced by the faith that he can not be disturbed either by the imperative lobbyist or the urgent constituent But that is not the only factor in the busi ness. The innovating caterer evidently re gards the Congressmen as the chief source of patronage for his establishment But there is where he displays a certain fresh ness with regard to things at the Capitol. He leaves the lobbyist out of the calcu lation. The restaurant whose rules hamper and restrict the vested interests of the lobby, might as well put up its shut ters; and the privilege of sending in cards to Congressmen at all hours is one which the lobbyists will not easily surrender. The new rule of the House restaurant more innovating than any which proceeded from the brain of Thomas B. Reed may be stretched to meet the case of the lob byists on the ground that they are not "strangers." Otherwise the profits of the establishment from the profitable wine list will be sadly conspicuous by their absence. THE DURABILITY OF THE SUN. The possibility of the extinction of the sun, is discussed in another column by 1L Camille Flammarion, with a decided lean ing to the opinion that such a sensational calamity is possible. The argument is briefly that the glacial period indicates the previous occurrence of such a catastrophe while the appearance and dis appearance of other planels within the age of astronomical records furnishes a parallel. All of which may be accepted as an astronomical possibility without affecting our estimate of its probability. All the facts which humanity has mastered with regard to astronomical changes and the generation of solar heat point to the con clusion that any alterations so radical as to affect the conditions of life must pro ceed gradually and insensibly not only through years and cycles but through tens if not hundreds of centuries. The sun is practically the same planet now that it was when man first knew of it, and there is every reason to expect that it will continue its lite-giving function long after this age of the earth's development has been forgotten. Indeed, so far as the probabilities indicated by science are con cerned, the reduction of this little globe to the frozen condition of the moon is much more imminent than the blotting out of the sun. Everything connected with life is uncer tain; but mankind can hope with a rea sonable expectation that both the sun and earth will outlast this age and many ages yet to come. Are the anti-silver men thinking of the resort to filibustering, in order to beat Pres ident Hiu-rison out of tho chance of writing a telling veto message T The explanation that McAllister reduced the Four Hundred to tho remnant of Ono Hundred and Fifty because that was tho numberorpeoplo who bought his snobbish book, may not bo correct: but it is about the only theory that accounts for tho lacts. New York Democrats found it was too late to say "don't" after Tammany had done it, CAUSED BY A GOAT. Judge Thomas, in deciding the applica tion of Mrs. Blaine, Jr., for a divorce, read the husband and his mother a lecture, which from tho evidence seems to have been deserved. He drew a picture of the unhappy wedded life paused by the un friendliness of tho mother-in-law and says that young Blaino deserted his wife ruth lessly and without Justifiable cause. There is no question but the wholo case from be ginning to end is an exemplification of the dangers of hasty mairiages, especially when there is parental opposition. It would be well if this fact could be impressed upon the young people of to-day; but tho trouble is that they are headstrong, and each imagines his or her case is different from all others. Ill-advised marriages of this kind generally end upon the rocks and shoals of the divorce court. There is a wealth of glittering possi bilities before th'e third party, and It still clings to its standard. It is liable to And, however, that there is a strong distinction between possibility and fact. How a Station Master Got Into a Peck of Trouble. New York, Fob. 20. Station Master March and, at the little village of Godarville, not far from Charierot, in Belgium, .has been suspended from his official duties for a most remarkable irregularity in office. He-and his wife own a goat, which gives enough milk to satisfy most of the family needs for milk. The goat has the peculiarity of allow ing only Mme. Marchand to milk her, and whenever the station masterapproaches tho goat kicks and bucks. A short time ago Mme. Marchand went to market Defore. breakfast. The station master was in haste to begin his duties of tho day, and there was nothing in the house to eat. He approached the goat with a pail on his arm, and tho goat, as usual, began to kick and buck. In despair, he decided to masquerade as his wire and humbug the goat into being milked. Ho put on his wife's skirts, waist and bon net, and returned to the shod. The goat was docile, and he began milking her. All his preparations, however, had required more time than he had realized, and before tho pail was half full he was astonished by hear-1 ing the whlstlo of the first morning express, which it was his most important duty to meet. He drODoed the nail, ran to the house. exchanged his wile's bonnet for his red and blue cap of office, and ran with flying skirts to the station platform. The sight of an in dividual with a fall beard in flowing skirts and a station master's cap dazed everybody on the train, and gavo the porters at the station the idea that Marchand had gone crazy. So a policeman was summoned and the station mastor was marched off to jail. To the railroad authorities at Charleroi, who began an Investigation of his conduct, Marchand explained the responsibility of the obstreperous goat for his unprecedented performance. He was punished by tempo rary retirement from office. PASTED BY A GLASS SYS. The Were The decision of the New York Supreme Court in that contempt case with regardto the Dutchess county election returns con tains some interesting reading on the sub ject of government by law. The County Clerk is discharged because he was not guilty of contempt, as ho obeyed the order, of Court In transmitting tbereturns;but "by; action of the Governor, the Secretary of orate, ana tne counsel or the Controller the returns were taken from the several public offices where they had been, properly re ceived." This Judicial record of the manner in