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Show '1-M--H4-4i-W.l-4-4h-'f4t.4-v H In Tlie Bonds ot UMW I I ! !ot4VVl4t 44.4.44-44-.UI4lV.iH4VXtX t-V.t-VV4.A.VA.A MAJHlHlAVlakiJuLX sl Tnojcars ngo, In auditing th accounts ac-counts of a certain union, tho district auditor mado tho discovery that the sum of ono farthing was missing from a balance of ono parish Accordingly ho Instructed the local official to nnd out how the error arose and report all about It A couplo of days afterwards Information duly arrived lhat tha mining farthing had been recovered Four hours had been spent In tho quest ot It t'l th". ""d 'ne enlll,nc8 a second time at Iho audit, cost tho ratepayers rate-payers exactly M ahllllnr An even moro amusing easo cornea from a district council Upon the annual an-nual reappointment of tho district med leal officer It w proposed to reapportion reap-portion his salary Tho authorities, learning of this, Intimated lo the council coun-cil that, regardless of the fact that the proposed reappointment bad already been advertised as tho law proscribed, It would bo requisite In tho clrcum-stancca clrcum-stancca to adertie It again The brilliant bril-liant suggestion was. hnrever. conveyed con-veyed that It might be clearly set out In tbo advertisement that the council did not wish any applications sent In In nnswer tO It In big government building It wej decided to celebrate tho year of t. . Jubilees by Introducing an electile light Installation For aomo months numbera of workmen overran tha placo and clcrka and officiate wo.s nljf In-duced In-duced to put up with tho lhf uvenlenco of tha present by dreaming U the dax-sling dax-sling time to come T en suddenly It waa discovered that a mistake bad been made, n lot ofc he work was altered, al-tered, and progress went on again at full speed, till at last aeveral of tho new lights wcro actually burning On a foggy day. however, all work eamo to a atop, and It was found that ths funds wcro exhausted In the meantime mean-time orders had been given for removing remov-ing the goa fittings, and, as there was itllt money In tho special tund available avail-able for this purpose all the gas brackets brack-ets etc had been carted away, with tho consequence that the government offlclaU had only candles aa lllumln nnta to fall back upon Uut even here . 'Circumlocution Office' methods did not cease It waa now found lhat no fund existed out of which candlesticks 1 could bo bought and so the candles In this big putille establishment had to be stuck in hollies borrowed from tbo re frcshment deportment i The postofflca supplies us with an- ' other example of entanglement In red i tape A certain telegraph clerk.know- Ing that "oteamshlp" Is ono word, nc- 1 rented 'as" ss one. whereas the au- 1 thorllles decree that It Is two words 1 He wss told that ho must either re- I cover the halfpenuy that a short or I tender It himself He elected to ot- tempt the former task In preference I to depleting hla own pocta Writ- ten requests wero forwarded to tho t sender ot tho telegram, but as lheso 1 were Ignored and as ho lived four mlloa i 4wnyi a drtvo was taken to his house. I t an outlay of aeven shillings and ttnrpcnce At tho time this Inform- tlon was gleaned about ninety lettera fbad pMiti!?ttfff&Rfa ' 'B halfpenny bad not yet been fortheom- HJ Ing HJ In this connection may ba told a lit- H He atory ot tho final signing of the H peaco treaty txitwccn America and, H Spain, Tho roinmUalonera of theto H two countries, being assembled at tha H foreign ufleo ot tho French republic, H and tho Important document requiring H a seal and ribbon, tho representatives fl of the belligerents courteously suggest- HJ ed that, uut of compliment lo France, M this necessary ribbon should bo a trl- HJ color ono Forthwith a tremendou M search was Instituted, resulting In th HJ confession that not au Inch of tha HJ three-colored ribbon could bo found, HJ Then an Inspiration came to one of tho H great ones present Ho sent a messon- H ger post haste to a certain confection- er's shop for a pound ot chocolato fH cakes, "to be tied with n tricolor rib- HJ bon," and It la that ribbon whlrh to- day Is attached to the weighty dlplo- HH malic Instrument In question Cas- sell's Saturday Journal |