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i I THE cinder in the eye . lot of receipts and notes that were stood at the bar of justice, to answer There is something about getting a packed together in one of its pockets, in his own behalf. It seemeil ho easy I’ve somwhere rend in olden tales— cinder in one's eye, while on a rail ••Th. Gnat and Only Prore„|.wl„, thinking that two of the papers to him, that he did not deem it necee Such as the Persian poeta sing, Shabby Gentility»How New York Worn«« road train, that is most laughable to That in the fragrant Eastern vale« might be sticking together. aary to employ any counsel. lenara th. World-Killing ,u<> Seek to Hide Tneir Poverty--Their Are birds with but a single wing; “• (1 these who do not get cinders in their F.lKht Minute». “There is no promissory note for Mr. Campbell swore to the facta he Fondnetia for Coach Hiding. eves, though terribly painful to those that amount here,” I said. “But had related to me concerning the And hooks and links of solid bone The want of missing wings supply. whose tickets draw cinders. A rail what is this blank sheet of paper do loan. Mr. Bolton answered, on oath, And thus, when either bird alone There are only two “great A»- “One-half the people in New York road car is a splendid place to study Essays through boundless space to fly, ing here?” and I took up a slip of that he bad no recollection of ever white paper, that I found among the borrowing any money from the plain live,” said a philosopher the other character, and the cinder that always ican rat catchers” in the world nj Eaoh lacks its other, belter part, documenta. tiff. If he did, where was the note? day, “and the other half pretend to strikes some one’s eye 1 b the means these two are the lineal descend,^ Which being by its mate supplied, of showing the character of the af of the late “great and onij- * “I don’t know.” He would thank anybody to produce They, linked together, heart to heart, live.” This is truer than most peo Aided person better than a biography “Who is the man that gave you the it With hopeful wings can upward glide— note?” “Your honor.” said I, addressing ple suspect The number of persons of the individual would do. J here catcher and “world’s champion” "Alexander Bolton, the druggist. ” the judge, “I think I can produce the who give their lives to making an ap is a general feeling that one who has killer of the United State( m Eaoh bird, depending on its mate. catching and rat-killing, be it I I knew Alexander Bolton well. He note in question. ’’ Thus feels the need of loving care, pearance is astonishing, and the de traveled much enjoys an immunity Eaoh bears in part the other's weight, was wealthy and penurious, and had from cinders, that the traveled per derstood, are two distinct occu^ “I understood you that it waa not vices to which they resort to be And thus is formed a perfect pair. the name of being very tricky. I was to be found,” said Judge D----- , some son has a way of avoiding cinders, thought genteel and to avoid work that be closes bis eyes at the right tions, or rather two branch« 0( satisfied that Mr. Campbell was tell what surprised. And so. I’ve thought, the human heart Will silent in its prison dwell, ing the truth. I was as well con “It has never been loat,” I said, as ing for a living would astonish the moment, and while bis hair and eve- same profession. Both branches And languish till its counterpart vinced that Alexander Bolton was not I took from my pocket the blank slip world if fully exposed. winkers, and the wrinles of his face combind in one bnlldog, terrior ( Is brought within its subtle spell. a man who would be likely to forget of paper, and passed to him. “This mav be’ full of cinders, his eyes es- ret, Thomas cat, and other animX One of the most interesting cases Like those rare birds of Eastern clime, , having borrowed such a large sum as is it” cape. A man may think he is exempt The superiority of man overtbeiowJ It strives in vain to leave the earth, six thousand dollars, and 1 jumped “I hope von are not trifling with of shabby genteel will be found at from cinders, and be will talk big, Until at Fate's appointed time to the conclusion that he had played the court,’’ he said, as he glanced At the Family Hotel. Every one of and passengers will think he is one animal — sometimes so difficult J It finds a mate of equal worth. some cunning trick, to wrong the both «¡des and perceived that it whs these