Show bTARBEAHS Tostl the man who writes songs that Sentimental young ladles love to sing is an accomplished amateur upholsterer He spends his leisure in making sofas and cushioned chairs A Manitoba farmer has a garden patch the soil of which is imported bodily from a warmer climate On it he grows vegetables veg-etables which are entirely foreign to his neighborhood Welter Pesant among other reasons Jor his l opposition to woman suffrage says that men has to do the coiuiuering the defending and the providing and they ought to do the governing M Herediu Zolas successful rival for I membership of the French academy is I a mulatto born in Cuba It will he remembered remem-bered that the elder Dumas had a strong stain of negro blood In his veins I Tt Is i aid that Jlme Calve the prima donna of Abbey and Graus Opera company com-pany hostel 1 up an amatory phonographic correspondence with JI Henri Cain 1n artist in Paris whose fiance she is The i i foreign mails carry a wax tube front Chicago every day addressed to 31 Cain I Paris on which are recorded soft Gallic accents which if paid for at the rate that Mme Calve demands for vocal notes would cost the recipient many dollars The Worlds Womans Christian Tempir anee jinion has been preparing a monster polyglot petition against the tiallic in alcohol opium and other legalized vice I to present to all governments of the world I 5 mfoO 2s The petition has recived 2WOOOD signatures I and will be sent around the world in a steamer especially chartered for that purpose pur-pose The government has run short Of stenographers stenog-raphers and typewriter operators In the departments at Washington notwithstanding notwith-standing the large number of patriotic I Americans who are willing to serve their country at so much a day The civil sr vice hoard at Chicago has received orders I to hold examinations for such on March 2J and the order states that male stenographers stenog-raphers only are wanted This looks like another blow at woman suffrage The salaries paid are 31000 and less Bids have been received by the South Park commissioners for the purchase of the Worlds fair buildings Dion Geraldine bid J10COO for the Manufactures building against a bid of only 51515 A wrecking company offered 156ul for all of the buildings build-ings specifying a bid of 1 for the colonnade colon-nade La 1iabida brought WOO Adminis tration 5500 Fisheries 850 and the Transportation Trans-portation Mines Electricity Horticulture and Agriculture brought forth bids from SlCCO to SJOUO The selling prices are not a tithe of what the buildings cost I alias Elizabeth Tarson Is the principal of a school in Chicago and her name appears ap-pears in the ctegl Pl as JI E Tarton She was recently drawn as a I juror ui Judge Burkes court and a notice to that effect left at her residence She appeared in court ready to serve and the I court olliceis were somewhat confounded when she answered to her name The judge said he would take under advisement advise-ment the question of permitting her to act A syndicate in Chicago has made a proposition prop-osition to the commissioners of Cook county and the tnitert States postofiice department to tear dowivthe county courthouse court-house and the federal imiding which are tumbling about the ears of the occupants and to erect Upon the site two fifteen story edifices ihe county and the post ofiice department will be given the Ube of the first five stones in each building rent free for ninetynine years in consideration consid-eration of the ground lease The AViuow lioblnton and her pretty daughter live in the old town of Green port L I Early one morning recently they were aroused by a burglar trying to break into the house No help was at hand and the pair were unarmed Suddenly Sudden-ly the widow remeI q rca an old foghorn fog-horn that had been in service when her husband was on the high seas She put it to her lips and blew a blast that awoke nil the old salts in the village The chief of police a retired sea captain came running run-ning out of the house and as the widow wound the horn again he yelled Avast there Hard aport you lubber All the old sailers In town turned out and astern a-stern cliu e of the burglar resulted In his being overhauled brought to windward and sailed into the calaboose |