Show STARBEAMS Sorosis owns up to26 and Jt looks very year of its age A fashionable New York woman who spends 70 a week for flowers chiefly violets duplicates that sum every even days for charity Gladstone a London biographer states was strongly inclined to study for the church at one period of his youth He would have made a prime minister Italy is facing a monetary situation much like that which prevails here Although the country Is nearly bank upt the banks are flooded with money and as there are no new undertakings his capital lies idle and accumulates It has been settled that Queen Lili ukalina is to lecture in this country George Francis Train is already on the platform and there is a possibility of Miss Pollard going on the stage There is a pleasant prospect for a God fear log man The Emperor William of Germany ells the milk from his farms at Pots dam in Berlin Carts bearing his name may be seen on the streets of the cap tal and the drivers may be stopped by anyone who wishes to purchase even a small quantity of milk Mrs Cleveland takes more outdoor exercise nowadays than she used to take Until quite recently she was rarely seen In the street except in a carriage but now she may TJC frequent 11 observed out walking attired very imply In modest costumes She Is aid to be growing stout The badge of the Daughters of the American Revolution is very appropriate appro-priate There is a silver distaff show ng the flax and over it a thirteen poked wheel of gold On the dark blue enameled edge is the name of the society and around It are thirteen tars Many of the members have a diamond set in each star 1 Within the last fiftyfour years Rock port Mass has had but two town lerks Colonel William Poole and his son Calvin W Pool The former served from the Incorporation of the town in 1840 until I860 and the latter has held the office since the last named date The Yankees of the old Bay state are great stayers Letters just published written dur log the seige of Paris show what high prices were paid for curious meats A certain M Deboos bought up the Zoological logical garden and sold the animals at a profit The cassowary sold for 40 and the kangaroo for only 20 Two camels brought 1000 and a wild boar 440 Elephants flesh was a luxury and the two were sold as steaks for 5400 Woodverest on the Hudson is the country estate of Miss Helen Gould Here at Easter were gathered a con Iderable number of maimed and needy waifs from New York and to hem Miss Gould related in simple and touching language the story of the resurrection res-urrection Orchids and Easter lilies were banked in all of the windows and to the little outcasts of the street the whole scene looked like fairyland Workmen laying a trolley line against the orders of the court in New York being interfered with by deputy sheriffs defended themselves in a unique manner They warned the deputy dep-uty sheriffs away and not succeeding in bluffing them went after them with live wires They held the live wires with rubber gloves and touched up u the sheriffs until the roared with pain and eventually gave up the fight What a nice clean town Chicago is politically An alderman is accused of helping to rob a man of 28000 and its it-s known to the police that he was present at a division of the stolen money mon-ey in a room In a hotel and received his share The police will not arrest him and the prosecuting attorney will not prosecute him for political reasons The man who was robbed will not make a move in the matter because the > thieves have promised to give him back onethird of his own money which was stolen while if he prosecutes he will get none of it Miss Mamie Bunch of Arcola III has a new method ofc winning votes She wanted the nomination for superintendent super-intendent of public school and had five male competitors On the day of the primaries she went to the polls and pinned a pretty bouquet on the coat of every voter So well did the scheme work that she captured the nomination nomina-tion by 100 plurality The prevailing style at Arcola primaries heretofore has been the distribution of whisky and cigars but Mamie has shown the possibilities of womens methods in politics pol-itics should equal suffrage ever prevail |