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Show A SURFHISED HUCDAND. Us Comet Uorao l Hint, to .loin In (!e-bratlue (!e-bratlue 1IU Wife's Flnt UMldtnR. When I rcturoed from my latest trip, nys n drummer, I went homo nt something some-thing after ulno o'clock In the evening. There was my houso lighted up from top story to basement; carriages were leaving tho door, nnd n fin Irs reetned to bo golcg on Inside on o prrnd benk-. J let nysetf into tlio 1m .mint with u 'atoh ley and walked !M t'-'Mli..n-rooa Stia'pr of ; -u.ie . -o from tho -ae'.i par a' t"v' !. ill. n I ' l f-loiled 'lughtor and t j:i'or..Ui'n i,jitc(l i hoitof guests I'rcscntly my wife came into tho dlnlruj.room droMS'l lllio a princcrs; sho ran up to ma, Enylag: "Oh. .lack ' Firtfco fjlud jou'vo come uonin uiu i.y "Eo'm 1," said I; "what's tho rnokel surprise party?" "Surpriso pnrty?" said she, with u pout; "no, Indeed, It's the nnulvoitury of my wedding." "Tlldn," said I, "you'ro off; you're way oft. This U tho month of March It was In tho summer wo wru mar-ricdJ" mar-ricdJ" bhe serenely replied" "I know that very well; this is tho nnnlversory of my first marriage (Jo put on your dress suit, dear." Tub tarty who is now known ns Lib duchess of Devonshire ha been for many years nn anonymous contributor to tlio tiatunlny Ilcvlow of London. I'atkiotic William Dcnn IIowclli denies tho published reports that ho Is going nbroud to remain soitral years. Mr. Howells s.iys thnt ho finds nn nbundnnco of rlinrtnlng chnrncterw In American life, nnd that ho has no need to go nhroad to study Kitropunti models. Mil. Jui.iav Hawtiiohm:, nocoinpn-nled nocoinpn-nled by his eldest daughter. Hilt, j-gardo, j-gardo, has been nt tho world's fair Mivon weeks with ft vlow to making literary use of his dally obscrwitlnns. A stranger picked him out in r crowd ono day, through his rcsombluuco to I his father Ot'V ns MAiTAFSASr was. for a inmv her of cnrs, n elork In the French navnl ofllce nnd It wus whllo there. In the Intervals of his otllolnl stuilli iluxt lo prepared hunsolf for a lltriury career ca-reer l'rlor to his publto ilebut n 'i writer his work ns itiporvlicd ami directed bv Flaubert. I |