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eccentricities THE STOCKING CRAZE THE GROWTH OF THE GRAVER. vealed early sufferings; a ragged blouse DESCENDED FROM BEARS. One of the cleverest ' hardly covered his charming little laxly. The Boston Herald says A genera Gedea embraced him many times, anil Warnen Who Buy Tor tlie Sake ut Buy impressionists I ever hear. ? '* ri-ofc.or Gherke l.ooklag fur Fo.ejU tu tion ago the engraver used to be con Cigale ” a farce produced i p ’ “ ing. Irenee gave him all the marbles he hail sidered of comparative unimportance, Prove Uta Theory. years bock. Th. hero i. « ¡^»1 in his pocket, The child was uns[ieak- and he was remunerated accordingly. ably happy, while his brother thanked Within fifteen or twenty years, however, “Shopping,” said an experienced .stic painter. You see him surrounded by rnonstr^“« Frederick <4. Gherke, professor of he has come to the front, ami now he them for him. The gaunt horse grazed fioor-walker, “is to a considerable extent daubs, ami smears of nUd,,, I in the ravine, watched by the little girl. zoology anil comparative anatomy at divides lioth glory and profit with the When at nine o’clock the servant Williams College, recently visited Den- artist on a more equitable scale. The a habit, and I know many insurances in telligibility surround served the tea, Irenee sai<l to him: magazines, you know, apparently con- which it has grown into a passion. The confusion. He display, th J1 “Jean, have you seen the |>oori>eople ver anil was interview by a News re. sider it as much of an advertisement to remark is often made that women come Picture buyer. Oneim,, porter concerning the theory advanced mention the engraver’s name as that of covered with flirty yell«,». / While sitting there in solitude, attempting to flown by the orchard?” “Yes, sir, and the gardener is dis by him in his book, “The True Descent the designer. The former have thus into these large general stores and only object visible aiid . „m,,'1,? com n< we A leader that would |>aralyze his journalistic pleased enough at seeing them there.” of Man,” that man is descended from become much more independent, and a compel our saleswomen to show them in it is a huge knife in the 1» t foes, “What floes it matter to him where “Very fine,” »„ys the A woman's step was heard outside some lass the bear. Professor Gherke was grad great many of them, if they don't like a whole lines of goods out of pure wanton they are?” lt>r< in search of glory— drawing, won’t have anything to do ness. 1 do not think that such is gen ously, “but what is it?” uated from the University of Leipsic Perhaps some pale poetic miss or maiden with “He fears they will ,-arrv off the “That, my dear sir," with it. A proportion of the leading erally the case. The purchasers are a story. fruit to-night.” and afterwards spent several years in engravers are fairly well off. 1 know a painter, “is a London fog.” At any rate, the editor threw on his thread, “Why?” England, where his book was published number of them who may be worth seized with the buying mania, that is “Ah! to lie sure. But .„„ l bare coat, “Because they are so poor!” Arranged his hair the best he could, and ’ soon after Darwin’s death and attracted from $50,000 to $75,000. Yet there is all; and if they happen to lie out of Th. knife there, eh?” oleared his husky throat. “Fie, Jean, it is too bad for you to “That is to express the nuai ,.,, not enough money in the business to ready money they feel Obliged to make- wide attention. make a man rich, as we reckon riches believe buy. I know those customers -to show that it is thick eU„n,|* The wan a i M-alist, s<>said her <heasand say that,” cried the little girl, indig- nantlv. mein; The object of his visit to Colorado, the nowadays. The income of u first-class cut, don t you see?” Her age was fifty a »ruethiiuf, and her figure Afterwards Gedea led her brother professor said, was to hunt aiming the engraver ranges, perhaps, from $2,500 tolerably well, and can pick them out Another eccentricity of «par»? and lean, one side and said: if I can only get a sight of them in the fossil districts of the State for specimens to $0,000 or $7,000, the average being canvas across uzie-half of which:. 