establishments has one or more of the world's great ones, brave and discern—is seen right here: nj And then bound fast with bonds of love ’ confiding mechanic out of the fruits blank. noble, but the moment a cinder gets human ratter catches the rats g More lasting far than hooka of bone, But what “I am not, your honor,” said I, as lodgers who live in the top of the into his eye he becomes a helpless and kills them at hiu leisure. JtZ* The twain can soar to realms above— ’ of many years of labor. house in the cheapest apartments, was the trick? That was the ques I proceeded at once to explain to him Two soals in form—in love but one. creature, a cross, irritable, unpleasant over, he does not kill them with°U tion that puzzled me. the chemical fact I have already de next to the servants; who take their companion. The bully weakens when mouth from choice, except when TO-DAY. meals at cheap restaurants or beer “Have you had this pocket book in scribed. he gets a cinder in his eye, and will upon his mettle in a rat-killing Ja 1 Autumn breezes in a secure place ever since he gave I watched Alexander Bolton uh I saloons, but who dress well, and use accept assistance from the most no petition with a bulldog, or jn » I monogram ncte paper, and receive Rather cool; you the note?” I asked. did sc, and noticed that he turned account person on the train, and will attempt to beat the record of somli Young man Hneezes, “Yes; under lock and key, where very pale. When I had concluded. I their company in the hotel parlor, stand like a trembling coward wLile celebrate«! terrior. In this wav. a|? Yet plays pool. and generally assume the style and no one could touch it but myself.” took wva num from Luy my pocket uuvnufc the tuo vial vieti cuuiaiu- con tai u- , . ■ , n x i 1 someone probes for it, with a corner the man rat-killer gets noticed' in th I Wears carbuncle the solution, saturated a piece of airTs ot retlred wellb? d? >,eoP'e; “Are you sure that it has been ever ing ’Neath his throat, ...... .... ' In nna on un rnnnnr Iv nroiirr n r t to the of a haudkerchief, and turns up the papers, usually under the head , one case recently brought since impossible for any one to find blotting paper with it, and pressed it While his “uncle” eyelid to find the wicked little piece "A Disgusting Exhibition.” Hither» or purloin the note?” Holds his coat. upon the blank slip of paper that lay attention of the writer a lady and her of three-cornered burned coal. A these rat matinees have beenconfinri two daughters occupied rooms at one —[New York Journal. ‘T am perfectly sure of that. The upon the judge’s desk. man who can stand up and fight a to the more cultured Eastern cities- --- ►♦-.------------ lock of mv desk in which I have kept A few seconds I left it so, then of the most fashionable hotels in the prize fighter without weakening, who Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia. iJ THE MYSTERIOUS NOTE. city for two years. Her daughters it is one I made myself. There is lifted it up, confident of the result; furnished the income by very hard can have a bullet probed for without New York—but now that the grw I was a harum-scarum youth, and 1 but one key in the world that will and I was not disappointed. wincing, or who can have a leg taken etc lias arrived, Chicago is premia for a dozen years of my manhood had I open it, and here it is,” he said, pro- The blank slip of paper was sud work—one of them as a copyist, and off without inhaling chloroform, will man-versus dog rat-killing n. no settled aim. I started out as a i ducing from his pocket a bright steel denly transformed into a promissory the other in a large telegraphic house. be as weak as a cat when a cinder some hibitions, which will no doubt J clerk in a country store, where 1 . key, of very odd outline. “Not a note, every word, letter, and figure, as But no one in the hotel ever suspect strikes bis eyeball, and he almost much patronized by the sportiu ed that they depended upon their learned my chemical mysteries; final thing has been disturbed in that clear as sunshine. faints away when the eyelid is turned fraternity. lv, I became a law student; and it ; desk.” It was a note of six thousand dol-1 labor for their income. The young wrong side out by a person looking The rat man was called on was my knowledge of chemistry—a i I mused a few minutes as I again lars, with a year’s interest just due, Iladl®H,made together about|25 or .