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Show The Marvelous Budget. An English clergyman no American divine would ever have found tho time to do it has written a book whteh he calls "The Marvelous Budget," and whieffis the Odyssey of Jack and Jill," says the New York Critic. The first four pages are numbered 1, the next four are numbered 2, as many more are numbered 3, and so on up to "page 8" and last. The pages are so arranged that any page marked 2 will read consecutively con-secutively with any page marked 1, and so on. 'Now," says the clergy, man, 'if you will inquire of your clever cousin, Miss Girton, who has been in for mathematics at Cambridge and so knows all about figures, you will learn that there are no less than sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six tales in this book about Jack and JUL aotwo of which are exactly alike," |