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A essbionahle vonne lady being warned

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A fashionable young lady being warned
that her dear aunt having just died she
could have no more parties during the
season, broke out: ''I'd like To- know
what the old fool had to go and die forS
Suppose I'm to have no more fun this
winterl Why couldn't she wait and die
In summer like decent woman2A PA
Everybody in the world will be
saved" said an enthusiastic Universal
list "The crucifxion of the Savior is
sufficient for all mankind, and not one
will be, lostl gssaI don't believe IT, put
| in bystander; = not bit it8iP" You
dont-hey2v retorted the zealot. "You
don't Then you'll be sverlastingiy
DID, you poor fool you, and you ought
to be- SO much like poor human ma
ture-ain't it2 s4i9aeils!l' eesR t.aii
Mr.. H. N. Moseley, naturalist of the
English Eclipse Expedition, says he
found the Suez canal "perfectly swarm
ing with fish from one end to the other"
Many specimens were taken with hand
| lines close TO Port Said, and in the
middle OF the Great Bitter Lake. They
were all Of one species, a sort Of mullet.
The mud brought up from the bottom Of
the Great Bitter Lake by the chain cable,
ON the contrary, was absolutely devoid
of any traces Of life,
A priest of Toulouse has just pub
lished a curious work with the title,
I" End of the World in 1921" from which
we extract this passage: The world
will come to an end in 1921, seven
months, thirteen days, three minutes,
thirty.one seconds, plus thirteen times
the seventeenth part Of second, after
the creation of Adam; which means in
the month of July thirteenth day, at
three minutes thirty-one and thirteen
seventeenth of a second past seven
o clock in the morning of the year 1921
Of the Christian era"
A man named Fornici, the oldest cane
seller in France, has just died at Paris,
in the Rue Poltiers, aged a hundred and
two years and three months. He had
been in succession, apprentice pastry
cook under Louis XIV Che was then four
teen messenger at the ministry of FL
nance under Louis XVI, soldier under
the revolution and Bonaparte, by whom
he was decorated on the island of Lo-
bau; afterward dancer, then q beadle
in a church, dentist in the open air,
and lastly, dealer in walking-sticks,
which was the only business that brought
him any profit. le
A saddler in Detroit has monkey
who usually sits in the shop on the coun.
ter. A countryman came in one day
while the proprietor was in the back
room, and seeing a saddle that snited
him, asked the price Monkey said
nothing. Customer said, "Tll give.
twenty dollars for it, laying down the
money, which monkey showed into the
drawer. The man then took the saddle,
but monkey mounted him, tore his hair,
scratched his face, and made the fright
ened rustic scream for dear life, Pro
prietor rushed in, and wanted to know
what the fuss was. FussY said the
countryman, fuss? bought saddle
of your son, sitting there, and when
went to take it, he would not let me
have it" The saddler apologized for
the monkey, but denied The relationship.
A Paris correspondent, describing the
oratory of M. Theirs, says: Before
beginning, and while delivering
speech, NJ. Theirs drinks Burgundy as
openly as PIT. used 80 drink Port s;
is taken from the red tumbler; then a
sip is taken from the whitei then, in due
historic order, the black-edged handker-
chief is made to do its work; finally,
when all these little tricks of manner
have been gone through, a somewhat
feeble but clear voice speaks out with
rapid utterancs and beautiful articula-
ton. Soon the voice strengthens, until,
at times, a sentence will ring through
the assembly. The gestures grow more
animated, epigrams are shot forth like
stones from catapult, and loud cheers
and approving laughter stop the orator
now and then. enabling him to take
breath, new sip of wine and fresh rub
of the handkerchief.