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Show SPORTING NOTES. and I think I can manage, if you will POT; LUCK IN THE MOUNTAINS. let me do it in my own way. First, I A Gvonie Shot Vtlth a Revolver and Billy Smith Is training hard for his DEER AND COYOTES. shall take your place in the store." Trout Caught V 1th Improvised Tackle contest with Joe Ualcott, to take place h 'You can not do the work." . Boston, on March 1. "There was nothing the matter inTom MIXED UP WITH A JAGUAR! AND "I can. And you can keep house. with welter the Australian Williams, our to dinner A CLARINET. day," said Major weight, and Lachie Thompson, are I shall expect warm meals at regular E. M. Hamilton sat he at a3 the post j Scotch are to box in London. hours." ' prandial coffee and cigars, says the Mike champion, 'A blind man's housekeeping?' the Newark sporting Meant to Silence the Coyotes Howllnc Doyle, Sun. York of But New; is good talking man, behind again Johnny Van With Ills Music and Raised Up a "Oh, you shall have an assistant." one of ever the best I Heest. eating, thinks the Duluth Doyle that jneals A servant? We cannot afford one." Mountain Lion An Amusing Advenwas had in can the Colorado Southern boxer one defeat his any weigh tl "No, a dog." mountains. I was on the last stretch Following the custom of all great ture Told by an Old Plains Trader. "Laura!" of a 200-mipugilists, Miss Gussie Freeman, who journey alone on horse- claims "Yes, dear it will be ever so larky. back. To save the title of champion lady doxet I horse had taken my In the. early years of the fiftieth decHaven't we always envied the blind of the in world, has opened a saloon as as little truck could I along manage, i New York City. ade I was engaged in transporting men who stood on corners with a dog to do with, so that on the morning is a New Yorker who threatens merchandise across the plains to West There to guide them?" I started out to make the last to go to England and bring over an "And hand organs to grind, and a whenmiles to El Paso, of my route my total pro- English or Welsh fifty to chal- Texas, from the gulf coast weight heavy tin cup to carry." Harlow was posi- visions consisted of some coffee and a lenge Corbett and Fitzsimmons to box my trains usually being composed of tively laughing. of a can of condensed milk. I for the world's' championship, j twenty to thirty large, "I will carry the tin cup, dear, and part F. Green, the welter weight broad-trea- d knew that if 1 couldn't raise some George fill it, too." freight wagons, or "gonto eat on my way I was going champion of the Pacific coast, evithing "Brave little girl. I thought my to dently heard that Tommy Ryan is go- dolas," as they were termed in those for of rest the go my long hungry to England, has issued a long dis- - days, and generally escorted by fifty life was ended. Laura, can you As luck would have it ing day's journey. tance challenge, to fight the latter at or sixty men, forming quite an army bear it?" I came upon a Mexican shepherd's any ame he may designate. sufficient to repel any hostile dem"It will be a perfect picnic," she house in a little valley about the midrom Indians or wild onstrations tears with down her said, running dle of the forenoon, and turned off to Late TIph from the Bat. a good, company of We had beasts. cheeks but she managed to keep see what find there. The I might has Qlnaha and signed each Donnelly and travelers them out of her voice. along , trip going men were away from home with their MaucK, two ex ChicagR pitchers. a mutual It was a perfect picnic in more ways Gus McGinnis, tried an found want- coming, forming-- as it were, so I could get no meat and all Philaa than one. It always rains at picnics, Isheep association, says could buy was a half loaf of bread. ing by Chicago, has signed to pitch fr protective Times writers and there was a rain of tears for" this, delphia "Noontime found me with thirty Buffalo. On one of those trips to El Paso I but also an intermittent sunshine that miles to go and wolfishly hungry. Frank Motz, the first ' had soon dried them. along as travelers quite a number probably captain the Inwas just the right sort of baseman, wil ahead Bight of musicians in a modest way several It was decided at the store, when place for a halt, in a little grove of dianapolis team. President. Kerr of tne Pittsburg club, violins, a clarinet, a flute