which elections are stolen, by an aspirant tothe Presidency, furnishes its own com mentary on our politics. GovKENon Boies, of Iowa, deolines to discuss the New Yotk Democratic situation. The acute -Westerner is not saying anything just at present to the prejudice of his posi tion on the top of the fence Oue friends of the Signal Service have done well in some of their predictions lately: but the weather at the close of the week has been confusing, to say the least After aDandoning its cold waTe prediction, which it had indulged in for nearly two days, it foreshadowed yesterday afternoon "stationary temperature, with rain or snow." The temperature having ranged from to 49, the phenomena of snow at that tempera ture would have been extremely surprising. Uncle Jerry's Republican weather bureau will have to get into better working order than this before the Prestdental campaign. Troubles of a Couple Vfho Married But Didn't Know It. New York, Feb. 20. Paul Katz and Nettie Lcmelson have been married for more than a year without knowing it. They recently found out that they were legally one, and aro taking legal steps to untie the knot. Judge Pryor, or tho Court of Common Pleas, has been called upon to solve the difficulty. Paul ana .Nettie have been friends for several years. He is a native of Germany and came here seven years ago. He is now clerk in a large general store. Paul has a glass eve, which also came in the case. Nettie lives with her mother at No. 349 East Fifty eighth street. She allowed Paul to pay atten tion to her several years ago and seemed willing to become his wife. Her brother, however, interfered. It was agreed, never theless, that they should have a betrothal, engagement, according to Hebrew custom.' They -Rent to the City Hall on December 2, 1890, to have the Mayor engage them. The Mayor was absent, but Alderman McCarthy was called upon. He supposed that they wanted to be man led, and a regular mar riage ceremony was performed. Nettie and Paul were so filled with Joy that they did not appear tounderstand what was aolng on. Learning that under that core-, mony they were man and wife they appealed' MARK TWAIN'S THEORY, Mr, Metcir,Tell Why He Brjeeted the) Artlole-OIis Explanation or Mental Tele pathy Three Walys to Account forltj ' Somo Amusing Liars. - CWarrnit jroa Tux dispatch. 1 - 3 In a recent article in JTarper's MagaHne by Mark Twain, in which ho give his rea sons for believing that it is possible for one mind to communicato -with another, al though tho individuals may be separated by many miles. Mr. Clemens describes many experiences of his own as proof of the exist ence of this power, which he calls mental telopathy. Ho also intimates that the Psychical Society of Great Britain, after in vestigation, is inclined to the opinion that such a power does exist, and that its opera tion should bo the subject of most careful in vestigation. In a sort of introductory note Mr. Clemens says that this paper was written some years ago, and that desiring to have the subject considered seriously, he offered it anonymously to ono or two magazines. His fear was that anything which appealed over his signature would be regarded ns a humor ous contribution and he was never more earnest than when he wrote this article. He says that ho offered it to Mr. Lorettus S. Metcalf, who was then in charge of the iVorfA American-Review, and that Mr. Metcalf was willing to accept ,it, provided Mark Twain would sign the article. He did not care to publish it as an anonymous paper, for it would seem to commit the magazine to the conclusions reached. Not of Scientific Value. Mr. Metcalf remembers very well the circumstance. Jle said: "On examination of the article it seemed to mo that Mark Twain's deductions did not have sciontlflc precision or in fact did not contain any presumptive evidence in favor of his view, and therefore it would bo un wise to print what toemed to mo to he an unscientific statement anonymouslr. I told Mr. Clemens so, and I said that I would srlndly print it as a contribution from him. He would not leave the manuscript. All the phenomena described by Mr. Clemens in this article can, I think, be explained with out recourse to the theonr or mental tele pathy. I have given a good deal of studv to these questions, and I am satisfied that inese pnenomena and others like them, with which everybody is familiar In his own experience, can be traced to one or three causes either to coincidence, to association of Ideas or to unconscions exaggeration. I insist that tho theory of coincidence ac counts lormott or the phenomena that Mr. Clemens describes. "An individual lias hundreds of distinct impressions every day, and every day hun dreds of events are occurring that relates in some way to-him. What more natural than that many or these should accord? As to the fact that two porsons together frequent ly have the same thonghts at the same time, the element of association comes in there, and sometimes very curionsly, one circum stances or idea suggesting another often through a very roundabout way. As for ex ample, suppose that a person is in a house with another who is constantly practicing one piece of music. Suppose this person is dressed continually in some single Drlght color. Now, after the air and the peculiar ity in color have become impressed upon the people of the house, the sight of that particular tint will perhaps always suggest that air. Yet no possible connection be tween the two would ever occur to an outsider. C , IIOBSTE&S SCAECE AHD SMALL. Maine Fishermen Complain Abont the J T limited Supply. BAjfooR, Feb. 2a When lobsters in the shell retail at 13 cents a pound in this mar ket people are warned forcibly of the ap proaching iiuie.when the king of shellfish Will be one of .the common market prac tically. Twenty years ago a lair sized lob ster could be had in the season lor 5 or 6 cents, and, at the rate of ono pound of meat to four pounds of lobster in the shell, lob ster meat did not cost more than 15 cents, whereas, at present prices, a pound of the meat costs abont 60 cent. While the lob sters grow smaller every year the price grows larger, and, as young lobsters con tinue to be taken, in spite of the law for their protection, it Is easv to see that, un less some new source of s"upplv is fonnd, the salad of the future will be a dish for nabobs only. Fishermen sut tlm