«30 for the poor little cinder. There is science of which I am passionately casually overhauled the papers, then drawn in favor of William Campbell, i * *«ek>!lnd <m tbl!s,uu tbeJ managed something singular about a cinder. day by a reporter. He is a pleasant, spoken youDg fellow of about IS and the signature of Alexander Bol-1 7 the m°st Pinching economy in eat- fond—that gave me a start as a law ’ said: 1 lnH to .dr,®f‘s Yeh and ‘“.ove ili a cer A boy will stick his head out of a car yeais. His outfit consists of “Mr. Campbell, I don’t mean to say ton was at the bottom of it. student. The judge gazed with amazement.' ^a11? circle. But the air of disdain window and ride a hundred miles, ferrets, a terrior dog, bucksfan My shingle had been hung out in i that Mr. Bolton is dishonest, but sPok? of P°?Ple wh.° with cinders flying all around his gloves, a large cage, a quantity d vain for four or five months, and I might ha not have handed you this from the note toward Alexander Bol Wlth whlch to ‘ disco^r' discover that werecompelledIto were compelled to work andI and the poetic head, and he will never get a cinder twine netting, and a set of »arp«. had not a single brief to prepare. blank sheet of paper, and slipped the ton, just in time 'to What little money I had nossessed I note into his pocket book with the that tricky gentleman was skulking references ”iey constantly made of in his eye, while a quiet lady, with a ter’s tools. In reply to sevsral ques their blood and ancestry produce«! veil on, in a seat remote from an open tions he said: after my studies were completed was i money yon lent him?” away toward the door. window, will have a cinder in lier "I am very glail to see a reports. rapidly melting away, and I could I “No, that is out of the question. I At the judge's order he was brought the most respectful treatment from half-closed eye before she has rode a The Baltimore reporters attended ill: all who came in contact with them. not ignore the fact if no fees should I examined the note again, after I back by au officer, and informed that A young lady and her father, who mile, and she is all broke up. It our exhibitions. I belong to Balti come in my way for a couple of ' reached home, before I put the he would have something more to months I should have to go on the > pocket book away, to see that no mis- answer for than the amount of the lived at the Westminster for some beats all what a difference there are more. The last exhibition I gan time and passed as a belle in certain in people about cinders. A homely there I killed ten rats with my moath. street, or on the prairie, and labor • take had been made; found it all loan, interests and costs. woman might get a cinder in her eye My father killed 100 that way at bii for a living. It would be ro disgrace, , right, plain as day in every letter and And so he had. Abashed and ter sets, worked in a book-binder’s to be sure, but when one has spent ; figure, and I remember as well as rified, at the discovery of his unsuc establishment in Nassau street, and and nobody would pay any attention exhibitions. He challenged the world __ _ and in hopes of pro actually supported her father in his to her, any more than to tell her not for rat-killing. He was known ill his little all in preparing himself for ■ though it had been yesterday; I even cessful swindle, a professional life, and when he has i remember noticing how bright the pitiating the court, he at once gave I genteel airs. In this case it came to to rub her eye very much, but let a over America as the great profession set his heart and hopes on such a i ink was; it had quite a reddish tinge.” bis check for the amount due Mr. tho knowledge of th«« writer that this handsome young woman catch a cin al rat-catcher. I have been at tta der in one of her beautiful eyes, and business since I was six years old. I y°"nS lady> on mor,e tban i,D? life, it is sad to have to abandon it. I was in the act of handing the Campbell, and paid the costs. In view of his confession he was casion, went supperless to bed be- the first tear that comes to the eye have challenged Arthur Chamber 1 was seated in my office one after pocket book back to him, as he said softens the heart of every man in the the Philadelphia pugilist, to a rat Pay f°r a coupe. noon, indulging in certain gloomy this, bu„ a thought suddenly struck let off with two years’ imprisonment, cause 7® 7d v -r -1 • . V ~ .. . A V» z~» 4- F »» » nr r\ï’oinn i 1/MIC rv Another form of pretentious geu- car. and they