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Counterfeiters Caught.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-The treasury
department is informed of the arrest in
New York to-day of Ed Hall on the charge
of counterfeiting the 500 note of Elbanco
Internationale de Guatemala and the cap
ture in his possession of the plates and
paper used in it's manufacture. This
is the first arrest under the
act ito prevent and punish the
counterfeiting within the United States
of notes, bonds or other securities of foreign
governments, approved May 16, 1884.
Agents of the secret service also arrested,
yesterday, near Versailles, KY, Alonzo
Fugitt, an expert counterfeiter, and re-
covered the three counterfeit plates, consist
ing of the face of 50 United States treasury
notes, Jefferson head, back of $40 silver
certificates and face of SIS United States
note Of the series Of 1875.
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Produce Exchange.

The following quotations represent prices
obtained by receivers for lots from store I'M
less otherwise specified:
Apples-Selling slowly at S4@4.50.
Butter-Creamery fancy, 16@1Sc; creamery
fair. 14GD16c; print choice, 9@10c; print, me-
dunn, 6@Sc; packing stock. 5@6c; dairy,
fancy, 12014c; dairy, fair, 1O@12c; roll choice
S@1Oc: roll medium, 6Q8c.
Beans-Fine navy, per blu, $1.5O; medium,
75c@S1z5; common, 2505Oc.
Beeswax-40c.
Cheese-Ful cream. 1O@l1c.
Cherries-Southern illinois, $2.50@2.75 per
case of "a quarts
Cider-Michigan, per Dbl, $5.5006; New
York, II Dbl, S3@8.75: champ. trade bbl $3.50;
sparkling bottled-Crab. case, IL OF, $2.25;
case, "a pit, $2.75; Dbl, doz qt, per doz, 81 le;
Dbl, 9 doz pit, per doz, $1.30. Gold Russet-
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AT THE STOCK YARDS.
DOnnelly Still Hopeful.
Daoi01 IN the G1Ohe

WASHINGTON, June 13.-Minnesota Of
fce-seekers find little to encourage them.
Indeed, they have found so little that most
all of them have come to the conclusion
that they will be better off at home and
stand quite as good a chance of success in
the end and perhaps better. The result is
that the town is pretty well empty
of Minnesotians tonight. There are
Senator Wilkinson is still here, so is Don
nelly, who hopes that he may yet be able to
cipher out success for himself, if not in the
surveyor generalship in some other place.
He has reached such stage of despair that
he is quite willing to take anything. He is
encouraged tonight by the prospective re-
turn Of Gen. Rosser, who, after spending all of
last Sunday with Lamar, informed DOnnelly
that Lamar had said he would appoint him.
1t appears however, that he has not yet
been appointed, and it has occurred to some
body that Lamar does not do the appointing
i'll that case, but that a gentleman by the
name of Cleveland has final action in the
matter. So it has been thought wise to try
to get Gen. ROsser to
TURN HIS BATTERY
on the president, and it is probable he may
call on him for that purpose while here.
Rosser made himself especially busy while
here, warning Lamar and his ex-Confeder-
ate associates against those bad men, Kelly
and Doran, and he probably may make a
similar effort should he see the president
on his present trip. AS to the surveyO
generalship, nobody knows anything definite
about it, except that Lamar seems to have
given his verdict before hearing the evil
dence, and is disposed to put DOnnelly in.
Inquiries at the interior department are met
with the response that no action yet has
been taken on the surveyor generalShip.
Regarding other offices there is nothing
definite to be said. Biermann went away
with little idea as to when the cOllectorship
would be filled and a good deal disguised
with his inability to get any satisfactory in
formation. He did not have reason to feel
discouraged, but rather the reverse, and he
was good deal annoyed at
HIS INABILITY
to get any information on which to base
any definite judgment as to the date OF
action in the matter. The indications now
are that the office may be filled about the
end of the present month. Col. Streeter,
whose claim for services in the survey OF
Dakota was before the interior department,
has withdrawn to await further evidence
Mr.. N. Myrick of st. Paul is here to col
lect his claim of some 100000, provision
for which was made by the last congress-
Dakota matters have also disappeared from
rhe surface. There is disposition on the
part of the administration to give the most
attention to offices which are especially
necessary to be acted upon before the close
of the fiscal year.
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Chicago.
Special to the Globe.


