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California Fruit Sales.

CHICAGO, Nov. Is. = The Earl Frpit
Company realized the following prices for
California fruits sold at auction TODAY.
Buerre Pears, 81 25@1 %; Vicar Pears
81 IS; Winter Nellis, 81 75a2 10: full crates
Emperor grapes, s. 05@2 %; Cornichons.
81 20(GI So.
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Sudden Death.

WHEATLAND, Nov. 16.-William Low
ell Waddell, son of Marshal Waddell,
was found dead yesterday in a room in
the Central Hotel. A post mortem ex-
animation disclosed that he had died
from clot OF blood in his heart.
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Rnadr for Sarrino

New YORK, Nov 16.-The Atlanta.
Bennington and Concord will be ready to
leave the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-mor-
row. Their destination has not yet been
officially announced.
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International Peace Congress.

ROME, Nov. 16.-The International
Peace Congress to-day approved the
proposition that the isthmuses and
straits be made neutral. The proposition
to hold an international arbitration coun-
Gil in Chicago was postponed.
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A Waiter Charced yvith Robbe,.v

SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 16.-Otto Stolp, a
waiter in a restaurant here, was arrested
this afternoon by Sheriff Healy, charged
with robbery. He was identified by
Mrs. Wheeler IS the person who stole $50
and check for 81 800 last Saturday near
the Donahue railroad. He was admitted
to bail in the sum of $780,
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Silver Purchases,

WASHINGTON, Nov. l6.-Of the g5o. .0OC
ounces OF silver offered for sale to the
Treasury Department to-day 4o9. .0oo
Were purchased, ranging in price from
50. $3.50 to 80. $40
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TORNADO IN THE ARGENTINE.
a Town Destroyed and Many People
Killed and Wounded

~ 1oWu OSSCFOScu ana Many People
Killed and Wounded.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-A Buenos Ayres
dispatch states that tornado passed over
the Province of Santa Fe Friday night.
The town of Arroyo Seco was entirely
destroyed, forty people being killed and
thirty wounded. A train of eighteen
coaches were overturned and many pas
sengers were buried in the wreck. The
telegraph wires are down and details
OF the disaster are meager. Crops are
badly damaged. The Province of Santa
Fe has population of about 100000, and
contains 2S,000 square miles.
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The Cotter IIonlicide.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.-Mrs. Mary
Cotter was held in 600 bail to-day by
Judge Rix to answer before the Superior
Court for the murder of her husband.
Police Officer jeremiah Cotter, on the
9th inst
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The President Goes Duck Sboo4i,y

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The President
left here this afternoon for Beniies. Md.
where he viii spend two or three davs
duck shooting. He is accompanied by
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HHE ALLIANCE MOVEMENT.
All the Organizations to Meet at
Indianapolis This Week.
ACTION TO BE TAKEN ON THE UNI
FICATION OF INTERESTS

George A. Beard, Cashier of the sus-
pended Cheyenne National Bank,
Sends n Bullet Through His Brain
Two Editors Placed Under Arrest in
Florida WEilo Starting Out to Settle
Dispute on tho FicId OF Honor.
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Miners Strike.

PARIS, Nov. 16.-In the Department of
Pas-de-Calais $500 coal miners went on a
strike this morning.
This evening the number of strikers
has increased to Is, 200.
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Death Of Mrs. Charles Krup.

ST. HELENA. Nov. l6.-Mrs. Caroline
Bale Krug, wife of she pioneer wine
maker, Charles Krug, died this morning
after an illness of three weeks. Mrs.
krng was a daughter of the late DIR. f. 7.
Bale of the celebrated Bale grant, at one
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A Mothers TerrIble Crime.

LONDON, Nov. 16.-At DetcLfield-with
Crofton, this morning, woman muir
dered her three little children by cutting
their throats, and then committed sui
eide by cutting her own throat
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A Swiss Town in n Panic

BERNE, Nov. 16.-The manufacturing
town of Winterthur is in state of tinan-
cial panic, owing to the suspension of the
principal bank in the place.
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sSITUATION IN BRAZIL.
Conflicting Reports as to the Tru
State of Affairs.

