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Roland statue. which had only been dedi-
Gated a few hundred years before Consid-
ering that the statue resembles in it's hide
Gus outlines the statue of Chris Columbus,
esq, on the lake front in Chicago, l don't
blame his honor. the Juristen, for wanting
to do it damage. but he had no business
hours.
At night they open up the Rathshaus-
keller until II. Then they close the "ein-
gang" fnway). but leave the "ausgang'
(outway), open until midnight; they won't
serve wines or liquors. however, after II
pm. If you intend staying in the game I'M
til IL, you must purchase an advance stock
of liquid refreshment and have it laid
down f. o. b. at your table This is govern
ment regulation of the drink question in
Bremen.
There is cask of Rudesheimer in the
Rathshauskeller that was laid in the vault
in 1863. Several expert bookkeepers have
been employed since then to estimate its
present value If the wine had been drawing
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MIR. FOLEY AND HIS FROG.

An Intimate Relation That Results in
Occasional Embarrassing Episodes.
From the Oil City Blizzard.
The embarrassments and annoyances in
cident to the existence of a man, whose
stomach is occupied by baritone frog, with
propensity for demanding recognition at
any time, under any circumstances. will
readily suggest themselves. Yet this is pre-
cisely the predcament in which James Fo-
ley of Wheatland finds himself One even-
ing recently he was sitting with his family
playing dominoes, when peculiar grunting
sound made the children jump.
whats the matter, James, aren't you
well?" inquired Mrs. Foley.
why, didn't do that"
Yes. you did. James l heard you. Have
you been drinking again?"
Mr.. Foley was in the act OF making a
most emphatic denial when the sound was
heard again.
''Yes. it comes from me, sure enough" he
was forced to admit. Like flash his mind
grasped the true state of affairs; he must
have swallowed something in the drinking
water, and it had grown inside him.
He has now brought suit against Philip
c. Dickinson to recover $1,000 for damages
to the plaintiffs health. alleged to have
been caused by drinking impure water fur
nished by the defendant. The Foley and
Dickinson farms aojoin, and Foley paid his
neighbor $12 a year for the privilege OF
Mr.. Foley claims that the animal inside Of
him is frog. Il know it's that" said he,
''for nothing else would make so queer a
noise Last Sunday in church the frog took
it into his head to kick up a fuss just as I
was enjoying the sermon. First 1 knew, it
gave big croak. Everybody looked at me.
and of course l got embarrassed. Then it
started to croak still louder 1 couldn't
stand that, so 1 got up and walked out.
All the way down the aisle the frog. or
whatever it is, kept making its strange and
peculiar sounds. I'm afraid I've queer I'd
myself for that church.
THE worst of it is continued Mr.. Foley.
they won't believe me. Everybody seems
to think l am doing this for fun. 1 can't go
to any little social gatherings prayer
meetings without this Internal animal tun-
ing up in my interior
Mr.. Foley, like many others, doesn't real
iZe his own possibiities-he doesn't know
what's in him. He ought to make that frog
pay for his lodgings by earning a lot OF
money for him.
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interest ever since. THE original value CT
the wine was about $500 for the cask. At
the varying rates of compound interest up
to the year 1880, when the last estimate
$40. lib, 691 $3.50. Eac6 bottle would De worth
1896, 1873; each glass of 1000 drops, $780,
919, and each drop, '$92O.97. These are the
official figures changed roughly from
marks each about % cents) to dollars.
These prices do mot include corkage and
tips. I forgot to ask the oberkellner how
much it cost to swell the cork.
The way the Devilbug got into trouble
was like this: Ever since Charle-nagne es-
tablished bishopric at this point, in 1SS,
1t has been the custom (since established
as custom all over Europe) to require the
stranger within the gates Of Bremen to
take out kind Of naturalization paper for
the time being. When Bremen was in Its
infancy, and even as late as the fifteenth
century. the burgermeister used to send
his private secretary to the hotels. and
let him mosey around and find out if any
Of the guests appeared to be of the sort
that would steal the town if it wasn't tuck
ed in under the big walls over night. But
when Herr Guttenburg set up his steam
printing establishment The burgermeister
ordered lot of printed blanks. and they
have been using them ever since-the same
lot. apparently.
Today it is all quite like the olden times.
except that the hotels smallest boy calls
on you instead of the burgermeister's sec
rotary. Instead of registering ones name,
as in America. in Bremen one has to fill
in a long blank.
Among other things that the burger
meister is solicitous about is your
Vornamen front name).
Surname (Surname).
Stand Occupation or position).
Wohnort (habitation).
Zahlder Famil'en und Angehorigen (num-
Der of family and dependents).
Erwachsener und Kinder adults and
children.
Woh:n (where to), and when, and few
other things that the hotel prophet Or fills
and sends to the police department, where
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senGers regarded him forthwith as a per-
sonagc. But speaking of those clothes i'm
Eels me to d!gress sufficiently to remark
that the trousers of the suit when first sub
mitted to him for publication were even
worse than at present Il fact, when he
tried them on II became apparent that the
sub-contractor who had huilt them up from
the measurement had accidentally vice YER
sa-ed the front and back figures. The con-
segment total eclipse was startling. and
even painfully apparent to the Gense-Ir::nd-
ed Oxford clothes butte her under whose
hypnotic influence the Devilbug had fallen
Eat the tailorman was unmoved. His
laade-:n-LoEdon FEASIBILITY never failed
him.
''Ah, sir, 'ank you. sir. just as you sug-
gest. sir. Quite right. sir. There as been
a substitution of figures, sir. 1t shall be
remedied, sir"
And SO he had a new pair of trousers
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A Rare Coin.
From the Collector.

