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SlX-ROOM HOUSE for small family; acre
ground; wire fencing; barn: chicken house
one car fare 10 District Line; rent per month
~ Corner Wells and Hobson sts. Brent
wood, Md. 1eIs-af
Z6-ACRE FARM IN Montgomery Co.. Nd. !;
nNe-roOm house. COW. chickens. and horse.
see me at once JOSEPH r. ATKINSON.
I4l1 G St tells a.
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FOR RENT
S3O50-2709 ST NV. rooms and bath
S2S.00-l227 9th 81. NV, rooms ana bath
S27.50-2l7 st. NV. rooms and bath.
S25-SO-5o9 ID st. ne, 6 rooms and bath
S22bO-455 St NV. rooms and bath
S22.50-5l2 Columbia I'd hot water; er & b.
FLATS
S22-5O-2O Q st ne: steam heat; 5r and b
ATKINSON & BALLARD co. QNC0.
62l 18th ST. y. w. 1el7-yt
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CHFTYOODE.

Pacific and Illinois Ave Famous for SEpe-
rior Menu and Service Illustrated y booklet
Coach meets trains 3 per day SO per vi up
Mrs p = DEMPSEY Owner * Mgr
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For Rent-Omces.

HANDSOME OFFICES for rent in the
Hunsey Building. st. facing Penn
sylvania ave. between 18Th and I4th sts.
moderate rents: heat. light. and janitor serv-
Ices free. fe2i-tf
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Wanfed-Suburban.

WANTED-To buy suburban home Tor
sloJ' cash and S25 monthly; state price. con
di;ion and location Address BOX s4e Tines
Office. fe17-st
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For Rent-hOuses.
MARTIN BROTHER

REAL ESTATE. LOANS AND INSURANCE,
1925 and 1927 PENN AVE. N w
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For Rent-Suburban.

FOR RENT-Six-rOOm cottage; all modern
cohvenienees; porches, hne shade. garden; SIS;
yearly lease; one fare; Tenleytown cars c.
> MOORE, owner. Somerset Heights, Nd
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For Rent-Apartmenfs.

FOX RENT-Ontario. a cool and desfrous
apartment; two rooms. bath and kitchen. al
a saerihee. Apply. at once 10 r. A PAR
-H-e2tI, 90 Conn ave. NV II
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For Rent-Stores.

FOR RENT-1422 7th 81. NV. brick store and
dwelling, adjoining O-st. market: rooms;
all modern Improvements, fixtures, etc. $50
CHAS- s. SHRENE. 1907 eth st. NV jel6-3t
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For Rent
Furnished Houses.
Wanted-MOney.

WANTED-Loan OF $500. first trust on |
house; good security; prefer to deal direct with
investor Address BOX 32s. Times Office
jel6-3t
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Wanted-t1odSeS. "

"-AHL INVESTMENT PROPERTIES-S Stores
homes. Nothing too small ~ 20 49, vi os
HARRlsON TSHaLTY Co
Svf u Street N w ros.S
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FOR RENT-S26.,o MONTH

FOR RENT-516 % st. Sc. rooms and
bath; fur-: large cellar and yard; back
porch, first floor. rent. S24
iel6-3t
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honey TO Loan.

-ONEN advanced On household goods stored |
IN this warehouse at rate OF s per cent per |
aanum. FIDELITY STORAGE co. 1920 U
81
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For Rent-Flats.

