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Show FOILED BY WOMAN'S WIT. How Simple Chambermaid Fruttred Plant of a Queen. In 1558 a certain Dr. Cole, charged by Queen Mary of England with a royal commission to punish tho Irish Protestants, stopped on tho way to Dublin at tho Blue Posts, of Chester, where tho Innkeeper, Betty Motter-shed, Motter-shed, overheard him, as ho flourished his parchment, exclaim, "Hero Is what will lash tho heretics of Ireland!" Fearing for tho safety of her brother or brother-in-law, John Edmonds, she, while ho slept, looted his bag, abstracting ab-stracting the warrant and substituting for It a pack of cards, with grim humor placing tho knavo of clubs faco uppermost on tho top. When tho doctor opened his bag, safe on Irish soil, the guileless Imbccilo countenance counte-nance leered at him, but no warrant was thcro; and bofore ho had tlmo to return for fresh authority Mary was dead and his power was gone. For this deed Queen Elizabeth granted a pension for life to Betty of $200 a year. The Ways of a Baby. A father of much experience says: "Wash a baby clean and dress him up real pretty and he will resist all advances ad-vances with tho most superlatlvo crossness; but let him eat molasses, gingerbread and fool around tho coal hod for half on hour and ho will nestle his dear little dirty face close up to your clean shirt bosom, and bo Just the lovlngest, cunnlngest little rascal In all tho world." Tolerant Americans. Tho whistling by switch engines which work all night In tho railway yards In and near cltlfi Is permitted In no country other than America. Canadian Fisheries. Tho capital Invested In Canada's fishing Industry Is estimated at about $11,500,000. . Snakes In Arizona. More polsonouB snakes are found In Arltona than In any other part of tho United States. |