When Louisiana seeded, January %.
1851, the new government seized the United
States mint at New Orleans and struck
S25i.s2O in double eagles and s1,1O1 ,316. 80
in silver half dollars, using the United
States dies for 1861. The built IN was ex-
kausted in May, 1861, when the coinage
ceased and the United States dies were de-
stroyed. A confederate states die was then
made, to be used for silver half dollars
but it was not fit for use in a coming
press. the relief being too high. -Four half
dollars were struck with il on a screw
press, and these comprise the entire coin
age of the confederate states. They are
worth about $3.50 apiece to dealers.
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A THwARTED CRIME.
A Curious Tale, the Scene of Which Il
Laid In India.

From the London Globe
An Indian up-counrry paper tells curious
tale. A rich lady, with her two children.
both infants, was going. 1t is said. In her
own ''ekka" from Ramaagar to a place
in the center of the Bar tract. The driver
was a trustworthy servant of the family.
and it was for this reason that tine lady had
not Invested herself of the ornaments she
usually wore. But the sight Of the jewels
was too much for him. and at au exception
ally lonely spot in that lonely country he
suddenly asked his mistress to hanl him
her valuables. On her suspecting his real
designs and hesitatinS, the miscreant show
ed himself in his real colors, and made her
and her little ones, who could barely toddle
about get down. The horrible thought that
was working in his brain, that of hiding
his crime by means Of murder, had given
lis face Sardonic lCok which made the
poor woman tremble.
Then the fend bound her, hand and foot,
and informed her that he would first kill
her children and then do her to death. By
her earnest entraaries she prevailed over
him to begin with her first. He had an ak
in his hand. with which he aimed a blow
at her, but the bead being loose, it flew away
and fell a few PAGES off, the handle only re-
naming in his grasp. He stepped into the
grass to look for it and disappeared behind
mound. She waited her certain doom with
all her nerves on the strain. She gradually
fell into swoon, and when she came round
the first thing she saw was her husband
bending over her and her babies crying and
Juggling at her clothes.
After she had left a nameless uneasineSs
seized her husband. He could not reason
away his vague fears, try as he would, and
at last he mounted his horse and followed
the ''ekka.' He had proceeded but a few
miles when the dreadful sight of his wife.
and children lying bound up with cords on
the ground met his eyes. And the story that
his wife told him CONCEALED his blood with
horror. They both then, drawn by an ire
pressible curiosity, went toward the drec-
ton that the miscreant had taken to pick
up his ak, and think of their surprise when
they saw his corpse already lying blue, pu-
trid, and bloated. the flies buzzing over it
In clouds. Retribution had come in the
shape OF "karundia' of the deadly variety
known as Khaki rare even in those snake
infested parts, whose bite instantaneously
paralyzes the victim and decomposes the
body in an hour.
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The Drenn-Ship,