state OF Affairs.
LONDON, Nov. 16.-News from Brazil
continues of the most conflicting charac-
ter, official dispatches from Rio de Janeiro
asserting with unequivocal positiveness
that the country is absolutely tranquil,
while kilograms from Buenos Ayres and
Santiago report Brazil torn with dissen-
sions and secession. The actual facts will
probably not be known until mail ad-
vices are received. An official censorship
prevents dispatches not approved by the
Government reaching Europe direct. 1t
is not known how such dispatches reach
Buenos Ayres and Chile The latest Off
cial advices from Brazil state that the
trouble in Rio Grande do Sui is purely
local, and that the government of that
State is now in the hands of provisional
Junta. 1t is inferred from this that the
authorities at Rio regard the Junta as in
sympathy with the central Government.
but this theory is contradicted by dis
patches from Santiagot to the Times These
declare that the Provisional Junta has
taken absolute control, and asserts that
it has an army of $1,000 men armed with
rifles. 1t is short of artillery, and has
but one war vessel, a river monitor lightly
armed.
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Isl Orartet of Giris.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 16.-Mrs. Edgar
George of Bunker Hill, Ind, this morn
ing gave birth to four fully developed
girls. The father is farmer.
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Sale of Liquor at Hheatland.

WHEATLAND, Nov. ia petition has
been presented the City Trustees to
license the sale of liquor in the town
limits after January next.
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EX-King Milan.

BELGRADE, Nov. 16.-Ex-King Milan
has signed remuneration of all his legal
and constitutional rights in Servia.
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TALLAHAssE (Fla.), Nov. 16.-The Su-
preme Court to-day issued Q peremptory-
writ of mand&mus against Secretary OF
State Crawford, enjoining him to sign and
attest the commission OF Davidson, ap-
pointed United States Senator by GOV
ernor Fleming.
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Republicans Defeated.

LISBON, Nov. 16. = The Republicans
were badly defeated i'll yesterdays cleo
tiOOS
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WAR sECRErARYsaIp.

TrcctoI's Successor VIII Probably
soon be Announced.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1G.-The Star says
tonight: There arc reasons to believe
that the President may have changed his
mind about postponing the appointment
Of Secretary OF War until after Congress
meets. Mr.. Proctor has announced pri-
vately that he viii be in Washington this
week or the first of next to induct his
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Pardoned by the rreslaant.

WAsHIGGToE. Nov. Is. .-ThePresident
has pardoned George C. Wells. convicted
in California of violating the postal laws.
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THE CONVENTION FIGHT.
IN Active Contest Likely Before
the Republican Committee.
STRONG SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF
CHICAGO.

Objection Urged Against San Fran
cisco rs the ace of Holding the
Convention, that Eastern Morning
Papers Would he Unable to Get n
Report of the Proceedings on Ac-
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

There was an oldish couple sitting on
bench at the bridge piers, when the man
suddenly caught sight of a policeman COM
ing up the promenade, and he rose and
walked down to meet him.
"Does this bridge connect New York and
Washington he asked.
"Of course not" replied the officer.
'Is that Brooklyn over thereY"
eyes, SIR"
The old man went down into coat tail
pocket and fished up very long and a
very black looking cigar and held it out.
whats this for?" asked the officer.
"Shl Don't talk so loudl It's for you. |
want you to do me a favor"
"Wellf"
81 told the old woman that the bridge
connected New York and Washington.
She sorter doubted it. If she asks you tell
her the same thing"
"But you are way off,"
81 know it, but I'm not so alfred way
off as will be if she finds out she's right
and Pm wroDg Why, she'll want to keep
right on living for 200 years more in order
to twit me of it about ten times dayr'-
Chicago Tribune.
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Mrs. Walmsly is widow. Her husband,
who was wealthy auctioneer, died few
months ago. Mrs. Walmsly has an Irish
cook who got married without consulting
that lady.
Bridget, what sorS of man is that you
have marriedg"
'He is very intelligent gintleman."
"Does he belong to "A good familyY
"Indade he does. He dhrives coach foi
wan of the best families in the city,"
"Pshawl A coachman isn't much"
maybe you're right, Wildly Walmsly,
but Pm thinkin live coachman amounts
to more than dead auctioneer. Texas
Siftings.
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-
well, my boy said the old gentleman,
II understand you've been fighting.n
II was In something of scrap" replied
the youth.
well, suppose boys viii fight, and
there's no use trying to stop it. You don't
look much the worse for it,"
Got off pretty light. SURE said the
boy.
Lick the other feilowr'
swell, hardly"
"um. that's bad. Did you follow your
old fathers advicer'
Eyes, sir"
"You struck the first bloww
Eyes, SIR"
"And hit him hardf"
"As hard as could"
knocked him down."
knocked him fat"
sand that didn't end the fght"
swell, l should say not"
The old gentleman looked puzzled.
"That's funny" he said, II never knew
1t to fail when / was boy"
maybe, when you were a boy, the other
fellow didn't fall on brick pile and get ur
with half brick in his hand and chase you
a mile. That'll knock most any kind Of a
system silly."-Chicago Tribune
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THE LAST STRAW.

