Show I THE WIDOW SH SHEARS ARS AND ALL SHE HEARS WS N 1 S N N N The Th late hate D. D i 1 De iDe Forrest Douglass of Springfield Miss Mass who originated the manufacture of wooden legs Just before the he Civil war was particular about his dress says The Republica Republican and it itIs its itis Is s said that he wrought nis artificial 1 legs gs wearing as neat and careful rai raiment ment as he wore wore in public His ills was as was a most cordial and gentle nature and he Naturally was an Interesting talker he had pride in his his' own special Invention invention tion lon which has b been en of so great Importance Import Import- ance One of his favorite stories was of the he tramp tree This was a red willow which sprung from the staff of a tramp the Shakers of Somers gave a aI ameal t to meal fie He Ie stuck his willow s sick ick at at the I edge of a a. brook and there it took root I and grow grew to a lusty tree which Mr Douglass used in his making mak- mak ing lag ng of legs H He had been curious to follow the fortunes of of this tree and and used to say that it it had the genius of the tramp l f r t was sow ow w walking walk walk- lk- lk ing ng over a a. a trea rt of the in earth m Australia Au in in Iria and d as well vell over overmuch overmuch overmuch much of the Tilted S States N New w York Tribune Everybody who bho comeS comes to to Rome says Willi William m E E. Eurtis urtis in The i Ch Chicago go c-go Record Herald Record must e expect to be swindled and disappointed There are many illusions a ou will be greatly disappointed lien disappointed wh n you you approach them and they f fade di away ay Y yo You You- tb 1 jU be sw swindled swin SwIn- n- n died by shopkeepers eE rs hackl n peddlers P and everybody that you have haye anything to do with and the beggars beggar will ill annoy you with their persistence like like the fakirs and flower girls that follow you upon the street but all an this is part part part-of of the he experience of everybody who comes here only such annoyances are greater in n Rome than Rome than in most other places Begging Begging Begging Beg Beg- ging is a profession as in every oth other r Italian city and the profits are much larger arger be because ause there are more strangers to io appeal to None but inexperienced beggars ever approach a native Roman because they know it ft is useless but they save all all- their energy and pathos for strangers particularly Americans and English whom they follow with great nce Two little Philadelphia girls the oth oth- erday day strayed into the realms of theology theology the the- olgy and anthropology though of course they didn't know w it Say Sa said the Hie first wes Dods Dod's little little lit lit- tle tle angels anges isn't we Yeth Yeh lisped the second but we hasn't dot any feathers on uth like the ittle angels my my mamma showed me in ina ina Ina a a picture book Well we had once once dont don't oo 00 know re returned the the first but Dod pulled em emall emall all out aut before Him sent us down here IA i iA A young oung Germantown mother in put put putting ting her year 5 5 year ld son to bed noticed that he h. h clambered ed under the covers without saying his prayers She grew reproachful y Warren mother never knew YO Ito forget your prayers before Indeed mother was the re reply reply re- re ply I I didn't forget farget Grace and I said aid them for four nights during the rain yesterday when we couldn't play We would have gotten through the whole week If nurse had not come to dress us New New Y York rL Tribune t There is a quatrain in an old English says The The Th London Globe which has some present appositeness I I Oh th th-l th Englishman has a courage I rare Hes He's of tyrants a stern resister Though he may not speak in Trafalgar Square Or wed his deceased wife's sister In connection with the new houses be be- ipg erected in Hyde park a a. very vely English English Eng Eng- lish Itch story of the historian Kinglake is told He had doubts about taking the house because of its nearness to the cemetery I should be afraid of gho ghosts ts he said a l. l Oh no sir the attendant there is always a policeman round the corner Kinglake at once clinched the bargain London London Globe A Babu h in India had with great culty obtained an introduction to an Important personage After the interview inter view an English friend met him and Inquired how he got on Oh replied the Babu not very well In Iii Shakes Shakespeare's peares peare's language he praised me with faint damns I |