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Show ALL SORTS. In reading about tho revenue you will usually get a clearer meaning of tho subject if vou will substitute "tax" for "tariff." Tariff is a tax. There must have been a good deal of trouble in the old world to have provoked pro-voked the remark "an honest man is the noblest work of God." Henry Irving has been nominated for parliament. He promptly declined tho honor. Ho has too much sense to spoil a good artist for a poor politician. Bay City, Mich., claims that it can make salt for eight cents a barrel. It looks as if Iho saline element in the world might become a drug iu tho market. Halstcad says Senator Ingalls is to statesmanship what Walt Whitmau is to poetry. To know whether this is a compliment or a slur one should know how Mr. Halstead regards Whitman's poetry, A Chicago paper says there are 200 millionaires in that city, whose aggregate aggre-gate wealth is over $.-(00,000,000. Vet the assessed valuation of property in that city is oulv $200,000,000. There must be a good deal of artful dodgine up there. b It is agreeable to see a man with a sense of the propriety of things. A clergyman named Fiddle refused to accept the title of D. D. because, as he said, ho "didn't want to be called Rev-Ichabod Rev-Ichabod Fiddle, D. D." During a thunderstorm a few nights ago a large oak tree in the masonic graveyard of Salem, Va., was struck by lightning and rent from top to bottom. hilo looking at the ruin the next morning Matthew Turner, who has charge of the cemetery, spied an object whicn bad fallen from the cloven trunk Picking it up and cutting away the mass of moss, fungus and earth with which it was crusted over, he found that it was a large old-fashioned teapot of solid si.ver. Opening it he discovered that it contained the skull of an infant a few days old and further investigation showed the teapot to lwar the follow-I,c?.JIl.Vriinion: follow-I,c?.JIl.Vriinion: "From 'J- to R. L., |