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Show FORD'S THEATRE. A correspondent writes asking what was done with the theatre in which Abraham Lincoln was shot. After the tragedy in which Lincoln lost his life, the proprietor of the house. John Thompson Ford, was arrested under the suspicion that h: knew something of the plot of assassination. After being held forty days and no connection between him and Booth having come to light, he was released. re-leased. The building was closed immediately after the tragedy, and was bought by the United States government gov-ernment in I SOU It was used as the army medical Jt museum until 1S7. and later as the7cnsion and If records bureau of the war department. We do not know what, disposition has been made of the build- ing since that time. Probably some of our readers can enlighten us and our correspondent. Sixty-nine cents ten years ago had the -same, purchasing power as a dollar today, according to li the statistics of Professor Joseph F. Johnson of ' Xew York university. Further explanation of the meaning of the "high cost of living'' seems superfluous. su-perfluous. Speaking of the conservation of our natural resources, re-sources, care must be taken not to transpose a few letters and make it conversation. The chauffeur ought to be able to keep in pretty good practice by working over the furnace in bad weather. . . , When it was announced that Castro went under the knife, it was probably a relief to him to think that he would e?cape the hammer for a few days. . Notwithstanding the prohibition wave that ha. swept the country, it is asserted that the internal revenue taxes remain about the same a? ever. Lots of women have reputations of bing clc.v-cr, clc.v-cr, but some of them spoil a good dinner in the cooking. February is the month in which the maple sap begins to flow, but the pure food law doesn't prevent pre-vent the maple sirup factories running full time the rest of the year. There is always room for one more at the top, but the bottom is always crowded, so that effort is necessary to get out of it. The legislators are discovering that the job is 4 not much of a sinecure at $3 per. Mighty few of I them but would rather go back home and tend the store from early morn till late at night. A high degree of civilization is attained when half of the people' live off the labor of the other half. Let's be civilized. Then, loo. the increased cost of keeping up ap- 1 ! pcaranees amounts to something in a month or six i weeks. y j Report says there is little change in Wall street. If the big bills hold out they will try to get along, though. . Take comfort, ye fans, in the hope that the Utali j state baseball league may not strike out. The trusts hand it to us like we try to hand ir to the other fellow; they buy in the lowest market and sell in the highest. Horrid trusts! j - One nice thing about these legislative confer- j ences we hear about they are not so important as the conferees think they are. j Xo member of the legislature seems to know A what is going to be done, but he will help to do it. It is reported that the Suez canal pays annual 1 dividends of from 24 to 23 per cent. More water s is needed in the canal. Apropos of the prohibition agitation, it is per- ! 'tinent to print the shortest sentence containing i every letter of the alphabet upon this important subject. The sentence is : ''Pack my box with five jj dozen liquor jugs." Eight words, thirty-two let- j ters, only six repetitions. . if Benzoate of soda may not be particularly harm- 1 ful to the human system. The great objection to e its use is that it permits the manufacturers of food j products to work up inferior products into high- priced staple articles. f I t III I inula, . i N ( , , f 4 ' |