An Incident from Chicago Showing How
the Worm win Turn.
"Lemuel Finkenhinder, it Is time to get
nnl''
Altar in the east the gray dawn Of frosty
Nc-cmber morning had family impressed
itsek on the reluctant and unresponsive
horizon. and tie darkly frowning sky had
begun to look rs II IL felt streaked with
premonitions of coming day that should
reveal everything it had been trying to
hide. No sound stirred the sluggish atmos-
phere save the harsh, fuzzy, perfunctory
whistle Of distant locomotive that either
had the asthma or found it hard work to
achieve the proper quicker on account Of
the cold, and would not have whistled
anyhow II it hadn's been compelled to do
1t by the regulations OF the soulless corpor-
alton it was working for.
"Lemnel Finkenbinder, 1t is time for us
to get upl have told you so five or six
timesr'
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES responded Mr..
Finkenbinder vaguely. What is It, FAM
And with soft snore he relapsed into
slumber.
"Lemi"
Get upl It's time you were building the
kitchen fire."
She shook him and shouted In his ear
again, but he felt not the jerking and her
voice sounded like the soft murmur OF the
waves that wash the shore Of the land of
dreams.
Again he wandered down the happy val
ley, hand in hand with his hearts IDOL as
Of old. The gentle breezes sighed through
the trees above their heads, and the grassy
carpet beneath.their feet waved to and fro
In fantastic pillows, as IL stirred by the
wings of passing fairies. Again he looked
into the melting blue eyes, In whose soft
answering glances he read the story OF
trusting girlhood's deep and fearless devo-
ton, and his heart swelled with pride and
Joy.
"Lem"
h--what-wha'--
"Lemuel Finkenbinder, wake upi''
yves. What are you doingp"
Pm shaking you. Are you going TO get
upf"
Back from fairyland came Lemuel Fink
enbinder-not all at once but by jolts and
bumps.
He opened his eyes. His cherished wife,
the partner Of his joys, sharer OF his sor-
rows, loving caterer to his gastronomical
whims and disbursing agent OF his treas
ury department was trying to push him
out of bed into the Geld, cold air that came
freely in through the open window.
He sat up in bed. A full realization OF
his dignity as man, his position as head
Of the Finkenbinder family, its champion,
bulwark and defender came upon him.
Memories of the past, with it's errors Of
Judgment, omissions of duty, and overt
acts and transgressions for which he could
find no adequate excuse rose wildly before
him. 1t was not too late to shake off his
lethargy. assert his manhood and vindicate
himself.
Fan" he said with iron 6rmness, as he
lay down again and composed himself to
slumber, ''if you want that blamed old fire
built you get up and build it YOURSELF
Chicago Tribune.
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~ was . sure way 30 Maze Money.
His history Is briefly told.
After severai days OF thought ne discov-
cred sure way to make money. and, like
other men, he was In a hurry to try It,
He made haste 90 insert an advertise
ment something like the following In ssv-
eral country weeklies:
Sure way to kill potato bugs: send twenty
two cent postage stamps to X. Y. q. -. for .
receipt that cannot fail.
Then he hired dray to bring his mail
from the postofiice and had 10000 Of his
receipts printed. Inside of two weeks some
thing like 1900 or 1900 farmers had con-
tributed twenty two cent stamps each for
the printed recipes
Then several bandred of them bought
clubs and railroad tickets and started out
to interview the advertiser. At his office
they were informed that he had left to at
tend to some business in Europe, and he
was not expected back. All he had left
was a package of 5000 or 1000 slips Of pa.
per, on which were printed the following:
Put your bug on a shingle. Then hit
it with another shingle. "-Chicago Trib
uue.
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All from Babyhood.