and the Harlow's blindness, was announced, oak and pine trees with of supplants Frank plenty De Haas Robison upFrench first was to a have vacation until cool green that he harp I ever remembered and a mountain on the rules committee. giass to seeu have it was quite a curiosity such time as the firm saw fit to sup- stream coming down out of a canyon. Omaha will have some livelv men on at that owned and performed on day ply his place, and for the present his I had made up my mind to a dinner the team this season in Ulrich, Walsh, was certainly an who an was Italian, to be continued. by salary j of dry bread and coffee, when, directly Shaffer and Sangler all on that is his did what misfortune That for ahead, a plump young mountain particular instrument. jacK Maenefee Emerson Hawley will expert the a soulless drew grouse flew up from the ground and have to most of the pitching for Pitts- Knowing peculiar effect that incorporation music strumental had upon the senses a out to deed of them burg next season unless Frank Killen a low limb of a tree that rounds upon lightod to of wild beautiful Then friends animals, I had determined to good shape. charity. and sat there the Catcher Buckley says his; throwing try it on the despised coyote on the came in to offer assistance, which so overhungat me path, as much as to say arm is the finest shape. If the first opportunity. far was not needed. They came tear- looking I've come to make you a dinner.' veteran is all rightpossible and Clements shows We had traveled several hundred ful and full of conventional sym- He was so near and stood so still that up in form the Phillies be very strong miles into the wilderness, "soothing pathy, and went away wondering and I shot his head off with mv revolver. behind the bat the rather piqued. savage breast" of the wild deniBaltimore wants to get rid of Pitchei on the subject of better "Feeling of the plains by a concert of the zens "Two children who do not appre- dinrier, I picketed my horse out to Gleason. Last the club paid a good sum ciate the gravity of the situation," graze among the trees, started a little of money to St. Louis for his release. whole band, until we reached a dry Gleason did not do the work which canyon midway between Fort Lancassaid one sympathizer, with a sniff. fire and picked my grouse. The rip- But was of him and fell into dis- ter, on the Pecos, and Fort Davis, on sudas she if talked about it "Why, of the stream suggested the favorexpected ple his " by escapade in October. Han-Io- n the Limpid, without hearing the howl den blindness was real blessing, I wonder if there isn't a thought: offered to trade him to the of a coyote. said another. trout for me in that eddy un a waiting with bonus But no one saw how exquisitely pa- der the bank?' I crawled to the edere Dwyyer. Cincinnati refusedfpr thepitcher Reaching a point about forty miles offer. from Fort Davis, where the canyon thetic the situation really was. The and looked down into the little pool. But Ewing has offered another player divided, the branch two "children," as' they called them, Under the shadow of the bank half a to Hanlon leading to the for Gleason, presumably with fort only a narrow defile opening clinging together to the wreck of dozen fine trout were lviner side by Chamberlain, and Gleason may yet bebetween their happiness, both willfully blind side as close as sardines in a box. I come a Cincinnatian. precipitous bluffs of a hundred feet for a day's travel, we pitched together to the awful realities of the worked back to my saddle, got out our camp for the night near the enASPIRES courTO HONOR. but OPERATIC situation, keeping up their fish hook and line, which every Colotrance of this canyon. After supper a in fiction were which they age "by rado mountain traveler should carry, Miss Boss, a Clever our detail of the night watch had and actors. Amateur, Preparing the principal a grasshopper for bait, and caught been a for Professional Career. made, I organized my band and They were getting used to the situ- with a dead tree branch for rod, to the mouth of this narrow marched Miss Mabel Ross, who created such a ation in this romantic way, and Laura dropped my line into the pool. The in the direction of which we had their lives planned out. She was biggest trout a pound and a half fel- favorable impression at Warren, Pa. canyon, as to be the working member of the low