Show J. J S. S Kaneen was once mayor of Virginia Virgini City and ind lived there twenty-five twenty years We have not heard leard from him for a long time and had suspected that he had gone with the majority but here comes from rom San Rafael Cal from Rev N. N E. E Clemenson who Wilo used to be in this state a notice of a grand banquet and reception given in honor of Mr Kaneen Kaneen Ka Ka- Ka- Ka neen on the night of the in st st. by the Odd Fellows Fellows Fel Fel- lows by lodge No the occasion being Mr 11 Kaneen's Kaneen's Ka Ka- Ka- Ka neen's first eighty-first birthday and he having been past master masteJ of the lodge There was also bestowed on hi him n the tile half century jewel in recognition of his his lis more than fifty years of honorable membership iu in iti the fraternity Three hundred guests sat down and made a delightful de- de evening the burden of it being rehearsal of the events of th the long ago there being severa several there of the tile old band in the audience There was one vagabond in the crowd and he recited that anCient ancient an an- poem which no modern m man n has ever heard and which runs something like this There Thero was Rattlesnake Jim Jiin who would out roar a buffalo bull bullS you bet S He lIe would roar all ni night ht and ho he would roar all day dar And I suspect he is iR roaring yet But one ni night ht he ho fell in a prospect hole A roaring bad desi design n And in that hole he ho roared out his soul In tn tho the days of forty S S Mr Kaneen has lived a most sterling life Ho lie Hohas Hohas has held many positions of honor and of profit an and at 81 seems clear brained and and alert alertas as ever Some SOnIC of or t those ose old chaps are arc hard men to throw down Yesterday was St. St Valentines Valentine's day and the hungry hungry hun hun- gry are watching this morning to see if eggs begill begin begin be be- gin gill to decline at all in value St. St Valentine has has' hasa a reputation o of oj having been an humble humbie old priest in Rome something over 1600 years ago and the reason rea rca sen son he lie was sainted was because his neighbors beat him to death one morning Whether that is why the modern Inan man who lives in a boarding house houe has hasa a disposition to beat the first hen to death that he meets after eating one of the eggs which must havu hav been laid about the time the ho holy J. J father was was was' exorcised exorcised exor exor- we do not know but sure pt it is when eggs get to be 10 50 cents a Hozen th they y grow t t. t to become a ama ma matter ter of to almost everybody There were 2000 dogs on exhibition in New Kew NewYork NewYork Y York orIc last week and according to all accounts they had a howling good time and from the papers in New Kew York we learn that the fashion in dogs this year Jear seems to be for the West Highland white terrier terrier ter ter- rier ncr and the rage is for him because he is more uncouth uncouth un un- couth an and uncanny looking than the average Aire Aire- dale laTe This is the thirty-fourth thirty annual show of the Westminster Kennel club in Madison Square Gar Gur Gur- Gur den The dogs this year came from England Englan France Germany and many states including California Cali Cali- fornia t S |