eugene Field in Ladies' Home Journal.
When the worl.l is fast asleep,
Along the midnight skies
As though it were Il wandering cloud
The ghoStly Dreanl-Ship tics.
An angel stands at the Drca m Ships helm,
An angel stands mt the prov.
And an angel stands at the Drea m Ships sid
With a rue wreath on her brow.
The other angels, silvercrowned,
Pilot and helmsman are
And the angel with the wreath of rue
ToSSeth the dreams afar.
The dreams they fall on rich and poor,
They fall on young and old
And some are dreams of poverty,
And some dreams of gold.
And some are dreams that thrill with Joy
And some that meit to tears.
Some are dreams of The dawn of love,
And some of tine Old dead years.
On rich and poor alike they fall,
Alike Young and old,
Bringing to slumbcr!nc earth their joy,
And sorrows manifold.
Tho fricndoss youth in them shall do
The deeds of mighty men.
And dropping age shall feel the grace
of bu0yant youth again.
The king shall he a bc-sarman-
The pIupCr be king
In that revenge or rrcoppense
The Dream-Shp dreams DO bring
So ever downward feat the dreams
That are for all and me-
And there is never mortal man
Can solve that mystery.
But ever onward in It's course
Along the haunted skies
As though 1t We're cloud astray-
The ghostly Dream-Shp flies
Two angels with their silver crowns
Pilot and helmsman are
And an angel with a wreath Of rue
Tosseth the dreams afar
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said I'd have to get up. as they had to set
the table and needed the two table cloths
anyway. So l got up and saw the town
from an empty standpoint. Afterward 1
had breakfast. and the town improved al
most like magic. Still I'm glad I'm not go
ing to stay here q few years. There's no
knowing how often Julisten tag might
come around.
Ore of the chief attractions of Bremen
is the Rathshauskeller. which is subter-
ranean thirst institute, conducted and I'M
der the immediate control of the municipal
authorities. During the daytime of this
extensive Juristen tag the intrmary is
closed. Some years go, in 1854 TO be exact
it seems that one CT the Juristens, sort of
associate justice-in-chief. threw so much
15i5er Rudeshemer into himself during the
first three days of the Juristen tag that
he fell off the bench, and after trying to
srg:
Vivat Bacchus! Bacchus lebe:
Bacchus, der Vein erfand,
staggered out of court with the fixed in
tention of swiping the head off the revered
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From the Florida Times Union
Many a father thinks that the baby is adj
hiring him when it is simply trying to ex-
press its contempt
If baby's power was equal to its malev-
olence, there would be a great many more
murders committed in this country
The collie is the only thing that will
tackle a baby without first considering the
consequences.
There was no baby in the ark. If there
had been, all the animals would have sue
Cumbed to insomnia.
A baby Will leave its bottle at any time to
feed upon the caterpillar he sees crawling
across the floor.
If a full-grown man had a voice in pro-
portion to a baby, he could make himself
heard from here to New York city.
Babies know more than We think they do.
They always know when l am arrives and
are sure to wake up.
Babies not only believe in early rising
but insist on every one around them acting
on the same belief.
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A SunfIOyyer Clock.
From the Kansas City Star.

