The Press., 1883-09-20

A Broadway car conductor has been probing human nature to its lowest depths A few evenings slnce before starting, he scrattered over the seats of his car several of those white metal counters, stamped in imitation of quarters. He desired to see who would take them and who wouldn't. The Hon. - entered the car. He is great lawyer. He owns many genuine twenty-five cent pieces. You wouldn't suppose such @ man would stoop to pick up genuine twenty-five cent piece ill the street. But he sat right down on the bo- gus qnarter. When he got up to leave the car the quarter was not there. He did not ride far. Perhaps he thought he had got the money" murmured the conductor. MT. -, big banker, got in. He sat near one of the quarters. Then he saw it. Then he glanced around to see who was looking. Then he looked at the presumed coin again. Then he looked at the car ceiling. He shifted his seat in an absent minded sort of fashion. And when he de- parted the coin must have stuck to him, for it was invisible "What shadows we are and what shadows we pursue p quoth tho conductor. He now set two more bo- gus quarters. The car was now at Four teenth street. An actor entered. Soon 8 coin struck his line of vision. Just then he seemed to feel the heat of the day. He took off his hat. In dreamy sort of way he laid the hat over the quarter. He caught it as he would butterfly. The hat and the butterfly must both have gone ture p murmured the conductor. "Alas, poor Yorick r'-Ne,O York Graphic.
 One day, at the academy of sciences, they had long and hresome session. Ar ago thought he would go out and take the air. At the foot of the stairway there was leather bowl, upon which the rays of the bowl round, and, rushing up stairs, told the distinguished assemblage that he had just met with something that was very mys- terious 'sThat leather bowl" he said, "at the foot of the stairway, is cool upon the side which presents itself to the sum- but warm upon the other side." The scientists descended in body, and substantiated this assertion. They took the inclination of the sun, the hour, the minute, the sec- ond, and vast array of other details. They made calculations, and several weeks afterward each of them presented paper explaining the phenomenon, Arago him. self taking care to send in his explanation with the rest There is no knowing how l not been for the doorkeeper, who, having seen Arago turn the bowl, and pitying the worthy gentlemen who were so much wor- ried, cleared away the mystery.
 Not many years ago there was trotting race at Lexington, Ky, in which a we'll known Chicago horse took part. He lost heats which it looks as though he should have won. The judges resolved to take 8 hand in the matter, but they did not adopt the usual plan of putting up new diver, and thereby, perhaps, playing right into the hands of the crooked combination. They simply sent for the driver of the horse that was losing. He went into the stand. "The Lexington association has never expelled but one man," said the starting-judge to the driver; 'sthat was five years ago, and the man is still on the outside. Please see how we'll you can drive the next heat" The Chicago horse won the race.
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