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Show l.iri'KIt AMI t 0lr:Nr:i. Three toughs stooped at a small cabin at Iowa Gulch. Colo., recently and or-ilerer or-ilerer Miss limit lo sot out a sipiaro meal. Slut was alone. but had a pistol ami lots of plucks. She drew a bead mi the nearest, lough and pulled the trigger. trig-ger. He left a second later wilh a shattered checked bone, mid his companions com-panions had to carry him Into the brush. Mrs. Mary Frohmau, of New York, "put out a' big washing'' tho day her husband died. Afterward lm had tho parlor window shades drawn no, and placed in tho window pictures of herself and husband, draped iu red, white and blue, in the basement window wero displayed a pair of scales and a bologna sausage, also draped Iu red, white aud blue. The number of farewell dinners given In Toole, the very popular Knglish comedian, com-edian, Iu London w as remarkable. Tim actresses; being denied admission to the dinner given him by hi professional brothers, organi.cd one for hluiselve and carried It out wilh great magulll-ceuce, magulll-ceuce, Mr. Tooht beiug the only man present. Flleu Terry presided. A man who In a cr legged w ay monopoll.ed two elevated car seat In New York was pushed rather vigorously by an Irishman who wedged III way into olio of them. "Why didn't you ask for a seat?" asked tin) llrst man, gruffly. "Shore, how was I to know v could Nphuko Knglish! " was the reply, to the amusement of tho (jthor Intoning passengers. The iMiard of health in San Francisco is busy discussing the problem of how lo combat leprosy. Tho disoano is said to 1st constantly making greater inroads upon tho while population, aud thu advisability of establishing a laareitn is seriously considered. At a recent meeting thu board appointed a committee commit-tee to examine Into the matter, loaseer-tain loaseer-tain the cause of the rapid increase. f leprosy, its eoiittigioiisrie, the extent of its Inroads upon the white population aud thu best methods for Its removal. The latest report nf the llirmlnghaui free libraries committee show that the book readers of tho past your were divided a follow: Scholars and students, stud-ents, 1.!)I2, clerks and bookkeoer, l.HiH; crrund and ollico bo.v, .Mil; t.iaebers, . 2!W; shop assistants, Ut; jowelery, Ulfl: compositor and printer, prin-ter, 1U2; milliner and dressmaker, 11)0. Almost at thu bottom of thu list come journalist, six; newsagent, two: reporter, two, I (his Ih-cbiiw they have libraries of their o it, or lcaii the people who wrilu In newspapers lose the taste for reading books' ... |