FROM the Kansas City Star.
Kansas has often been called the sun
flower state-a title more than ever appro-
pirate since the foreman upon Governor
Motley's farm constructed his sunf1ower
clock. Choosing an enormous sunflower. he
attached to it's dropping head a tiny corn
stalk, not more than ten feet long. About
the plant he drew a circle, and divided it
into twenty-four parts. each of which was
subdividcd for minutes and seconds And
now. as the faithful plant from dawn till
dusk eyes its fierce lord, the cornstalk
pointer moveSabout the dial. indicating the
time. The sunfower clock can also be used
as stop watch to time races by holding
over it a big umbrella, which checks the
revolution upon the instant, when the time
to the fraction Of a second may be read off
upon the dial.
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Calais on the French shore, and We're we'll
on cur way up the North sea when an eS-
cited man drew the attention of a group
of passengers to a great ship that had
reary sunk out of sight on the port SIDE
Her three masts We're still partly above
the level of the water.
Probably we just missed some big
storm" hazarded young lady in Trilby
costume.
perhaps there are still survivors floating
around. Let's look! Wouldn't 1t be funny
if we should have a chance of rcscuing
theme cried a. benevolent Visaged matron
who hailed from st. Louis and openly &C
knowledged it.
well, it would be rather funny" re-
marked the captain. who had strolled up.
ut would be rather funny if we should
find any survivors of the Princess Louisa
still floating around here. She's been there
RICH on five years, and that's as far as she
ever got in her sea career. She was a
bran new iron ship and very large one
at that, and this was her first voyage 1t
isn't often that ships lie young, but the
Ships cemetery, as that place is called by
sailors, has had hundreds of ships in its
grasp The chart name of that place is
Goodwin Sand. No ship that goes there
ever comes away again. The wafer at low
tide is orly from five to fourteen feet deep
and when deep drauGht vessel goes
aground the swift eddes and quicker shift
ing sands soon swallow the ships of the IN
war; seafarer. That ship we just past is
buried IN the sands; only the upper parts
of her masts are above the ocean bed
Another year or two, and all will disap-
pear Ships cemetery lies opposite Deal.
England. AMI Is directly in the channel
that leads to the ship entrance TO London
We have to be careful here in foul and
foggy weather. and to avoid running onto
the sands We take almost continuous
soundirgs."
"Oh. how nice. I think 1 heard you TAX
ing them last night, captain" chimed IN a
young lady from Kenosha, who was going
to Berlin to study music. and be a sure
enough prima donna when she comes back
Il should SO like to he with you. when you
are taking them. l should enjoy it hugely,
1 know. My ear is so sensitive to sounds,
you kEow.''
The captain said he had to go at cnce
and see if the dog watch needed regulat-
ing.
The next morning and early afternoon
we saw little strips of islands belonging
to Holland and Germany. The only signs
OF vegetation were the light houses. One
of the light houses built by the German
government seems to be erected in very
dangerous Spotlight out in the water-on
cassions. the captain said. 1t struck me
that it was bad place for light house;
some ships might run right into 1T. The
captain said that at night they put lights
government put out one red light and enc
white one, and hired only men who wore
red shirts, SO they could use them to put
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From the Boston Budget.
A certain farmer who lived in northern
New York, and who was by no means
noted for his resemblance to Apollo, had
son of six or seven who had more wit
than pedigree.
One day stranger came to the farm
and seeing the lad, asked: Sonny, where's
YOU father"
"In the pig pen," was the reply.
"In the pig pea? Thanksr' and as the
man moved in the direction indicated. Zen
FAINT terrible shouted: Il say! You'll know
Linn cause he's got his hat on"'
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American to go to England and try to solve
the mysteries of London punch.
With extreme satisfaction we found that
the passenger list was small and lament
ably inexperienced. The crowds and ex
perience were going in the opposite direc-
ton. As the ship was lowed to the dock
at Southampton. several of the officers sta
toned themselves on the bridge to see that
the vessel did not climb up on shore too
far, and some Of them recognizing the
Devilbug by his distinguished bearing not
withstanding the London suit of ill-ftting
clothes In which he was encased, the pas
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HERE Is A BEAU
tiful,if dlm.probabil..-
ty. bora of hope, that
l have seen the last
OF tbs Devilbus. The
last | saw OF that
son of Gotham tia
police of Sremen had
him. and when the
police of this prilni-
genial burg get a
man they hold on to
him. and the alder
mans influence is as
naught.
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Trust Tamnlas.