rose to it and in a moment more "Buttercup" in "Pinafore recently had already heard distant howls of the has decided to study for the operatic coyote on their way down the canyon firm, and come home at night full of was flopping upon the grass. and has gone to New York tc the camp. Everything seemed news for him, and they could still let the fire down to a bed of hot stage, "I herself under the best teachers. toward put to conspire toward the success of our take long walks together on Sundays coals. The trout I opened along the experiment. We reached a secluded after church, and he was to have a back, basted him with tne fat of the place in the shadow of the gradually guitar, and learn to play; she had grouse, then stuck the bird and the heightening precipices, and halted to always laughed him out of it, but trout upon sticks over the coals to await developments. They soon denow it would be his one resource. roast. There .was no lack of salt for me is do to there for "But what veloped, increasing in numbers and in seasoning, and my dinner of trout, noise as they came. When within 200 while you work, Laura?" bread and coffee was a great grouse, yards of us there appeared to be, 500 "Learn to wait, dear, like Milton in one. I picked the fish's bones clean of them and all howling at once in his blindness. 'They also serve who and then those of the grouse. The every key of the scale. Now was the only stand and wait.' " bread was dark and soggy, but sweet, time for my band to begin, and we he "Brave little woman," jRtid, and I ate it to the last crumb. My "fehen will it end?1' opened .up with considerable spirit coffee made in the tin cup from which and rendered "Fisher's Hornpipe" "Oh, soon enough, dear, picnics I drank it was delicious. As 1 smoked in grand style, putting the pestiferous never last long. We'll get so used to my after dinner pipe, watching my wolves to the "blush!" if such a thing it we wouldn't have it different if we horse fill up on the green grass, I felt could be. The moon was in full orb, could." that I could say with the epicurean and lit up the whole surroundings alThen she went upstairs and cried rhymster: 'Fate cannot harm me, I most as bright as day. Gus, being herself to sleep. have dined unoccupied, was watching the effect The next morning she was awakour music was having upon the beasts, ened by a joyous shout. CONSUMPTION OF GLASS. and was glancing about for a sight of "Laura! The sun is shining! lean more of them, as he had so far seen Great Quantities of It Used in Elec see. Thank God. I can see." trical Work. only a dozen or so, and they seemed "It was true. The clot had gone," The of in elec consumption the painless pain was ended. Like a glass "paralyzed," or, as he stated it, they work is of trical and late man who had been once tried for his very large, appeared to have "lost their tune," to led and quit singing to listen to the flute. has many innovations. At life and acquitted it could never, be years MISS MABEL ROSS. one time it was confined chiefly to Miss Ross is about 24 years of age, and It was now Gus1 time to try what done over again. his clarinet would have, when, "There won't be any more of that large disks used in frictional machines, was born in Warren county. She has effect in for the clerk a court and in the been house and raising his instrument to his lips telegraph batteries jars picnic," said Laura, almost regret- the insulators. a and of Now it is extensively lately proprietor very fashionable throwing his head back proudly, fully, although it had been such an store in Warren. local to When give a startling prelude, he discovawful strain to live up to for twenty-fou- r employed for the jars of storeage bat millinery to "Pindecided the of talent opera put ered teries, switches, conduct tubing, the afore" on the boards upon the side of the hours. Miss Ross was clift something of almost bulbs took his breath that incandescent lamns. the "No, thank heaven," said Harlow, cast for "Buttercup" and made a' deHe of in producsucceeded arc and globes lights "I won't have to keep house." cided hit in the role. She is an excel- away. semi-quav- only he when a other Some of many purposes. suddenly "And we won't need the dog." lent young lady, with a good voice, ing "Well, we haven't got him yet, so the storeage batteries of modern pleasant manners, good address and dropped the instrument and