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Show Finance as She Is Wrote. To add to troubles of the Wall street man forced to spend his summer in the city conn the necessity of employing em-ploying a substitute-stenographer In vucatlon season. Wall street diction Is hard enough for the regular stenographer; stenog-rapher; the substitute finds It next to Impossible. The employer of one of the substitutes substi-tutes not long ago tried to be particularly particu-larly careful and distinct in his dictation. dicta-tion. Nevertheless, "comtroller of the currency" emerged aa "comptroller of the corn belt." A remark about the drought district In Kansas" was interpreted inter-preted aa "grouch In Kansas." Reverting to money matters again, the employer talked about taking bullion bul-lion Into the Hank of England, and the copy showed that bouillon aoup had been taken Into the bank. Hlght there the bell rang for a new typist Wall Street Journal. Gretna Green Ceremony. A young couple who arrived at Her-wlck Her-wlck the other Sunday were married after the Scottish fashion In a delightfully delight-fully simple wayt They drove over the border Into Scotland, and stopping at a spot w here two men were seated, the young man said that be and the lady wished to be married and that they could not adopt the conventional method, as it would be stopped directly the banns were put up. The couple then formally took each other for man and w ife before the two witnesses, and a document to that effect ef-fect was produced and signed by the parties and the witnesses. And That Won Her. "I don't aee what argument your wife used to get that woman I was trying to get to cook for us, we told her we would treat her like one of the family?" "My wife promised her that we wouldn't" The Idea. "Why do autocrata muzzle the press?" "Itecauee they are afraid of Its biting bit-ing remarks." Most of the musk that Is exported . from Tibet Is bought by a French firm and is used In the manufacture of per fumery. There Isn't anything more pitiful i than a hero out of a Job. |