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Show And so Bret Harte left only $1,800. Impecunious to the last! If it wasn't for silly hens the fox would not have his reputation. Life. They are writing German poetry about Kipling. This is a terrible revenge. re-venge. Mr. Morgan tells us that Noah "organized "organ-ized the first trust. And he watered his stock, too. K Late dispatches from London bring the news that Editor W. T. Stead's grouch is still on. Royalties on Wagner's operas last year paid $115,000. Yet some European Euro-pean royalties never pay. Spain has no other statesman the size of Don Praxades Mateo Sagasta, now, unhappily, deceased. The king of Portugal is an expert cook. It may be therefore that he is a hero even to the hired girl. Even with his record of $20,000,000 in gifts in 1902, we fear Mr. Carnegie Is richer than he was a year ago. In spite of all the praise it has taken in, the new cable to Hawaii Is working as industriously as a veteran. vet-eran. The French balloonists who are going to try to cross the wastes of Sahara in balloons surely do not lack for sand. Henry Watterson says the "smart set" is doomed. But the smart set shows no inclination to take the colonel colo-nel seriously. Castro did not feel like apologizing. and if one enters fully into his feel- - ings one cannot blame him for being a trifle reluctant. ' , Abdul Hamid seems to have over-.' over-.' looked the fact that when a Darda-nelle Darda-nelle has once been opened it is a - very . , hard thing to shut. - A spring in Virginia is so magnetic that it charges everything dropped rinto it, in which it somewhat resem-s resem-s & Kentucky colonel. The news that the Jews appear to - hold the balance of power In Fez makes pleasant reading in view of - recent events in Roumania. The life of a Japanese jfnrikisha - man is said to be only five years. .'This shows that in some cases a pull is the worst thing a man can have. Bret Harte left an estate valued at $1,800 almost as much as a captain of industry can earn in twenty minutes min-utes when conditions are ordinarily favorable. It seems to be generally allowed that the gorgeous scene on the plains at Delhi has never been surpassed by any spectacular performance on any modern stage. A New York boy found a gold brick in Wall street the other day. . ILet us hope, however, that this will not result in a general hunt for Wall , "' street gold bricks. A New York girl asked seven young men to take her to the theater, Just 'as a joke. But as she took the entire seven and paid the freight we fail to see the laughing point. ' Max Nordau inclines to the view that the American people are also degenerates, de-generates, this opinion fitting in exactly ex-actly with his theory that degeneracy has overtaken everybody except himself. him-self. . Peru and Bolivia have decided to arbitrate their boundary dispute.. - Both countries probably have so ' many revolutions going on that they - can't afford to bother with an- ordi-. ordi-. nary war. '"'-' The powers have begun warning ,v-C.hina. If China will apply to the-' the-' TsiSltan of Turkey hetnay be willing i. j, ' to-'furnish some information concern-'" v "ing.the warning business 'itia.t will be . highly reassuring. - It appears that one of the life insurance in-surance companies has been paying ;, taxes on some of Hetty Green's property prop-erty by mistake. Let us hasten to explain ex-plain that Hetty made no complaint ; oh account of the error. ;7 " Some comment has been excited by i the action of the Chicago gentleman who shot his prospective son-in-law. , The truth probably is that the pater-nal pater-nal one deemed it more advisable to - shoot the youth than to support him. |