1 While her .satfroii-c $h»r>?d features and her ‘^Indeed, it is very hard for those that will illustrate his theory ami for nearer the first mentioned figures, doorway. They will enter sort of cast smear <rf vermilion, while the Xi voice, grown rather rough, Revealed a long acquaiiitcmce with the art of children, deprived of everything, not to fossil remains generally for the college while those w ho get the latter can be down, but brighten right up as soon as is similarly decorated with inff;1 “dipping” unurf. taste of the delicious fruit that lias been museum. “I am not an old man,” he counted uiHin your fingers. In an es they get their eyes on the goods. The “Now, there,” says the paiX, She wore a big sun bonnet which was s,iff as before their eves all day. Irenee, let said, “ami I hope to live long enough tablishment like Harper's, the engraver Sight seems to act on them somewhat as my greatest work. It J '' zinc with starch us take them two baskets full. ” a cocktail operates on a man — it's a to find the connecting link. ” And foraiud above h?rhead in front a highly d aeuvre. • ’ who works by the week receives prob, The children ran to the orchard, ruffled arch. Women Speaking of his theory as opposed to ably from $30 to $50. The amount regular morning stimulus. “Ineeed! Very fine it ia, too i shaking with all their strength, plum, that of the descent from apes, falsely paid per piece of work, of course, varies haven't the head to stand against a pardon me. I am not an ■*1 reckon you’re the printer? Wall, I want pear, and apple-trees. The baskets called the Darwinian theory, he said: some letters struck,” very much, according to the size of the genuine mark-down, anil if the}' can’t know, and 1 look to you for ¡nJ Thus spoke the rural female to the target ot were soon filled, ami carrying them “An ape has none of the character, drawing and the nature of the subject. buy themselves they are botimi to see tion.” ill-luck. with difficulty, they went to the place ¡sties of the human. An ape imitates— Speaking in a general way, the expense other people buy. “Certainly, certainly.” The editor delighted with the hojie of cash, where they hail left the vagrants, ex a man reasons. An ape has fourliamls, of engraving a drawing that costs |20 “A man whose wife deals pretty “Now what does that pictured replied: ■■ *ated, madam, all y >ur wants shall soon pecting to find them. But the place neither like man’s hands nor man’s would range from $50 to $100. In the largely here told bine last summor that sent?” be satisfied was desolate, only the wagon remained, feet. A man has only two hands ami two she had liouglit seventeen dress patterns “What! Is it jiossible that to , Here take this fan; you look so pale; you’re ami the obi horse tied to one of the two feet, thoroughly distinct. An ape ‘Lady of the Lake' there are sketches, for which Frost was paid $20 in two months, ami had only hail three not recognize tho ocean, with la ini wearied, I’m afraid; wheels slept on the ground. said the habit or a monkey is an idiot. The lower Just keep your seat -I’ll soon return and bring set skv suffused with blood" each, tV’at brought $120 a piece to the of them made up. He i Irenee went all round the wagon and order of men are not idiots. They have engraver. It costs from $100 to $250 to ran in his wife’s family, Her sister, it some lemonade.” great dark sea rolling beneath in J noticed that the back was half open, capabilities of humans. engrave Gibson's work. The illustrated seems, had about two dozen pair of immensity?” rfh nW allowed all the lemonade -’twas dashed lie signed to Gedea to come, and open “Man is descended from bears,” he magazines, as I have intimated, were a new shoes of all kind on hand last with good old wine “To be sure. Fine—verv U Tli "t, taking breath, she recommenced and ing this kind of a floor the two children continued, with much emphasis. “Do potent agent in putting up the prices of winter, and only stopped buying when deed.” ' gobble« 1 all the rind; saw, by the light of the moon, all the you ask me if there has been any con engraving by increasing the demand for her husband told her a , yarn alioat a “But that is not the lent of it. i 8h <>wed she’d have that every day if she family crowded in tlie space too small necting link found between men ami good work. 1 should judge that the woman being sent to a private asylum picture is really two pictures in, were only richer A d tiken threw out a modest hint that she for them to lie flown ; they were seated bears? I answer yes, anil I can prove monthly art bill of the Century and for doing such things, A dozen pair ia All you have to do is to turn it™ opposite each other, leaning against the it. In a museum at Paris