| Show an unfinished ode the moonbeam on the water dances Somehow I can not think oh brother why glances well yes let have a drink the moonbeam on the water glances did I 1 write that before pudge never mind my fancy dance lh what well just one mote the moonbeam Is running aal to seed it drives me natto what I 1 want but whai t 1 think I 1 need the bame as I 1 gald la knocking on the door 2 3 0 wll you love me when am bald and wlllie why did you do it T no more no more 1 no more azz the ie gibling gigling at fad door oak dOor moon blink 0 wlllie we have mixed you feed the cat zizz new boik rimes hid hie money in the oven chief burgess john doll of pine grove pa belore going to the circus put all his portable wealth 1 in currency in a cigar box and deposited in in the oven of his cold stove which he believed would be it ot commission surely till the sunday baking should be done but mrs doll concluded to get the sunday baking out of the way before her husband et return so she heated up the kitchen stove piping hot when she thought it about right she opened the oven door only to find inside the smoking ashes of a cigar box and something that looked suspiciously like mone I 1 to burn it fairly crumbled as she torched it but she got it out of the oven and smothered the remaining flames as best she could T e burgess will ask uncle sam to put on his best specs and see if he can decipher enough of the ashes currency to redeem whole or in part shocked by parrots profanity the residents in the vicinity of fashionable avenue A and fourteenth street here will take steps to capture a cussing poll parrot that tor sev eral days has inhabited a tall tree near the house of charles annett says a dispatch from bayonne N J mr annett was greeted yesterday with hello uncle hello uncle thinking one of hia nephews was up the tree he cried back better come down before you tall and the parrot answered go soak your head you blank blank this angered mr annett and he decided to chase the boy from the tree when he found that he had been fooled by a parrot he said things dur ing the day a policeman and a score of boys tried to capture the bird but she flew to the topmost branches there she was still cussing to nigh noticed birds absence A curious incident happened in england recently during a wedding the vicar supposing the party to be complete began the service quite un conscious of the fact that the bride had not arrived instead of stopping him the bridegroom best man and others remained silent from sheer nervousness and presently when the bride and her father who had been delayed hurriedly entered the father quaintly apologized by saying I 1 x cuse me for interrupting some mis take has been made I 1 followed and the service was begun again cat helped her mistress A dover N II 11 woman of very regu lar habits Is accustomed to go to the cellar for potatoes at exactly 11 20 a m each day the other day a caller interrupted her usual routine somewhat the family cat easily showed uneasiness and after a time disappeared when the later went to the stairway in response to an unusual sound from that locality she discovered that the cat had al ready brought three moderate sized potatoes from the cellar and was then struggling with a larger one which she was trying to carry up the stairs by grasping one of the spro its in her teeth tame ruffled grouse out of two broods of ruffled grouse hatched last spring by prof hodge of worcester mass four have winter ed and are apparently healthy birds in spite of the fact that they were raised in captivity they are tame and have the run of the hodge place like hens they like all ands of fruit and berries and it Is hoped that they will mate and a second genera tion of partridges be raised forty years on the road herbert F brooks ranks well up to toward the dean of new england corn mercial travelers having entered upon the fortieth year of continuous service on april 20 during this time he has been employed by but two lit terent companies the first engagement having lasted for over thirty years mr brooks proposes to retire at the end of the current year bear satisfied with capacity ernest hooker of brandon vt trapped a bear one night recently on the mountain near goshen he took the bear alive to and sold it to charles degarmo who now him on exhibition at his barn ha Is about a year and a halt old and v elgas about pounds he appears perfectly contented and i ea ceable and docile as a dog street musicians barred exeter eng has a bylaw which I 1 unique among prohibitions tn the streets of that city no italian f street musicians are allowed to i lay and when an italian Is seen on any of the roads leading to the city anu v heeling a piano organ he Is stopped and sent back to where he came from had competency hidden away when laura A ball aged 65 years led a few weeks ago at new haven conn it was supposed she had not left any estate but the administrator has found nearly 12 in stocks an cash hidden under the 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