Show what might ight be what a healthy and wealthy people eollo we should be if we ate and rank tank only that which our syster systems rig required and wore only such clothe clothes sas aa were nen nem necessary for our comfort if we could draw the line between necessity and luxury if we ve could stop where actual requirement ends and the demands of pride ride nide and vanity begin how rapidly ty our out bank account would in crease crea se our mortality list decrease and vice and poverty disappear if we discontinued the use of alcoholic beverages and abstained from uffing puffing and chew chewing ing tobacco the internal eternal revenue department of the government which now returns a monthly revenue of several millions million s ot dollars would not pay 1 the salan salaries l es ot of its off omm meers officers and the thousands of men who are growing rich from the manufacture and sale of these articles would find it necessary to geek seek other occupations for a living if men band women sought only personal comfort and were free from the trammels of fashion gahlon if they were without the weakness of vanity and heeded not the demands of pride unpaid bills and clamorous creditors would be unknown if men and women wore only such clothing as a proper regard for health and appearance required and the millions of dollars absorbed in gems and tinsel were reserved for more rational uses our exports would largely exceed our imports and the foreign drain of our gold and silver would cease at once and forever and we should enter upon an era em in the worlds history in which the usurer would lose his occupation and want and poverty no longer mar the happiness of the human ea mily family mlis san frand Franc francilo imo iwo chronic you all know macpherson by name at all events once a page at court ourt C and a greal great great favorite with her majesty then in the guards where he do quite so well afterwards of nowhere in particular in point offart of fact he be has lias been obliged to live in scotland for the last ten years drinks whisky in the day time and lots of it well lord dundonald Dun ronald asked him to his castle the other day when the queen came out to see the falls and lunch in the afternoon she came out of the pavilion loii and walked about a bit among the company macpherson was standing alone one a little four fou foul with his midday mid day dram drain and up she came to him it is many years since I 1 saw you bir sir but I 1 never forget old friends how are zou you mr Mcp mcpherson herson hereon madam 3 said bald said baid li he holding out his hand band which she took most graciously gracious cc you are very good I 1 remember your face quite well weil but im very sorry rry but isyou if you were to give me ine a thousand pounds I 1 cant recollect your name 1 london letter to 11 marp harp arp ard ervi bazar punch has a pleasant satire on oil the pleasures and the perils ef of modern pilgrimages it represents an ancient pilgrim with his staff and gown saying toa ton to a modern one in swell costume lighting his cigar i after alighting from his dogcart dog cart at a railway station ah fair sir all is changed since my time no peas in your shoes now no toil toll no robbery no danger everything made eay easty in fact quite a pleasant excursion cur sion tho tha modern pilgrim resents this view of the want of self sacrifice aleo flea in the pious journey and thus retorts on oil the old oid school devotee no robbery no danger does it not occur to you goumy my veller velier venerable friend that our gli gil pilgrimages gr images are made raade by rail whereupon grimager hereupon the ancient pilgrim shuts up A birmingham english paper deac describes bribes a scandalous pugilistic encounter which took place between two awo women in glover street birmingham ming liam ilam kate dowel dowell and ann maria marla morgan were vere the combatants there were twenty or ta thirty I 1 airty rounds lasting as many minutes which shows that both sides went in for busl busi business nessy and tho the women had seconds who kneed them as in a regular prize night fight between the rounds mrs Morg morgans anys auls second was ll 11 her husband who vilo exhorted her to go for her antagonist in these words if yer dont fight ill uil give yer ser what for pull T yer er jacket off and fight ilk lik like ilke a man and in the coun course of the fight he went to the cour ta t tap a and nd got some water to rub her oace face ce W with ith those facts were stated at the police court where dowell was colu charged ged by morgan forgan li with an assault ass null aull the conclusion of the case is almost incredible the evl evi dence showing that there were faults on both bides sides pi prisoner leoner was discharged disc hared |