I saw a skel. Harper’s ranges from $3,000 to $4,000 not very strong, but two dozen beats would like the pitcher. down. Now look at it.” Th - ".ditor .said “oertainly" he couldn’t well side of the wagon. The little cherub eton of a cave bear. I examined it and perhaps more in some instances. even Napoleon III., who hail twenty “Wonderful! Wonderful! But.r. refuse her; was sleeping on his mother's knees. closely. I was convinced that it had a The Century people, however, are pay pair of boots when he was trapixid at you must excuse me if”_ She’d spoken of some work and he was fear “ What do you wish? ” demanded the partially developed knee-pan. Since ing less for their work than formerly. Sedan. ful lest he’d lose her. “What? Doyon not see it?" father. then I have studied the matter closely. Three or four years ago, this magazine “No, I du not think the buying mania “Well, the fact is, I am a little, **Yoi wish some printing?” he inquired, “We have brought the children some I went over in my mind to a time be had its choice of the best artists and is stronger than kleptomania, but it is “Wall, yes,” the woman said, sighted.” MMv Ephraim’s lately tuk some strange, of the fruit which you can see over the yond the history of man. I remembered engravers of the country, but since quite as strong, and, in my opinion, a “Why, it is the desert—the vat hedge, that they may enjoy it,” Gedea thi^t skeletons of primeval men hail then Pyle, Frost, Gibson, Abbey, Rein good deal more genuine. Cases of true proud notions in his head; melancholy desert, with it« bine H 's gwihe to travel clear out west—T disre- answered, tun ing tlie contents of the been found 'in caves with bears. Al hardt and other leading artists have kleptomania are rare.” above ami its red sand below." niember whai — baskets into the carriage, over the most the earliest men we knew about been “gobbled up” by Harper’s, and “Is not kleptomania a result of what F s-day he bought, him two store shirts and “This is very extravagant, inj knees of ail tlie little ones who gave a lived in caves. Have bones of apes work for nobody else. The engravers you call the buying mania?” asked the drawers — I lielieve two pa’r— Yet, at the last water-color exhibit H" • ys that folks as travels nave their shiits joyous shout at sight of the long-wished ever been found in caves? No. There are not so willing to make exclusive reporter. one of our artists spent half an hot all stamped with ink; for goodies. is another thing. Nearly all primeval arrangements, but the inducements “Not by any means. The two eases ecstatic admiration of one of Cure ’nov could you stamp my Ephraim’s name The next day the children’s old nurse human skeletons found are of gigantic offered the artists are too alluring. The are entirely different. The chronic contributions which was stands; on his shirts, do you think?” took them to the fair, while their size. The bear is nearer the size of Harpers, by the way, have dropped shopper has the habit of buying; that's —[Parmonas Mix, in N. Y. Mercury. parents paid some visits. Their atten man than the average ape. Of course, Nast. He don’t care to do much work all; 1 have seldom known one to steal side down.” There is another hit in “La Ci, tion was entirely captivated by the the gorilla is an exception, but we find now, and why should he? He received anything. The true kleptomaniacs, THE GYPSIES. thousand tricks of a monkey who no monster gorilla. The bear could $10,000 a year for a long time, and, however, acts from an irresistible im which is too good to be passed by. canvas is shown which has no mat amused the crowd. have gotten rid of his little fragment of having made some shrewd investments pulse which only breaks out occasionally ; mow the F rench . whatever. It is simply one dial» All i't once a great uproar occurred. a tail much more easily than an ape in real estate about Central Park, is There are bogus kleptomaniacs— f will tell you in the beginning, my Women ran carrying their children and could of his. A tailed man always probably worth to-day between $200,000 magpies, we call them—who tuck away ami incoherent smear. The viiitm what it is. The painter is in »y bi. i ds, that my friend Gedea is eleven uttering cries of distress. Gedea turn seemed to me about as absurd as a man and $300,000. Who will take his anything they can lay hamls on; but darv. He absolutely does not nil y- c s old, ami a well-bred little girl. ing, saw a furious cow coming right with