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Show Topics of tne Day "CITY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE." Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis might do well to pattern after Spokane, Wash. Eighty thousand people In that thriving and enterprising enterpris-ing Western city are working for a city beautiful. Practically the entire population popu-lation has united in a tremendous movement to clean up the city, and plant trees and shrubs on March SI, an arbor day especially appointed by the Mayor for that purpose. School children, chil-dren, business men and women are all working for the same end. Fifty committees com-mittees are laying their plans and mass meetings and committee meetings are being held In every part of the city. The entire work Is In charge of the City Beautiful committee of tho 150.000 club of Spokane. One committee has engaged sixty teams and will employ seventy-five for cleaning up properties on that day. The City Beautiful committee com-mittee has Issued an Illustrated pamphlet, pamph-let, showing what Is needed to make Spokane tho most beautiful city In tho West, and every detail of the work to be done on the last day of this month has been outlined. Suggestions are made as to what should be planted to produce uniformity and the best effects. DONKEY VINDICATED. London Trlbi-nc. The donkey has just been vindicated In the French courts. It has been decided de-cided that It Is not libelous to call any one an ass. Tho case came from the Department of the Arlege, where a schoolmaster, after, one supposes, years of patient suffering, wns driven In a moment of fury to write on the copybook of one of his pupils, "This boy is an ass." The boy took the book home to his father, who seoms to have resembled him In some respects, for he promptly began an action for libpl against the schoolmaster. What Is more, he won It in the local courts, and the asses of France suffered under the wrongful imputation until the schoolmaster, school-master, who evidently possesses a certain cer-tain obstinacy of his own, carried his 'appeal to Paris, where the slur and the damages were alike quashed. A GENTLEMAN? Rutland (Vs.) Herald. "I do not know Cardinal Newman's definition of a gentleman nnd have not his works to look it up. but the best known and most comprehensive definition defini-tion In England Is; "A man who dresses for dinner." There are exceptions excep-tions to this rule, of course, but It is far and away the best and truest I have met with." The above Is. something that a Britisher Brit-isher writes to the New York Sun. The definition Is quite near what Is known as an English gentleman, who, by the way, Is a social type. It Is manifestly too narrow for our shores. In this country of ours a man does not havo to dress for dinner In order to become a gentleman. It was an Englishman who once called St. Paul the most perfect per-fect gentleman in history. The apostle In a dress suit would be a theme for a cartoonist. INTEREST AROUSED. Philadelphia Press. "I could die for you," he cried. "You don't say?" retorted tho girl, indifferently. "And," he continued, "my life Is Insured In-sured for 525.000." "I am yours," she cried, "till death." FROM THE JOKEMAKERS. He How long is It since we met? She About two marriages ago. Judga "Peckham's wife doesn't chatter as much as she used to." "No; Peckham cured her. He told her that when her lips were clo'se together to-gether they formed a perfect Cupid's bow." Philadelphia Press. "What do you think of my new overcoat?" over-coat?" said Smith to his wife. "Pretty swell for me. Has one of those long skirts, you see." "Isn't that lovely!" exclaimed Mrs. Smith. "1 can make Wllllo a suit of clothes with that style that won't be all patched together!" Detroit Free Press. The Flirt Congratulate me. Tho Bachelor Really? i "Yes, I'm going to be married." "I'm so glad." "Are you, really?" "Yes, really! You know I was always al-ways a little afraid of you !" Yonkcrs Statesman. "What books have benefited you most?" asked the literary woman. "I forget the nulhors' names," answered an-swered Mrs. Trlmm. "But they were mostly cook books." Washington Star. Fred I wonder why the game of poker is so called'' Joe Probably because .a fellow Is apt to burn his fingers when he gets the wrong end of It. Chicago News. |