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Show TOM FIDDLER'S COLUMN. The CHAr who is engaged to three or four girls at the same time is a beau of promise. Fkance has 15,000 schoolma'ams out of work and unmarried. And yet Frenchmen are popularly supposed to be a gallant lot. Tiie coming fad in woman's dresses is to make the skirts so narrow that it is like a man's putting both limba into one trousers legs. A Massachusetts man went rabbit hunting the other day. He leaned on the muzzle of his gun and now he is not. The muzzle of a gun is a mighty good place not to lean on. This trouble's due to' white man's greed, To wrongs that needed righting; The Indian we agreed to feed, Then starved him into fighting. Maybe the English government thinks in the Behring Sea matter that it has put our Supreme Court in deep water. It will find ur justices quite able to float out on their gowns. Judge (to small witness) Do you know the nature of an oath? Witness Oh, yes, sir; I am an office boy, and have to answer the telephone every few minutes. Ukue is a hard, plain fact: If you have a good thing, write about jt, talk it up, advertise it. Intrinsic merit is all right; but in this hustling and bustling age, he that bloweth not his own horn, the same it shall not be blown. This is a homely way of stating an immortal truth. In Beaver Falls, Pa., a young woman who had been bedridden and unable to move with paralysis on one side of her body, was so startled by a fire in the house, that she arose without with-out difficulty, put on a wrapper and rushed out of the front door, and now appears to be wholly recovered. TnE old theory that in ordr to build uo your own business it is necessary to pull down vour competitor does not seem to have lost its hold. The public is able to make comparisons for itself, and by attempting to give the idea that a business rival is a fraud, one succeeds only in bringing suspicion upon himself. In Baltimore a baby 11 monthrs of age was recently relieved , of sixty-six jli.(rprpp,ta(ticlfs which he h& "Srircu" '4nve i tory consist-j';.;, needles, pins, tacks, buttons, wads of paper, bits of cork and leather. Babies allowed the liberty of canvassing the floors of sewing-room3 are very apt to make dangerous and indigestible private pri-vate collections. A wise woman once said that there were three follies of men that always amused her. The first was climbing trees to shake the fruit down, when if they would wait long enough the fruit would fall itself; tho second was going to war to kill each other, when if they only wait they would die naturally; and the third, was that ihey should run after the women, when if. they did not do so tiie women would b& sure to run after them. Irate Citizen (to office boy) I want to see the editor. Office Boy What do you want with him? Irate Citizen I want to thump the clothes off him. Office Boy Oh, do yon? All right; give me your name, age, etc., and fifty cents. Irate Citizen What's that for? OCSce Boy That's the price of death notices; half the regular rates you know. Persons who patronize paper3 should pay promptly, for the pecuniary pecuni-ary prospects of the press have a peculiar powsr in pushing forward pablic prosperity. If the printer is paid promptly and his pocket-book kept plethoric by prompt paying patrons, pa-trons, he puts his pen to his papor in peace: his paragraphs are more pointed; point-ed; he paints his pictures of passing events in more pleasing colors, and the persual of his paper is a pleasure to the people. A departure from the requirement of unanimity in the verdicts of juries has been made in Minnesota. An amendment allowing ten members, of live-sixths of a jury, to render a verdict in civil cases was voted on at the recent re-cent election, and appears to have been carried. The adoption of the amendment amend-ment has occasioned some surprise in i the state. Tiie departure is, however, in a direction which many thoughtful men have pointed out as the path of progress, and expert opinion . is on record to the effect that the demand for such a change will become greater as juries improve and as the difficulty of securing conscientious unanimity increases. The operation of the new system in Minnesota will be watched with interest. I3R.rrif d au I'.r-glihli Karl. Baltimore, Jan. 22. Miss Virginia Schley, daughter of Captain Schley, United States navy, was married tonight to-night to Balph Granville Mongtague Wortley, &m of the Earl of Warn-clille Warn-clille and vice-president of the Atlantic Atlan-tic and Danville road. VTasitingtox, Jan. 22. Morton Davis Da-vis Mitchell, a cousin of the Vice-President, Vice-President, and Miss Elizabeth Patterson Patter-son Ladd, of San Francisco, were married mar-ried to-night at St. John's Church, Kev. Dr. Douglass officiating. The couple afterwards left for New York, whence they will sail in a few days for Europe, to remain a year or more, alter which they will make their homes in Washington, |