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Show A DOUBLE ORDER. The Boston Commercial Advertiser says : That was rather unkind on the undertaker when two royaler ing blades rang fiercely at his door at about two in the morning. '"What's wanted ?' queried Mis. Crape, from an open window. "Wo want Mr. Crape; d'z--' live ere V I ''Ws, but he can't see you at this "hour." "Muss see him, madam; got very 'mportant order -dcuble order-must order-must see him." So madame retired from the window, win-dow, roused her slumbering loid, who dressed as expeditious y as p-tssib.e, .1 revolving in his mind, meantime, .'.whether' ho nm-n! : pin an exira 'j charge of twenty dollars into liui ; of the enniacs or cotlhi tor hi; urgent customer. Having imr:."a on his clothes and ha.-teued to the front door, h. foand on opening it two young nu n in waiting. " 'Stb.ii Mler Crape ?" "Yes, sir, that is my name (wishing irs hands with invisible soap). , "Mister Crape, thundcllaker, wo want." "1 Mr. Crape, the undertaker, gentlemen " Voa .mi - 'a o mistake bout that?" ,. . 'Vertainlv," --ail Crape, shivering in the nii:! t wind, "I am the under-' under-' laker; now what do you wish to order ?" "Whv, two beers, to bo sure." Crape slammed the door together with vigor as Ins customers walked away. A Wah.L-h avenue man suggests that if Mrs. Moullon will take out a patent e:. her mode of kissing an ouu-ido man in such a way that he will not kus back, he will pay $10,000 (or the riht to use it in Chicaco alone. He Lhinr.s tho demand among married men with kisiug wives would be "simply immense." He forgets that perhaps the wives would not use the patent even if their hus-I hus-I bands bought and made them a present pre-sent of it. |