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Show A t -1 1 HE story Is cur- new expressions that are constantly I A rent that Senator finding their way into use.. . I was L Jr Depew, having or- first affected when Cleveland sprung iginated a couple the 'innocuous desuetude' upon a con- i it of stories, took tiding public, but I got over that in Jn 3 them to Marshall time and became quite myself again P Wilder, saying: until Santos Dumont launched his 'dir- "My dear Wilder, gible' balloon. This brought on a recur- HE story Is cur- rent that Senator Depew, having originated or-iginated a couple of stories, took them to Marshall P Wilder, saying: "My dear Wilder, new expressions that are constantly finding their way into use. . . I was first affected when Cleveland "sprung the 'innocuous desuetude' upon a confiding con-fiding public, but I got over that in time and became quite myself again until Santos Dumont launched his 'dir-gible' 'dir-gible' balloon. This brought on a recurrence recur-rence of my old malady which has been greatly aggravated by the 'te-trahedral' 'te-trahedral' kite of Prof. Bell. I have called to ask a great favor or you." "My dear senator, any favor that lies within my power I shall be only too happy to grant. What is it?" "I have here two stories which I have written and am anxious to hear them told before I tell them myself, in order to learn how they will go, and I thought that you could arrange to .give them at one of your entertainments entertain-ments when I could be present." Wilder took the manuscripts, jead them through with apparent interest, remarked upon their cleverness, and said: "Why, certainly, senator, I will do this with pleasure, and as I have been invited to assist at an entertainment this afternoon, why not come up and hear them?" "I will," replied the senator. "Where Is the entertainment to be "The Man With the Roll." "Why, Kate, this is a delightful surprise," sur-prise," said a lady to her friend, as they met in a dairy kitchen. "I thought that you were in London." "No, the announcement in the pa- held?'.' "At the Deaf and Dumb Asylum." Nine of 'Em. pers was cn error. We had intended to have gone over early in April, but , mother read of the king's contemplated contemplat-ed Continental trip, and you know how horribly dull and stupid it is in London when the court is away, so we determined to defer our visit until' the autumn." "What are your plans for the summer?" sum-mer?" "We have not fully made up our minds, but mother has written up to a very nice farmhouse near Tanners-ville, Tanners-ville, and probably we will go there.": Passing Huber's Museum one even-, ing a well-known young society man skipped from the curb onto the car, where he was greeted by an acquaint-' ance with: "Hello, Harry, what in the world are you doing down in this locality?" "Oh, I have been in the museum here interviewing the freaks." "I shouldn't think," remarked the other, "that you would care to be mixed up with that lot; but you really ought to consider yourself luck'" to have eluded the1 m-caped." Old Maid I want to get my cat Insured. In-sured. Insurance Solicitor Yes, ma'am, certainly; but you'll have to take out a policy for each one of the cat's lives. . I paused one day in East Fourteenth Four-teenth street to watch a man affix a poster to a theatrical billboard, when a quaint-looking old rag picker came b- a ca.-t and . He stopped at an ash barrel TOu on the curb near me, tookTiis nook and speared about within with the result of fetching to the surface a Jute bag such as usually contains raw coffee. He examined it critically and at last threw it into the cart Noticing Notic-ing that I had been observing him, he turned toward me with an interrogating interrogat-ing expression, evidently wondering how so valuable an article could have been thrown away. At last, as if he had solved the problem, he nodded his head two or three timas slowly, and philosophically remarked: "Willful waste makes woeful wants." A friend told me that he went to consult his lawyers who had recently moved to new offices in a skyscraper. Upon inquiry of the man running the elevator, he was told that they were located on the eighteenth floor. "But don't you think that the eighteenth eight-eenth floor is very near Heaven for lawyers to get" he asked. "Indeed, it is that, and I doubt if they ever get much nearer, but, poor souls, let them feel that they've got a fair start" Country Lass He loves me he loves me not. One of the most novel proposals of marriage I ever heard was recently related to me by a lady. It seems that a young man, somewhat bashful, had long been devoted to a girl, but could never quite key himself up to the ordeal of a formal proposal, and although she knew exactly the state of his feelings, seasons would come and go without the fatal plunge being taken. At last they were seated to- gether in the soft moonlight of a June night, when, after a prolonged silence, he said: "Mary?" "Yes, John, what is it?" "Mary, do you think that you would ever be contented to rest in our family plot?" The other day I came upon an old acquaintance whom I knew to have been ill seated in Madison Square, surrounded by time tables of various railroads. I greeted him, and Inquired Inquir-ed after his health. He told me that he had had a hard time all winter, but that he was gaining strength and would soon be himself again. "Going away?" I asked, observing his occupation. "Well, my physician has advised me to travel for diversion, but as I cannot afford the expense, I have secured these time tables and spend most of my days out here in the open air taking imaginary trips. It is a great scheme, and I go all over the country." "Where are you now?" I asked. "I am at Grand Rapid, Mich., but unfortunately, our train was behind time, and I missed my connection, so I am sitting here in the station obliged oblig-ed to wait two hours and a half for the Kalamazoo special." New York Times. "The Man Behind the Bat." Meeting an old friend who did not look at all well, I anxiously inquired after his health. "Oh, I am miserable," he replied. "The truth is, I am all broken up and have, I fear, become a back number." num-ber." "What seems to be the trouble?" "I am greatly depressed over the |