pointing times are large enough for baths, and very pretty, and her friends predict for in the direction of his discovery called he's no great loss." it can readily be conceived that the her a brilliant career. She will confine out excitedly: "Nor the tin cup." to the closest study for two "Mine Gott in Himmel, poys, shust "Yes, you can carry that, and we'll glass must be well made for such work. herself New in and then York, look years mit de rocks on!" perhaps Not bulbs of the incandeslong ago see how soon it will be full." The abroad. which Grit go picture We looked in the direction indiwere cent blown at the factories, herewith lamps "That's a picnic," answered Laura, is presents reproduced through were not surprised at his and cated now the lamp works buy them in the kindness of but "it shall be our bank." the Warren Greenland, nervous excitement. There, crouched barrels, just like so many oranges, artist. The Struggle With Kngllsh. and the molded glass is said to answer upon an overhanging ledge, was & A recent novelty has A writer in the London Truth says: admirably. large jaguar, not more than twenty Betting: Tabooed in Utile Bhody. feet up, and to all appearances in the "In Italy no question can arise as to been the molded bulbs on which some Rhode Island When the attitude of preparing to spring upon legislature efa of been has the spelling word, and children pattern imprinted. The at Providence assembled perecently us. We were ambushed in such a learn to read and write in a few fect is very pretty; says the New York titions were the for presented repeal months, while with us many are often Advertiser, and is cheaply obtained, of the pool law, under which the races manner that we had not observed unable to spell after devoting to the as hitherto this could only be obtained were run last fall with pool selling at some deer that were hidden behind a subject long years of labor and tears, by putting over the ordinary bulb a Narragansett Park. In the Senate a clump of mesquite bushes and almost which might have sufficed for' the case or shade of molded or cut' glass, bill is repealed In both branches. This directly under the tiger. W soon got our battery of small acquisition of really useful informa- which, of course, lessened the light-givin- g Imously passed, carrying with it a arms be in readiness and whispered to into clause of value meet For a the that this reason, when I carried the lamp. tion. In arc repeal effect its to Gus p upon passage. PTOwn-ugive the beast a blast from his Englishman who cannot lighting the globes remain much the In the immediately was House in bill the piece and see what effect "Bonaparte's spell ;orrectly I am always prejudiced same as when the lamps were intro- concurrence., This action in passed House the in his favor. It may be, of course, duced fifteen years ago, except that was reconsidered and the bill referred Retreat" would have upon our exthat he is a fool, or a mere dunce, but attempts are made to use panes instead to the Committe on Engrossed Acts. pected visitor. He launched forth in the chances are that in his reading of one perfect jylobe. The lenses and This course, liowever,: is the regular such a hrill, jerky style that it had he has given his attention to some- other glass for American searchlights method of disposing of acts in con- the effect to startle the deer, and they the came bounding past us, causing the thing better than the; conventional have been imported until lately, but currence, andthe impression that immode of selecting and arranging- the are now being made of excellent quali- House had finally decided not to. tiger tor precipitate his leap, and he i concur came Is erroneous.; The mediately sailing through the air like a ; : letters, " ty in this country. bll is repealed in both branches. This "flying dragon." Gus1! serenade was Eating and Drinking. to the Dead action was doubtless hastened by the cut short, but not shorter than bis With Three Tears Difference. A atrans-- custom in the iValois, State on stand against the enemy, for he disap In a Western court a negro was course taken In New York Rhode Island which left to a make cheese when is selling, pool Switzerland, as completely as the frightened convicted of stealing a mule. Before the law peared Union in with State the is only left untouched which is a child born, the sentence was pronounced, the sanction