FOR RENT-Flat Of two or three rooms
unfurnished; all conveniences. sl4 9Th st
FOR RENT-ExceptionalI nne Nat nIce 10
catlons awnings, six rooms and bath fur
mace heat. gas range: hot water; S2s so I73e
North Capitol St ne. \ s CAYWOOD qs3
9Th ST. W. faTC ?.
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Business PrODertv

FOR RENI-Sll1 Water St, Georgetown: ma
Snine. blacksmith. or general workshop
25x5O. $3.50 per month
Observation-Disclosures REAL ESTATE co
lS23 Szd ST N w. ap25-tf
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Coleman House,

Elevator and all modern
and service nrst-Class-
and Up. Special week
BENDER
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FOR RENT
1892 6th ST ne. Or. bath, gas range. ST. 90
103s 9Th st. ne. 5r. bath. gas range. Il 20
F s COLLINS CO Onc-). 7O3 18th ST NV
jeI6-3t
FOR RENT-EXCeptionally fine fat nice To-
cation, awnings; six rooms and bath; fur
mace heat: gas range: hot water: $3.50 A s.
CAYWOOD. s33 9Th ST. NV. ie16-3t
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17
Affects
Every
Organ
OF the
Body.
"There Ia no
better remedy In
the ivorid than
Pe-rn.na for SyS.
temic cdtdrrh."
S. b Hartman, ~ D.

We have q multitude Of such testimonials.
They are from all parts Of the Western
Hemisphere. They fairly represent the
sincere and unbiased testimony Of the
people.
Csiarrh Of Stomach.
Mr.. W. X. Callahan, proprietor Of Big
Hill Farm. and a prominent fruit grower
and stock raiser, Glenvar, Va, writes;
Il write TO express my kindness toward
you and your good medicine, Peruna.
Il had a very bad spell Of sickness and
could not eat anything at all.
MY head, stomach, in fact, my whole
body ached, and II looked as though nothing
would do me any good.
Il had almost given up. / decided to
try a bottle of your Peruna and before I
had taken half the bottle my appetite came
to me and my head became all right.
"In fact, l was all right all over. Peruna
cured me-"
Liver end Kidneys.
Mr.. Joseph Klee, 215 E. 4th street, Topeka
Kas., writes:
my wife took Peruna for liver trouble
and a rundown condition incident to the
same. A few bottles built up her health
and strength.
Il took Peruna for a cold which settled
in my kidneys, giving ne much pain. In
two weeks ! was much better, and in a few
months l was we'll"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17
DIAMOND OPERATOR NABBED.
Despard wanted for Ring Trick I'm Rich.
mond--Sad Surprise for wife.

mond Sad Surprise for wife.
Wheaton B.. Despard, 80 years old, whom
the police also call Dan Stevens, was
arraigned in the Tombs police court before
Magistrate Moss yesterday morning,
charged with grand larceny. He is wanted
at Richmond. Va, where it is alleged he
worked the "pennyweight" game on F.
H. Kohler, a jeweller Of 24O Broad street,
getting away with a diamond ring valued
at SITS. Despard gave as his address $50
West Eighty-fourth street.
According to the story, Despard, with
an accomplioe, a short man, went into
Kohler's place on May Is and bought q
diamond valued at $50. The next day he
returned to see diamonds again. and when
he left Kohler discovered that q SITS dis-
mond was missing and the one purchased
the day before left In its place.
Despard was traced here and detectives
learned that he expected a package to arrive
from Richmond on Friday. 1t contained
another diamond ring worth $3.50 which he
had ordered sent him by a pawnbroker
there. He was to get it at the Office Of
the Adams Express Company at IL West
Thirty-fourth street.
The detectives watched the place and
shortly after 9 O'Clock in the evening Des-
pard accompanied by DIS vile, q handsome
woman, wearing many diamonds, appeared
and asked for the package. Before it was
delivered to him he was arrested.
His wife was thunderstruck and created
something Of a scene. They have beer
married for six years and she said that dur
ing all that time she believed her husband
to be a travelling diamond salesman. He
says that he is a civil engineer. His wife
could not believe the charges against him
and protested his innocence.
He was taSen to Headquarters, photo
graphed, measured and searched. No
picture vas found Of him there. but the Pc
lice say that he lie one Of the oleverest crooks
and 'pennyweighters' in the country.
He came o. originally from st. Louis, they say,
and is said to have been the owner Of
several track horses. Nine pawntickets
were found in his pos session.
De spard was arrested on tho order Of
Chief Of Police Weine Of Richmond and
Kohler appeared yesterday in court and
identified MIN by a deep vertical cash on
his forehead.
Despard was held in default Of 81 900 bail
for forty-eight hours. Lawyer Lowenstein,
whom he retained as counsel, said he would
fight extradition on the ground of mistaken
idapfity.
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SprIna and Summer cstsnh.