CHICAGO, June ia summer quietness
was the predominating characteristic of
business in banking and mercantile circles
to-day. Most people are thinking more
about how they can get away and enjoy
themselves in some cool and shady retreat,
than about how to enlarge their CONNER
cial or financial operations. Even specu-
lation was only nominal and half-hearted.
Money is plentiful and securely slowed
away where no one can get it, unless first
class collateral is offered. But the demand
for it under any circumstances is not great.
New York exchange was sold at soc pre-
MUM, with good Saturday demand. Cur
rency shipments and receipts were small.
Sterling exchange was weak at $4,000. 81.
Bank clearings were Sc, 9O2, 113, against
Sc, 1852, 900 yesterday, and for the week
S41, 971, 1856, against $42, S46, Al for the
same week in 1884.
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MilWaukee Produce.

5 MILWAUKEE. June 13.-Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat steady; No. 2, S67sc;
July, sS3ac; August, 9Omc. Corn scarce
and inactive; No. 2, 1890. Oats dull and
lower; No. 2, 35c. Rye lower; No. l. &c.
Barley dull; No. 2, 4Sc. Provisions lower;
mess pork, cash orJune, $1O.25; July, $780,;
prime steam lard, cash OF June, $3.50; July,
$3.50; butter steady; dairy, 9@14c; cheese
unchanged; 6@Sc. Receipts - Flour, 1921
bbls: wheat. 1,745 bu; barley, 1875 bu.
Shipments-Flour, 1857 bbls; wheat, $3.50 bu;
barley, l, 725 bu.
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asked; July, 43o bid, 47c asked; No. white,
Bic bid; No. white, soc bid.
Barley-No. 2, coo bid.
Rye-No. 2, 55c bid.
Ground Feed-$1T bid, SIS asked.
Corn Meal-Bolted, 500 bid, $22 asked;
coarse, SIT bid, $40 asked.
Bran-$8.00 bid, $3.50 asked.
Baled Hays bid, $3.50 asked.
Timothy Hay-$10.50 bid, $11 asked.
Flax Seed-$1.22 bid.
Clover Seed-$5.25 asked.
PotatOes-25c.
Eggs-1lc bid, 12c asked.
Sales-1 car OATS SIC; 10 cases eggs, 12c;
. cars hay, o. g., $3.50; cars hay, S.; car
No. white oats, Soc; 8 cars No. white
oats, 31c.
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NOTICE
To Banks and Bankers.
Proposals for Depositing the Public Funds
Of the County Of Scott, in the
State Of Minnesota.

Sealed proposals will be received from Ma
tional, State or Private banks, up to the 9th
day of July, A. D. 1885, at 10 o'clock a. NJ. for
depositing the public funds of said county.
The depositing Of said public funds will COM
mence on the first day Of August, 1895, and
shall continue until the first day Of August,
1887, unless changed by the said Board of
Auditors of said county. Said proposals shall
state what security will be given and what in
terest is to be given on monthly balances of
the amount deposited, on condition that said
funds, with accrued interest shall be held sub
ject to draft and payment at all times on de-
mand, and shall in all respects conform to the
provisions of Chapter 124 of the General Laws
of 1881, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 81,
of the General Laws Of 1888. Said proposals
to be securely sealed and addressed to NJ.
Mayer, County Auditor, Shakopee, Scott coun-
ty, Mimi.
Dated May sd, 1856.
M. MAYER, Co. Au 1itor,
JULIUS A. COLLIER, Clerk Dis. Court,
PETER J. BALTES, Chairman,
Board Of Auditors OF Scott Co., MINI.
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Foreign Produce.

LIVERPOOL, June 13.-Cotton firm and I'M
changed; sales, 1000 bales, including 500 for
speculation and export and $500 American
Beef-Extra India mess, 95s. Pork-Prime
mess 5sc. Lard-Prime Western, 33s Tur-
pentine spirits, 28s. Wheat quiet; red West
ern winter, IS 9d07s. Corn quiet but steady
ANTWERP, June 13.-Petroleum, IF 371sc
LONDON, June 13.-Refned petroleum.
3-166l6 GIGS.
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MINNEAPOLIS.
Chamber of Commerce.