wings. they are nothing more than thieves. place? Well, I understand that Mr. A. stand it himself. Suddenly an ik ' t year, in the fruit season, she was upon her. The nurse was dragged “My idea is that the earlier bear B. Frost is the man, and that he also People exaggerate somewhat ns to the ■I., ng with her brother Irenee, in their away with the crowd, and Irenee fled came down through Behring Straits and is guaranteeil $10,000 a year. In some number of shoplifters detected in stores; luminates him. “The name must be on the luck.' ■ , which you know is the first in with tlie rest, but seeing the flanger of drifted down towards the tropic shores respects, perhaps, Frost’s work isl>etter we watch people closely nowadays. says. , ■ city towards Paris. A little boy, his sister, he returned and planted him of Asia on icebergs. The icebergs than that of Nast, but I question “The worst cases among those who “The visitor turns and reads: timid ami scantily clothed, came self resolutely before her, trembling in melted anil the bears easily found whether he has that broad and brusque have the buying mania well developed “A landscape.” He gate offering some baskets, very every limb. shelter on islands and on the coasts. but effective way of dealing with certain 'are the specialists. A woman used to “Ah!” says the painter, withu The little girl fell on her knees and In the course of the ages great floods classes of subjects. Nast has a tremen n ' ¡ally woven of reeils. Gedea, come in here who would buy six dozen of relief. “That’s it. Itis a landsi| ■I . ing them very pretty, hesitated prayed her guardian angel to have pity came and the bears sought shelter in the dous faculty of making a caricature handkerchiefs at once, ami even re|>eat And he proceeds to expatiate o ti one to choose ; she finally selected upon her. The cow hail already grasped caves. In the mean time great changes which was a likeness, though in serious the act on the following day. I under beauties.—[New York News. and gave it to me to put my work the poor chilli’s dress, when a big boy, had been going on. The bear had work he had no rank. stand that she is an excellent lady, who i When paying him, she noticed the of about fifteen years, leaped upon the gradually been shedding its heavy coat is greatly beloved by her busband. He BURNS SNUFF-BOX tu lsiy’s suffering looks; she gave beast’s neck with wonderful agility. as the result of the warm climate. The PREPARATION FOR MARRIAGE. once sold twelve gross of handkerchiefs i firink of pure wine, ami Irenee Thus surprised, the animal stood still, bear had also learned to walk on its Mr. Bacon, who kept a ceiebn “The wedding chest” was the name purchased by her at auction, and his anil a man seized her by tlie horns and hind legs. In the caves, in the dry, im some bread spread with jelly. wife did not miss them. It is lucky posting-house north of Dumfries, I lave you no one to take care of held her until the owner came for her. warm atmosphere, other changes took given a generation ago in Virginia ami that he is a very wealthy man. As for the almost inseparable associi» The old nurse hastened, as soon as place. The connecting link was a kind Pennsylvania, to a bride's outfit of un poor little one?” she said, “you Robert Burns. Many a merry i the stocking rage, they all have it. she could disengage herself, ami warmly of hairy, indescribable man. lie often derwear, table anti bed-linen. • i i i very sick. ” did they spend together over t Gloves used to be the great article for When a girl passed her twelth year, i'h! yes, indeed, my father and thanked the two strangers. The chil lived and died in these caves beside his toddy. The bard and the innkt I or are out in the road, near here, dren, as soon as their fright permitted, elder brother, the bear.”—[New- York ami could use her needle with skill, she a run, but stockings of all varieties are becalm' so attached to each other now tlie craze. This has been the case began to prepare her wedding chest. are working for the fair to-inor- expressed theirs also. Burns gave his friend, as a toke World. Marvellous were the mysteries of hem for a long time, but this year it is “There is no reason why yon should regal'd, the snuff-box which had : stronger than ever. I do not think tlie stitching, fell, embroidery and lace-work, Mtne. Lein lit, Geda's mother came, thank us for such a little tiling,” said ALL RIGHT. for many years his pocket compa bestowed on these snow-white garments ; average woman is ever so entirely hap i ' eeing the little one's bare feet she the boy, “I am pleased to do you a ser An old gentleman entered a Michigan each, as it was finished, being laid aside py as when she is buying those articles. The knowledge of this pledge oi 1 i to get him some shoes. Irenee vice.” w as confined to a few of their 'f avenue car at Tweltli street yesterday, for the far-off wedding. The trade runs in streaks on stockings; And as tlie children appeared sur lin’d to question tin" child. crew until after Bacon's death ini walked forward ami deposited a before- A common Christmas gilt was a deli when we marked down those lisle prised at hearing him speak thus, he I o what country do you belong?” the-war umbrella upon the seat, returned cately fine set of table-cloths or towels, thread, silk-finisheil stockings from SO when his furniture ami effects wffl continued: ng lie had a broad accent. to the rear door, opened a head purse, for the “outfit” of a little girl in panta to 45 cents this house was stormml. We tip for sale by public auction, i “You have forgotten the fruit then?” ■ do not Is'long to any !” extracted two quarters ami handed them lettes, who would not be allowed to have about !»00 varieties of those goods, among other articles, Mr. Bacon si Relating this adventure to her mother, •You have mi country!” cried to the conductor, with the remark : flream of a lover for years. That bride varying from 20 cents to $8.50 a pair. box was offered to the highest bi ■ astonished. Blit yon were born Gedea was astonished that the gypsies “Eef it please you, fifty cent tickets.” was looked upon as little better than a There is a grade at $12, but we sell “A shilling!” some one instantly I • ■ vhere, 1 imat'ine, ami your parents were so grateful for such a slight gift, i The conductor handed him an envel pauper, who did not bring to her hus few at that price. The affection for There was a general exclamati® “My children, it is not the value of > in a house.” ope and the old gentleman returned to band enough linen of her own making stockings is veiv general among women. the article was not worth two|> I think I was born, ns my little the gift which makes it acceptable to his seat. Drawing from his pocket and ami the auctioneer seemed in ta The rich buy three or four dozen of a ' i >r, in the wagon which serves us tlie receiver, but the manner in which adjusting to his nose a pair of lron- to furnish their house. knock it flown, when, looking st Her mother, a generation earlier, half-dozen varieties, but I have known it is offered. Your kind attentions w ent ■ i house, and where wealways live.” riuuned spectacles, he drew the tickets helped to spin her outfit, a custom plenty of women who were harilly able on the lid, he read ami shoutel ! hat wagon cannot be large enough straight to the hearts of those people, from the envelope ami pinched it to see brought over from Englafid by the early to buy anything at all to pay 75 cents with stentorian voice, “Robert J whom society repulses, ami I can as Is.” if it contained anything more. Then he colonists in the South. Indeed, the or $1 for a single pair of stockings. I officer of the Excise.” Scarcely™ We have no beds! I never slept in sure you, they will never forget til ent.” unfolded tlie ribbon of tickets, read the word “ spinster ” originally meant a would be willing to make a small bet uttered the worils before his •»> b 1 '< A J I printing upon the first one, compared it woman who had spun and prepared her that if a woman felt her habitual call to bill for it as one man; shillint 'ea and her brother could not lie- SOUNDED PROFANE. with tlie second, turned them over and marriage outfit. Another custom among shop, ami hail but a dollar, she would shilling was confusely offered for htni. scrutinized the other side, and closely wealthy families in thw same section pass that amount in at the stocking genuine relic of Scotland s «’f \nd in the winter ?'1 singer. The greatest anxiety preu Mr. Hellser, a clothier of Evansville, scanned each one in order, occasionally '¡i! lady, when we find ourselves has advertised a cheap lot of damaged comparing them with the first. When was the storing of a certain amount ef counter. while the bidfling rose bigte wine, on the birth of a daughter, to lie “ Some ladies take very strongly to lil country, we stay crouched un- goods. apparently satisfied that they were all opened on her wedding-day. More com white goods and keep an immoderate