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Show A r ll na tiuaai story. A large sued rat, long the pet of the) bra no b custom house at Castle Garden, disappeared some time ago. "Charlotte was her name, and (be returned after an dsencfr everal days, but she didn't twin herself. She was not sociable, and when the inspectors tried to approach her she hit at tliem and glared, liounds-ii liounds-ii i an Martin Cot.lin, of the Garden squad, was sent for to end her once happy ci islenee, Before he arrived Charlotte darted out of the otlice. ran madly to the dock and leaped overlwurd. She never ! came to the turfaee. She was mourned for a few day and then fiirsrotten. j A few weoits latT seter-U of the in j siwvtors were seatel on the stringpie., j cliso by their office, when they wet startled by a cat's cry coming from lie-Mitii lie-Mitii them. They wnitd until low water, when I they scarclied und r the iT, hot frmld ! Ihwl no cat. Ther pB,ve up the search, i but no sower had they returned to the I ufiice than the cry u repeated. 1'ruoi I that day the cry has been kept up at io-i io-i tervalaof half an hour. l'ims who : businpse called them to the 'dirk were j annoyed by it. At Uat heroic measures : were deleraiinjsi ii0, and tlw wbol f end of the pier was I or a out and several ', the men made a search. While they were kklng the eric continued, but no rut was reu. Every place w here a cat might bo waa aearchnl without aTaiL : The boards were put lit their place Siiiin, but the cries still continue at regulur intervals. The custom houee men are of tho opinion that it is lb ghoxt of the unfortunate Cliailotie that is haunting tho place New York Star. Tli In MO Timm Lavkwl Cp. An iuciirriniWe Kuiirwand tvaa for tea thirtieth time been before the corree tiiwiul tribunal of Pan for swindling res tauruteur-t out of duinetw. Our ParU Ctirrespoiideut says that be has bean thirteen thir-teen tiwse locked up la asvlutua as kleptomanino, and as oftun eaeaped. Ilia lost offene was ordrrinf 4 ooptoa dinner at a cafe, and when he had dia patched it assorting that ha bad not a farthing in the world. A wrk prsviiunly thecouof a dinner which heat at tae Maiaon d Or and could not pay for cam to flfly-thive franrs. Siifue Tart atfo k s.pimdrrl a fortune of 1,400 a year. According to Dr. Mntol, who was asked to examine him, ha ill holcM case, wholly defleiuut in moral sense, aad diB" gerous. Ho has, howerer, a getilue far getting away from asylnm. The prisoner pris-oner was rrmanited. A letter was fousxl on him to the I hi d'OrUans, bailinf hiot as a fellow trenrherman, who knew how to do honor to the skill f the French chef. London News. |