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Show EXCHANGE IN AN O.Xiqi'S. The New York Mail tells of a Brooklyn lady who took passage on a Broadway omuibus with only 45 in her purse, and who was. particularly struok by the appearance of a fellow-passenger, who was dressed in the most magnificent mag-nificent style and wore on one of his fingers a superb diamond. After getting get-ting out of the omnibus she found her pocket had been picked. The editor goes on to say : She wondered, all the way there, who had picked her pocket, and blamed, alternately, all the honest people peo-ple who had ridden with her in the stage; but she never for a moment harbored a suspicion of the gentleman of the ring and things. She got home and told her neighbors, who consoled her in the usual neighborly way, by ''hoping it would be a warning to her;" "she was very Iuoky to get ofl go eay," etc., etc, She told her husband, hus-band, who laughed at her till she cned, he says, theu kissed her and gave her 10 to buy a now purse. A friend dropping in after dinner, sho had to tell the story all over again. St ange to say, he suspected the gen-tkm gen-tkm in with the solitaire. "Was he in when you paid your fare?" "lie was." "Could he'have seen your purse, and where you put it ?" ''Why, of courso he could." "Did he get up and then sit down again the second time beside you ?" "He tiid, but ; " "Where's your pocket ?" 4- "Why, here," said the lady( pluu-giuir pluu-giuir her nervous tinj'.Ts (for sne was excited by the cross-questioning I deep into the pocket of the dress which she still wore "right here. And, bless me!" said she, as she withdrew her hand attain. "A ln a living woman, but bore's the rinc !'' True cnoui.'h. The csqui-ite, in abstract ab-stract inc the purse, had left the solitaire soli-taire I'i hiiid Liui. A Broadway jeweler valued it at $1.5"J. |