ti, -movant urnfn lobster law gives provincials a great ad vantage over the Yankees engaged in the business. From May 1 to July 1 the Maine fishermen, may take any lobster more than 0 Inches in length, but during tho other months no lobster under 10K inches in length can be bought or sold. In the mari time provinces from July 1 to January 1 is close time altogether, but from January 1 to Juiyltuo. provincial fishermen may catch and sell any size or lobster, and durine that time they fill our market with fish smaller than the Yankeo Is allowed to take. A curi Jjsjpj" was found in a boatload or the shell fish that was brought from New Brunswick waters to Eistport the other day. The strange crustacean was like all tho others excopt in color, being of a bluish-white one ..i mo raro ana remaricaoie alDino lobsters. ?s Pcked carefully in seaweed and sent 1 " "hlneton, where it is to become a part of the exhibit or the United States Fish Com mission. Only ono other white lobster has been taken in these or any other waters, it is believed, and that specimen wa captured some tlmo ago by a fisherman at Welchpool, Campobello, N. E. The Eastport specimen was 12 inches in length, and as lively as any lobster in the lot. GREWS0ME ART OF AGES GONE. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. BONES 07 MA8T0D0NS. If that Crawford county jury does not send Delamater to Congress as the rosult of the trial he can only bewail his hard fate that he was not tried before the Senate of the State of Pennsylvania. TAKING IT BACK. Secretary Foster Is now engaged in the unpleasant but sometimes necessary task of taking it back. In response to a reso lution of the House, he officially states that at the time the 4J per cents ere extended at 2 per cent, "the reduction of the available balance" made the continu ance of a portion of the bonds at a lower rate "a prudent and profitable transac tion." In other words, there was not enough money iu the Treasury to redeem all the bonds without unduly depletinc the cash resources of the Treasury. This is un doubtedly a correct statement of facts. But it must be recalled that at the time of this transaction, the Secretary in response to assertions that the cash balance was getting very low, declared in interviews that thero was enough money to pay off all the bonds. If that was true, as the DisrATCH pointed out at the time, the Secretary's duty was to pay off the bonds. It was not true; and in making that in correct representation tho Secretary paved the way to the retraction which he now makes to the best of his ability. Another example of the same graceful act of backing out is furnished by the as sertion credited to Secretary Foster that he has no intention of -using the 5100,000, 000 gold reserve to meet the current obli gations' of the Treasury. .The Secretary says that it is "silly" to suppose such a thing. But in view of Secretary Foster's declaration to the New York Chamber of Commerdp that be will use "the goldre- The Presidental bee has been buzzing around lately in a good many bonnets whose owners express a willingness to become dark horses at the Minneapolis convention. The latest aspirant to White Hous6 emolu ments is Senator Blair. He Intends that his possible supporters shall not be kept in sus pense, and has written a letter in which he says he will "deeply appieciate tho honor of any support" that may be given him. If his his hopes refuse to mateiialize he may possibly find comfort in the fact that he is not the only one whose boomlet failed of its purpose at the critical moment. to Judge Pryor yesterday. S he Judge could not ascertain from them ho w it was that they answered all the usual questions and yet did not know that they were being mar ried. They thought that a marriase was not binding unless performed by a rabbi. Paul said he paid the alderman $3 for the services. Paul and Nettie went to their re- snn.ctivfihnTnfia n.ftnr tliA fArfninnvnn(1 Iiv never lived together. It seems that one rea-1 son why Nettie regrets that she Is married. that during all tbeir courtship she never noticed this fact, and only discovered that he had a sightless eve a few days after the ceremony. Judge Pryor seemed at a loss to understand how he could annul the marriage and gave the counsel an oppor tunity to study the question and submit a brief on the subject. A WILDCAT'S EEYEHGE. It is a complaisant notion that the En glish have, that the international copyright law is goinr. to leform American spelling. The boot might fit tho other foot better in these modern days. The sweeping attack of Dr. Jarkhurst on the city government of New York has hit some one from the amount of fluttering it produces. "Bring bim to account," vocifer ates an organ of the Tammany ring. "Let him be indicted, tried and punished." This is, however, but an indisorcet, outburst of wrath. The Tammany officials will be'eare ful not to bring Dr. Parkhurst into court lest he should add to the bad taste of his pulpit attack the worse taste of proving his. assertions. ," It Had Its Ears Punched and Attacked the Man Who Did It, Scbahtoit, Feb. 20. EU and Ami Skinner, twin sons of Ambrose Skinner, of Backet Creek, treed a half-grown wildcat three years ago last fall, when they were IS years old. The lads didn't know what kind of an animal it was, but it looked so cunning that they wantod to capture It and carry it home. Eli climbed the tree and shook the limb until the wildcat had to let co. When it struck the ground Ami throw himself on it, caught it by the neck, and hung to it till his brother came down, although it scratched him a good deal and tore his clothes. The boys tied tho wildcat's legs and lugged it to the house, and Mr. Skinner punched round holes in its ears and let it go. Ono moonlight night last week Mr. Skin ner heard footsteps behind him as he was crossing a bnsny ridge, between Backet and Willow Creeks. On looking around he saw a wildcat following him, and, being un armed, he threw a club at it. It dodged the club and sprang at Mr. Skinner before he had a chance to grab anything to defend himself with. Tbe wildcat stuck its claws into the left sleeve and side of his overcoat, and the cloth gave way and let the wildcat fall on its back, it was on its feet in a second, but by that time Mr. Skinner had pulled off his undercoat and overcoat to gether. The wildcat with a yell leaped at his