all want !o probe for it, killing- competition. Chambers used thoughts on the subject, when the i me, and I opened it again. and I don’t suppose he will ever tility is found in those families that and offer some assistance. The bald- to pre fess to be the greatest rat kil door opened and a middle-aged man i “Mr. Campbell,” I said carelessly, dabble in invisible ink again. in humble garb came in, and I recog “do you remember whether the note This, my first case, attracted con hire houses, and then sublet all but headed man will feel down in his ler in America. He won’t take me nized him at the first glance, as an i was filled out on a blank form, or siderable notice, and I have never a couple of rooms, retaining the use coat tail pocket and bring up a silk up. My brother and I work at the honest and industrious machinist, , not?” since had to lounge in my office and of the parlor to make a show, and handkerchief and offer it to her, to business. We are tne only two rat always turning up their noses at use in place of her linen handker catchers in America who catch rati named William Campbell, a former “It was not; he wrote it in full yearn for clients. people who are compelled to live in chief, the granger will tell her to alive, except a fellow in Boston wliou neighbor of my father’s, who was i himself, on the top of a piece of flats. “Oh, we,” they always say, blow her nose real hard and the cin we taught. There's a catcher a now dead. He was flurried and ner foolscap, and cut it off with a pair of T he W oman Q uestion in S weden .— “couldn’t be restricted to a flat, you der will come out, the drummer will Philadelphia who professoa to catch vous, and I saw, at once, therp was i scissors. I remember everything something wrong. about it very c.early, for it was about Before the extensive use of steam know. It may do for people who go to the water tank and wet the cor by some magical system. I went b “Good morning, Mr. Campbell,” ’ all 1 had in the world, and to me it boats on the waterways around Stock have never had the freedom of a ner of bis handkerchief with ice work for him for 25 cents a day. holm the Dalecarlian girls were ac whole house, but we must have our water and offer to wipe out the cin without letting him know wholwa said I. “How did yon happen to find I was a very essential affair.” the office of a poor young law ver like > I examined the strip of white patter, customs«! to come to the capital in own establishment” If they live in der, while the beautiful young man just to find out his system His me?” for a startling idea had already taken great numbers each season to row a basement house they have to put with the linen ulster and center-board magic was simple rat poison. I heard “By accident,” he said. “I am in i shape in my mind, and I perceived it the passenger boats from point to up sometimes with a doctor or a hair will take a lead pencil and tell Chicago was pestered with rats. I trouble, and if I don’t get out of it I : had been cut from the top of foolscap, point in the neighborhood of the dentist, but they compromise by call her he can get the cinder out in a intend to settle here if things tun city. This custom still exists to some ing his room the library, when they jiffy, and all the time the other ladies out as I expect. My plan of work ii: am ruined. All the savings of my ’ evidently with a pair of scissors. in the car will look on as though the I start my trained terriorthroughti» life will be gone, unless I can find I “Do you remember how you hap- extent, ami the visitor may lie rowed have a party. There are hnndreds of genteel peo men were making a terrible fuss over building and he lets me know when some lawyer smart enough to defeat . pened to place this slip of white by a buxom peasant girl to an island restaurant, or across an arm of the ple living on Lexington avenue who, a small cinder in a pretty eye. A the rats are located, and point« out the rascality of a certain man, and I i paper in here?” was going along, intending to call on i “No, I don’t remember placing it lake. The girls have lost none of for the sake of making it appear that mean man, traveling with his wife, the paths they follow. I then n:* the first lawyer 1 should see, and it ; there; I might have done so thinking the moral independence and the re they occupy a whole house to them will show his meanness more in five whatever flooring is necessary f® markable physical strength which selves, are content to