Show THE WIDOW SHEARS AND ALL SHE HEARS j Arsenic tu fumes es' es arising from the paint ot of f his newly decorated bedroom have director of an Undertaking un un- caused aused the death of a business named Robinet at atA A Avignon France Smallpox In the United States as of- of reported from December 28 1901 to o March 7 7 1902 amounted to cases ases with deaths The t total tal forthe for lor lorhe for forthe the he corresponding period In 1901 was cases and lOt deaths British Roman Catholics have been granted a special coronation dispensation dispensa- dispensa tion Ion by the Pope They are to be released released re- re leased eased from abstinence on Friday June and from fasting and abstinence on the day following which Is the vigil of ot Saints Peter and Paul The East End of ot London disappointed disappoint disappoint- ed at not being included In the royal procession Is organizing a monster pe petition pe- pe to their Majesties praying for a royal visit shortly after the coronation The promoters anticipate a million sig sig- natures A story Is told of a a. a a known well pubic public pub pub- Sic lic ic man In London who was to speak at ata a meeting The hour had grown very late ate when he was galled called on for tor his add ad- ad d dress dm ess Ladles Ladies and gentlemen he said my address Is No C Camberwell Camberwell Camber Camber- well road and I want to go go home hom I am sorry Mr lr Cummings but the President cannot be seen today said Lige firmly Great God GodI sputtered the Congressman Congress Cons man as he turned his back on die cite private private rl- rl vate secretary has he got as as- small a as as that In a recent speech Booker T T. Washington Washington Wash- Wash ington rel related ted the story of a negro a-negro who purchased a third-class third ticket and was assigned a se seat t with the first first class class passengers in a stage coach HE Hr was unable anable to understand the distill tion but when the stage tumbled fumbled into a ad d ditch the driver called out The late Bret Harte was a g good fod deal of a recluse In that respect t resembling 1 H Hawthorne lawthorne more mora than any other man of letters In spite of ot his lon long absence from California he never lost the spirit of that Golden State StatS his latest stories of mining camps breathing breath the same air as those he wrote for the Overland Monthly in early days A paper in Norway recently contained the following advertisement I 1 tl the e undersigned declare that through a re regrettable regrettable regrettable re- re mistake J I circulated the rUmor ru rumor rumor rU- rU mor that the house coffee-house ke keeper per Jorgen Jorgen Jorgen Jor- Jor gen Henriksen had drunk a a glass of beer I humbly apologize to Mr Henriksen Henriksen Henriksen Hen Hen- for this unfounded Imputation OLAF F. F LIEN Not all of Uncle Sams Sam's pension money is spent at home for pensioners live in Ireland in England 1 2 In Scotland Scotland Scotland Scot Scot- land 13 in Wales 72 In France 9 in Russia 15 in Norway 27 in Denmark 7 1 in Spain 6 In Portugal 33 in Italy 7 in Turkey and 13 in Africa They all deserve deserve deserve de de- de- de serve well of the country wherever they are Another curious advertisement ap appeared appeared ap- ap the other day in an English pa pa- per It was as follows Wanted by the advertiser situation as plain cook in small family where the mistress is not always at t her heels it causes unpleasantness t then n sh she leaves Any lady that does this sort of thing need not answer this Thirty years ago Miss Rachel DicKson and Peter B Barclay of Middle lown N N. Y were lovers A q quarrel arrel separated separated- I item m z and nd md he Went to Ringold c muty Town Iowa where ere he married His wife art two children hn ren died and lately tie ht followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed lowe them In his will he left lete nil all his state estate tc valued at to tf his his- old ohl sv ut rt who rem remained ln d singe singie l The Italian and French governments have agreed upon a common action in regard to the pirates inhabiting the shores of the Red sea from J Jeddah t to who for the last three months have been very active in these waters Prompt measures will be taken to suppress the marauders France ant and Italy each agreeing to dispatch a cruiser crul- crul ser serto to police the district aff ted Speaking of youthful l editors the Sunday edition of the New York Herald Herald Herald Her Her- ald was begun in 1842 Mr i James Janes Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don Bennett Jr was born at that date and his father announced th the baby editor The Heralds Herald's contemporaries I made a good deal of fun of this bu buthe but the Herald enjoyed the joke as much muchas as anybody and th the announcement was never corrected In New York and other cities extravagant extravagant extravagant funerals with long processions processions' of carriages often fill the the pockets of undertakers and stable keepers while the the money troubles of poor families are made more serious by a foolish ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion for display In some of the country country country coun coun- try parishes Roman Catholic priests Insist that the faithful members of their flocks whose s are scanty shall not hire more than half halt a dozen hacks for the he melancholy parade to the grave This is a prudent prudent- rule worthy of ot approbation It might wets wen be adopted in many cases in our cities A man who was called on ott to address a Sunday-school Sunday in a a. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania- town took the familiar theme of the children who mocked Elijah Elijah- on op his journey to Bethel how Bethel how the youngsters taunted the poor old prophet an and how they were punished when two she bears came out of the wood ar al and I ate ate forty forty- two of them And now c children said the speaker wishing to learn if his talk had produced any moral effect what does this story show Please sir came from a little girl well down downin in itt front it shows how many children two she bears can hold What has become of the widespread craze for rummage sales They were almost Innumerable in many parts of this country a few years ago I Have Ilave ave they departed to the limbo of ot worn- worn out abandoned things like lUte the roller- roller skating rinks rinks' Millions of roller skates I Ifor for hall use were ware sold in the sea seasons ons when the popular fancy tancy for the footgear footgear footgear foot foot- gear of the little wheels was strongest Now there are few rinks anywhere o of the he type formerly so well known and so profitable and roller skates skates- are are us uso d chiefly by little children on the sidewalks sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks and asphalt pavements Shaking their heads dolefully th the destitute victims of the calamity w weep ep over their fate Why do you weep we ask sk Is is 15 there not more food than yo you c can n ea eat and more clothing than you can wear war being sent in every day by the relict jelier expeditions t that at but w we fear Yes they reply regularly for we will have to subscribe each newspaper that al alone ne and unaided brought us relief relief Bursting into a fresh flood of f te tears stand standby standby standby while we they seek their homes by the sad sea waves and ponder r Q on the cumulativeness of fate fate- |