Show 1983 1083 how will bo be ono hundred years hence philadelphia evening call prophet IN A DEPOT train from madagascar is late it yes blocked by a cyclone which blew it a few thousand miles out of the way the conductor will probably wal be e discharged for not hialit in ing that storm cloud and sailing a above ve it they started half an hour ago and should have made mado the trip in twenty minutes you do business in the city dont you yos just going home to dinner live in the suburbs eh yes got a cottage in china last month and like it first rate there goes the bell ta tal ta IN A GROCERY STORE yes sir this country is going to ruin the congressmen are little better than thieves so look at the last bill raising the price of globe cable letters to one cent a thou thousand and words and then look at the way in which monopolies are fostered the all around the world telephone company has been granted another slice of alaska for a supply ly station and yet it charges a dol dollar ar a year for service fully fifty cents moro more than it ought to but that is not the worst of it they ba have just ordered the coinage of ano another ye r billion of those miser able little gold cold dollar dollars oh ohl for the good old times when we had silver dollars that I 1 weighed something 0 CHANGE N 1 I ece see that venus and saturn T telegraph e I 1 raph stock is down again et yea a powerful opposition has been formed in mars and there is no telling what may happen pen how are the railroad rail railroad roaT stocks today da y well the little local lines to the north and south polca poles and the cross town lines to china and japan are doing well but the trunk lines to the planets are a trifle lower the V L D F G 11 II 1 I K and M D C C L I 1 L G airline suffered some by the last earthquake in m the moon but the stock is in good di demand dimand mand again besides that the crop reports are good mercury saturn and neptune farmers have all done splendidly this year ON 01 11 THE STREET rather chilly today to day yea res that new weather clerk at the capital capita I 1 has not got his hand in yet I 1 see ace by the papers that last night he turned on the north polo pole stopcock in mistake for the equatorial one and it was running fully fifteen minutes before the blunder was discovered the consequence ii is that it ia ii christmas day and the roses roes in in my garden are not lint fit for trimming my cb children ildren s christmas tree and my wife who slept on i the veranda in her hammock last night got such a bad cold that it ton took three doses of the electric universal disease and death annihilator lator to cure her all this comas corner of 01 appointing a we weather ather clerk for Tur political rc reasons ons instead of peri permuting noting some one who vrho knows theston the stopcocks stop cocks oh 01 for the good old times when everybody was honest AT A POLITICAL CLUB well how do things look now 2 just the same as usual more can candidates dilates than offices whom do you think the democrats will nominate for president this time it is u liard hard to tell but I 1 see tl there ere is a pretty good chance for a dark horse who Es has been in training for this campal campaign n who is lie he an old man that nobody ever heard of what is his name S J tilden |