bunk in the minutes, when he gets a cinder in operat ions. I fix the nets to intercept happened to be you. As 1 knew your • it would come handy to figure on.” have since the beginning cf Swedish garret and cook with the oil-stove. his eye, than he would otherwise in the rats in the chase, anil have a ma father well, and used to know you i “Will you let me have it?” when you was a boy, I thought I “Certainly,” he replied, somewhat history distinguished their ancestors. But they make enough off' their all day. He will act as though his itanding ready with the cage. Tb« In the large cities they are found wages to dress well and have a coach wife was to blame for the cinder, and I start the ferrets. As the rata ui could not do better than to put the i surprised at my modest request “Well,” I said, as I laid the paper to-day mixing mortar, carrying bur and livery take them to the park in if she tries to help him get it out he driven out of their holes I catch th« case in your hands; I’d at least be t will appear to think she wants to in my hands and stick them in tb on the table, and set the inkstand on dens, and rowing boats quite as eas the afternoon. sure of fair treatment, I thought.” It is said by those who know that murder him, and if she does not in cage. I can clean every rat out of l “You would lie sure of that in the i it, “I am going to make an effort to ily as the men, and quite as accept hands of any lawyer, to whom you recover your money for you; I shall ably to the employers. The most the gay cavalcade to be seen on a vade his eye with her handkerchief building, and will guarantee to k« would trust your case,” said I. “Now, bring suit against Bolton at once, and famous boatwomen are the girls of pleasant afternoon on the avenue is he acts as though she didn’t care if them out for a year. I fix up tb let me bear what it is, and I will see have him summoned to appear before the parish of Rattvik, whither he had made up in unequal proportions of he lost his eye. Most persons, when boles with tin so they cannot comei Judge—. You can, of course, swear rambled in the search of the mythical millionaires and beggars, who. so far they get a cinder in the eye, foe] like again. I shall give an exhibit», what can be done.” as dress is concerns«!, cannot be dis putting a handkerchief to their face, here as soon as I get enough rati “Well, it is this: I've worked quite i that you have lent him the money, midsummer dance. tinguished from each other. and being let alone while they think, and will take care to let the report» hard nil my life at my trade, ami ac and the note he gave you is missing." In the ranks of the operatives who bnt occasionally one will seem to know. I know you will like to * “Yes, with a clear conscience; I cumulated some money—about six A woman asks for a divorce in thousand dollars, in fact. I have i could not he mistaken about it.” Milwaukee, on the ground that she live on th? East Side it is curious to wonder why everybody does not stop it, as it is a new thing here. I haw “Then call on me to-morrow morn marrieil the wrong twin. She was know that a coach is the sign of all conversation, reading or amuse already been promised assistance a seven children I should like to pro To lie able to hire a ment and try to do something for the getting one up. My brother and I vide for. and it has been my steadv ing. at nine o'clock.” engage«! to one and the other put gentility. “I will.” aim to increase my money all I could. himself in the other one's place, and coach is the weakness of hundreds of afflicted. One little cinder will often took 1,300 rats out of a stable it He left me and I took the slip of she found when it was everlastingly girls who work by the week down break up the enjoyment of a party of Baltimore in four days. We too A year ago a friend of mine who is in the same business I am in, told me if ’ paper and examined it closely. too late, that her supposed brother town,and it is for this reason, perhaps, tourists, if it strikes the eye of the 700 out of a little grocery store. I It seemed to lie nothing but a stray in-law was her husband, and she won’t that in the poorer classes funerals disagreeable member of the party, have worked in most Eastern citM he could take a partner in the taring, become aj sort of evidence of who grumbles and kicks at every We cleared the Patent Office i and if I should go in with him, we fragment of foolscap, but it occurred have it One cannot be too careful I have ‘‘"'» i .