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Show Kfi BATTERMJ H1B OWN CLUTHEa. Ma Bright Cook Sncceeded Ia Cteltlne th Better of Him. A citizen of Kiev, Hussia, found toultwith the dinner prepared by hia new cook and rashly embodied his criticism crit-icism in cutting sarcasms. The young woman heard him in silence. In the evening he knocked up against a man to a deserted little street, and when he Ventured to remonstrate ho was vigorously vigor-ously assaulted. Unable to get the better bet-ter of his adversary, he determined to do what he could at least to identify him later on, and with thii object in view tore bis assailant's fashidiablo clothes into Hhroda. Od his return bss some few hours later, ho found tho cooi standing at the door, ready to shake tha dust of his house off her feet The gentleman, gen-tleman, whose wounds and bruises loft him in no very amiable mood, simply said: "Jof be with you I Sometime will pass teore you get another place. And fs io character well, trust me to give "ou one that will stick." On tho fcllowuig morning he discovered discov-ered that his Best clothes in the wardrobe ward-robe were tatters and his glossy silk hat an unsightly wreok. Hastily summoning sum-moning the other servants to tho room, he angrily asked them what they knew about tho matter, whereupon the nurse roplied that the cook, in one of her freaks of fun, had donned her master'a garments and gone out to walk in them tho evening before, sticking on an artificial arti-ficial mustache to help to keep up tiw Illusion. Then it dawned upoa & wretched man that his assailant cS Q& day before was the touchy, turbulent 30ok. Less than n fortnight later he ra-aeived ra-aeived a letter thscngh the city post informing in-forming bio, n Eomewhat ungrammafc leal but rasriakablo language, "Son lied abcC the place, respected sir, when fan said I could not get another if 3 left yours. I've been in five different place? since then, and I'll bo going to iho sieta next Monday. Trusting yottt bones isn't aching, I remain Praakovia."- .San Francisco Argonaut. An American Translator of Horaee-. General Thomas W. Hj'de of Bath, despite the manifold cares of his busj life, has been engaged during his feu ioisuro hours in translating Horace's odes. After reading Gladstone's work iho general was moved to write the English author upon some details of their mutual work and recently received receiv-ed the following autographic note in reply: Deah Sro I promptly acknowledge your kindness, and I think it a great honor that my poor effort should be noticed from beyond tho Atlantic by a fellow lnborer to whom J wish a success more perfect than my own. Youra very faithful and obedient, W. E. Gladstone awcde Castle, Dec 1, 1S94. Augusta (Me.) Journal |