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Show NOTES OF INTEREST. The Harpr county (Kansas) man wha sued his relghbors for 15000 damages got no tetter than a hung Jury TTw neighbors had ridden htm on a rail and ducked him In a horse pond because hs spoke disrespectfully of President Me. Klnle). At the trial It was brought cut that what the man said was this ' McKlnley Is not a d d bit better than I be. and he can afford to tak. the chances of being killed halt a dozen times over at the salar) he gits" This was said before the President died, an not much attention was paid to It it Ihe time. But after the President diet the nMghbors got to thinking It over, and, with much thinking, got madder and madder, and at last the) met In a bod) and rode the man on a rail anl ducked him In the pond New 'iorlt Tribune. "The angel of death came fluttering down one day last week and carrll eft all that was mortal cf our old friend," says a western Kansas paper. And who can question th appropriate ness of an angel coming after an old geezer who has smoked blackstrap tobacco to-bacco drunk forty-rod whisky and cussed like a pirate for more than fifty ) ears Kansas Cit) Journal. An army surgeon back from thi Philippines a)s that while on furlough he visited bharghal and stopped at a hotel. A Russian Prince who was touring tour-ing the world was there, and one day two of Shanghai a leading cltlzni came to call on him They approachJ the English clerk behtnd the desk and ssked. with all due respect. It his Highness, High-ness, etc , was In The clerk calmly vvalkd to the foot of the stairs and jelled, 'Boy' A Chinese servant appeared ap-peared nt the head of the stairs Then quoth the clerk 'bi), boy, one pieces Trine, topside you have got 'Hava got " calml) said the Chinaman. "All right," remarked the cleric to the visitors vis-itors 'lies In his room III senl jour cards up And such tia the surgeon Is 'pidgin' Lngllsh New lork Tribune. Rich gold fields have been discovered on four rivers In the neighborhood ot Posslet bay not far from Chun-Shun, In Manchuria The Chinese authorltlel hsve lea.d th whole territory to Russian Rus-sian concessionaires who are to hanl over 50 per cent of the grcss receipts to the Chinese administration the 1st-tor 1st-tor on Us side undertaking to main t,ln a guard of "TO men A limited liabilit) company Is being formed at Vladivostok to work these gold flelds.-New flelds.-New lork Tribune I I |