““„ j ;*". of the family Whichever I f enbl,ty ’ he condition thing, and so the railroads should Washington, and gotflSOforthej« could make a lot of money. I looked to me that it might have a history: it fooling around twins. one you get you will think you have H 111 ? rab ! d by tbe numb°r . °f abolish cinders. The President of They have had no rats there sin* waH here that my chemical knowledge into the matter, and found ho was not the other one, and there is no cer H0 ' T 8Cores,of *,rla the United States, with a cinder in I have a bulldog whose record is’’.» mistaken about it. I saw I could, in came into play. I remembered that Alexander Bol tainty about which one is which, and I wfao give music lessons who spend his eye. is a mournful spectacle, and That is, he killed 100 rats in eig" a few years, increase my six thou • he feels thnt the power of his position minutes, fifty-eight seconds. Once sand to twenty thousand, and I told ton was a chemist; and I also remem it keep« a wife in a state of nerious 7“^ al‘,‘bey mak.e at tbt him I would be ready to join him bered that an ink could be made with neee half the time for fear the other 8tab.11e',, Tbey ■ are drlven * tbeir is very small indeed, when it cannot get started here anil have given»:’ ^’T.8,' “?d they are successfully cope with so small an exhibition», so people will know» in the business when the time came. analine. iodide of ammonia and chlor one is the one which ought to be the P"P,1 b h °"8? «(k/«e 1 vprv particular about the livery, I can do, I have no doubt of i Meantime, my money was laying in ide of zinr, in certain proportions, other one entire)). fhe Superintendent of a‘ large enemy as a cinder. success. the bank, where I ought to have left which hail a fresh reddish tinge, and *** envelope factory in this city said it. drawing five mid a half per cent, that it would fade out entirely in four HUMORS OF THE DAY- B aby ' s P ie .—The awful prevalence ! that some years ago a fainting epi- SEX IN WORK days, leaving no mark on the paper. interest. of pie in this country is illustrated : demic broke out among his girls, Bolton, no doubt, know this secret, “Shortly after 1 made this arrange It __ looks as though Captain With that charming inconseqne rnent with my friend about the pari that he used to swindle the mechanic by the remark sent to the Drawer by 1 Without any premonition whatever Rhodes, the mnn whe was going to which distinguislieH so ninch real a grandfather, proud of his gran«! I an operator wonk! suddenly fall over uership, a man I knew well, and had out of his earnings swim Niagara by the aid of a fleet of The more 1 considered this subject, child of rhr«»e years who is visiting as if dead, and he was in the habit j boats and a deck load of armor, has ing upon this general subject s great confidence in, came to me and _______ slalwart _________ defender „ of "the nati asked me to lend him the money till the more I became convinced that him. Enthroned in her high chair, ! sometimes of calling a carriage and taken water. But not at Niagara, I snhere of woman" may perhaps cor The note had she waited at table for the appear sending the invalid home. Blit when ! oh no! I should want it at the end of the such was the case. I elude that an employment wbicb i ance of the dessert. The family pie the thing grew to affect the whole) year, and he said he could readily re been written in fading ink. “Mercy!” exclaimed Mrs. F, as she of no sex is not "womanly” or "I'’ But there was another chemical was duly set before grandma, and j factory he turned one of his rooms turn it by that time, and he would sight of the cameleopard. inine.” He is a little late. give mo eight per cent So I let him secret which probably Bolton did not baby's eyes were dirocte«! that way, into a hospital, and he hired a doctor I caught “just look at that beast: what a long Herbert’s familiar line dispo** * nave it, and now it is due, and I can’t know, as I had discovered it myself when a small pie made for her Maj to apply restoratives, from which :neck! ” “Yes." replied Fogg, “the I the matter: by accident. This treacherous ink, esty waa slippe«! before her. Equal moment not a girl fainted. It was get it back." remarkabl«« case of soar throat I “Who sweeps a room as for thy I*” on fading out, leaves the zinc in in to the o«'casion. her eyes dancing with not till some time after that he dis I most “H hs he nuy property?" ever saw.” Makes that and the action