OpNVNU w
There IL a form Of catHrrh especially
prevalent In spring and summer. called
by DR.. Hartman systemic catarrh.
This form Of catarrh especially deranges
the stomach. bowels and other organs OF
the abdomen. The whole mucous tract
lining the stomach, liver, bowels and kid
neys Is In an infamed condition. and these
organs fail to perform their proper function
systemic catarrh may be or may not
be accompanied by catarrh In other parts
of the body. In some cases there Is a hack
ing cough. II may be also associated with
catarrh in the head.
But. in typical cases Of systemic ca
tarrh all the organs of the abdomen are
In a weakened and sluggish condition.
Dyspepsia and BIIlousness.
Sometimes it is called dyspepsia, at
other times b~iliousness, or the patient
may be suspected of having kidney dis
ease or appendicitis.
Systemic catarrh presents symptoms
which resemble closely a great many diff
fersnt diseases.
Peruna has for a long time been re-
garded the remedy par excellence for
conditions of this kind.
The accompanying testimonials are suf-
fcient to indicate the promptness with
which Peruna relieves these symptoms and
the satisfaction which people express
concerning the use Of Peruna.
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AtIIsFa M M rl0tIIt0
" tss,s 'sm 1aehea IN m q tsss tHsses
N IesepHJ

w N1NfNNN
HHats,h stashle Muir - yrass od set
dserasd snd pfetty wea sfsalened brfofe
Magistrate Wahl~ In JeRcfsrn Nafkrs tultcs
cuff, yesterday ~ = ehasae ~ at,emptlaa
w. psuoufe The commission N trFIury The
complainant Ia her husband, Oeofg Allen
Mutt, q farmer, ffum ahefheid Maas Tbs
wotHan wa pasoled IN the custody W her
couneei. former Assistant Diatfict Attorney
John n Mctntyf~, mil her examination ~
Suns ~,
The papers In the oae~ reveal aa unusual
stats ~ marital affairs. Muir, wbo 10 ten
yeafa younger than hle wife, eaya ~ wooed
and wpddsd the defendan, IN ivot, but lived
with her only q few months. He declares
that last March Edward Fuller. Q am ~
Mfa. Muir, caused HE arrest on q charge
Of stealing q diamond ring worth $500 and
Magistrate's court. Muir eays che put up
the job and tried 10 get Mike Mooraw' 10
c~orrobofa.e her cons story, The farmer
arraignment before MaRietrate whitman. In
this city, hia wife disappeared and that he
has followed her 70 Boston, Pttteburg and
~. Louie, The woman returned from
Chicago Friday and at night wac taken into
custody by Detectives Ryder and Kidney
street.
Muir includes In his papers what purport
to be copies Of lstters written by his wife TO
the mike Mcdraw," who also lives up In
Sheffield. Here's one written from the
Wellington:
FRIEND NIKE. I am 80 afraid something
has happened to you. VIII be up soon. ! have
found q sanitartnm where your father can be
cured. Tell him I will send him there soon.
How pretty those girls are. DO talk TO Nice.
and get Cons address. Mrs. Muir.
Another letter urges mike In heavens
name to write O line TO 90 Broad street. care
Of Jacob Cantor.
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COURT SCORES COPS BRUTALITY
For Battering Up morensive Young Man
Who Moved Too Slowly.

