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| The Mississippi is still making bad
breaks.-Baltimore American.
Baseball crockery comes too high Nu-
merQus $4,000 pitchers have been brok-
en.-New Orleans Picayune.
| Hon. Matt Quay's enemies are begin
ming TO fear that he carries night key to
the White Observation-Disclosures Post.
With tariff and treaty on hand, the
Senate can complain Of no lack of mate
rial for Observation-Disclosures Star.
There is one commendable feature of
the Congressional Record. 1t doesn't run
poster poetry Observation-Disclosures
Post
In telling Charlemagne Tower, Jr.. TO
go to Austria President Mckinley does
not exactly tell Col. Fred Grant to so to
blazes.-Boston Globe.
The dog has been taken out of the front
yard, so that whenever Prosperity feels
like dropping in she will not be intimidat-
ed.-Kansas City Times
In the spring fercer hunger grows upon
the pantry mouse. In the spring the shud-
dering fancy turns to thoughts of clean
| ing house.--New York Press.
Mr.. Moody's arrival in Chicago was
| very timely. He found four candidates
for Mayor inquiring what they should do
to be saved.-Detroit Free Press.
DIR. Swallow, the editor of a Methodist
journal, has been convicted of libeling a
Pennsylvania politician. This seems al
most incredible. Times.
The waste of time caused by the cleo
ton Of Senators by the Legislature is one
excellent reason for electing them by a
popular vote.-Louisville Commercial.
Some scientific sharp says that thirst
is merely a lesion of the temperosphenoi-
| dial lobe of the BRAIN" But what is good
for that e?-Chicago Times-Herald
Mrs. Christopher Bettarle has sustained
| the reputation of her sex for markswom-
anship. She aimed a revolver mt a dog
| and shot her husband.-Chicago Journal
A dispatch from st. Louis says that Col
Phoebe Cousins has dug up the Ratchet
and gone upon the warpath. We advise
arbitration right away.-Chcago Times
Herald.
There is a big pile of money coming in
through the custom houses in these days
and there is big hole in the treasury into
which il readily sinks out of sight.-Provi-
dence Journal
The women are going TO hold health
congress in Philadelphia pretty soon.
There will be a rush of business for the
Philadelphia doctors while it lasts.-
Cleveland Leader.
1t is surprising that so many men who
missed hearing their country's call 10 arms
have no difficulty in hearing anything that
can be construed as a call to office.-San
Francisco Examiner.
new sdministrati ton not so much because
they want the job as because they think
It would be violation of party ethics not
to ask.-Chicago Record.
Texas is to buy a battlefield. From
many reports we had never supposed that
Texas needed such place. Any old place
has usually been considered battlefield
In Texas.-St. Louis Star.
The New Jersey man who died at the
age of 10j this week did not marry until
he was 20. But some people do not cut
their wisdom teeth until long after that
time-Baltimore American.
Tesla says that person who sleeps
nine hours a day ought to live n hundred
years. Ii this Is true. Philadelphians
ought 10 keep alive for all eternity.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
South Dakota's erring State Treasurer.
William w. Taylor, was released from the
penitentiary after an Imprisonment of one
year and a half. Good behavior reduced
his two years sentence some six months.