/
Small Girl tafter eating peppermint
arop) : Whew-eel don't 1t make your
mouth windy9--Kate Fields Washington.
They're having picnic in the woods
oh, papa" exclaimed little Fritz, run
ming up with u chestnut burr in his hand;
''lookl I've found the egg of porcupinep
-Fliegende Blatter
| A little Boston girl, who Is going to .
private school. wants to go to public
school. 81 am tired" she says, ''of going
70 school where the teacher calls us dar-
ding. New York Tribune
Mrs. Jaysmith-Freddy. how did you get
FOUR clothes torn and your eye BACKED
like thatP Now, don't deny it, you've been
III fight. Freddy truefully)-Nome;
wasn't in it.--New York Sun.
Grandfather Dean. who liz very old in
Iced, was holding his little granddaughter
Helen on his lap, when she suddenly asked
very seriously. "Grandpa, why don't you
wear SWITCH toledo Blade.
A little boy, the son of good Presbyterian
parents, was asked the question in cate
,hism, "What is the chief end of man?"
and he answered, MANS chief end Is TO
zlority God and annoy him forever
New Moon.
mo, Bobby" said his mother, ''one piece
Of pie is quite enough for you"s IT'S
funny" responded Bobby, with an injured
air you say you are anxious for me to
learn to eat properly. and yet you won't
even give me a chance to practice. -
Washington Hatchet
There was once mother who was fond
Of pointing her moral lectures with precti-
,al Illustrations drawn from the daily life
Of her children. And the children showed
they understood the force of this method OF
instruction One day discussion arose in
the nursery viii said a thing was SO,
Mabel said it wasn't. "But if say it's SO,
it is So" said VIII. Saying a thing is SO
doesn't make it so, answered Mabel stout
ly. Now, suppose you say you're good
boy, that doesn't make yon one. does itS".
-Harper's Young People.
One day on a railroad car Il lady allowed
her little boy, who could hardly speak dis
tinctly, to play about the car, and by and
by. to the horror of all of us. she discovered
him complacently sitting outside on the
steps, She brought him in, and although
the punishment inflicted was mild, his
little heart seemed to be completely broken.
When presently the train stopped at sta
ton great, choking sobs could be heard
distinctly all over the car, ard suddenly
we were all convulsed by grieving, re-
proachful and utter desolate little voice
exclaining, Say, mamma, when a.
naughty old-trainman leaves-a door
wide open, how cana baby help going
outr'-West Shore.
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Not writer's Cramp.

Doctor-From the condition of your hand
and arm | should say you are suffering
from writer's cramp-too much exercise of
one set of muscles.
Young Business Man-But never write.
employ typewriter.
"Um-engaged to her"
Eyes"
'Do your-et-dictating with your other
arm. New York Weekly.
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Poets In Chicago.

The spirit OF poetry moveth itself Ia Chi
cago. Whether it moveth itself Alright Is
another question, Of course. Here are three
little gems which yesterdays mail brought
They speak for themselves:
THE BOY AND THE WIND.
| A boy stood on the government pier
Wishing to catch some fishes:
| He stopped to cough.
The wind blew him off;
He is now one Of McGinty's visitors.
A boy stood in barber shop,
With whistbroom In his 6ngers;
And all of sudden there came gust of wind.
And the whist blew through his fingers.
boy took bath in the lake one cold winters
day,
His hair froze stiff and twistless:
The wind blew strong,
His hair Is ali gone,
And he is nov seeking advice from the Suther-
land sisters.
title the cheering hope that it can never be
repeated:
THE OLD MANS DIENG WORDS.
How the sun rose on that Morne
OF those years long, long ago,
How thu shepard blew his horn
When the hevens were Aglo.
/ was then bright and very gay.
But the bliss has long gone by;
lam now very old and gray
And lay me down to die.
And my dying wishes are
That may be
Layed upon the cliffs
That overlook tho sea.
Place this hand on my Bosom
And this one toward the sky,
And there In peace and comfort
Let my dear old body lie.
We hope that this request, so soulfully
and pathetically expressed, may be COM
piled with at once. The third production
sustains the high literary standing of the
two preceding it:
THE SEA.
love to watch the rolling waves
Foaming and tossing beneath me-
I'm not afraid; how can / be,
When was brought up on the scar
AS one by one the mad waves come
And toss us against the rocks;
They toss us roughly, and the captain
talks grufiiy,
But still I'm not afraid.
This is not remarkable however. One
who can perpetrate such literary crime
in cold blood should be able to scare sea
captain into Mysteries, no matter how
"gruffly" the old sea dog talks.-Chicago
Mail
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One Umbrella Less.

Mr. Spinks-Why under heavens did
you give Ellington that cotton umbrellas
He'll never bring it back.
Mrs. Spinks-The only other one in the
rack was silk.
"You should have given him that"
"Humphl If he wouldn't return the
cotton one why should he return the silk
one? Tell me that, Mr.. Spinks.
1.-THE cotton one was his."-New York
Weekly
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Beloh Should Get Sofa.