John Thieriet, a young q who Is en-
ployed in a Brooklyn soap factory as a
clerk and lives at 551 East Sixteenth street,
had a badly battered head when he was
arraigned in the Yorkville police court yes
terday on a charge of resisting a policeman.
The young man said he had been dubbed
by Policeman John Ahearn of the East
Twenty-seoond street station house, who
had arrested him. Magistrate Finn looked
at the cop, who is about 8 feet tall, and
then at the prisoner, who is understood.
What did you arrest him for?" the Ma gis-
trate asked.
"He was standing on the corner at Avenue
A and Twelfth street"
How long since did it become a crime to
stand on the corner? Did you see him
violate the law
NO." the policeman acknowledged.
The Magistrate asked the clerk how 1t
happened ,o.,o
last night when the policeman ordered me
to move on. started to do 80. and then
he hit me on the head with his nightstick, "
said the clerk. THE blow cut my head
open and knocked me down. I didn't resist
him. l didn't break any law. For my
character / can refer you to Assembl lyman
Cruise Of the Eighteenth district. John
Murphy and Magistrate Joe Moss. Magis-
trate Moss said he would be in court to-day
to testify for me-"
Il believe you. young man." said the
Magistrate. who then turned to the police
man You should not be on the police
force. You are a brute and a dangerous
man to nave in uniform"
The Court then discharged the prisoner.
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sHAKEDoWS CHARGE DISMISSED.
No witnesses on Hand Against Edison Co,
Foreman.


Charges of conspiracy and exacting an
illegal ~gratuity made against Frank de
Benedetto Of Gutenberg. N. j., by en-
ployees Of the New York Edison Company
were dismissed yesterday in Special Ses.
sions. Benedetto was foreman on excava-
ton jobs.
Justice Mexican said in diminishing the
case:
sit seems to me that the District Attor-
news office has not been as expeditions in
this matter as it should have been. This
case has been delayed moro than three
months, and within that time valuable
witnesses could have got away and thus
defeated the ends Of Justice
Benedetto was accused In March OF
shaking sdown the men under him for IS
q week as the price Of keeping their jobs.
It appears that he operated in collision
with an official Of the company, who has
disappeared. It 10 said Benedetto made
$3.50 a week in this way.
Benedetto was arraigned in the Tombs
police court in March on these charges, and
at that time a score or more OF Italians
appeared against him. They have Prac-
toally all disappeared. The principal wit
ness in the case was Enrioo uuo OF ~
as to Benedetto to hold his job on the com-
pany's building at 50 Horatio street. He
said the payment was made in the presence
Of Attillio Capuli Of ia Mulberry street
and others. When Capuli was needed to
testify in Special Sessions, however, he
could not be found, and the others tes.
timony was hazy. None Of the original
SCORE or more Of oomplainants could be
reached by 'subpenas.
An officer Of the company has stated
hat IL cos them Sl,40o to keep witnesses
within the Jurisdiction Of the court and bring
them from other places to which they had
moved.
other charges Of a similar nature are
pending against Benedetto. He will prob
ably be tried on them within a week, As
sistsnt District Attorney Whiteside said.
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MURDER FOR INSULT TO WOMAN.
Butcher Who Was With Her Went Back with
q Knife for Satisfaction.

Frederick Klinger, who keeps a meat
shop at $3.50 Avenue A. was taken to the
Yorkville police court yesterday on a charge
of killing Robert Hartley. Hartley had a
saloon at 800 Avenue A and was. sitting in
front of the place late Friday night with
several other men when the butcher passed
by with a woman companion.
One Of the men made a remark about the
woman which probably reached the but
cher's hearing. He said nothing at the
time, but in half an hour or so he returned
alone.
aHas any one here anything to say to
me2" he asked as he approached the group.
It was asserted yesterday by n Of the
men that Klinger had one Of his long knives
in his hand. Hartley tried to argue him
out Of the notion that the woman mad beer
insulted. He got three deep stab wounds
and died while being taken to Bellevue
Hospital in an ambulance.
Klinger was afterward arrested at his
home. Magistrate Fin ordered him taken
before the Coroner, who held him without
hail.
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PREUSSER'S TRIAL FOR MURDER.
His wife Testines as TO His Mental Derange-
ment OF Late Years.

