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Show BITS OF INFORMATION. Wouldn't thero bo a howl If Undo Sam should advonco tho price of post-ago post-ago stamps, on "account of tho Increased In-creased cost of living?" And yet It Is hard to think of nny ono whoso living expenses have Increnscd more rapidly. An English novelist Is In this country coun-try looking for an American who enn bo utilized as the hero In her next book. Somo ono ought to Introduco her to thnt mnn In Denver. Colo., who married his mother-in-law Inst week. A Tennessee mnn hns mndo n rat-tlesnnko rat-tlesnnko belt which ho proposes to present to tho "next Democratic president presi-dent of the United States." To be on tho safo side ho should carefully pro-servo pro-servo It In alcohol. An English scientist fnys that execs-slvo execs-slvo 'eating of prunes has n tendency to shorten llfo nnd produce baldness. And jet, tho bnldheadded bonrder Is Invariably the happiest and merriest In tho lot. The Hon. Hoko Smith and tho Hon. Wm. Watson nppenr to bo rapidly approaching ap-proaching thnt stnto of mutual ndtnlrn-Hon ndtnlrn-Hon usually to bo found nmong members mem-bers of tho snmo church choir. "Sclimltz goes to penltlary througft attorney's blunder," says n hendllno In n Philadelphia paper. Primarily, however, Schmltzs goes to tho penitentiary peniten-tiary through Schmltz's blunder. "Hns MiccasH become n crlmo?" asks Harper's Weekly. It depends upon whnt sort of success you mean; Jcbso James was a Biic'cess and bo wns Cnpt. Kldd In n wny. Tho Bishop of London preached forty for-ty sermons over hero, during tho past flvo weeks. No wonder tho president admires so true nn npostlo of tho strenuous. Lltltz. Pq.. reports ripe strawberries. In tho lato Matt Quay'n time, rlpo Juicy plums wero to bo hnd pretty much all tho yenr round In thnt stnto. So far nono of Lllllnn Russell's ox-husbands ox-husbands hns arisen to disputo her statement thnt "divorce Is tho greatest of nil blessings." Tho ennbrako boars may bo lying low, but the Wnl street vnrlety seems to be up nnd doing. In tho Hnrrlmnn-FIsh fight over tho Alton rood, tho scales seem to bo pretty pret-ty evenly balanced. |