Show PERSONAL AND GENERAL A A well known English dean recently had had the misfortune to lose his umbrella la and he rather suspected ted that it Its appropriation appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap i b by another had not been al altogether altogether altogether al- al together accidental He therefore used the story to point a a. moral in ln a sermon In Inthe inthe inthe the cathedral adding that that If its Us present possessor would drop it over the wall of ot the deanery deaner he would say no more more about it I Next morning he he repaired to the spot and found his own own umbrella and forty-five forty others New New Ne' York York Tribune Trib u une One of the strangest traits of ot little children is is their utter misunderstanding nd st of of many simple things and the endurance endurance endurance endur endur- ance of ot this misunderstanding with them through years and years Thus ther there Is s a lawyer of this city who thought thought until he be was as 20 20 or 21 years old that there there was there was as such such a word as a's as pard In the language His father a religious man had said grace grac always at the table and the boy had heard In Incuriously incuriously incuriously in- in curiously three times a day i pard ard in the grace without comprehending comprehending compre compre- hending handing in the least that pardon our sins were the words his father actually had spoken This boy was always misapprehending misapprehending misapprehending mis mis- apprehending r religious things The t J phrase For what we may receive entered entered entered en en- his brain each as What Mary Seeve and he Would wonder Idly who Mary Seeve might b be b. Even the first line of his nightly prayer meant nothing t to him pro pro pronounced flounced it in one swift word and he neither knew nor cared to know what meant Philadelphia Philadelphia Rec Rec- ord Immediately on th the Issue of ot iCing Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward vrr VIls stamps says a a. correspondent correspond correspond- Tent ent en an n Am rc it ler sl letters etters to himself with Queen Victorias Victoria's stamp and nd King Edwards Edward's stamp under one postmark dated January 1 1902 These treasures he Is retailing at 1 51 each and the trade name is Double Joes a name that was formerly given to gold old C coins Ps C oj F Ferdinand and Isabella with the double heads of both sovereigns sovereigns sovereigns on the face Joes Double can still be manufactured but they can no nol no l longer nger be given giten the historic postmark of ot Janu January 1 1902 London 02 London News JI 3 I II IIA A young girl ac according to the Library Journal came into a a. public library and asked for a book about worms because she had to teach the subject next morn- morn Ing ng It was duly handed to her I dont don't want these she he said sald I want the he the worms worms th that t tur turn Into butterflies Then Chen she added quite solemnly I dont don't know anything about the subject but I know v the proper proper method method of teaching teach teach- ing ng it That is the important thing And a few days afterward It little boy came Into the same library with a penny penny penny pen pen- ny ny picture of a a cold flabby modern German Madonna and said to the libra ian nan Wl Will t yOU you please tail teJ me if it this this this' is s beautiful The librarian told him that hat she thought it hideous Oh Oh Im I'm Imo so o glad said the child Te Teacher cher ga 4 us is each a picture and told us to live With it until we could se see all i its s beauty uty and Ive I've lived this J for o three weeks weeks' and the more I look at it the the homelier lt It t seems ems to g get t. t |