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i And Every Other Day: The gas
companies will receive on New
Years dsy-as usual.-St. Louis
Post-DIspatch.
In the National House of Rep
resentatlves there are forty-two
Johns, twenty-seven Jameses, forty
Williams, twenty-one Charleses.
seventeen Thomas and ten Georges.
! Gov. Hoadley, of Ohio, says he
will pay his share, 100000, of the
recently discovered deficiency IN
the unfortunate Purcell money and
that he will have enough left to
live on after that.
The United States sloOp of war
Alaska is being broken up at San
Francisco. The woodwork will
be cut up into canes and small arti-
cles to be sold rs mementoes of
the ships OF thirty years ofservice.
The young lady, Miss Jones, of
Hyland, Ulster county, New York,
who received 100000 for an act
of kindness 10 an elderly lady in
New York City, has received II
letters asking her hand in mar
rage.
When an English preacher goes
into politics, he goes IL strong.
The Rev. G. A. Denison, of Taun-
ton, says: 81 have known MIR.
Gladstone for torty-fve years, but
1 would not trust him with brass
farthlng."
Newspaper Reporter to Presi-
dent OF Company-"Has your COM
pany taken any steps yet to pay
its taxes? 7" "Why, certainly, sir.
We have made two protests against
the constitutionaIity of the law"
Wall Street News.
| Husband-"I would l were in
heaven" Talkative WIfe-''That's
unkind; Pm sure l make it as
pleasant as l can tor you" Hus-
band-"Ah! but you know. the
poet says to die is landing on
some silent shore" - Yonkers
Statesman.
ave bend the knee, but not the
elbow" enthusiastically exclaim-
ed an orator at a temperance meet
ing the other evening. Chats
So" said an unreclaimed sinner on
a back seat. "It's the only way
you can get your moth to the bung-
hole. National Weekly.
Fourteen examinations were
held during the year by the Brook
Ign civil service commissioners, at
which HI competitors appeared
and of whom AS passed to the
eligible list. OF this latter uum,.
Der 143 were appointed to places
in the civil service.
The --latest Fashion. Lady Ito
servant)-"is Mrs. Hendricks ln?"
Servant-"She's not, num-" Lady
| presenting a blue la MahdI visit
ing card)--'1 will not leave this"
Servant "Phat's thatr"Lady j
"My card, for Mrs. Hendricks"
servant-"I beg your pardon,
mum; thought it was a milk
ticket" Now York Times.
Claus Spreckels, "the sugar king
OF the New World" as he likes to
call himself, is said to derive an
income of So, 100000 from his sugar
plantations in the Sanwich Islands.
In his domain he wields the most
autocratic power OF any monoplist
in the world. His home at Homo
lulu is like the dream of a Sybarite.
His wants are served by an army
of negroes.
Experiments on an extensive
scale have been made in Germany
to ascertain the relative strength
of iron and steel girders. The soft
steel girders proved to be % per
cent. and hard-steel girders &C per
cent. stronger than tho iron GRID
ers; and it is remarked that 1t
seemed pretty well established
that the strength OF steel glrders
is about the same Tor the two fan
2 es If made alike In section.
In connection with the Austrian |
mission frequent reference has
heep made to Mr.. Kelley's "civll !
marriage" to a Jewess as the |
ground of objection to him In !
Vienna society. Mr.. Kelley" /
says the Baltimore Sun, "was mar
RED in due from by Catholic
priest and with the papal dlspensa-
ton, Just as . number of tho most
distinguished persons now in Vlen-i
ma society weFc married"
1t Must Be Cheap. "Do you
know anything about parafine?"
asked LeDiggs of DeWiggs. "Not
very much," replied DeWlggs. !
ado you know whether it is very
costly or not ?" :'No, l don't even
know that" DWELL, ] think it
must be very cheap" "What
makes you think so?" because
the New porkers have succeeded
in raising money enough to paint
Cleopatra's needle with it."-Pitts-
burg Chronicle,
Experiments have recently been
made in London in the use OF oil
as fuel for sea-going vessels. A
steamer was fitted with oil tanks
and piping, and the several trials
that have been made have proven
satisfactory. The greatest obiec-
ton is that 1t emIts dense smoke,
but is believed that by the intro
of d jet of steam into the
oil pipes, and causing the oil to be
distributed in spray form, COM
plete combustion will be effected. '
The Editorial awe" Stranger
to hotel clerk)-"Can you give us !
q comfortable room, sir, and some
We are tired and hun
grY." Clerk" Certainly, sir. {
Where is your friend?" Stranger !
-"Our friend?" Clerk-"Yes."
5tranger-"We have registered !
put one name, sir" Clerk-"Ah, =
yes, see. You are Mr.. Horatio
Shears, oftho EagIetown Weekly ,,
Bugle. My mistake, slr."-New :
York Times. =
Two thousand two hund-.:a and
women voted for
''' wi officers at the recent cleo
lion in Boston, and a Journal cor.
thinks that thew did L