Show tiie the for collecting there is no accounting C for the eccentricities tri cities cs of people beset with a mania for collecting I 1 was in a dealers recently when an old man came in with a bundle of prints to sell he needed money lie said and lie he allowed the prints which were all valuable old line engravings to boata go at a ridiculous sacrifice instead of 0 departing when lie he got the money ho he began to forage on the book shelves he ha kept at it tor for an hour and finally bought a couple of books that cost him nearly every copper lie he had got tor for the prints with these under his arm he trotted off to all appearance quite contented anil and happy at having exchanged one encumbrance for another at a heavy beavy sacrifice alfred Trum blein in new york news |