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Show about what a Strauss waltz is ta the society so-ciety women. An old rouster ambled along the levee yesterday thinking of the days when he wasn't making $00 a month with four meals a day. The happy oondition ol the rouster now compared with what it was seemed to amusj him hugely, and he broke out: Da rousters In de c.inln, Et.n' from de plate; Do cap'n'son de levee Totln' In de-freight. De stewahd and de pilot, De cook and de clerk. Is 1 ampin's on de gang plank, Doln' mgjab's work. Mcmpl i: Aialanche. Late comers from the Adirondacks tell pleasant stories of an amateur performance per-formance of "As You Like It" with real woodland scenery. The play, or at least the woodland scones, was given by some pupils of Professor Davidson's Keen Valley settlement, and the result was highly satisfactory. Professor Davidson brought his flock over to St. Hubert's Inn, and the stage was the shaded sward near the camp of S. B. Western, superintendent of the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Neighborhood Guild. Perci-val Perci-val Chubb played Touchstone in admirable admir-able fashion, and a lovely young woman from Virginia was an irresistible Rosalind. Rosa-lind. A bit of rising ground formed a natural amphitheater, from which the audience viewed the play. The performance per-formance was a matinee, and it was followed at night by arousing campfire, round which actors and audience gathered to hear Profeseor Davidson recite a favorite Scotch poem. New York Star. V What a wonderful old man it is! We do not mean Mr. Gladstone, but John Stuart Blackie, of Scotland. The ex-professor ex-professor of Greek, who has stirred up Scotland in so many ways by his eccentricities eccen-tricities and his genius, writes as brilliantly bril-liantly at the age of eighty as did half a century ago. Here he is with a new book, in which ho demounces the "multitudinous "mul-titudinous babblement and insolent centralization of the British parliament," parlia-ment," and wants a parliament for Edinburgh. Ed-inburgh. It is astonishing what an amount of vitality there is in the short, thin, meager frame of the old professor. He is so. meager that one would almost fancy a puff of wind would blow him over. New Zealand Tablet. Here are some sweet and pertiment quotations for tray clothes, table scarfs, serviettes and doylies: "Drink to me only with thine eyes," "Honeyed dew is not sweeter than thy lips," "Breakfast "Break-fast with what appetite you can." f'Good wine and good welcome can make good people," "Why are pleasant hours so short?" The absent ones to memory dear:" "May good digestion wniton appetite, and health om both;" "Small cheer but great welcome make a merry feast;" "Bread is the staff of life;" "Enough is as good as a feat;" "Every day brings its own bread with it;" "Wa.ie not. want not;" "Trust begets truth;" "Try before you tread;" "Better half a loaf than no bread;" "Crumb not your bread before you tasee your porridge;" "There ne'er was a nre without some reek;" "God be wi'ye." New York Evening World. ONE THING AND ANOTHER. I saw a letter recently postmarked "Negro Foot, Va." Tho name seemed so odd for a government postoflice that I consulted an official postal guide to see if "Uncle Sam" indorsed it. A glance through tho guide discovered hundreds of others as little creditablo to his taste and dignity. For instance, "Big Foot" is an office in Indiana, "Pig" in Kentucky, Ken-tucky, "Skull Bone," and "Mouse Tail" n Tennessoe "Buzzard's Roost" in Georgia, and "Corn Cob" in South Carolina. "Number Ono" is a Maine poBtofllce and Vermont has a "Bread Loaf." In New York we have a 'Trom-iaed 'Trom-iaed Land," a "Painted Post," "Good Ground" and "Half Moon." Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania might have selected bettor sounding sound-ing names than "Bird-in-Hand," "Bean," "Bald Eagle," "Burning Bush," "Darling," "Good Interest," and "Gum Tree" "Gunpowur" is in Maryland, while "Old Hundred" and "Alone," with "Negro Foot," are' in Virginia. West Virginia boasts a "Left Hand" and North Carolina the grace of "Charity," blessing of "Prosperity" and "Forks of Pigeon." Georgia is discredited by a "Dirt Town" and has "Alligator," "Fish and "Cold Water." "Pay UP" and "Cut Off" are also Georgia offices. "Big Coon," "Coal Fire" and "Ked Rose" are in Alabama, and "Bannanas" in Florida. I'll wager you never heard of half of those. North American. The policeman of whom this story is told is a big, handsome fellow, with the brawn of a Hercules and more grit than can be found in a plate of restaurant restaur-ant baked beans. A couple of nights ago he had arrested a desperate character, charac-ter, who Mas wanted for a serious crime. Having handcuffed him he was taking him to the station. They had reached one of tho most lawless parts of tho city when the prisoner said: " you. It's a good thing for you that you've got those 'comealongs' on me, or you'd never get me to the station you or no other man." "I wouldn't? " replied the officer. "It only takes n minute to take them off," With that he pulled out the key, took off the bracelets, and put them in his pocKets. "Will you come now? " said the officer, doubling up a list like a Westbalia ham and advancing a step or so forward. "Oh, if you are going to fight I'll come," the thoroughly cowed "crook." The officer looked at him a moment with disgust, and then taking him by the collar lod the meekest man in the States to the station like a delinquent schoolboy. Buffalo Courier. xhere is nothing dearer to a darky's heart than a good rhythm to which he ,can keep in time the movement of his feet. The rousters on the levee are seized with a wonderful nervousness in their feet when one of them suddenly starts up with an accented verse. The old steamboat rhymes are to the roust- |