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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. This is the latest from Paris: A toper rapped at the door of the Morgue or dead house. When ques tioned as to what he wanted, he replied re-plied that ho hadn't been at home for a week, and so thought that he would call to see if anything wrong had happened hap-pened to him, and whether he was at the Morgue. ' India, the home of cholera, is just now being ravaged by the disease. At Madras it is particularly violent. Some apprehension is being expressed that the scourge may be about to make one of its periodical sweeps over the globe. This does not necessarily follow. It is always present about the banks of the Ganges. It began its first great tour in 1817, hut did not reach these shores until 1832. They have a very simple way of issuing is-suing readmission tickets to places of amusement in the 1 hilhpme Islands. When a native wishes to leave the apartment with the intention ot return ing he has his naked forearm, near the wrist, stamped as he goes out with a black die, which secures his re-admission re-admission and at the same lime obviates obvi-ates all anxiety as to his losing his ticket. On his return this mark is easily wiped out- In the gravevard at Childwald, England Eng-land are ihe following queer epitaphs : "H-re lic-i Die bniiy of Jnlin, llnried in th c 1 -i -T .-f-h : If he duii't juiiijj :it th hi.-' trnmp. Cull, 'Oy-tcrs -' "Here lies mo and hit thre- daughters, Itrunirht In rt- hy u-ini: Sfilitz watf-r?; If we h.'i'l sinck tu K---m it-We it-We wouldn't LHve l-'-cn in tL- -e In-rc vault?." The Madrid' people are innocent. An elderly gentlemen last week had his eyes suddenly covered in the s reefs by some one behind, who playfully 1 said. "Who is it? Guess?" lie went on guessing through the round of his trierds, when the playful being be bind darted off and left the old gentleman gentle-man of Spain still bewildered and thinking who it could be. He found out when he got home, and missed a pocket-book containing ..y0 francs, also a gold repeater and handsome chain and seals. |