Show CURRENT NOTES IT is related that two years ago Mrs Florence induced her husband the actor to swear off on all intoxicating drinks She thought Billy was all right until they went to a circus this summer and an elephant ele-phant near which William was standing put the end of his trunk in the actors pocket and pulled out a flat bottle half full of rye whisky Like a good wife she never said a word but Billy carries no more flasks EDITOR CROSBY of the Daily Advertiser of Boston has a smart setter The other I day a lady walking through the fields near where Mr Crosby was spending his vacation lost her watch The setter was made to smell of the ladys watch pocket and then told to bring dead bird He ranged the field in fine form and finally came to a stand at a little tuft of grass When his master came up he found the watch ticking under the dogs reliable nose noseWHILE WHILE the Cape Sable fisheries wereat their best a few days ago the whitewater white-water made its appearance moving toward to-ward the west It showed for a long distance on the surface and seemed full of minute fibres of curdlike contistency IOn I-On its western edge it was apparently thirty fathoms deep and as perpendicular perpendicu-lar as the walls of a house The fish fled before this rare phenomenon and after the water resumed its usual clearness they were very scarce Two plasuible strangers stopped at the farm of Squire Brewer of Liberty 0 and agreed to buy his farm Then the three started for Van Wert to examine the title and were met by a third plausible plaus-ible stranger from whom after the usual preliminaries they won 2000 at three card monte The stranger wouldnt pay until the others showed a like sum So to be accommodating Brewer drew 2 000 out of the bank who then lost it They said theyd pay when the papers for the sale of the farm were made out and the old gentleman actually waited two days in Van Wert for them to return before it dawned upon him that he had beeu swindled H W H WINSLOW M p of Pittsburg Pa writes from his cruising cutter Pilgrim Pil-grim to the Journal of Belfast Me that on August 24th off Cape Neddick he saw something that he thinks was the sea serpent lilt looked he wrote like a black log of wood one foot in diameter diam-eter and eight feet long projected from a boatlike body at the front and above the surface of water at about an angle of I twenty degrees The surface was black and shining the angle between the body and neck was curved and the general appearance was as if the part above the water was continuous with a very long subaqueous body Before I could get the glasses to bear accurately the marine inshore monster sank Then he appeared shore of us upon the bow upon the beam upon the quarter and then sporting sport-ing in the breakers He kept about the same distance from us and did not afford us any better view than that at first The I animal was lively and perfectly at home in the water Ho was seen by all onboard on-board and all agree upon the above des de-s There was no inebrity enthusiasm enthu-siasm or delusion about the case but calm careful critical observation |