shoulders, and Mr. Skinner jumped to one side and throw the coats over the infu riated animal, falling on it at the same time. It struggled to get loose, and Mr. Skinner had all he could do to hold it, but he kept it covered with the coats until he had choked and smothered it to death. Then he slung the carcass over his shoulder and went home. While his wife was holding the lamp for him to skin the wildcat he discovered that it had a round hole in each ear, and he is firm in the belief that tho wildcat remem bered him and tackled him for revenge. It canjiardly fail to be remarked that if Governor Pattison intends to keep up to tho standard of his former administration, his place is In Pennsylvania and not iu Florida Just at present. Theke is good reason to hope that the Imported typus is under control wherever it has appeared. As a protection for tho future, however, an example should bo made of the steamship surgeon who con cealed the presence on his vessel of a dan gorous contagious disease. Surgeons who do that should be given to understand by the health authorities of ourpOrts that their certificates for tho future will have tho value of so much waste paper. Some one has suggested thai the spots on tho sun aro caused by smoke. It is to be presumed, then, that tbe sun's smoke con suming ordinance has suddenly become in operative. The nomination by the New York Herald of Watterson for Presldont with Hill for Vice President may bo Jocose; but the Joke will not appear very funny to Wat terson. With that ticket seleotedit would bo necessary for the life insuranco compa nies to put Watterson down among tho extra-hazardous risks. ' - ; " ' ' V Some of the organs of the "Don't" psrty '.FAYOKITES OF FORTUNI. James Gondie, a Chicagoan, says he built the first transatlantic steamer, the Boyal William. Pbof. Angem,, of the Sage School of Philosophy, at Ithaca, N. Y., has received a call to the Lcland Stanford, Jr., University. Bboxson Howard has been elected President of the American Dramatists' So ciety. Thiity" American playwrights have joined. Less than 30 years ago President McLeod, of the Beading Railroad, was .a rodman on the Nbrthern Paolfic. Ho is now tbe head of a 2,6C0-milc trunk lino and tho employer of 100,000 subordinates. Peof. Make W. Harrington, tbe new chierof the Weather Buroau, is a scholarly looking man of 43. Ho edits the weathor bul letins from Washington and tho American Meteorological Journal. George B. McClelean, son of "Little Mac," is secretary tyf the bridge trustees in New York, and is very popular. In appear ance and. many traits of character he bears a sti'ong resemblance to hit father. Congressman Hooker, of Mississippi, is one of many members who seem to regard a straight white tie as a sort of badge of dig nity to bo worn in daylight and with any costume, instead of being confined, as by correct usage, to evening dress. Ix is a fact of curious interest that Will iam 1. Ellison, who was ono pf tho most active promoters of the 'Missouri Pacific Bail way, tho first road built west of the Mis sissippi, did not himself take a ride on a railroad train until ono day last week, when ho Journeyed -from the country Missouri town where he lives into St. Louis. How People Believe Falsehoods. "A third explanation to be considered is unconscious exaggeration. .When an inter esting idea is planted in the mind of an Imaginative person, it grows and grows, until the statement of it at different periods becomes, without any purpose on his part, more and more exaxserated. I have had some very curious illustrations of this in my personal experience. For instance, I know ofa very serious-minded, sedate old Presby terian elder, tb,e very incarnation of honesty or purpose, who tells the storv that in his boyhood he and two companions who were very athletic were skating on a deep lake and came upon a hole very unexpectedly. The first one sank out of sight, went along several feet, and came up in a hole further on, emerzed upon the ice, and continued skating around ns before. The other two, close upon his heels had not time to turn, and did the same thing. "Another case is thnt nt n. wnmnt, r tn very highest morality, and intellectuality, who is accustomed to describe to her friends with a great deal of interest her first visit to Niagara. Sho says that she went with her father, and he desired to give her the novel experienco of letting the falls burst upon her in their full splendor at her first view; so selecting an hour in the dav when few visitors were about, he blindfolded her and went with her down tho inclined way to tho foot of tho American falls, where he suddenly took off the bandage, and she de serltes in a striking way tbe effect that the 'falls had upon her under these circum stances. Recently her father stated that there' was not a word of truth in tho story, .except that he went with her to the falls. He said that he was aware that she had told tn story for years and sho believed it im plicitly, and ho disliked to make any com ment in her picsence because he knew that it would hurt her feelings. Troubles of a Story Writer. "One of my friends who is a brilliant writer of short stories I am satisfied has al most lost the power to recall correctly any thing that he has experienced, so thoroughly jjus iiu woven incm aDout with his Imagina tion. Recently a most exciting tale appeared from his pen ofa circumstance which he de clared literally occurred In his boyhood. He said that the yonngpeople of his neighbor hood in the country village where he then lived, one clear, cold night made up'a skat ing party on a neighboring lake. The ladies i.c.ijjeu iiiuuiscires in a largo sleigh and the men drew them by means of long ropes While over the deepest part or the water a strong, clear-headed man at the end of one of the lines realized that the Ice was bending dangerously under the burden placed upon it, but Instead of losing self-possession and stoppping, or even speaking to the others of the danger, he commenced to sing one of the good old religious hymns of the time with which all were familiar, to distract tho attention of the company, while at the tamo time he graauauy directed thoir coarse toward the nearest shore; and so saved the party from a disaster which would proablv have destroyed the lives of all. Meeting ray friend after reading this sketch and speaking to him in regard to it, he