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Show i ! Lent hes'ius next Wednesday; so got I zood and ready then- to forsake t lio ' world, the Mesh, aud the devil. H'- William Walsou has written an '"'ode" to Charles Pickens. This is the most unkindest cut of all. Aud Dickens dend, and can't resent itf A Buffalo woman says that she cau Jt live with ber husband because he a H, bald. Perhaps sho has the hair-pulling ha bit. and is tho cuuso of his baldness, l Perhaps now Unit tho Scuatc Cornell Corn-ell mitlec on Privileges aud Elections baa H' "tired" its stcuographcr, it may think' it has done cuourIi, aud won't lire Lor-jiner. Lor-jiner. H. Speaker Champ Clark says that the Democratic inquiry into the existence and eUls of the "money trust" will Hj be nonpartisan aud thorough, giving his rensou for that opinion. But then. Champ is such a joker! H; Boston Globe: "It is astonishing how many woll educated people arc a littlo laiuo on mathematics. J:'or in- H ,l stance, just to test you, how much dirt is there in a bole 5'j t'oct loug, Vi feet wide aud 3 feet deep?" H' The death of General dames B. Weaver recalls vividly the old "grccn-H "grccn-H l back." fights, ami incidentally the fake ;! Jiryan idea of making the silver dollar a 6ort of metallic greenback, the less I the real value in it the better for him. H. Russia is now accusing Sbuster of irregularities iu his accounts. This is H, understood, however, to lu strictly from tho Russian standpoint, that he made payments to those whom .Russia doesn't think ought lo have got the H. .St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "By a. foiuuidcucc Chiua became a republic on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, llis-lorians llis-lorians of the future will trace the con-l.iuuiug con-l.iuuiug causo nud effect iu the great I struggle for the preservation of the I America Union." It couldn't have a better name-day. . It seems that the House committee i to investigate the sugar trupt has got so far alon that it finds such trust actually io exist. This is astonishius ' acutcucss. But an inquiry of auy house holder or "provider" would have brought that iuformutiou without the cost of official inquiry. Vuan Shi Kui appears cuaniorcd of the climate of Pekiug, and sadly dis-iruslful dis-iruslful of that at iNuukihfr. Evidently Evident-ly he fears a roturn of that trouble with his sure foot if he w!nt south. As prestdeut of tho republic of Clung H: Hwa ho evidently thinks that Peking Ht is the ideal place, aud bo may be wiser in this thau those who urge a change. curious "holier than thou" movo H, appears in Germany, whore Dr. Spahn, H'. clerical, elected president of the H' lieichstag, refuses to serve because f- social Democrat has bcon elected vice-Hj; vice-Hj; president. Tbia Trill undoubtedly add to Hj; the partisan rancor, and Ti'ill serve uo good or useful purpose, but will servo only as an exhibition of .spite and m. haughty pride. It appears from Lieutenant Fields' HL explanation, that he made the mistake of "invading" .Mexico with his little equad of (J. S. troops, by taking the uual car route, on a street car, which included a loop to Juarez and a return H. to his destination three blocks away, Hn on the American side. If he had been fl allowed to proceed quietly, he would HLj liavo been but a few minutes ou INlexi- M can soil, aud no notico would have H been taien of bis " invasion." 7t was 'Kexienn nervousness that caused tho The Osdcu Standard calls upon The Tribune to retract in the matter of the 1, itory of the banquet in Xcw York, where Col. Roosevelt aud Air. Schiff Kpoke at cross purposes iu regard to H. the appointment of the Hon. Oscar S. Straus to be Secretary of Commerce md Labor; it says that the story has been denied by both Col. Roone(dt and Mr. SclilB". Wc found the storv ndi- H' toriallj' narrated in Financial America, a conserTativo, reputable paper of New York City, and bavo scon 'no denial of it by anybody. Wc have. no reason lo doubt Us truth. .If it is not true, it is probably on I ho basis that it's loo good lo be l.rui'. |