The grain market was weaker. Quotations;
No. hard, cash, 917ac; June. 91Ac; July,
931ac; August, 951ac; No. cash, $50; No. 2
cash, 78c. Flour was steady at $5.10@5.20 for
patents; $3.85@4 rs for bakers; S2@3 for low
grades. Bran ranged from $S.25 first hands
to dealer, $3.50 and $S.75 asked to parties Or
deriug car lots. Shorts steady at
$9@10.50. Corn dull and slow at
45c. Oats .3O032c o. t. 31@
33c f. o. b. Mixed feed, choice country groud,
$17.50@17.T5 on track in car lots; choice city
make, $40. Hay was a little better and steady
at $7@9 Timothy $1@2 higher. Corn meal,
city make, from store offered at $3.50 for
codrse; bolted, $21 for job lots.
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WORK.
Grading Selby Avenue.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi. June 6, 1885.
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation of
the City of st. Paul, Minnesota, at their Office,
in said city, until II ~, the 18th day of
June, A. D. 1885, for the grading of Selby Ave
nue. to partial grade, from D ale street to
Victoria street, in said city, according to plans
and specifications on file in the Office of said
Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in q
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent. of the
gross amount bid must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
JOHN HARRINGTON, President.
Official:
RL.GORMAN Clerk Board of Public Works.
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Happy Thought i'm the Night.

For years Mr.. James r. Ackley of 1853
West Fayette street, Baltimore, had suffered
with neuralgia SO that he could hardly sleep.
But he writes: zone night was suffering
very much and the thought struck me that
Browns Iron Bitters would do me some
good and perhaps cure me. 1t was happy
thought, and to my great joy it has entirely
cured me after using two bottles. After
three months 1 have had no return of the
symptoms. cheerfully recommend it as
the best tonic have ever used" Neuralgia
sufferers, take the hint.
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BOSTON, June 13.-Following were the clos
tho ct6,nl
Foreign.
LOCAL MARKETS.
ST. Paul.

ST. PAUL, June 13-The market was quiet,
and though there was some movement in eggs
hay and oats, it was dull day on the board
Wheat was quoted 1ac higher, on account,
mainly, of the Eastern markets. Corn was
quiet and steady, while oats were rather firm
at the previous days prices. Barley was in
no request. The call.
Wheat-No.l hard 921ac bid; June, 921lc
bid; July, 93c; No. hard. sec bid; No. 2, T8c
bid.
Corn-No. 2. 44c bid, 47c asked; June, 47c
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

State of Minnesota, County of Ramsey-ss. In
Probate Court, special term, May %, 1885.
In the matter of the estate of William B. Taylor,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the Judge of Pro-
bate, of, the county of Ramsey, will upon the first
Monday, of the months of july August, Septem-
ber Octobers and November, 1885, at ten
O'Clock a. M, receive hear, examine and adjust,
all claims and demands of all persons against said
deceased; and that six months from and after the
date hereof have been allowed and limited for
creditors to present their claims against said es-
tate at the expiration of which time all claims
not presented or not proven 80 its satisfaction,
shall be forever barred, unless for good cause
shown further time be allowed.
By the Court
VIM. B. MCGRORTY,
TL.s1 Judge of Probate.
ADELINE TAYLOR, Administrative.
may25-5w-mon
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NEW YORK, June 13.-The Mail and Express
says: The transactions in mining shares
were unimportant. Sales were reported in
Bulwer at As, Grand Prize at IS, Consolidated
Pacific at 3S, Father DeSmet at f. Oriental
and Miller at Is, Alta at IS, Plymouth at 175s,
Consolidated California and Virginia at 295,
Leadville at 45, Sutro Tunnel at IT,
Homestake ..... Ii Ontario ... .24%
do preferred %
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Duluth Wheat.
Snecial to the

SptClHI 10 lIt OIUD6.
DULUTH, Mimi, June 13.-Market quiet
to-day and stronger at the opening, but easier
at the close; July opened at $3.50, advanced
1sc and fell Off to 955sc asked and csc bid at
tho close; August, 97$ac asked. 974c Did,
No. Northern, cash, SIC. Receipts-Wheat,
29. 500 blu: oats. $50 hu
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NJ. Doran,s Report,

ST. PAUL, June 13.-The following quota
tons, giving the range of the markets during
the day, were received by NJ. Doran, Commits
sion Merchant:
WHEAT, CORN AND PORK-CHICAGO.
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DEPARTING TRAINS.

La Crosse, Dubuque and st,
Louis Express. ....... -.
Mason City, Des Moines,
Kansas City q st. Louis
Fast Express. -.
Prairie du Chen, Milwaukee
and Chicago Express.
Calmar and Davenport e..
Milbank & Fargo Express. u.
Milwaukee g. Chicago Fast
Express. 5000. .......
Mason City, Abba and Kan.
sas City, Des Moines and
Council Bluffs Express
La Crosse Passenger.
Ortonville and Fargo Elk.
Aberdeen and Mitchell Elk. .
Milwaukee and Chicago Fast
Express.
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New York Money.
NEW York NIining Shares.

