Show I PEBEO5TAI Mayor Gleason as he hustles about to escape trial in a police court for his I j last assault on a brother statesman I must sigh With envy as he notices how much better such things are arranged in Spain The Duke of Tetuan boxed Ian I-an enemys ears with great severity and ret he will not b forced even to submit the difficulty to the arbitrament j I of battle There was arovocaUon on i t j r both sides so according to the Spanish i experts on honor there was no need of I a duel and of course there will be no I proceedings In court f 1 000 j I Lord Hosebery does not play golf I and In a speech which he made the i i other day at the opening of a new clubhouse club-house by the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing j I I Golf-ing society he seemed disposed to claim eminence for himself because he is one I of the two or three Scotchmen who j have not yielded to the attractions of the game The expremier has nothing I against golf however and he amused j his hearers by telling them about the I impressions it made upon a complete I outsider like himself He was old enough he said to praise it as a game not monopolized by youth and the I thought that by its aid Scotland has once more conquered the world reconciled 1 recon-ciled him to the fact that one could no i I longer walk across the most lonely common or moor in England without running a risk of being hit by small hard balls vigorously propelled from unexpected points of the compass Lord I Rosebery explained his failure to learn the game by saying that he feared it I sayng would engross too much of his time When a man declared he Is once j seriously inoculated with the love of golf he is of very little nnn fni nhpl I pursuits society I know one gentleman gen-tleman at least of considerable possessions 1 posses-sions and large business transactions who declines to open his letters on the morning on which he is goin to play for fear anything in them should distract I dis-tract his attention and a short time ago I saw i as a charge asrainst a distinguished statesman that he distngished gave j too much time to golf and not enough to the house of commons When a man in middle I life makes a deliberate i j I nOri fs se i choice of golf I as his amusement know ing these facts and viewing the infatuation I infat-uation of his friends he is making a choice second only in gravity to the choice of a wife I 000 Cincinnatis art critics are finding savage fault with a portrait of exAttor i i ney General Judson Harmon ppjnted j by a local artist and destined to hang I with other portraits of attorney generals gen-erals in the office at Washington snI general opinion is that while the resemblance re-semblance Is good so far as form of feature goes the color is so high that people will think the picture represents I the effects of a too generous banquet I When this theory was brought to Judge Harmons attention he said the artist had been misled by his subjects natural I nat-ural modesty I blushed at being looked at so much declared the judge It is not a wine red but a blood red i 4 < < Ei > ih I I have lived In my present home for I 25 years said Governor Budd of Cal i < fornla last week and In nil that time I I I have not had occasion to Inquire the name of a certain street a block away j I from the house I asked now for the I name of the street I could not tell i The governor made this statement while discussing a curious incident I which marked the hearing he gave the I attorney of Theodore Durrant In the course of a plea for his clients pardon i the lawyer Impugned the evidence of a witness I who had been unable to tell I how nyiny steps there were In front of her own door Governor Budd who i has had experience with peoples proneness j prone-ness not to notice many things constantly I con-stantly before their eyes asked the I lawyer If he could answer In regard to i his own house the question which had puzzled the dangerous witness The I i lawyer hesitated a moment and then made s runlv which subsenuent in I vSstlgatlon proved to be amusingly inaccurate J in-accurate He not only gave the wrong tbIhe I number of steps but he said they i ere were in two divisions whereas In reality they were in three I told him says the governor with the easy I colloquialism that is i permitted in the west even to the occupants of gubernatorial guber-natorial chairs that he had made a I good bluff but was now in the position of the man whose bluff is called I |