Evening journal., 1901-12-27
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

lacks the-er-saYOir vivre which Onr
other girls have"
Well said Mrs Nuritch buy her
one and charge it up in your bill"
Old Gentleman-Why don't you go
to work?
GAY Youth haven't come to it
yet
Mama wonder what made John
ny sicl1?" Papa-"Where has he
been?" Mama From the appear
ance Of his clothes he has been playing
on the ash heap" Papa-"Ahl then l
guess he found those Christmas cigars
you gave me-"
Levity in behavior is the bane Of all
that is good and yirtuous. Seneca.
What's the matter with Ezimark?"
oh he's complaining that his lot is
very hard" Same old cry, eh2"
We'll, in this case he's justified. He
bought a farm without looking at It
and now he find it's all rock"
In great attempts It is glorious even
to fail-Longinus.
Hoax-"What do you think of this
scheme for getting sugar from beets?"
think Of all the beats that get sugar
from us"
There are now twenty-three chapters
of tho Anti-Treating Society in the
United states and Canada with a
membership of 5000
The manufacture of "old masters
has been going on merrily enough in
France for the last twenty years or so,
in spite of the action of the courts of
law in cancelling any contract by
which one of these masterpiece" is
foisted on the unwary collector. The
sale Of seven forgeries, bearing the IL
lustriOus names of Corot Millet and
Daubigny. was annulled last week by
the order of one Of the courts in Paris.
Il Is suggested that the judges should
have gone further and ordered the de-
struction Of the pictures, just as they
would have ordered the destruction of
meat unit for human food.
AS the result of a schoolhouse de-
bate in Doniphan county it was de-
cided that a dirty, good-natured
woman is preferable to live with than
cleanly. ill-natured one" says the
Kansas City Journal However, we
presume that Doniphan county would
resent the imputation that among her
women folks the choice is limited to
these two"
The Burlingame, Kan, papers are
boastlng that within the present year
more than $4,000 worth of monuments
have been erected in the Buringame
cemetery. owing to the good times,
which have enabled people to pay
more than the usual attention to the
resting place of their dead. There is
something novel in the thought that
the material condition of a town may
be discovered in a glance across its
graveyard fence.
"Your friend Smallbore is coming to
New York to live. I understand"
NO, changed his mind. He says
Rhode Island suits him"
Fits him, I guess, he means"
Mrs. Kate Galloway -Halcomb, of
Missouri. owns the oldest Geneva BIZ
BILE in this country. II bears the date:
Geneva. Switzerland, 1860"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is spending
her time between her dramatization OF
Eleanor" and various sociological in
terests OF the Passmore Edwards Set
tlement which grew out of her novel
Robert Elsmere."
Nine de Mauspassant, mother of the
French author. Guy de Mauspassant
lives ait Nice, Italy, in a tall house
with closed shutters. and seldom sees
strangers, yet any admirer of her sor
is always assured Of a warm welcome
]. H. Sharp, the noted painter of In
dian heads. has sold his entire collec.
tion to Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst who will
send them to the University of Cali.
fornia in furtherance of the chair o
Indian research, which she has found
ed there
Rev w. A. Bartlett, of Chicago, OF
Sunday distributed among his congre
cation a set of fine half-tone pictures
whicn are to illustrate a series of ser
mons he will preach. The first picture
was a representation of the painting
by w. A. Bouguereau, entitled, 9TH,
Mother and Child"
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott paid higl
tribute at the Plymouth Church
Brooklyn, on Sunday, to the life an,
character of the late Thomas G. Shear
man, IN whose memory a bronze tab
let was unveiled in the church. Tn
memorial was placed alongside o
those of Henry Ward Beecher an
John Tasker Howard
MY dear, said Mrs. Gush, you
mourning bonnet is just lovely"
Yes replied the young widow
petulantly, but the fact that I have {
pay for it myself robs me of all tn
pleasure ! might have in wearing It.