NEW YORK, June 13.-Money on call easy
at per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4@5
per cent. Foreign exchange unchanged.
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Produce Exchange.

Some activity appeafed on the board in GER
tain articles. Butter is dull with two much
on hand and too few buyers to take what there
is. Ground feed and corn meal were lower
and in moderate request. Oats were pretty
steady with sales of car at 32c, car at SOC
and cars at Sic. Hay was in moderate de-
mand with unchanged quotations, and with
sales of cars at $3.50 and cars at $500.
Eggs surprise everybody by the way they hold
up. They are somewhat firmer to-day, and
Notwithstanding the season when the supply
should be very large they are advancing. The
call:
1to5 Boxes
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*Daily Except Sundays. Eight trains to Saltwater
f4 Tickets, sleeping car Accommodations, and all
information can be secured at
No 10 Nicollet House Block, Minneapolis,
W. B. WHEELER Ticket Agent
Fl. L. MARTIN, Agent Minneapolis Depot
No. 200 E. Third street. cor. Sibiey street. ST. Paul
CHAS. H. PETSCH. City Ticket Agent
ANEBEL BROWN, Agents St. Panl Union DEPOT
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1885.
1884,.

The following comparative table gives the
principal quotations at the call on change
June Is, 1884, and to-day:
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, June 3.-Cattle-Receipts 1000,
shipments 500; market strong; shipping
steers, S4.S0@5.75; stockers and feeders, $3.50
@4; COWS, bulls and mixed, $4,000. so;
through Texas grassers, $3.7O; corn-fed, SIS.
Hogs-Receipts II 900, shipments 8, 900; prices
packing and shipping, s4.o5@4.15; light
weights, $4@O4.50; skips, S303.5O. Sheep
Receipts 200, shipments 100; market firm
natives, S2.5O04.30; Western, $4,000; Tex
ans, $2.4O@4.25.
AT THE STOCK YARDS.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 13.-At the stock yards the
receipts of cattle were light and values I'M
derwent little or no change. Receipts for the
week were 3d. 92. There was sharp upturn
of 10000 on hogs and an active market
to the extent Of the supply. Receipts for the
week 145, 684, and for next week the estimates
are from LAO, 600 to $50. 600. -
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The Quotations.

CHICAGO. June 13.-Flour dull and un-
changed. Wheat-Market opened firm and
advanced 5sc but under heavy offerings de-
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ARRIVING TRAINS.
Chicago and Milwaukee Fast


Chicago and Milwaukee Fast
Express. 49,. :. .........
Mitchell and Aberdeen Elk. i.
Fargo and Ortonville Elk. -.
Davenport and Calmar Elk. ;. !.
Kansas City, Abba and Ma
son City, Council Bluffs
and Des Moincs. -. =.
Chicago and Milwaukee Fast
Express. .......... -.
Fast Mail and La Crosse.
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Prairie du Chen Express.
Fargo and Milbank Express. 4
Mason City, Dcs Sloines,
Kansas City & st. Louis
Fast Express.
st. Louis Dubuque and La
Crosse EYnrpqq
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Cider-Choice Michigan, legal. kegs, So per
keg; choice refined, legal. keg, So per key;
choice refined, 32-gal. barrel, $3.50 per Dbl.
eapples-Strawberry $3.50 to $2.25 per
dOz. Ht
Strawberries-Ch Choice to fancy, per case, "a
boxes, $2.5O@3.
Maple sugar-No. 1, in 1-pound bricks, 12c
per h.; strictly pure, 3-pound bricks, 15c
per Id.
Butter-Extras, 15c@17c: extra tirsts, 16c;
f1rsts, 12c; packing stock, 3@4c.
Eggs-11c bid, 12c asked.
Cheese-Fancy, SIC; fine, &c; fine, partly
skinned, sc.
POtatoes-25c.
California Apricots- pound boxes,
So. 50@2.
California Peaches-Twenty pound boxes,
$35003.
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East, South and West,
DEPARTING TRAINS.

Des Moines Fast Express.
Fast Chicago Express.
Fast Atlantic Express.
Sioux c.. Sioux F. & Pipestone
Shakopee and Merriam Junct
Omaha and Kansas City.
Green Bay & Wisconsin Elk.
Shakopee and Merriam Junct
Lake Superior Express.
Saltwater and River Falls.
saltwater and River Falls.
st. Paul and Pierre Express.
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A means Daily.