higher, till it was finally knock»' • straw in tile wagon, to try ami Mr. Warren, a clothier of the same alike, he counted them by telling them mendable was the practice of putting a J quantity on luuid, but it is not a very for five jioumls. The box arm.” place, is a Methodist and commands a off lietween his fingers. the tip of a horn, neatly turned • sum out at compound interest, or the expensive taste. Those, however, who u travel alxiut then?” large trade among the brethren of his All this had lieen highly entertaining setting apart of a certain number of cat indulge in a multitude of hats, as some at the point, and the lid mount» s, we have come from Spain, and persuasion. to a well-dressed young lady sitting op. tle or sheep, whose increase was to fur of them do, have to pay heavily for silver, on which his name was emm ■>-. ar we were in Holland.” The other day when the latter gentle posite, and at the moment w hen he con A CHINESE BURIAL . 'W happy von must be!” said the man's store was full of saints purchas cluded his computation and raised his nish the ¡lower for the little new-born their fancies. You would not think a dozen hats a small number for a lady lililren, who wished so much to ing fall w ear for temporary use until the eyes, she was smiling broadly. Look daughter. An oriental writer has recenth - The motive at the bottom of these v countries. time comes for them toilon their wings, ing out over the top of his spectacles, he old-fashioned customs was, that a wom to buy in a single season. Well, I have an interesting description of *na° known women to purchase thirty within t w> happy as you think,” re- a minister and his wife were running regarde<l her intently for a moment, anti an from her birth was regarded a;i a that time. All women who have the burial in the Chinese empire- “ ie |ss>r little Imy, slinking his down the price of a suit of clothes so then, leaning forward, said: prospective wife and mother, anil the buying habit indulge in some leading the custom tor the wealthy ‘we suffer very much sometimes: fine that there could only have been a “Eet iss all right, Madame.” duty of her parents was, according to article. It is only when they cannot cure his coflin when he had read we find a sheltered place, we nn- loss of two dollars on the sale of them. Then the other passengers smiled. these old prejudices, to make her ready, afford that particular thing that they age of forty. He would then s the hors«', mother takes down The clerk who was waiting on the in purse, plenishing, knowledge and take to the thread ami needle business, painted three times a year n to make the soup, my sister reverend but impecunious customers, A n I talian H erculis .—Cardella, an “Which are the most extravagant" composition resembling silicate pz e little one make wreaths of made constant appeals to his employer Italian residing at Reno, Nevada, has a housewifely skill, to be a helpmeet to her husband. The lace-buyers, by all odds. If you enamel, which formed an , while father and my two big to take off another titty cents. spinal column double the ordinary width, hard coating. The process of The daughter of the bonanza king, s, work." Irritated by so much importunity, Mr. and bones and joints of similar size. He nowadays, whose trousseau is ordered could contrive to look over some of the this paint is now one of the lost collections of laces in private hands you sit under tlie shadow of large Warren yelled out to the astonished is, therefore though of unusual size, a w holesale from Paris, and exhibited to would he surprised. There are women China. If the owner of the co®“ ‘ > lathering flowers ami go from parson: man of unusual strength : the reporters of the press for publication in New York who have laces to a larger long enough, tlie frequent pa|r“ to place every day. What a “Go to Hellser! Got damaged He can lift a man of two hundred is prepared for marriage on a totally dif amount than the average dealer is able each coat lieing ot consider»«* ng life, Irenee!" said Gedea, goods!” pounds with the middle finger of his ferent bases of theory and fact. to keep in stoek. Ians also are a rage. ness — cause<l it to assume As he speaks very rapidly tlie remark right hand. But between these two classes there I know a laily who has forty fans, but pearance of a sarcophagus, with Mhon it rains?” objected her was not dearly understood. A dozen The man stool with one foot on the are innumerable grades of young girls somehow