solemnly assured me that every word of it was true. Another friend of mine, who was one of his companions at the time tne incident which he desorlbed oc curred, and who could identify the occasion said there was no truth whatever in the iaio o.i;epi, wai mo lames were drawn upon a sled by a party of men with two ropes. The Success of Spiritism. "Cases are constantly occurring which illustrate these tendencies in connection with what I call spiritism. That delusion appeals to people who are very desirous of seeing wonderful things, and who have a strong imagination. Theso two qualities of mind, which we may call superstition and imagination, aro undoubtedly accountable for most of the phenomena which are not absolutely fraudulent. I remember having been on a public platform, when a so-called medium reached troin his cabinet out toward the audience a auitar. which was rubhnd with phosphorous. My friends and myself saw and agreed that the guitar leached no further than the footlights, but afterward one of my friends describing the circum stance asserted that the guitar extended further than that, and afterward whenever he repeated the story he increased this dis tance until he now asserts that it reached the middle of the room." Mr, Metcalf has in bis investigations col lected a great number of incidents, all going to provo his theory respecting these phe nomena. He was quite interested in Mark Twain's intimation that the London Society of-Psychical Besoarch was disposed to favor the theory advanced by Mr. Clemens in this artlolo. Mr. Metcalf, who is an associate member of this society, began a correspond ence with somo or its officers, and has been assured that the society has expressed no opinion whatever upon to subject, and is simply collecting such data at it can which will hereafter be investigated on scientific principles. F. T, Indications or an Abundance or Earze Fos sils in the Yukon. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 20. If the pack trail, for the construction of which ttte people of Alaska are praying, is opened across the Coast Range into the vallevof tho Yukon river, that basin will be an interesting local ity for scientific research. There is no doubt that the gold placer diggings are as rich as any in America, although the ex treme difficulty of access prevents develop ment of them. Silver lead ores have been found, and within a year E. J. Glovo and Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka have dis covered abundant evidence that copper ex ists in large quantities. There are also extensive fossil deposits like those which have been unearthed dur ing the last century in Northern Russia and Siberia. Joseph Goldsmith, an unusually intelligent miner who has spent several years in prospecting along the Yukon, is now in this city, and he says that he has found numerous traces of the mastodon or mammoth. At places whero the waters have cut into thebanks, orhavo ebbed away from the shoals, huge bones are bare. Now and then the explorer will come upon heaps of the fossils. "At one point," Mr. Gold smith said, "about 1,500 miles from the mouth of the Yukon, is a perpendicular bank, from which bones aro sticking out. One curling tusk, not unlike that or an ele phant, is exposed for a length of six feet, and the diameter at the visible Dase is sixor eight inches. At certain spots the number of bones and tUsks makes one believe that whole herds of mastodons, or whatever the animalB were, have perished from some un known cause." KNOCKING IT THE LOOB. TzRRrroiiiAL applications for admission as States of the Union are met with the con gressional chorus: "Stop dat knockin' at de door." Toledo Commercial. Oklahoma and Indian Territory would like to come into the Union as a single State. From this it is supposed that several Apache chieftains are coveting senatorshlps. Chi cago News. Let the Liberals and Gentiles in Utah be heard from before the Territory is given even a shadow of Statehood. On this oc casion it is wise to make haste slowly. Philadelphia-Press. ! : Oklahoma, is the most previous territory in the history of this country: She has not been weaned and yet wants to immediately assume the full importance and dignity of statehood. You are just old enough to kick, little one Detroit Free Press. Uxhaffilt tbe Oklahoma men who are in dorsing the Administration will hardly be able to vote for President this year.but their disabilities will be removed early enough to enable them to give tho electoral vote of their locality to the Republican party in 1898. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Walter Besant Writes or Lord Shrewsbury's Collection or Medlteral Torture Ma chinery Tbe .embrace of the Iron Maiden A Ghost's Story Taming Shrews. rWRITTIX TOa TUB DISPATCH. 1 Lord Shrewsbury's collection of mediae val torture machinery which was fortunate ly rescued from the flames which destroyed M. Louts Tnssaud's waxworks, is now at the Maddox Street Gallery. I saw it in its old quarters, but it is now much better housed, better exhibited, and better catalogued. There they all are our old familiar friends tho rack, the thumbscrew, tho chair of little ease, tbe cask lined with nails, the axe, tho sword, tho chain', even the Iron Maiden herself, most deadly .of maidens, in whose embraces so many gallant lads have perished. What pleased me most was to observe ttie beautiful, loving, artistic care bestowed upon the making of all these diabolical in struments. There musthavebeen a distinct branch of artistic ironworker, especially devoted to the making of ngonizers; there must have been a company or guild of tor-tme-armorers, as there was one of loriners, bonyers, cutlers and blacksmiths. Yes; one canseo a shop of torture-armorers; there they aro at work, tho mastor workman, the craftsmen and the apprentices, industri ously fashioning, hammering and decorat ing the awlul things. I see the master workman instructing the apprentice as to the adjustments of the screws, studs, sharp points and hinges, so as to cause the great est amount of agony at the least expense of metal, and always with an eye to the beauty of the work; he gives the ap prentice instruction in anatomy; the nervous system receives very particular at tention; the higher effects of art aro care fully borne In mind. Thus a mere mask may be adorned as fancy may suggest, but a massive chain must bo