pool selling. There were alocal deer. during his lifetime, and is often cut judge As the tiger landed upon the him an to Issues, too, for the races brought to the into the first time at his funeral feast. speak for himself, andopportunity : numhe said were There I a crowd. ground, some ten paces from us, we tough A rich man stores up wine as well as wouldn't er tuck de mule nohow ef , I State erous robberies and two murders opened a rattling fire upon him, dis- cheese for his own funeral, and when hadn't read in de testermint whar among-thrace followers In the; short abling him at the first volley. After of this Jesus tuck a mule." ' The coblet fha w v fc. taken' rlace a n aw avan r license: there. had time rethey securing "the valuable pelt of the jagjudge "dead wine," as it is calleti. is' placed marked: "Yes, but he didn't uar (for at that season the animal's ride Chicago Derby. on the coffin, the "mourners approach, him to Kingston and try to sell The coat was at its best, and the black takaihe goblet it their Hands, touch andttjereupon he gave the him," jfne principal quotations made by spots stood out on the, orange backnegro con ana tne arinK coffin witn the in, three years in the penitentiary. O'Neill, Eckhert & Co., of Chicago, 111:, erround with distinct clearness), we tents to a future meeting with their tn their winter book on the, Chicago looked around and called for Bona Argonaut. ' ' . departed friend.. Derby are as follows: Diggs and Tissak parte's bodyguard, but be was nowhere each JO to 1; Frank K., 15; Agitator, to be found. We had' come to the Athletics and Advertising. W. Agg The use of female athletics Eurania, Flying Dutchman, Gotham, conclusion that he had made his s, Prince of Monaco, Rey del "Bepecca, my tear, I brings you a Is like judicious advertising, isn't it? Halma The The Butterflies back to camp, and started on our reCommoner D. Ullman I don't see. it. and Walzer, each 20 ; Applause, Biased, turn. What was our surprise when "But, don't you know already, Sha-i-,W. Acg Don't see it! Look at the Counter) Tenor, Connoisseur, G. B. Mor- there came floating on the still night and bearls va3 - bearl. vw , - ot. 'eh a superb figures that result! Printer's ris, Handsome, Junius, v Keenan, Leo breeze the solemn but piercing notes Ink. Lake, Laureate, Montery, f Magian, of Gus' clarinet from the fork bf a "Kfer kerviet, Bepecca:' I know PIquante,. Salvation, Tiger, each 30; small Cottonwood tree abo ut 300 yards What became of that Halfling, all dot an for dot reason I dake me Beporter Major McLaughlin, Primrose, ahead of us. As Gus' band struck up or, imitation bearl von dot stock oud fasting girl you used to- have? Musr Pelieas, Rey Alfonso,. Sam Tate,' Sir the continuation of "Bonaparte's Reso der vas no danger." Texas Sift euro. Manager She'sdoing six months Galahad Sabilia, Uncle Giles and treat" with some spirit, the deer came in jail for not paying her board. Woodfield, 50 each, The other prices ings. bounding up the canyon, meeting i,us range from 60 to 500. in .countless numbers, andjjln the j greatest confusion. As we opened fire on them at Iclose range , they seemed - so crazad with fright that they ran round anil round : ' 5s. in a circle so near U3 that we killed' seven outright, and, perhaps', wounded as many more. The repoit of our pistols had the effect to again silence the German band, and we feared that the bodyguard of "Old Nap'' was again'on the retreat We nejeded his services at that particular juncture, and it was suggested thatj I try the dulcet notes of the flute.5 This had the desired effect, and, Gtis called out from the tree inquiringlV: "Ish r dotjkatz det?" He was assured that it was, and he was soon! Ion thej ground, as brave, in his own stima-- i tion, as Marshal Nev. " EOPLE who knew anything, said when Harlow Graham married that "m ad c a p piece," little Laura Catesford, their that friends would have to take care of them for the rest, of their lives. According- to public opinion, Laura was girl, who a giddy, idle, of a care knew nothing- of taking IJar-lohcmse, or a husband either; and well, he hadn't wit enough to earn his salt, much less porridge for there Prettv housekeeping two. head! a at the such would be with pair Besides Laura was a spendthrift, just as her father had been before her. Look how she had squandered the little' he had left: in fine gowns to get married