From the UakIand Ilflts.
Tammas had friend stopping with him
during the holidays. AMI took him up to
the Hill of b to have look around.
Arriving at the seat they sat down, when
his friend remarked "Ftere we have come
up to view the BEAUTIES Of nature and I
have come away without glass (tele-
scope"
To which Tammas made answer: "Dinna
fash yerser ABBOTT a glass, cause I can Just
as weel tax a sock out o the bottle"
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than to monkey with officialdom. So he
got nice and gay and filed out the blank
so fashion:
Vornamen: Jimmy de Kidde.
Zuname: De Vilbug.
Stand: Peanut
Wohnort: The Patch.
Zahl der Fa milen, ETC.: dogs, 1 Baede-
ker und jag.
Wohin: Blazes.
Abreise Oeparture): Nobodys business
when l get ready.
Inside of one hour, after the Devilbug
had retired, he thought. for the night. a
gentleman of the police persuasion called,
In full uniform and a draschke, to see and
get the Eevilbug. He was only the rounds
man of the nineteenth precinct. but the
Devilbug thought the gentleman was a
general of militia, merely wishing 20 pay
his respects 10 distinguished stranger.
The New Yorker was much taken with the
officer. but couldn't convince the latter
that it was a joicei In fact the Gotham
young man couldn't quite think OF the
German word for Joke"
1T war wann@ain ioke-yoke, gencrala.
Weiscn zie nicht was Elm joke oder yoke
list? Joke. grader >wie goakkom
lac herliches humenstisches, =len 2ie-just
like vie in Fliesende Bladder Gee Chris
tcpher, you gold-laeed mandrll. don't you
know what joke is? Do you need an AK?
Hey? You don tzhave to pull the wagon on
me. I'll go all right. but give a fellow a
chance to dress, won't you? l have got
friend that will bail gegiven for me, du fer
dampter aisel! du! You know what an
aisel is, don't you. On. but I'd like to
have you In the Tendsfloin district for Just
five minuteS!T -
The Devilbug Is still in jail-offcnse. ma
jestats beledigungs. or something equally
vicious. The authorities haven't seen the
point of the joke yet, and probably
wouldn't laugh if they saw it. They don't
know anything about bail here, and the
matter has gone over to the next Juristen
tag. whenever that is.
The American consul says he will do
what he can-but, confidentally, they don't
go much on American consuls here, the au-
thoriteS don't. CHARLES LEDERER.
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Swallowed q Yeast Cake,

From Judge.
Rural Ragges-'1t's no use, Tafts; I've
got ter work"
Tramping Tatters-''Land O. labor, Roory,
me boy! What's de matter wild yer? Are
you losin' yer intellec'?"
Rural Ragges-"No, but I've swallered a
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An Interview With the Vice Presi-
dent at His Home.
he Is SHY ON POLITICS
Prefers to Talk About Bloomington
and Alaska.
VIRTUE IN NEW TARIFF LAW
Copyright, 1889

Stevenson lives in the
heart of the great IL
linois corn belt. Illi-
nois is the greatest
agricultural state in
the Union, and Nc
Lean county is the
greatest agricultural
county in the state.
Mclean is the largest
county in the state
territorially, and its
population is 5000, of
which 25,O0O are in
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Natural History.

From the New York Ledger.
Say, papa, are you going to New York
tomorrow"
Il guess SO. Why?"
well, 1 wish you would get me a new
tooth brush, my old one is noting"
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Juristen Tag, What 1t Means and
What Came Of It.
Wine VALUED Ii 5000 Per DRQF
An Experience With Magistrates
Who Can't Grasp a Joke.
A THIRST IN STIT UTE

Copyright 1885. 10y Rachcller. Johnson BachelIsr)
BREMEN, October l, 1898.
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Coupled with the words of this
grand man is the great truth that
four-fifths of all diseases arise from
kidney, liver or bladder complaints.
Can you not readily see, then, why
that magnificent remedy, Warmers
Safe Cure, is SO popular? 1t is be-
cause it prevents these troubles or
cures them if taken in time. If you
doubt this ask any educated, WELL
informed doctor, druggist OR profess
SIGNAL man. oc12
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1t is filed away in the archives of the lit
erary bureau of the rogues' gallery.
The Devilbug had never been to the Chi
cago exposition. and ddn'. know better
than to monkey with cfcialdom. So he
got nice and gay and filed out the blank
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Count ToIstoi,
Who is irecaoser sympathy with hui
manity, itssneeds and its sufferings,
than any man who is alive today.

Go through crowd Of people,
preferably city people, examine their
tired, anxious. wasted faces: re-
member your life and the lives of
those whom you have known init
mstely; recall the many sad cases OF
Sickness and sorrow Of which you
have heard, and ask yourself the
reason of all this suffering and
despair. And you will see, however
strange it may appear, that the
cause of nine-tentiIs of human
misery Is some chronic weakness
or disease, that this suffering is
useless, that II could he avoided,
and that the majority Of people
whose lives are darkened by i'll
health might be strong, vigorous
and blpur
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SCHWEINMAGEN'S GAME.

GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.