Show A PARENTS SURPRISE while looting through opa he accidentally leiras secret courier A certain gentleman who has a cottage upon the beached margin of the sea has been by a friend present edwith a telescope tel scope so pow erful that through it the faces and doings of unconscious passers on yachts far out at sea can be clearly discerned on a recent afternoon as he sat amusing the leisure and idle hour which follows the completion of the daily duty of smoking the midday cigar by looking through the glass he baw oa a yacht far out at sea miles away from everything to give them a notion that they were likely to be seen a fund lover pressing to the damsel the cooba ardent of kisses the worst of the matter was that he recognized the lady as bis daughter and he thus found himself in a very awkward predicament of having intruded upon the eriv acy of the lovers and of having so to eay their secret he is now leaving the whole blame upon the giver of the telescope whom be charges boldly with being at heart his enemy and with having taken this subtle and cunning method of undermining his self and manhood he declares that no gentleman would give to another an instrument which cannot bo used without intruding upon the privacy of his neighbors to a degree wholly incompatible with good breeding and he has expressed this view to his friend the giver of the telescope and what reply did he make was asked by one of the household as the irate master of the house laid down the pro position aforesaid Rep lyl echoed the owner of the telescope he wrote back that he was glad it worked BO well and that he should come down and try it for |