Show CONFIDENTIAL CHAT How ON earth could a man conscientiously con-scientiously give this show such a notice 1 asked a friend of mine as he picked up an exchange Whisper it not abroad I replied tut the editor of the paper is also manager of the Opera Houseand the company you Will perceive plays there two nights THE COMMITTEE in charge of the old folks excursion have once more gladdened glad-dened the lives of the aged within our gates and made one day in the year replete with sunshine Each sear sees many additional applicants for ticketE > and on the last occasion the committee I felt compelled to limit the number of aids taken along and permit no one under un-der 70 to attend unless the illhealth of the applicant absolutely demanded an attendant The pleasing feature of these affairs is that the age of the applicant ap-plicant 13 the only requisitehis color race or religion is not questioned As to the expense attached the committee say there is absolutely no trouble in raising the amount required each year seeing a more liberal disposition on the part of those approached Let the good work go on and in a few years time when the generous largehearted men who first conceived tue idea are entitled to be called oldfolks the young and rnidaleaged of the present day will see to it that they have seats of honor on the occasion of all such gatherings SERIOUSLY SAYS Labouchere in London Lon-don Truth I cant help thinking that the wickedness of court ladies in the Eighteenth Century must have lain chiefly in their looks and talk In judging of their morals we should first glance at their surroundings which were all hindrances to immorality Their chairs and sofas appear to us because be-cause of the rounded lines in the medallion medal-lion back luxurious But just sit down on them if you are tired and want to loll and you will hind that they were made for Spartans and not for lazy reclining sultanas or such like You have to keep bolt upright on them The complexion of the Eighteenth Century bsauty was not you will ob serve for close inspection it being artificial And when there was a run for coiffeurs al a mode the hair of a fashionable belle was dressed once in three or four days There was a deal of Buffering pour etre belle To begin with natural rest was eschewed and 10 ave the powdered head from being toan d it Was not laid on a pillow for I night the way to keep it in gear being to bit up m bed propped up with pillows There was certainly no laisser altar in th long stiff waist tight as a drum overstays over-stays not hookedandived down the chest as in our moral time but they laced behind and a psrfect armor or buckram and whalebone The brays IU the Eighteenth Century were ouly removed re-moved because only removable oy fill abigail once in twelve hours N > beauty you may depend upon it oghrJ I and threw hot i artillery into her e es but remained all right in her citadel I of hoops whalebones and sedan chair although Cupids disported on ihi panels of the latter There might have been Sir Charles Urandison kissing of fair Hands and diamond rings as Love liness in all her war paint was box dup d-up in the sedan chair or bolt upngut 011 her sofa Bat what of this My impression im-pression is that there was free trade in talk Sex was sunk and what is known as after dinner liberty or conversation was all around admitted But tuere was no Zolaism THE MAN who says it doesnt pay to advertise will spend a week in scheming schem-ing and plotting to obtain a mention ol his name in the columns of the paper whose influence he attempts to despise YES SAID the sweet girl graduate in a burst of confidence of course she was not a Salt Laker my education is now complete but still I am not altogether al-together happy Mamma and papa unfortunately have a habit of pro flouncing their words so badly and they know so little about polite litera ture and the sciences you know that it really is quite a hardship for me to as sociate with them MRS GARFIELD is rich General Gar fields estate netted the widow about 40000 and in addition she received 25000 insurance on his life Congress it will be remembered voted her an annual pension of 5000 and gave her besides 40000 which would have been the balance of the salary due tha Presi dent at the end of his first year In office had he lived The amount of the popular pop-ular subscription raised directly after Garfielda death when invested for her in government bands aggregated 312 000 It will be observed therefore that she is quite comfortable when it comes to hard cash and her yearly income in-come must be at least 25000 PRINCE YON BISMARCK likes cards and has l tit cc record that he Dice played with a political purpose in his mind He sat down at ecarto with the Austrian Plenipotentiary who in a few days would have to discuss with him the ScbleswigHobtein question It was his cue to make his opponent believe that he was a rash man IWd so he played wildly and staked high The effect was that when they came to talk politics he found his opponent deeply impressed with tho belief that Austria must not provoke a state having m its council so reckless a minister A YOUNG man of this city who says a Louisville exchange until recently had lived at the house of his father married mar-ried a few weeks ago and went to live In other apartments Soon after at the end of his days work he left the office bought an evenirg paper and proceeded to his fathers house Eater lug tbe familiar precincts he went to the wash room made his toilet and presented pre-sented Himself at the table The family who bad been watching him curiously eyed him with amusement anti at last his mother inquired I oh r divorce A Push suffused the young mans face which rapidly turned to crimson Leaving the table amid a roar of laughter he hurried out and walked rapidly to his own abode where his young wife was impitintlv and I anxiously awaiting him He had forgotten for-gotten that he was married But his wife will probably help him to remember remem-ber henceforth HUTCHIXSOX Ills must be a lively sort of a place if one is to judge from the Wichita Journal which gives the following account of a very important event Great excitement was caused at Hutchinsou yesterdayby the report that the mule which runs the street car had broken away and was missing A great crowd soon congregated at the car headquarters where it was found the report was only too true Immediately Immedi-ately squads were organized to scour the country and in about two hours the ringing of fire bells and the tooting of whistles announced the fact that tho mule had been found A brass band was immediately improvised and put at the head of the largest procession ever seen in Kansas the mule bringing up behind the music It was estimated that there was fully 700 people in the parade counting men women and children and the jackass and in view of the fact that there was no other Fourth of July celebration this fully filled the bill The mule was led triumphantly to the stable where the car was brought out and in less than three minutes the good people of Hutchinson Hutch-inson wore once more rejoicing that the car was running as if nothing had happened hap-pened Thus ended a memorable day in the history of Hutchinson I RECENT EXPLORATIONS in Spain by two Belgian scientists have resulted in some very interesting discoveries Relics of a prehistoric race have been found in great abundance ranging from the stone age to that of bronze and metals These people buried their dead not only in stone graves or cells out also in great jars of burnt clay accompanied by pieces of pottery and other articles of use and value This form of jar burials is very widespread and examples ex-amples have been found from Japan to Peru These relics are supposed to belong be-long to that ancient race which lived in Europe previous to the Ayrian immigration immi-gration the various branches of which are known as Iberians Pelasgians Li gurians etc according to the country in which they lived Several skeletons were found adorned with silver and gold ornaments One of the most remarkable re-markable relics is a female skull encircled en-circled by a band of silver to which is attached a thin plate of the same metal A year shell mourn thought I meanwhile mean-while On wea th Ill be intent I will do well and offer Belle A fair establishment Ill luck to womans fickleness For scarce a year I reckoned I went to her with proud success i fUiid acr in a ball room dress Quoin she Old friend my second |