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in our statement. The hsh /
vas a lake trout. which fact we left TO be |
inferred. 1t weighed only fifteen pounds.
II was not caught by Mr.. Durham. We
will make any other corrections desired.
THr =. Excelsior Magazine" one OF the
choicest and most artistic OF monthhes. -
published at SO 80 a year. New suoserlo,
ers are offered a $40 field croquet setand
the magazine for $40. only 80 cents addl-
tional, A Observation-Disclosures Fashlon
and Etiquette supplement goes Win II.
Rare inducements to getters-up OF CLUBS III
money or premiums. sample copies 20
cents. Office. Room 50, No. l5I La sale
street, Chicago, Ill.
THE directors Of school district in Pre-,
BILE county, Ohio, recently discharged
their teacher, in the midst OF his term, LOT
repeating to one Of his pupils the following
verse:
over the hills a great way or,
The woOdchucK died with the WhGOping-COuBh
The prettiest girl ever saw
Was sucking cider through straw
And at the June term of the County
Court a Jury, in a suit brought by the
teacher to recover his salary, decided that
the directors were legally jusuiled IN
what they had done.
If this sort of thing continues, baggage
smashing, as a profession, will soon be-
come one Of the lost arts. Cast-iron
trunks, with nitro-glycerine concealed in
the covers. have had baneful effect upon
the ordinarily cheerful b. s., who has, how
ever, recovered his temper when he has
caught sight of the twO-storied Saratoga,
which an unsuspecung woman has dellV-
cred over to his tender mercies but now
there comes an lndia-rubber trunk-shleld,
which a Louisville man says may IBID de-
fiance TO anything short of a hrst-class
earthquake" 1t seems impossible that a
professional should rise to the dignity of
n ffrst-class eruption. but the chances are
that he will get round that shield some
how; if he can't his occupations gone.
1T is extremely gratifying to note that
in China a woman may grow old and re-
main unmarried without being considered
a disagreeable person to have about. In
fact, 1t is rather nice than otherwise to
have an old maid there. A Shanghai jour
nal tells us that the Emperor has just de-
creed that special hOnors be paid to two
ancient spinsters. one of whom has recent
ly died after a life of devotion to the mem
orv of her dead betrOthed. The other
spinster. who is still living, has the extra
ordinary fact related of her that in heI
youthful days she refused to marry an
eligible young person on the GROUND
that she couldn't leave her home. When
the Emperor heard this he instantly or
dered her noble conduct to be recognized
A NEW railway danger is reported from
Edinburg. 1t appears that butcher from
avillage in the country had been mdulg-
ing in the town, and remained too late
to get home by the coach. Finding his
way to the North British Railway station
the tipsv man, i'm the mOmentary absence
of fireman and engineer, mounted the en-
CINE of train which was partly filled
with passengers at the platform, and turn
ing on the steam, ran away with the train
He ran as far as st. Margaret's Works,
mile and half from Waverly, before the
train was caught. Fortunately no harm
enSued. but the man was brought TO trla
by the nPublic Prosecutor for culpabl'
recklessness, and sentenced to fourteen
days imprisonment.
THERE is a painful monotony in the
customary forms of greeting, which al
persons must at times find irritating, Iht
curt "HOw dive dO?" or the briefel
Morning." are endurable. But to be &C
coSted during the dav by several dOZer
ac0uaintances with How's the young
man - or whats new?" or "Why
you're quite a stranger" is a severe Ia,
on patience. People say exactly the sam,
thing every time they meet you, and eacl
time they mean precisely nothing; Their
is no ring of heartiness in their voice &
mitigate the nOthingneSS of the words
They think the occasion calls TOR some
thing, so they run over the gamut OF incl
egant colloquialisms, and pass on to lnf1lc
alike torture upon somebody else.
A FINANCIAL RAT.-Some time ago
when the river was high and the gutter
full of water, an enormous rat, gray Wit
age, and fat as an alderman, crawled out
the Canal street gutter and rushed into
store. bearing in his mouth something tina
fluttered about like piece of paper. Ill
was tired and bedraggled and deposite,
his burden behind the first box and sa
down to rest. One of the gentlemel
present made dash at his ratship an
away he went, leaving behind the articl
in his mouth, and which proved to be
So greenback. Whether the rat intende
this as a contribution to the sufferers b.
the overflow, or was himself moving {
avoid the encrOaching waters, we are una
BILE to say; but certain it is that he has nc
yet returned to claim his prOperty.-Nel
Orleans Picay1a1e.
APRoPOs of summer travel, the IlTbl1
saws: 1--WE would urge upon any of on
readers whose faint of vagabOnd blood n
bells at Nature in living at Newport an
the petty pastebOard villas of our subu
ban retreats. not to leave any longer tn
untold wonders of our own Western Tel
ritories to foreigners to discover. n
country in the world contains such variet
of magnificent scenery as the Unite
States. but the majority Of her peop
!, opr
place Landscapes. The lovely lakes {
Minnesota, the horrors of Colorado river
the CRASHES deserts and mountaineering
of Arizona. awful in their lifelessness ;
any home of the damned in Dante's Ii
fernO.' we scarcely care to read of, muC
less to explore. We are apt, too, TO e.
cuSe our lack of interest in our own cOul
try by contempt for its vulgar newnes:
forgetting that in the great southwesteI
deserts are cities and burying-places, b
side which London and Paris are but
yesterday"
THE other day, on Michigan Centrs
train, was an old lady who had new
Travelled great deal. She wasn't used
the ways of the book agents, the peanl
boys and the priZe-package nuisances wi
pass through the train every few minute
when the peanut boy came along al
dropped a big African peanut into her Il
she shucked it, opened her mouth al
dropped the kernal down, instead Of I
garling it with silent contempt or pitc
inc it out of the window. The book age
came along and dropped book into h
lap. She said she was "much Obleeged
and she carefully locked it upin her wallis
The prize-package boy came along Al
dropped sample, and she wondered no
the road could afford to give aw;
so much. When he returned she III
opened it and was wearing the breastp
and eating the gum-drOps. The boz
agent came back and wanted his book, Al
before she would give it up she called I
conductor to see fit was right. The ca
boy wanted pay and she appealed TO I
passengers. When she understood Il
he was right she handed over % Gel
with the remark, ''Well, eff | haint q
fired turned round. ! wish I'd stayed
hamr'