Show A BOSTON ordered a plate of his native fodder in brandon vt the other day and was chareen 25 cents ho objected to paying fifteen cents moie than the boston price but without avail the next day the bean seller received a telegram baying dont you think that was too much for those beans the restaurant man paid twenty cents for the message and swore A VICTORIA B C merchant was ba pleased with the photograph of a woman living in kova scotia that lie struck up a correspondence with her and then invited her to join him and be his wife she made the long journey but when he saw her and found that she nearly as god looking as her portrait he refused to marry her she is suing him for is a well apparently very lazy not to say heartless farmer he had sheep when winter plenty of grain and fodder but the other day an agent for the humane society found 71 of the sheep dead 40 being piled into the basement of one barn and 23 in another and others scattered about the place they had all starved to death A Kin SIGNAL service officer has formulated the flag code for weather predictions in the following easily memorized lines A sun of red is weather warm A eun oi blue is beneral storm A crescent red is weather cold A crescent blue is fair foretold A star of red no change implies A blue star local stormy skies A square of black on flag of white A cold raye comes in all its might ONE OP the workmen in the bluestone quarries on the lackawaxen Lacka waxen kiver keeps his family well supplied with duck meat he sets ordinary deteel rat traps baited with fish wherever he finds an open shallow spot in the icebound ice bound river the ducks go there to swim and hunt for food see the fish underwater diye for it and get caught by the head and a adries aeries of duck tails sticking out of the water mark the spots where they died an hai newspapers to be one of the chi nese students who were educated in this country has been arrested for petting money on a forged order he got only about 2 in court he pleaded for mercy on the ground that his relations had disowned him that bis wife had been taken from and that he was without bome and money he vw sentenced to one months imprisonment and to receive two hundred blows IK cemetery at ga a stone has justeen jus been placed over the grave of harry stevens who died in 1881 it bears these words he was for many years the ej and beloved body servant of alexander H stevens like him he was for kindness ap rightness and benevolence As a man he was honest and true As a christian he was bumble and trusting the grave of alie master ig still unmarked by monument or itono stono BAH JONES began his evangelical work iu chicago on monday asked as to his plans and methods of work ho said there arc thousands who 10 lo not go to church for one reason or another and yet are seeking to lead better lives I 1 am going to try to reach these people and tell them just what they are seeking for I 1 dont fight abo barkeeper of the saloon but I 1 fight the barrella and the bottles I 1 dont fight alie gambler but I 1 fight gambling I 1 dont fight the poor fallen woman who has lost her place in the world but I 1 fight the houses of prostitution tit ution which encourage such things and when I 1 fight I 1 dont strike puny blows on the body but I 1 right Bt raight out fron the shoulder and bit between the byca |