There is said to be girl ten years old
living near Pittsburg who speaks only a
language of her own invention, although
she reads and writes English. Here is a
portion of her vocabulary: Sofa, angry;
phatooa, fun; tooky, a strong rope; beloh,
papa. Now, if beloh should get sofa and
take tooky and have some phatota warm
ing the reporter who spun the yarn, such
fictions as this would be fewer.-Detroit
Free Press
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1t was about o'clock in the evening
that he suddenly rose up off a box in front
of a store on Chambers street and accosted
me with:
Say, do you live here'"
eyes"
Regular New Yorkers"
eyes"
proud of the town, of course, and
wouldn't live anywhere else for million
dollars year?"
"Well?"
"Well, she's buster. Lots o. things to
be stuck over. Don't wonder you go
around patting yourself on the back. Say
l don't live here"
"No?"
"Live way out west in a town of 1000 in.
habitants. Just going home tonight. Sorry
to go, but got to. SayP'
Yes"
81 want to take away with me pleas,
ant impression of your great and noble
city. Want that impression to last me
clear home, and when get there want to
go down to the grocery and say to the
boys: Boys, it hain't no use talking. She
beats all creation, and them New Workers
is the all-fredest richest, smartest and big
heartest people in all this world"
81 see, but where do l come imp
Fright here. You hand me dime; dime
produces pleasant impression; pleasant i'm
preston makes me a friend of New York.
Present impression fluctuates and wobbles
-mebbe like New York, mebbe don't.
See? Better fix me-"
fastened to fix him, and after assuring
himself of the value of the coin he lifed
his hat, bowed gracefully and said:
Impression is now all right, and is 60
ing to be Fighter in about i've minutes.
Westward hol is my watchword. Fare
wspr'-Chicago Tribune
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Business Is Business.

Highwayman-Your money or your life.
Lawyer-Here's all have.
Highwayman-Al right-Now get out
Lawyer taking him by the buttonhole)
Wait a minute, friend. Don't you want
to engage counsel to defend you in case
you should be arrested for this AFFAIR."
Buffalo Express.
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Secretary Jerry Rusk recommends a
greater diversity of farm crops as one
important means Of lettering the condi-
ton of farmers. Where all produce one
article the price of that is bound to be
low
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A Quick Cure.

Wagg-It's too bad about that girl that
jumped off the Washington monument,
isn't it?
Wooden-Why, what did she jump Off
for?
Wagg-Why, you see she was very thin.
Wooden-What had that to do with iUP
Wagg-Why, she thought she'd come
down plump.-Boston Courier.
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The fate of Fonsec.s n Brazil, Balma-
ceda in Chill and Boulanger in Europe
proves that the closing years Of the
Nineteenth century are very unhealth-
full time for dictators. Thus much the
world has certainly gained in century.
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Do Come.

Mr.. Pinkham--How do you do, Mrs.
Whilst You are the last person l expect
ed to see in Florence.
Mrs. Willis-Why, if IL isn't Mr.. Pink
ham! Yes, we are spending the winter
here. You must call on us often. You
know just how it is-persons we never
think much OF while home seem like dear
friends when we meet them in strange
place.-Harper's Bazaar.
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Ended Well.

Briggs-First asked for the confiden-
tial clerk, and he was out, and then for the
junior partner, and he was out, and then
in despair l asked to see the head of the
firm, and I'll be hanged if he wasn't out
But it was all right
Griggs-Why, what did you doa
Briggs-The Office boy said he would see
me-Clothier and Furnisher
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A willing Sufferer

Uncle = What is your favorite dish
Karlchen?
Karlchen-Suet dumplings, for they al
ways make me so i'll that can't 20 to
school the day after.-Anekdoten Biblio-
thek.
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All or Nothing.

No." said Charley Cashgo, Il would
never try to break my fathers will don't
believe in it.
.sHu1nph,'' growled his father. II should
say YOU didn't. You believe in breaking
the old man himself and having done with
ii. "--Washington Star.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

DR.. R is the jollest of mortals. There
never was practitioner who took the
death of his patients so cheerfully. Yes
terday he called TO see patient of his who
was down with pleursy. The concierge
stopped him at the door: Monsieur died
during the night"
"Ma fol! that suits me to 7; happen
to be awfully busy this morning. lie
Petit Parisien Illustre.
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A Good Neiphborhoad.

Foley Have you nice neighbors?
Patterson-Elegant. Why, they spend
the fall and winter in Florida and the
spring and summer in Newport.-Epoch.
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Give Him Time.

Wife-I say, Gustave, our customers are
beginning to grumble; we shall have to re
duce the price of our bread.
Observation-Disclosures! We have only just
begun to reduce the weight; you can't do
too many things at once.-La Croix.