she doesn’t manage to keep or more in thickness of this han- leas enthitsiastie hands dropped a dozen articles in pious floor, his arms outstretched and his like shell. After death the wt^ 1 When it rains,” said the little hurry. The scandalized minister gave hands grasped by two persons to balance who have as small means as the old- herself cool with them.” fashioned farmer’s daughter, but whose cavities of the person's stnm* “that ia worse than cobi; we a groan like a throttled fog whistle and his body. education, tastes ami* habits are the filled with quicksilver for tlie P” . BRIEF NOTES. > the wagon all wet, ami we can his hair rose many degrees above fever Cardella then stooped down and placed preserving the body. A warm, wo < annoi cook potatoes, heat, while he tied with his wife in dis the third finger of his right hand under same as though their fathers were worth Sonoma has abmr 1,500 olive trees. would then be placed in each no*™ millions. They imitate in their weddings ’ >n there ia not enough bread for may. the man's feet, ami with scarcely any anti in their married life the later Brush up your place ami make it look ear, anti in one hand, white * I* Now Warren wants to know what in perceptible effort, raised him to the tidy. fashion. bar-silver would lie placed in at do you do then ?” Jerusalem the elders of his church mean height of four feet and deposited him on -•*------- The apple crop of Santa Ana Valiev hand. The body thus prepay grown up ones do not eat, but by citing him to appear before a com a table near at hand. A great while ago a Philosopher came is large and meets with ready sale, irre placed on a layer of qukksilver little ones who cannot endure mittee of investigation to answer a across an Egg and a Hen. He wanted to spective of size. the coffin; the latter was have it all. charge of “using blasphemous language Fifth avenue, New York, is, without know which was the oldest, so he asked The Prince of Berries, asa strawberry, the whole deposited in its tina i, much moved, hastened to get to an ordained minister of the gospel, the Hen which was first,she or the Egg. doubt, one of the richest streets in the all his brothers. and setting an awful example of un world. The property on that famous “Why, you Fool!” said the Hen, “I is sail! to be very superior fruit. It is place. When some of these were opened after a lapse strongly indorsed. >vening of the same flay, the controlled anger to the eleven immortal thoroughfare, between Eighth and laid that Egg myself. There would lie the bodies were found to he 1*^ unilv taking a walk, found the souls now assisting hint in the dispensa Partial milking soon dries the cow, Eighty-sts ond streets, is said to lie worth no Egg had not first been a Hen to lay preserved, but they quickly cm® installed in the ravine at the tion of cotton and woolen garments.” it. Ask me a harder one.” Then he an«! reduces her value. A cow should dust on being exposed to the ®f- upward of $70,000,000. he orchard hedge The mother Nor is be a bit appeased by a scrip ----------- - , asked the Egg. “Why, you Fool!" said be milked quickly and thoroughly. ail out im the grass some Is sled tural quotation written with red ink at The success attending fruit canning It is reported that a New Hampshire the Egg. “how could there be a hen un The Red Bellefleur »PF1**** which the poor children ate the head of the notification. “A fool's woman 82 year old dug a barrel of po less there was first an Egg to hatch it in California this season, it is thought, originating in an old orrlis'“ avidity pitiful to see. Among mouth is his destruction ami his li;« are tatoes in an hour. She must have hail from? Hens come from Eggs. Now has developed an interest that will s a Isiy scareely four yeare old. the snare of his sou!.”—[Evansville good luck, considering she was in New ask me a sensible one.” Anil the Phil reach at an early date to large ami county, having sprouted under Yellow Bellefleur, near to “i,n* intiful, but whose sad face re- Argus. gratifying proportions. Hampshire. osopher was greatly puzzled. Red Jun». A PROFITABLE JOB. Li a dizzy little office in a village in “Kaia- tnck," Sat a little, <>1<1, fat e lit >r, a target for ill- luck, The offioe was deaerteti quite; the “hand«"— tho four that llfiiiq To the two lean typos were not thin—the Jin- uer|bell had rang; While the scribe, through economic rules that in home held away, Wtadd dine at three —or four --or five—he ate two meals a day. I » «