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Show A yueen Dramatist. Queen Natalie, the Beautiful, of Ser-via, Ser-via, is among the authors. She has written a play entitled "Slother." No doubt she gives utterance in it to her own motherly sufferings and anguish when forced to separate from her son, the boy king of Servia. A Parisian theater is said to have bought the piece and will produce it. Whether it be good or bad as a work of art, the person per-son and the misfortunes of the authoress have attracted so much attention and supplied the world with so many sensa tional reports that there will be a great demand for the revelations expected to be given by the pen of the queen, which will insure to the enterprising theater full houses and a profitable business. Ten Cents for a Lie. Two ladies stopped at a fruit stand on Cortlandt street to purchase some strawberries. "Are all those berries as large and ripe as the ones on top?" asked the elderly el-derly lady, suspiciously. The vender hesitated. "The box will cost you twenty-five cents, madam," he replied, finally, ' If I am obliged to answer that question." "Twenty-five cents!" exclaimed the two ladies in chorus. "Why, it is carded card-ed at fifteen cents! What do you mean by charging twenty-five cents?" "Five cents for the berries, madam, and twenty cents for the lie fifteen cents for the berries if no questions are asked." N. Y. Advertiser. |