left without docora- tion or adornment to mar yie terror in spired by sheer weight; the red-hot glove should be richly chased; the exeoutioner's sword must be finely and lovingly engraved with appropriate pictures, scroll work, fila gree work and curved lines. Those shown in the collection are miracles of art. The Testimony of a Ghost. Some of the tortures were not, I be lieve, quite so bad as they look. There is, on this point, tbe recent evidence of a spirit lately called up It was at midnight, and in the Maddox Street Galleries by one of the newest methods. It was a spirit of one who had suffered; he proved to have been one of those who had been embraced by the Iron Maiden of Nuremburg. "They condemned me to death," he said, "because I was a Jew. Some of my friends were grilled, roasted and fried, and done to death very slowly. This was disagreeable. utnerswere tortured wttn refinements, as the Chier Inquisitor called It; that is to say, in fancy fashions by some of the things which are now hanging on these walls. Art, imagination and fancy applied to torture means a lingering which one would rather avoid. So that when I learned that it was decided that I was to step inside the Iron Maiden I inwardly rejoiced: out wardly I showed every sign of horror; I shrieked I knelt I prayed I shrieked again. But I xaw my brother Ezeklel slowly turning round and round on the spit while they basted him with lard; and I saw my cousin Nathaniel bubbling and boiling in oil; and anothercousin screamine while they put on the red-hot gloves; and I laughed gentlemen I laughed to myself. They got me in; they stood me upright in the Iron Maiden; and then Ha! Ha! tbey were clumsy torturers; they did not know their own busi ness; they should have closed the door slowly slowly, so that every spike should produce its own agony. They slammed the door! The hundred and fifty spikes all went right through me. And in an instant I was as dead as a door-nail. My friends Joined me an hour or two later, one after the other, when the roasting and boiling were over. They had had a mueh more 'disagreeable time." B1VAIS HTJMIDIAN HABBLE, Valuable Deposits Said to Have Been Fonnd in Virginia. Washikotoit, Feb. 20. Prof. Francis B, Fava, son of Baron Fava, late Italian Minis ter to the United States, declares that a quarry of marble has been discovered in Virginia rivaling the famous Nnmldlan mar ble which is dng out of deposits in Africa at great cost of time and labor. "The Numidian marbles," Prof. Fava says, "are the finest in the world, and are con trolled by a Belgian company that has an enormous capital and defies competition. Search has been made everywheie on the globe for another deposit, but it seems with little success untill the discovery was re ceptly made in Virginia. I cannot give the location of the quarry at this time, but I will say that I was greatly surprised at as certaining that the marbles are found at the same altitude and are deposited under the same geological conditions as those in Africa.1' Prof, Fava is an expert geologist, and his statement has aroused a great deal of inter est here. DEATHS HERB AHD ELSEWHERE. A MABEYING FAMILY. Remarkable History of Two People Who Propose to Enter Matrimony. Detroit, Feb. 20. Albert Krutruff and Sarah Leinlnger-were licensed to-day to be come man and wife. The groom's brother is the huband of the bride's, mother. Each of tli6 patties has been married twice, Krutruff has served a term in tbe Ohio peni tentiary for bigamy. The bride is 21 years old. Botb of her hus bands haye been found guilty of bigamy and imprisoned. After they took out the license to-day the mother and daughter got into a flgbt, in which the license was torn in two, and they got another one. Mas a Hard Eoad to Travel. Boston HeratdO , Free coinogo seems to bo. ..finding. country a hard road to travel, tbe James E. Gillespie, Inventor. James E. Gillisple, noted as an ingenious mechanic and Inventor, died at the home of his only con, John M. Gillespie, In Arlington, It. J., Tuesday, aged 63 rears. He patented numerous novelties and improvements In steam, lire and stationary engines, and In spring beds, sash locks and other articles of general utility. His most notable inventions, however, were In connection with a loom for weaving fringes, and also for manufacturing what Is known as fabric Arc hose. He was also the inventor of an aeriat ladder exten sion truck for life saving at fires. Like many other inventors, be died poor. William D. Wheeler, Bocbester, Pa, William D. Wheeler, who died at his res idence at Rochester, Pa., Thursday afternoon, at the age of 76 years, was born in England, came to this country when 19, and went to Pittsburg In 183 L For a nnmber of years he was the river and market reporter for Plttsliurg papers, and at one time was agent for a steamboolline. He had lived in Rochester since 1878. but had been engaged in no fixed occupation. His death was hastened by being anocaea nown dt persons urivia carelessly la front of his residence. m Gilbert E. Griffin, Postal Service. Gilbert Elliot Griffin, in the postoffice service since 1337, is dead at Klncston, Ont. He In troduced the money order and railwayman systems In the United States by request, and in usjwas aent to Chicago to start from that city with the very latest newspapers ana tetters, lie went in a special train to Portland, and reached Liverpool in less than ten days. p. Trot. Harry Gilbert, Aeronaut. Prof. Harry Gilbert, the widely known aeronaut, died Friday, at his home iu Brooklyn, of heart failure. Mr. Gilbert, who was th hero of many hairbreadth escapes, was M year? old. He was better known under the name of Henry Denier. The Taming or the Shrew. The exhibition has, however, its humor ous side. The company of torture-armourers were not always making thumb-screws and racks. Sometimes they made masks or branks, into which tbey ponred out all the poetry in their souls; and collars orpillories for the smaller malefactors. These wore drunkards, slanderer?, blasphemers and scolds. The sufferings of our ancestors from the scold or the shrew were, I believe, almost incredible. Old literature la full of the shrew. When her husband beat her, which, of course, be had a perfect right to do: when he asserted his rizht to drink up all his wages; ween he, being man, and therefore King, refused to do any more work; she had no weapon