Show A CHILD philanthropist the philanthropists and exemplars of alie ifould have not all been rich men they have not all been men even out of the mouths of babes aal suck lings have some af the choicest lessons of morality and christianity been promulgated mul gated and the example of a child has been the magic touch bich roused the finer attributes in many a noble soul A touching instance of the power that the meanest and humblest can in the doing of good comes in a new york exchange it makes more profitable bunday reading than politics some young men were coming ou from a brilliantly lighted cafe one niba and stopped in the shelter of the doorway to button up their coats and to raise their umbrellas for the rain was pouring down A little wretch stood shi erin and dripping on the trying to protect his half dozen papers from the net under bis raegen jacket one of the young men took the whole bundle away from him and giving him a handful of small coins told him to iro home to bed the urchin looked at the money a moment and then turned to hurry away A cripple was leaning up a poet the rain pouring doan uan his uncovered bead as he held liis hat out unnoticed by those hurrying by the newsboy was on the run when ho reached the cripple but lie drew up shortly picked out two or three nickels from ane pile still clutched in his hand and drop them into the hat sped on acain the men looked at one another stupidly of them paid something that sounded distinctly like an oath alien they all went up the ven bruble cripple and giving him a lot of silver told him to go bome too A NEVADA has introduced a bill into the state assembly making it unlawful for any spectator in any place of amusement to wear a covering for the head which shall be more than three inches above the crown of the lead an exception is mado in the case of ladies over thirty five years of age which makes the bill a clincher THE prohibition indians of nevada have some very orthodox views one squaw whose love for firewater caused her repeated fall from grace was set upon the other night by outraged members of her tribe and beaten to death A biru has planted suit against a quartette of gamblers to whom an embezzling clerk in the employ of the plaintiffs lost 1600 the case presents some novel features THEY CALL new yorkers goth amides because thackeray considered them in his day fools wise in their own conceit they are not all on manhattan island now THE G A pennsylvania in a recent session approved the bill pending before the legislature prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on decoration day FORTY have just looked down upon tho american tourist base ball combination napoleon anson and his chicago grenadiers grena diers met as usual an inglorious defeat and even the sphinx smiled DEPUTY officer knauls does not seem to be getting much in parcelling out the offices he of all should be remembered LUCY STONE has a bright idea she says we shall never have the churches full of men till we have the pulpits filled by women MARY visited the illinois penitentiary at joliet the other day stars make a happy combination weeks before inauguration and the cabinet elate dot yet fully made up |