fine. “Yes - the amount of it: but I have visible atoms in the paper, qo that delight, she burst out with, “Ob. covered by accident that ¡it was the since understood he’s a slippery fel every lino traced may be restored by auntie, I'm mamma of this pie”’— ride home in the coach that bad A Beaufort bachelor so greatly ad-, Or the old adage, what man has®1 brought on the epidemic. mired the way in which his house man may do, may be parapnr** low, but I had not knowu that be the application of a certain solution | Editor Drawer, in Harp«> •’s. * <•» » ♦ --------- of sulphate of iron and hydrate of keeper prepared his coffee that be I what woman can do women may fore.” There is nothing that will rouse proposed and was accepted. This is 1 Exceptional acts, like Mrs. So, no sooner had Mr “But you took his note, surely,” j calcium, Campbell left my office, than I bur I Nine hundred cigars and four bun all the eloquence in a man as the a pointer for a woman with ambition steering the ship, will be infreqr said I. dred cigarettes were shaken out of Bnt all the employments dev»» “Yes, but I can’t find it; that's ried to a drug store, where I obtained I a trunk full of clothes belonging to a ( laughing eyes and bewitching smile in that direction. of a handsome woman. In cloeing , by modern invention and by what troubles me. I called on him the solution. "Were you in the late war?” asked I greater perfection of machinery Returning to my office, I saturated ' passenger by the Havana steamship I a notice of the arrival of two St. yesterday and told bim so, and he Saratoga, at New York recently, by a veteran of a badly-demoralized cit be more and more open to wpi said he bad no recollection of bor a piece of blotting paper with a drop j a Customs Inspector, who refused to Louis liellee, the editor of the Tom izen who came hobbling down the not, however, as women, but as w rowing any money from me; if I had of it, and applied it to a corner of the i believe they had been pnt there to Green County (Texas) Times says: street on a crutch. “I don't know and diligent laborers.—[Easy L the note he would pay it; if I hadn't blank slip of paper. The result made keep moths out of the garments “Rude I am of speech, but if you bow late yon mean,” was the sad re I want a heart with generous valves, • ------ V • — ouu 1X7“ In Harper’s. mo jump up, clap my hands and yell be certainly would not.” fit to run a hydraulic pump, corral ply; “she gave me this one last night ----------- » - ---------- with delight, for fresh and clear th« The owner paid the duties. “And you can't find the note*” me. and you'll find it beneath my before tea.” dollar can s out. I knew not what A Pnllman car porter was K “No.” A woman who is one of the heirs shirt.” It's seldom an editor gets it hidden words the paper contained, “What did you do with it?" Several brilliant intellects are now «lea«! in the smoking room of “I put it in this pocket book, where and I place«! it in my pocket book, of an estate of two millions has been as bad as this Texas brother, bnt engaged in inventing new names for last week. The investigation when they do get 'em. something has corner's jury revealed the f** I keep all my impxirtant papers; bnt corke«! up the vial—which was des arrested in New York for shoplifting. ¥ it to be done, and done at once. old colors in ladies' dress materials the presi«lent of the road bad ? when I came to look f -r it muons tine«! to !>e a vial of wrath to Mr. j Beyond this habit and a coarser one his one “done it” for next season. One man, after I some other notes and the like, I Bolton—and went immediately, and of tippling, her behavior is quite workmgfsixteen honrs a day for two the man a quarter, and the aston» brought suit against him for the re proper. Much more so, in fact, thaD w.N'kf. has 8uccp0<lp(l in pvolvinp now porter died of the shock- couldn't find it.” Lightning bugs would be a lively name« for two tint«—viz.: “toper’s He produced a large, old fashioned, covery of the amount of the note, is that of the man formerly her hue band, who is a dealer in a gambling and suggestive name for telegraph. . now” and “kicked dog leather pocket book, as he spoke, and with interest and costa. The latter Rhyme is an exper^nent operators. A few days later Alexander Bolton house. I is yeller. of course. I looked through it and examined a 1 passion; poetry an inspira?*00' A CONCEIT. i It I ♦ ’I I I I I I F 1 1 i ■ I RAT CATCHING. WEAKNESSES. zv tv ■ i* kuv »