Show bear and mule L last la hist list st saturday a gent lenia lenla n living IV near madison station on tho tilo memphis Us and little koek kock road left hh ids home flome to go to tho the village he had not proceeded more than two hundred d yards mounted oil on a lineal descendant of balsams Bala Rala ams asi ask ass when lie encountered a great greasy blackbear blaek black bear the bear was astonished and without taking time to think flunk hurried up a scaly sealy bark hiek hick ory and seated himself liim self seif very comfortably fort ably oil on a a limb thirty or forty feet from tile the ground the tho farmer was vas completely 0 M 1 e e 1 puzzled if lie lle rode baek back to 0 iii idl hia hla 4 1 aliouse se to get his gun tile the bear would surely escape he therefore tied tile the mule a long iong ear car cc ed melancholy mule forty or nifty fifty years of age sage to the body of the tile t tree ree reo the tiie farmer started to his life house and bruin divining liis his plan plain deemed it proper to get got et away he doubtless suspected eliat griat a gun was waa coming he came slowly down tearing the tile hark bark from front tile tiie body bod y of tild tree it rattled about the tile sleepy mules buies head heady who had not yet seen the tile bear and dreamed not of the tile proximity of the tile ugly 0 beast the tile bear descended slowly till lie was within five feet of the mules great ugly head then it was that the stupid innocent unsuspecting 1 acting 0 muio mulo looked up he li had at never seen a a bear before his knees smote one ono another ho grew pale in lit the tile face his hia eyes were projected from his head farmer said half a foot his t tail tall was slowly lifted tile the hairs bairs turned awry till it stood at an tit trl tri angle of for degrees above his spinal column and then it was that tile tiie mule Il loved a si sih sigh h and a smile it was kii kli an tit unearthly sound tile the farmer fifty yards away say says it shook the ground where lie stood watching the alto progress of events the tue bear suddenly twisted itself about and re ascended to its perch themble fell at the base of the tree he lay jay still and apparently lifeless for a time when wilen bruin ilu lit again a aln ain attempted the tile descent but the ite ter terrified rifled mule howled and and roared even more terribly and piteously when the tile bark began to fall and lie he dashed and danced about the tree so frantically that bruin ll 11 hesitated esita ted and finally in stupefied amazement sat upon the dile ilic limb upon which he first rested the farmer came with his rifle and a bullet soon coon qoon stopped the pulse beats of the bear it fell heavily beside the mule and strange to tell askold as told to tb us the tiie mule and bear died side b by side the one of a mortal wound the other othen of mortal terror the bear was still as black as E erebus rebus the mules mums face was nas vas already alread y white with all an indescribable agony of mortal fear memphis AI aidea appeal pea an eaton easton pa doctor recen recently ty riesen ted tod hl his son a medical college 0 student with a nice fresh fre sh corpse 1 as a birthday birth day present upon which IK be could laek lack away at ins his leisure A girl with a year sear a ver uses fora for a husband husband ill in tiie tile london papers the tilo trouble is she wants a lord and they aie scarce at it tile tiie price it now noir tunis turns out that louis rouis napoleon entered upon the war with germany in a physical condition utterly unfit for the work and rc re pj of tit tilo 0 campaign his ing disease calculus was frightfully aggravated also ly by horseback ria nid rid ing 31 lue 3 louis blan blanc e supports tho the government of II 11 thlen thiem only to prevent atia alia anarchy reby lie he dislikes tit tilo tile presidential institution and hopes that the present government may calmly if slowly bo be merged into a niora form the spinsters spin of glasgow are pre pro paring a petition for tilo tile enforcement of a parliamentary act of tile the fifteenth century which provides a penalty for any bachelor who should decline an offer of marr marchitte marriage hitte hille from one of the MY fair sex ses |