in, instead of investing it in something useful, or putting it out at to! 3 fun-lovin- eli0. - wni! w se so that k at too, him ad. 2ar3 On. th ' ef-Pl- ck box says had hing" else for charitable conynent Laura and Harlow Graham furnished up a little cottage and" went olor. .hu- ll as ex. to lock LhU only Talk 5 to one Their . housekeeping-- wedding in presents made a very pretty show c and the the little parlor bric-a-bra- It wasn't filled the bay window. jtyle. of course, but these were just a who had human real of people pair started out to picnic througb lif e and were not bothered about 'style and rhat for Ions conventionalities. Laura's dear friends were right. She was no housekeeper, arid poor Harlow sat down to many an meal, while she was learning chemical the process by which the was to be converted material raw into delicious and nourishing food. He could not blame her mother, for she had died when Laura was a baby, but he had no inclination to blame anyone. They had agreed to picnic through life, and a picnic it was. Bein the counting-roosides, he made was where he employed that nearly cost him his situation, and tbey were both learning. Laura set before him one day a plate of biscuits. "Made them all out of my own head, and bad enough wood left to make another batch," she said merrily. "Stone, you mean, sweetheart. ourt th reat iak ill-cook- ed for' Jner f of or ths aj i pub- lic washed its hands pf the young couple altogether, and took up somet- way 3 dear And then the interest hre t g wia rs m ei-ro- ma-- rora a of relr act ood. .or : of for LLiS r.T. They are just liice the biscuits mother nsed to make," answered Harlow. Laura threw one at him, and he remarked, facetiously, that it was the same one hat Mrs. Noah saved from OUM the ark. bu There were more failures, and Laura sometimes shed a few tears of J vexation in secret, and then there were more attempts, and at last success came to stay. The cooking was conquered, and Laura had won a rie4 ! tder tble . I (5 graduate's laurels. She invited her friends to dinners and teas, which were highly praised, and old housekeepers asked for her recipes. Now, strange as it may be, vthere is nothing so insipid as the dead level calm of happiness. Pain is healthful to the compared monotony of constant calm and sunshine, and Laura ur was beginning . 3ar-- , fe's r-- to yawn a little and feel bored now that everything was adjusted, and she was mistress of the lituation. ft But nothing disturbed the two married lovers, until one day for d oa-- h a "Mr GOD, I'MBLKfDr Harlow 'went home and told Laura he felt queer. "Not going to be ill, I hope," she if asked anxiously. "No, but my head is dizzy. " DO 'Of irt - "Been riding in the elevator?" "Not more than usuaL But I notice that when I am at the books the figures swim before my eyes." ' "A determination of the brain. 'Perhaps. ; - ; arithmetic to i - j ex-Cincip- ati -- ! run-getter- s, Cin-cinnat- is to-day- .'" - ' It's queer and disagree- able, though." This iwas all the preparation sh had when a week later Harlow came ' his way. "Laura! My God, I'm bllndl" He nearly fell into her extended arms. She led him to a chair, and taking- another, sat down before him. Her face was white and her lips quiv' .. ered, "What Is it, dear? Have you seen in, groping . - i the doctor?" "Yes, nnd he says my girl, have you courage to hear it?" ' 1 1 . Go on." "That X will never see again. It is a clot ho called it some Latin name but oh, Laura, whatlong is to become of us? We have nothing laid UP yet, and I have done the last I ever can do, and what will you dowith a blind man on your hands?" "We will blind man's buff as we used toplay do when we were children," she said, smothering a sob. "Don't be frivolous, Laura." "Harlow, you are in my hands now, "Yes, yes. . : , j j - ; . j ; j e g-av- ; ' e J j , j; ; Car-riere- v. : i : - f j f j ; j 1 ten-mul- e, er 4 j le I : ; j PROTECTING ... .. ,. IRON-.- COLUMNS. ..... ?, ;..;! 