UTICA, June 1e.-The first week Of the
trial of Richard E. Preusser of Albany for
the murder Of Myles B.. Mcdonnell, late Of
Boston, ended shortly before noon to-day,
when the defence announced that all its lay
testimony had been presented. Monday
the expert testimony will be given, and by
agreement between the attorneys each side
will swear six witnesses.
Mrs. Eleanor Preusser, wife OF the de-
PENDANT, vas the principal witness sworn
this morning. She was to have gone on
the stand yesterday afternoon, but just prior
to her calling she collapsed and had to be
carried from the court room and attended
by a physician. Mrs. Preusser told Of the
once happy life she led with the defendant
when they were first married and how q
few years ago Preusser became irritable
nervous and abusive, even going so Gar
as at times to strike her and make her life
a burden. She told at length Of his alleged
peculiar and unacoountable conduct and
Orange aots on many ~oocasions.
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Wedding Anniversary. Marriage Baptism.

R1vEHHEAp, L. l., June 1e.-Gray Gable,
the home Of Judge Timothy NJ. Grihang here,
wal to-day the scene Of a series Of events
which included the thirty-eighth anniver-
eary OF the marriage Of the Judge and Mrs,
Miss Mabel, and the baptism Of two grand
children OF the Judge. Miss Mabel Grifing
was married ct noon to Harry g.. Stephens
Of East Hampton. When the minister had
united the couple he baptized Timothy
Grant Grih1ng and little Miss Carol WOLF.
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WENT TO PARK TO HANG HIMSELF
Unidentified Suicide Found q Cottage Near
the Hamble.

the Halnble
An unidentified nan went into a cottage
near the Ramble in Central Park early yes
terday morning and hanged himself to a
rafter. The strong cord had cut into his
neck when Policeman Moore entered the
place and found the body.
The suicide was about 30 years old, had
brown eyes. dark complexion and was clean
shaven. No papers by which he could be
identified we're found upon him. There
was sir cents in his trousers pocket.
The body was sent to the Norgua.
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26
. p,r,.o. Flying Machine.

Gulls are masters in the air. have
watched by the hour birds similar to
these following along in the wake OF
q steamer, but had never before mad
such chances with a camera. OFTEN
they polse. resting apparently motion
less on outstretehed wing. 1t Is diff
cult feat. A small bird can't do 1t.
A sparrow hawk can only poise by the
rapid beating of his wings. The gulls
seem to hang perfectly still, yet there
Is never an instant when the wings and
tail are not constantly adjusted to meet
the different air currents. Just as in
shooting the rapids in a canoe, the
paddle must be adjusted every moment
to meet the different eddes, currents
and whirlpools. and 1t is never the
same In two different instants. A gull
by the perfect adjustment of Its body.
without a single flap of the wings,
makes Roadway straight in the teeth
of the wind. | saw one retain perfect
equilibrium In a stiff breeze. and at
the same time reach forward and
scratch his ear.-American Magazine.
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26
Kafnr Wsman,s Courage.

One of the first explorers Of the IN
terror of South Africa was William
Cotton Oswell, noted hunter and a
friend OF Livingstone. to whom he rem
dered important aid. In his biography
the following story Is given from one
of his African letters: An incident
highly creditable to Kaf1r womanhood
occurred Just as we reached Mabotse.
The women, as is their custom, were
working In the fields. for they hoe and
the men sew. A young man, standing
by the edge of the bush. was chatting
with them. A lioness sprang on him
and was carrying him of, when one
Of the women ran after her, caught her
by the tall and was dragged for some
little distance. Hampered by the man
In her mouth and the woman behind
her. she slackened her pace, whereupon
her assailant straddled over her back
and hit her across the nose and head
with a heavy short handled hoe until
she dropped her prey and skunk to
cover.
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26
SHARKS,

