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Show PERSONAL MENTION. In the course of an investigation Into a ballot-box fraud at Pottsvllle, Pa., Peter Calosky, a member of the election board, was put upon the Btand. He swore that he could neither read nor write. Congressman FInley of South Carolina has no ear for music, and ho Is not unwilling un-willing to. exaggerate his falling. "Don't you know that piece?" a friend asked him at a concert "What is it?" he replied "Why, that's 'America!' " the friend exclaimed, ex-claimed, and Mr. Finley asked Innocently, "North or South?" i o Philip Hale, the Boston musical critic and annotator of tho symphony programme pro-gramme books, was talking not long ago with a woman who Is 'strenuously pursuing pursu-ing musical culture. "Mr. Hale," she asked him. "what Is tho difference between be-tween tho first nnd second violin In an orchestra?" or-chestra?" "About 510 a concert, madam," replied the critic. This Is how a Kansas candidate opened his speech when addressing the free and independent last week: "When the prlmo-dlal, prlmo-dlal, atomic, chlmpanzccficd. up-country globules begin tho agitaUon of the fill-greed fill-greed and bedizened ornamentation of their bc-dlamitlc Imaginations, In tho belief thnt they aro working out the substratum of cold facts In connection with State politics, pol-itics, they but emphasize the declaration that great men are not always wise, neither nei-ther do the aged withstand wisdom." Peter Sater of Sioux Falls is the name of a strong man who is surpassing all by his marvelous feats. Ho Is a Norwegian, about 2-1 Sater is a section hand on tho Great Northern between Sioux Falls and Garrctson. His great strength lies chiefly In his Jaws. On ono occasion he fastened a strap around an anvil In a blacksmith shop, placed the end of the strap between his teeth and walked away with tho anvil. an-vil. At another time by means of a ropo and his teeth he lifted a 300-pound grnn-lto grnn-lto Jiltching block clear of the ground. |