Show THE MONEY MARKET according to dun fc co s last weeks meeks reports indicate some improvement in collection collections a fair activity ac tivit in business and diminishing stringency in money markets at chicago the mercantile demand for accommodations ia is unabated though collections have in proved improved and shipments ot of money to the country hive moderated at omaha money ia is easier and real estate payments have thus far been satisfactory but slow collections and much pressure are noted at kan sas city wichita cleveland and some southern points distinct improvement appears at louisville If memphis emphis and atlanta large failures failure I 1 cause Bome surprise at milwaukee mili I 1 and at montreal and toronto while business is moderately active interest rates advance and payments are somewhat blow slow A oT nEit ROMANCE more strange than fiction told in a few plain words miss ellen botts of savannah niece of president arthur was engaged to be married to mr J 11 II blaikie Bl ikie the excitement of the earthquake injured her eyes so much that an oculist declared there was a certainty of her losing her eight right she immediately sent word to mr blaikie blaikle who ho was in scotland releasing him bim from the engagement lie ile refused fused to accept this unselfish dismissal and came back by the next Cs steamer teamer to urge an immediate marriage this expression of hie fidelity produced a great nervous reacon in miss aliss bolts botts system which ended in the restoration of her eyesight tha the young couple go to scotland pd this month I 1 t dow L dt x doctor condone native 6 state of liine a physician says that liat one day he lie saw a big crane stand standing inZ on a log that floated near the shore short on ion tho Kenn kennebec ebee cc river the crane had captured a large bug A which he her dropped into the stream eo so that it floated down past him and then he grabbed it and again repeated the this performance he kept thia this up for nearly half an hour and then a pickerel darted up from below after the bug tins this was just what the bird had been waiting for and the next moment the fish wae was down his throat threat and he wa was winging his way waye s aly oaly o upstream up stream r ir IT WOULD servo serve tho the cranks right I 1 ii let P 11 earing blind poetical and ab were refused carriage I 1 through the mails maus postal clerks lave haver no time to decipher the screeds of egotistical toole fools who try to show off their sm artnes through addressee addresses on letters lett cra A missive was mai mailed led st at green center iowa the other day bearing this superscription TO YOUJI BOD GOD I 1 0 0 burry me along at rattling rate TO was abington bIng ton county court and ad pennsylvania 11 state to on and ad there let lumly aebi Y tut ouie ollie at Wit klamu inott lae sait kr away |