Mrs Nellie Duley Upper and Mrs
Flora Duley Nickerson and their families
from Booth bay are visiting their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Asa Dudley, for few
weeks.
Mrs. Alonzo Quimby who has been in
feeble health for several weeks past,
suffered quite severe shock, Monday
morning last, and at this writing is In a
very feeble condition being unable to
sit up.
Miss Fanny Quimby of Providence, R.
l. arrived in town, saturday night, for a
few weeks stay with her parents,
Bert Moore who has been at work at
Poland Springs came home, Tuesday
Mrs. Lovins Hatch of New Sharon is
visiting her daughter, Mrs Charles
Locke
No serious damage was done in town
by the recent thunder showers with the
exception of crops being badly beaten
down by the wind and rain.
Mrs. Charles Fletcher and two sons OF
Boston are spending the summer months
at the old Fletcher homestead in this
town.
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26
The Conductors Mistake.

A conductor on the ST. Louis and
Suburban railroad had such good run
of business Sunday afternoon that he
had difficulty in keeping himself sup
piled with small change Many pas
sengers who patronlzed his car handed
him dollars and bills of larger denomi-
nations In payment of their fares. The
conductor, however, managed to get
along fairly we'll until woman carry
ing a tiny infant boarded his car.
When he approached the woman for
her fare she handed him a five dollar
bill
as that the smallest you have. mad
ann" queried the conductor. fearing
another stringency In change.
The woman looked at the conductor
and then at her baby and made this
surprising reply, yes; have been
married only twelve months" - St
Louis Globe Democrat
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26

Tact has always been considered the
peculiar attribute Of woman. with
q woman's tact" Is one of the stock
phrases of the novelist. But a writer
In one OF the American magazines
and his view is upheld by an English
magazine which quotes him-upsets
this tradition by declaring that men
are more often tactful than women.
Men, it Is submitted, are swift to
know when to speak and when not to
speak-when 1t Is wise to withhold
even q look-and that Is why a medi-
OGRE man will succeed when even a
clever woman will fail. why men are
greater In diplomacy, in all things that
require finesse. Still 1t Is a question
whether men really succeed better In
diplomacy. What about the woman
who Is the power behind the throne2''
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26

A little Portland miss, whose first
name Is Grace, had never attended
church, being too little and too lively
TO be trusted there, according 10 the
Kennebec Journal. But at last her
mother permitted her to accompany
an elder sister, giving her grave warn
ings beforehand The rector of the
church was frequent caller at Grace's
home, and her mother feared that on
this account she might take liberties.
you must sit STILL" she said, land
you must not say one word. but let
Mr.. Hammond do the talking. Now,
remember"
Oracle behaved very we'll In meet
ing. As soon as she reached home
she reported:
"Ob. mamma, did keep still-real
STILL aud when Mr. Hammond called
me right out In meeting l never stirred
to go to him"
called you? Why. child, he never
called you in meeting"
Yes. but he did. mamma. He said
tixee or four times. Send down Grace,
but sat as still as a mouse"
The Somerset reporter., 1906-07-26

The story goes that years ago, long
before bridge was known In London
clubs, two families who played the
game under the name OF Russian
whist" were living in nelghboring
houses at or near Great Daily In
LeIcestershlre The only road OF com
munication lay over a somewhat dan
gerous bridge. 1t was frequent oc-
currence for the departing guests to
say to their hosts THANK goodness, it
Is your bridge tomorrow, meaning
that the other party would have to
cross the dangerous bridge the next
night; hence Is said to have arisen
the title of bridge" We give this story
for what it Is worth. but in our own
mind we have little doubt that the
modern name OF bridge is merely a
very easy corruption Of the old title
of "biritch" The two words "biritch''
and bridge" have absolutely the same
sound when spoken quickly. so that 1t
is easy to imagine how the change
came to pass.-London Saturday Re
view