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Show Superfluous Things. An English writer has been d his attention to the elimination of cessary things, and has succeeded' I sentlng a tentatlvo list of artlclMl mankind docs not need. Llko raanj propagandists of a new cult, ha g extremes in certain instances, but, whole, makes out a pretty good ct holds, to begin with, that the resM a city docs not require a watch, fl so far as to say that an umbrella'. Indlsponsable, and cites Lord El flold, who never carried an umbri an illustrious example "When It; ho took refugo under tho umbrella-prettiest umbrella-prettiest woman he could see " Tl hat la tabooed by this Iconoclast.: Inventory of superfluous thlass uio nap inui covers iuu kuyiiuio'm front door, which often sadly tajX with tho entranco of tho betotJfc haps bibulous, householder. 'ItTK deemed from abooluto futility by IK er of occasional annoyance." He tm. ns to tho uso of tho tassel on tl umbrella. "Nobody In hla eecaMMj a tassel on an umbrella.'' t Why are thero two buttons, oretlMi on tho sleovo of a coat? Tho a census of his buttons, and foun: Bixty of them woro unnecessary.: particularly anxious as to tho two tm behind on a frock coat. Tak!?S,'i;mi of tho wholo human family, he flnpi thore arc 6CO.0CO.000 buttons wn thorn useless. No one has dlscovMJJT necessity for fourteen or slxtcea H concealed In men's clothes, TJuslBi limit of superfluity. Philadelphia t |