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Show 44 4 I H-- f H-4-4- 4-4- -C 4-- I n The Bonds of "Red Tdpe" j ...... T other example of entanglement la red tape. A certain telegraph rlerk.know-Ing rlerk.know-Ing that "steamship" Is on word, accepted ac-cepted " s" as one, whereas the authorities au-thorities decree that It I two words. He was told that he mem either re-rover re-rover the halfpenny thst was ahort or tender It Mmef. He elected to attempt at-tempt the former task In preference) to depleting his own'' pa keta. Written Writ-ten requests w re' forwar.Iel to th ender of the t li'gram. but aa thfvt were Ignored and as he Hved foor mile) away. drive was taken to bl honse. at aa outlay of seven' shillings and nin('nce. At the time this Information Informa-tion was jtJeaard about ninety letters had pased upon the subject, and the halfpenny had not yet been forthcoming. forthcom-ing. In this roeneetion may be told little lit-tle story of the final signing of the peace treaty between America and Fpaln. The commissioner of the two countries, being assembled at the foreign cffli-e of the French republic, and the Important document reqntrtng a seal and ribbon, the representatives of the tx-llig.Tents courteously auxgeot-ed auxgeot-ed that, out of compllm' i,t to France, this necessary ribbon ehotild be a tricolor tri-color one Fortrwlth a tremendous ean h wa Instituted, resulting In th confession that - oC an Inch of the three-colored ribbon could be found Then an Inspiration came to one of th great ones present. He sent a messenger messen-ger post haste to a certain confectioner's confection-er's shop for a pound of chocolate rake, "to be tied w.th a trinor ribbon." rib-bon." and It Is U.at ribbon which today to-day Is attached to the weighty d'plo-matle d'plo-matle instrument In question Cas-aril's Cas-aril's Saturday Journal Two year ago. In auditing the accounts ac-counts of a certain union, the district auditor made the discovery that the turn of one farthing was missing from a balance of one parish. Accordingly he Instructed the local official to find out how the error arose and report all about It. A couple of days afterwards Information duly arrived that the missing farthing had been recovered. Four hour had been spent In the quest of It. and this, and the attendance a second time at the audit, cost the ratepayer rate-payer exactly 20 shillings. An even more smualng case cornea from a district council. I'pon the annual an-nual reappointment of the d -strict medical med-ical officer It was proposed to reapportion reap-portion his salary. The authorities, learning of this. Intimated to the council coun-cil that, regaflleaa of the fact that the proposed reappointment had already Veen advertised as the law prem nbed. It would b requisite in the rlrcum-etanres rlrcum-etanres to advertise It again. The brilliant bril-liant sugg-.tion was. however, conveyed con-veyed that It might be clearly set out In the advertisement that the council did not wish si.y application sent In In answer to It. In a big government building It was decided to celebrate the year of the Jubilees by Introducing an electric light Installation. For some months number of workmen overran the place and clerk and officials were only induced in-duced to put up with the Inconvenience of the present by dreaming of the daa-.':ng daa-.':ng time to come Then suddenly It was discovered that a mistake had been made, a lot of the work was altered, al-tered, and progress went on again at full speed, till at last several of the new lights were actually burning On a fojtgy day, however, all work came to a stop, and It was found that the funds were exhsusted. In the mesa-time mesa-time orders hsd Decn given for removing remov-ing the gas fittings, and. as there was still money in the special fund available avail-able for this purpose, sll the gss brackets, brack-ets, etc.. had been carted swsy. with the coneequenre that the government officials hsd only candles as lllumln-anu lllumln-anu to fall back upon. But even her "Circumlocution Office" methods did not cease. It was now found that no fusd existed out of which candlesticks could be bought, and so the candle In this big public establishment had to be stuck in bottles borrowed from th refreshment re-freshment department The postofJlc supplies us wrtn ar- |