but her tongue. She used it with a vigor and a heartiness which we moderns can hardly understand. A terrible weapon it was. To silence that tongue they ducked her. Thevnut the Tllllorv unon hnr whlrh vnn see in this collection. They put the ruff or collar upon her which here you see: they paraded her about the town with such a mask as you see here an iron mask with horns and a devil's face, and a devil's tongue sticking out of the wide open mouth. The boys ran along and shouted; the men camo out and laughed; the women looked forth from the windows with pity and with terror their turn would come to-morrow. But that weapon was never laid aside for all these duckings and these masks; the sound of these reproaches was never stilled. You can bear it to-day in certain quarters when tbe husband comes home drunk and with empty pockets; next day, two lovely black eyes inform the world at large who is master in that establishment, but the shrewish tongue is not silenced by those black eyes. Some Highly Ornamental FiUorles. Some of these pillories or collars are very curious to look at. One, made of solid oak, is shaped like.a violin, with a hole for the head and two for the hands: one is shaped like a large collar adorned with twenty bells; another like tho collar without the bells; one bears the name of tbe maker, "Sirah Nagelnei, 1683"; one Is double, for two women at once, who, their heads and hands thus placed in the wood, were marched through the town. One can imagine tbe rage and madness which possessed these high spirited dames on being led, thus de corated, through the streets. Yet the pun ishment never cured them; the Taming of the Shrew could never be accomplished by the exhibition of the wooden collar. One other interesting punishment I must notice. For certain offenses, the fair sinner in scotcn cnurcne useci to stand np before the congregation in penance. In Nurem berg, for similar things, she was snorn of her hair and had to stand in public with a kindof rough crown mado of straw, with two long straw pigtails, shameful, of course, but comic The straw crown andpigtailsnre in tho collection. It will, I hope, be gathered from theso remarks that this exhibition is not exactly one to which children or nervous women should be taken. Loirpoir, Feb. 12. Waltxk Bzsakt. It cost a Glasgow waxworks proprietor Is. per milo recently to convey a Hon by rail from London to Glasgow. Fifty per cent of the books taken for erusal from the rrabllc libraries of Paris, ondon and New York, are works of fiction. In almost every school of the Mikado's empire it is tbe custom one day in the autumn to take the pupils out rabbit-hunting. Of the half hundred titled doctors in England only ones a veteri nary surgeon,and he lives at Windsor and treats the Queen's horses. Railway schools for children of railway employes are maintained by the railway companies of India, at a very small expense to tho pupils. The total revenue of the charitable in stitutions having their headquarters in Loa dn amounted last year to over six million sterling-or, to be precise, .6,060,763. One of the Ameer's 'latest acts ii to order that funeral expenses be cut down, because ofa verse or the Koran -which con demns prodigals to the lower world. The voyage to Liberia takes 35 days' by sailing vessel. In 70 years, during which there have been nearly 200 emigrations, thero has not been a case of loss or disaster. The early lake dwellers in this country wrapped their fishhooks with charms man ufactured from various animal substances, the baits being put on outside. They im agined tbat the flsh were attracted by these fetishes. The lighting of steam cars in Europe appears to be becoming quite common. The Jnra-Simplon (steam) Railway, Switzerland, has 120 of its vehicle?, including 60 passen ger cars, lighted by electricity from storage batteries. The Lancashire County Asylum at Prestwicb, with 2,300 patients, and Colney Hatch, in Middlesex, six miles north from London with accommodation for 2.2M E l ntd' Sre th 1&Tsest lnnatio asylums in There are over 1,000 islands under the flag of Japan, and in Georgian Bay, the north extension or Lake Huron, where we nnd venr few i.sl.anda nntiM nn iiia in reality several thousand islands, most of them, or course, quite small. The past year has been one of the worst business years ever known in Saxony. Over 40,000 distress warrants were issued in Dresden alone an increase of nearly 10 per cent, and tho number of bailiffs has had to be considerably augmented. The Austrian Government has enlarged the boundaries of Vienna to such air extent that the metropolitan area is now half as large as London, twice as large as Paris and three times larger than Berlin- Yet Vienna has been declining in prosperity for years Throw a pebble into a pond and then think of the sad fate of old Mother Earth if she should fall into the sun spot now visible with the aid ofa bit of colored glass. Ac cording to one idea the dlsburbed area is 10,000 miles long and about 100,000 miles wide. Belva Is Not a Quitter. Washington Post,! Belva Lockwood no longer occupies a sim ilar position to that of James G. Blaine. Belva is not a quitter. i i The Annexation Eatch-String Is Ont. New York Recorder.! Canadian reciprocity Is dead, but the an nexation latcb-string of the Union is out. The smallest man in the world is said to be a midget from Holland, 2i years of age, who calls himself "Prince MIgnon," and who is exhibiting- in Berlin. This little ehap is exactly two feet high, and is a perfectly formed human being; his performances as an acrobat are really wonderful. The Earl of Eosse's famous American aloe, which, on completing the hundredth year of its existence last August, suddenly bloomed into flower and rose to a height of 23 feet, has now further verified the tra ditions of its species by dying and leaving seedlings springing np at its base. Careful observation and comparisons made by scientific Americans prove that the hottest region on earth is on the southwest ern coast of Persia, where that country borders the gulf of the same name. The thermometer never falls below 100 at night and frequently runs up to 128 in the after noon. According to the epilogue writer of the seventeenth century it was then easy to dis tinguish the country from the town gallant in a theater, the latter being known by put ting his periwig in order with a