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Show HOLD QUEER ANNIVERSARIES People Who Celebrate Dnys to Which Odd Memories Cling. VmonK tho eccentricities of human naturo tho colcbratlnc of queer anniversaries Is perhaps per-haps as llltlo noticed ns any says tho ruts-v,,', ruts-v,,', Gasette. Almost everybody makes merry ovor an anniversary of somo sort, and mnny Tt them are anniversaries tliot would seem to cull for anything rather than merriment. V caustic miuo of humor prompted n Chl-mnn Chl-mnn to Klvn on tho nnnlveraary of his fnnthc? n-law's death a dinner at n fnshlon-kblo fnshlon-kblo resuuranl, to which were Invited such nf hli frlonds ns ho considered were galled hv ll o yoke under which he formerly groaned. Vor n time he koyl this celebration secret. i.ut or. Us comlnzWo. the cars of his wife throuch tho treachery of ono of his cucsts, llmt lady promptly Imposed an Indignant cto. Those, dinners wero slopped suddenly nnd cf- fS'VrttoUinv!! tho spirit that sulcata tho convivial Kntherlncs held by n worthy tr.adcs-S?Jn tr.adcs-S?Jn In llonton " May T. of every year. On tKnt doy many years since, ho met with a .oro accident, which. thouKh It crlppW him . for Hfc wm . iho means of Introducing him to tho llfo'u partner Who bao proved for years , ns devoted n wlfo as for weeks she was a nunc. Another Instance of tho commemoration of tno dato of an accident Is afforded by a lawyer law-yer who, havlnK in hH youth fallen anionic bad ways and companions, was only rescued therefrom by bclns ilunc from a wagon nnd sustaining a broken leg and concussion of tho brain. Durlnc ,tho lonnr convalcsccncu that followed, tho greatness or his errors dawnod upon him, so that, on his complcto recovery, no commenced a new lln. On the anniversary anniver-sary 0f his spill ho always cntcrulns such relatives who care to accept tho Invitation, .w . Icbrat the loss of a smnll fortune that ho had Inherited from his father, a. cor-toln cor-toln merchant holds annually hlRh festival Deprived of that futal competence so Induclvo to sloth, ho found himself, while still a vouth. thrown upon hi own resources. These did not fall him, nnd now. Instead of leading nn Idle and seltlsh life on limited means, aa but for his loss ho would bo dolnj;. he finds himself him-self nmong the most opulent and rcspectablo citizens. of his nattvo town. Many ycarsi back a nrooklyn lady was thrown over by a man to whom she w.is engaged, en-gaged, who subsequently took lo drink and other evil courses that nnnlly landed him In Jail. To mark her senso of crnlltflde for her provldcntlnl Orcnpo she, on tho anniversary of the day when sho first learned thnt ho had broken troth. eIvcs a dinner to which onlv tfcoso sho knows have been Jilted aro cllclblo as truest. "Tho happiest and proudest day of my life was that on which I nrst woro a tail coat." used to declaro a BUbjtantlal down Kast merchant; mer-chant; "and I always keep up the anniversary by asking a lot of boys sartorlally In tho transition state to a Jolly cood dinner, to bo followed by nn equully Jolly good ovenlnc, I Juno 30 Is a red-letter lny nmont: my younK friends; nt leaiit. I do my best to mako It so." |