Additional trains between st Paul and Minneapolis
via Short Line leave both cities hourly; for par
ticulars Short Line time tables
ST PAUL-Charles Thompson, City Ticket Agent,
1853, East Third street. Brown e. Knebel Ticket
Agents, Union Depot.
MINNEAPoLIS-G. L. Scott, City Ticket Agent,
No. :, Nicolet House. A. d. Chamberlain, Ticket
Agent, Depot.
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Dining Cars, the finest in the world and luxurious
Smoking Room Sleepers all fast trains to Chicago
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J'ly Ag. J'ly Ag. July Aug.
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Wheat. Corn. Pork
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Time.
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Yes. close. 1917 .s1A 4e1a 1855 10
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ALBERT LEA ROUTE.

MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-19
Their Nose Rings Torn Ont.

Jewels on children have at all times
been a source of crime. Within the
last fortnight at Amritsar. two cruel
robberies, with violence, have been
perpetrated. Both were on school
girls. One little girl was going down
the street when her nose ring was
snatehed out of her nose by thief.
who ran off, leaving the child fright
ened and crying bitterly, for her nose
was torn. The other robbery was
similar. A little girl lett her school to
go out to dry what she uses instead of
slate. A. scoundrel seeing her
snatched out her nose ornament and
disappeared.-Lahors (India) Gazette.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-19
The Superiority Of Grandfather's
Clock.

That the best power for clock is a
weight, is beyond dispute. The inven,
tion of the coil-spring came near an
Initiating the race of good common
clocks. "Grandfather's clock" with
its wooden wheels and other crudities,
is still the superior of the grandson's
clock as time-keeper, for grand
fathers clock" had the great advan-
tage of uniform power sufficient and
just sufficient to propel the clock when
it was properly cleaned and oiled.
The grandson's clock has a coiled
spring as motive-power, having,
when it is tightly wound. not less than
three times the amount of power re-
quired to drive the clock, and dm;n.
ishing in amount, thereby altering tn:
rate of the clock, with each successive
hour. The grandson's clock VIII
march on, oiled or unoiled (and there.
fore usually unoiled). until it comes to
a premature end as complete as that oi
the "one-hoss shay The "grand,
fathers clock" on the other hand,
which declined to go unless its rations
of oil were doled out to it once in a
year or less by the peripatetic tinker,
is good for another century, since its
bearings have been saved from cutting
themselves away from lack of oil. tins
kitchen-clock of to-day can only b,
made to keep respectable time by 81
regulating it that the gain it makei
when tightly wound shall be offset by
the loss as 1t runs down--Popula,
Science Monthly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-19
All One Mans Work.

Delitzch is one of the humblest of
the towns in Germany; its population,
even now, is not more than 5000, and
thirty years ago it was much less; but
from small beginnings among the
shoemakers of Delitzch, in 1850. Her
mann Schulze has, by faith and
patience, created one of the most re-
markable social structures of the CEN
tury. When he died, in the Spring of
1888, there were $500 cooperative
societies in Germany organized under
his own control, besides thousands
more in Austria, Italy. Russia and
Belgium, which owed their origin to
his example, and looked up to him as
their father. These $500 societies had
a membership of 100000, a share
capital of e10oOo,0oo, deposits
amounting to e2l,0OO,O0o, and did a
total business of el00,000,000 a year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-19
Questioning the Doctor.

"How'd you find your patient doc
tor?" "Went to his ROOM" "Yes;
but I mean how'd you find him when
you got there?" Found him in bed"
"Well, but is he better?" "If he's
well he must be-" "Does he improve
any?" Hasn't any to improve; he
sold his farm and lives in boarding
house." "Is he worse?" "Worse
than what?' "Is he better, then?"
"Better than who?' "Oh, doctor,
what is there about him?" "a double
shetland two blankets" "But what
ails himp' Nobody ales him; he's a
st. John man." "But is he danger
ous?' "Naw, gentle as lamb"
"See here, doctor, don't you want to
tell what's the matter with him ?"
"No matter at all, it's fresh cut"
''Well, you seem to be pretty smart;
do you know how to tell what ails your
patient?" "Oh. yes, l know how to
tell, hut you don't know how to ask. !"
Some physicians never want the neigh
bors to know anything.-Bob Hurdette