comb, while his provincial brother was content to atrafn the sarae'obJect with four" fingers and-a i thumb. ' Of the 14,119 miles of railway which are opened in England and Wales, 9,091 have double or more rails, and 5,025 single. In Scotland, however, the proportion is very different. There, of tbe 3,162 miles, 1.293 are double and 1,870 are single. And in Ireland the mattor is much worse; there only 603 miles are double as against 2,183 single, out ofa total of 2,792 miles. There is mention of steel in very an cient Chinese writings, and an account of the process of manufacture by one writer about 100 B. C, and various descriptive allu sions to it, Implying a considerable amount of knowledge and power of discrimination in reference to its properties, occur at vari ous snbsequent periods down to the present day. when it is still a flourishing branch of their manufacture. St. Valentine was a bishop noted for his gentleness and charity, who was beheaded in Rome in 270 A. D., in the reign of the Em peror Claudius. The day observed in com memoration of him by tbe early Christian Church was February 14. It celebration was at first entirely religious, but in recognition of the personalsharaeter of the saint the rites were such as to pay a tribute to his mildness and charity. An underground lake has been discov ered three miles from Genesse, Ida. It was found by a well digger. At a depth of 18 feet clear, pure lake water ran out over the surface for a time, then settled back to the earth's level. The most curious part of It is that flsh were brought to the surface by the overflow. They have a peculiar appearance and are sightless, in dicating that they are underground flsh. The spring has attracted much attention, and many farmers in the vicinity fear that their farms will drop into the lake. An animal growing between the high and low water marks on the Japanese coasts is a mud worm called Sabella. Jt occupies a hard limy tpbe of its own making, and gets its food, when the high tide comes np over Its hiding place, by thrusting out a head bushy with tentacles, and sucking in, cur rents of water loaded with minute particles of nutriment. Ont of this wriggling creature the shore people make a soup, which is true vermicelli, not a pasto imitation of "little worms!" and is said to taste aa badly as It smells. rrrxxE htjmobesques. EBES IN THEIR BONNETS. Obituary Notes. Uixby Edwakd Doyle, C. 3., died yesterday in Loudon. Betsy McKay, ofTaylorsvllIe, Ky., died Thurs day la her 106th year, Nicholas Forrester, an old actor and at one Mime a well known manager, died in Boston Frl- Fbaxcis C. Waid, one of the most prominent and wealthiest fanners In Crawford county, dropped dead ye&terdar morning at his home near Meailvlilc. Mr. Waid died apparently without warning and while engaged In rltlng. He was 59 Jrears ol age.. Mas. aones Withers Colxmax, wife of Sam uel Coleman, died at her home at New Castle yes terday, aged 23 cars. Deceased was formerly a resident of thu Fourteenth ward, Pittsburg, nnd was a sister or Robert and Thomas Withers, the well-known football players. Dr. Levis II. Steinek, ilbrarlau of the Enoch Pratt Library In Baltimore, died suddenly at his home In that city Thnrsday sight of apoplexy. Hinerwai an eioquen.1 su sen. lie was tne many volumes, mainly scientific works. affedfiS Years and wllded a facile n." llo was the author of ipei :ho Tbe CuIIom boom has not yet run up tho price or Illinois cyclone cellars. Washington Post. Eyes Jerry Busk Is now said to bo wist fully sniffing the odors of tho White House kitchen. Chicago News. How does Mr. Morton feel aftor learning that General Butler was twice offered the Vice Presidency? Louisville Courier-Journal. Possibly the Gray boom, which seems to be mysteriously missing, has inadvertently stepped into a crawfish hole. Ahron Times. The Baltimore Sun thinks that the entire country is ready to indorse Gorman and Bolos as the Democratic leaders. How about Cleveland and girls? Chicago Mail. The Chairman or the Democratic State Committe of Illinois thinks Palmer and Rus sell would make the right kind of a ticket, and would average up well as to ago. Z?oj ton Herald. Tnouon Governor Flower has not been mentioned as a Presidental dark horse, his repeated exclamation of "Rats!" may win him such overwhelming fame as to bring him into great prominence. Toledo Blade. Govicrxor Rcsszll lives COO or 00 miles too fur. East to have any-ehance for the Presi dental nomination. The real oantest in Chicago will be between tbe favorito nonaof the Mississippi VaIley.--&. Louis Globe-Dtm- ocrati There was but one man in the car, and hs was seated. The aisle was crowded with women standing. The conductor rang the Dell. 'Get up!" cried the driver, addressing the horses. "I won't do itl' yelled the man. "I've paid my fare, and I'm going to keep my seat," Bar' fer's Baiar. Paper, 't is said, will keep us warm x This fact, poor friend, pray note And m your vest the ticket wear Jfor your pawned overcoat. -Puck. Mr. Ardup (at the tailor shop) Any dif ference In the prices of these patterns? Tailor No. Tbey are all the same. Mr. Ardup I can take my choice ef the threef Tallor Yes, you pay your money and take your choice. Chteago Tribune. Leap, girls, leap with care, Leap; with a pop. at your part'nere. Pop, girls, pop. to the baehelalre. LcnceU Arena, Dr. Fourthly (filling out the certificate) I wish the bride's nearest birthday. Mrs. Younglove H'm! Well, doctor, the birth day that Is "nearest and dearest" is 13. You can put that down. Sev Tork Herald. The girl whose conversation is Enough to make you sleep. May well be said to represent The terrors of tbe deep. Washtnoim Star. Smiley (as a hearse passes) There, goes a carriage that no one wants to ride in. , Cooley Did you ever know anyone who rode la it to make any complaint J-SmitA, Gran Cov Monthly. There was a poetln olden times J Who loved a star; but he loved in vain. For It took much more than he earned with rhymes . ' To pay what it cost for the star's champagne'.' Jwlje. Wool Enpec tells me his wife worked I new scheme on him yesterday. vanrcii now was mat; -tr.t Wool She gave him a piece of her, mind., and then bound-hlmoyer-to keep 'the peaceiVaeJtJsrt- 1 villi Courier. ' '" I .1 J- wKnBlv323r3EBuaK3KBsBISKIBIKKnHKBnSKKIKMiU m&om' xmsMstikaamLmsimmmMssssegsmwmsm
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