Year: 1878

effect the dose they would like to
make us swallow. If the Tribune
is wise, it will not force the issue on
ballot~box stuffing and bulldozing.
How LOT OF WALL FLOWERS
WERE WORKED OFE-It is undenia
bly, a marked trait of humanity to
want what seems hard to secure !;
to count as good all that fortune or
| circumstance seems determined to
withhold. This is as true Of wives
as of anything else. Women who
are easily had are not wanted, and
those difficult to get have their
charms enhanced by the mere fact of
the difficulty. One Erastus Bailey,
of Michigan, understands this
thoroughly, and has lately proved it's
truth by experiment. He had six
homely and commonplace daugh.


ters, from seventeen to twenty six,
and not one of them found a hus>


band, although other young women


in the town went off connubially


without any visible attractions or
for any ostensible reasons. Tho
paternal Bailey finally came to til
conclusion that his auyhters were
not exclusive enough that they
were entirely too accessible too
much on the market, in short


Consequently, he locked them up,
and gave out that the young men in
the place must keep away from his
house if they did not wish to be
hurt. He intimated that he slept


by day and sat up all night at home
with club and revolver. The
scheme worked beautifully. At the
end of two weeks of this guarding
pretense. one of the girls lowered
herself from the chamber window,
ran of, and got married. In another
week second disappeared in the
same way. A third recently re-
turned after O sudden fight as Mrs.
-, and a fourth is engaged. The
two remaining daughters are in
imminent matrimonial peril. Old
Bailey thinks of applying for
patent.-Neao York Times.


PREFERRED PEANUTS TO RlcHEs.-
A few, days ago lady visiting
Woodward's Gardens took an es-
pecial fancy for the monkeys, and
stopping before one cage, swung
her portmonnaie tantalzingly to-
ward the beast. The money seized
it as quick as lightning, snatched it
from her grasp, and Needless of her
tears and protestntions tore it to


pieces. The purse contained nine
teen half dollars, and a five and a
two-and-a-half gold piece--$17 in
all. Chattering with delight, the
ape slowed the money away in his
chops and pouch, and friskod about
his cage in glee at his achievement.
After vainly trying to induce the
monkey to refund the mcney, the
lady hailed tho carpenter and in
formed him Of the mishap. The
carpenter endeavored to bully the
ape with stick, and drove the
animal wild, but it obstinately re-.
fused to surrender the coin. Final
ly, abandoning coercion, the car
penter resorted to strategy, always
the best policy. He procured a
hatful of peanuts, and traded off
twen ty-one of them for the twenty
one coins. He would throw nut
into the cage, and the ape, in order
to eat it, would have to drop a
coin, which would be raked out of
the cage with stick. It did not
take Jocko long to discover that for
every coin he gave up he would
receive peanut. The coins could
not be eaten, but the nuts could, so
he made tho trade with intlnite
gusto, and after an hours delay the
lady got her money and departed.


A Fool AND Hrs Doa.-Gideon
Ibach, the engineer of the Colum-
bia Fire Company, is the owner Of
a very fine hunting dog, which he
has trained to perform various
tricks. Among these tricks is that
of placing silver half dollar on the
nose Of the dog, who tosses it in the
air and catches the coin in his
mouth. The dog performed this
feat very cleyerly, much to the de-
light of his owner. A few days
ago Gideon had the dog before an


admiring crowd, and, placing the
half-dollar on the dogs nose, com-


manded the dog to toss it in the air
and catch it. With promptness
highly commendable in man and
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