4, Bricks I .aid In Portland Cement Saceif I fully, Withstand Fire. j H'..; M Some experiments were recently made by the building-- inspection department, Vienna, on the protection of iron from fire by casing it with brick, says Engineering. A wro ight iron column twelve' feet long, and. puilt up of two channels connected y lattice bars, was used. This was t up in a small chamber constructed of brick, and the column wa9 loaded yj levers. This done, it was surrou ed by a four and one-hainch brie wall laid nre-ciay in mortar, ane w; 11 did not fit closely around the colum and ad-fithere vantage was taken of this t knd of fusible which metals, samples should serve as a erauge of the tern- ;,.!) ;.t-- i ! ;. . L lf x , perature attained Various samples other materials were also placed in tqe chamber within the column. This chamber was then filled with split firewejod, which was lighted and the doors immediately walled up with slabs of j plaster of paris. After the fire had broken out the doors were broken in aiid a stream of water turned into the' robm from a fire ejugiue. An fourteen horse-powof room the examination nxt 8howed that the walls of the briek, laid in Portland cement, retained their most of tne material while strength, stone left in the chamber! ihad been; Thd ceiling had been destroyed. lined partly with plaster o paris and partly with terra cotta tiles. Both were damaged. The inclopure around the iron pillars was still standing firm, thoug-- corners of the brickwork were Clipped pne inch or so, and the fire clay mortar was largely. Washed out Of the joints. On remoyiif ing. however, the pillar Mag, fcaxfrit"''tQ, be uninjured, even the paint being Unscorched, and the fusible plugs' only showed a temperature of 149 degrees I Farenheit. of stone concrete and ' er . , the-east- ? A Fateful Coincidence. An illustrious French prelate was at a great banquet, in company with many members of the French nobility and many other ecclesiastics. The g conversation turned uppnj the of priests,! their insight experience into the depths of humai nature, and the strange secrets of Which,, in virtue of their office, they jmust become the despositaries. i To point his remarks, his eminence said: "For instance, gentlemen, the first confession I ever received was that of a murlife-lon- j j derer." At that momeiit, and while expressions of wonder, interest, and horror were still upon the lips of his auditors, the door opened and a nobleman of the highest rank, a man well known among them, j entered the room. He saluted the company, and then paid his respects taj the princa of the church, adding gracefully, as he turned to the company: "You are perhaps not aware, gentlemen, that I had the honor to be his eminence's first penitent. " The consternation of the company, and his eminence's state of mind, may be imagined. Argonaut. A Simpler Plan. Mr. Newedd Well, we are beginning housekeeping, and. I presume the simplest plan will be for me to give you a regular amount every week for expenses. Just figure up what it wilh cost. Mrfl Newedd I could never do that in jthe world so many things to count, you know, but let me see. Oh, I have it! I have thought of a much simpler plan. "AH right, my fangel. What is it?" ""Tou figure up what it will cost you for car fare and lunches, and! give me the rest. New York Weefcly. j INCIDENT AND ANECDOTE. A lady was showing a visitor the family portraits in the picture gallery. VThat officer there in! Uniform, she He said, "was my was as brave as & lioni but one of the most unfortunate of men. He never fought in a battle in which he did not have an arm or a leg jcarriad away." Then she added proudly, "He took part in twenty-fou- r engagements. A tourist was being! driven over a, part of the country in Ireland where his infernal majesty appeared to have given his name to al the objects of interest in the locality, for there was the Devil's bridge,' the Devil's cauldron, the Devil's glen, etc. Said the traveler: "The devil seems to be the greatest land owner in these parts!" "Ah, sure, your honor," replied the jarvey, "that is so, but he lives in I think he's what they call England. an. absentee landlord in Ireland." The following story is told of the unconventional court methods of the late George M. Stearns of Massachusetts: "May' it pleas your honor," he said, beginning an Argument one day before the supreme! court, "I have a little case here that Was started in the police courts find that court guessed on it; then ive wentandto the that with it, superior court onr now ana. we court cuessed would like this cour to guess on it." The court said;1 Mr. Stearns, s.!t down.. This court doesn't jruess on pases." Mr. Steaius icpiicu. "l Der pardon, your ,honpr;j I desire the judg ment of this cprrt on, the case." greatj-gj-andfathe- , i! 1 I' I, |