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■# T illamook INDUCTORS. f Mpried Duties Tier I to R»i form. THE BISHOP STAYED. Hs Risksii a Row, but Didn’t Hsvs to Leave His Bed. Tbe bishop of a southern dhKexe was ence making a missionary journey through Arkansas and tbe Indian Ter ritory. and on bis arrival at Natchez he said to tbe landlord of a hotel. “I have been traveling for a week, day and nlgbt. III a mail wagon, and I waul a comfortable room.” “Sorry.” said the landlord, "but 1 don't believe there's a vacant room In I Natchez. There’s a horse race, a ■ Methodist conference and a political ' convention in tbe city, and every house i is full up. The only thiug I can give I you is a shakedown.” Then, observing the bishop's tired face, he added: •‘The best room In my house Is rented to a ■ noted gambler, who usually remains out all night and seldom gets In liefore breakfast. If you will take tbe risk you shall hare bls room, but If be should come in there'll be a row. I'll promise you that.” The bishop decided to take the risk. I About 4 o'clock In the morning the gambler returned and promptly shook j the bishop by the arm. I “Get out of here or I’ll put you ont!" he shouted. Tbe bishop, the gentlest of men. rais ed himself on one elbow so that It ill pr, toil.Ii be brought tbe muscles of bls arm Into Mtor' he ..... H> full relief. ^Mofil. . ...... “My friend.” he began quietly, "be ^Krri i he fore you put me out will yon have tbe aud down lite line. It kindness to feel of my arm?" riy Hi tie car. but it Is Tbe gambler put his band on tbe t to a homelike ¡mice. bishop’s arm. ^Knib’ok be ....... “Stranger.” he then said respectfully, i of tbe tram »war “you can stay.”—Youth's Companion. Mfilte nnd lie «ill lie all the while that KEENLY INTERESTED. aiw attending to tlieir 1 train Is in good order, Lincoln’s Question After the Commit at ¡there are no hot teeman Had Finished. nnd In Imminent Just after tbe second battle of Bull ■Br'‘ to t lie t min nnd Run the Boston chamber of commerce Htons i decided that President Lincoln was to be accomplished in not prosecuting the war with enough The condm celerity to conserve the Interests of ^5vnybills of Hie cars business, and so it appointed a com HKrir contents, and he mittee to go to Washington and re ilftfe for their de monstrate with him upon bis dilatory destination or tbejtinc- tactics. Tbe committee was beaded by B they are to la- de a Mr. Pierce. Mines. “We found.” he said, ‘‘a man who tees to the passenger looked as if be bad lost all the friends (til tie still more Iwsik- he ever bad In the world, who invited Stint him. and tie will us to take seats and Inquired our busi M» <>f good mental at- ness. As I was tbe spokesman. I open handle all tlte many, ed our case, and as I proceeded tbe ’ of local nnd through president's face relaxed. By and by he a. mileage tetsiks. ¡maxes nnd otb smiled nnd betrayed actual Interest, mis of tran»|H>rintion contracts and by tbe time I concluded be was al Waiting For to ths Children. nme to him. detei-t tlm giant most in a broad grin. After I had fin old woman bobbled out up tbe In I ciatti he eon tie bad. to throw ished be inquired If that was all I bad excitedly- of the and said > < that are train constantly Ix-lng offer- to say. and on my saying that I yet Jt you lim. He to will pleei-e have to holdt carry ■»■ quite thought it was be asked If some of tbe ler ms-mint tiondiickltor. my and t wo ey for cash vile affairs, other gentlemen wouldn't like to ray drain? Itklnder cullies by ■ws the mislnkex will the have to be I something. They replied that they off out midouit dey is gon» thought I had fully covered the ar of his dem own undt pis-ket. a vast In dey yes.” of nis linsl- ground. that only can. a phase And then.” continued Mr. ' He conductor looked impiitientiv Is responsible for Hie cnee a' Pierce, “what do you suppose this sol rateb. then nt l.iln Ibe iralu. woman's »fe condui t of equal pa- } emn man did? Well, be just moved bia • face. lu the Then he conseimal ixlble last respei-t with III, io cbnlr over to mine, smoothed his trou a little, as tbe train was on time ■er. lie also receives nnd signs sers over his knee, then reached over minutes later eyed, and smoothed mine down. too. and r e train orders, and two he lx blue required »y ill cheeked came of on the the then, with a queer look, which none of •p mind children every detail up over Io their grandmother, I rushed progress tlte line He wtP us will ever forget, be said. 'Mr. d her. her on the train Pierce, did you ever notice what a his own belptai assortment of question» her birdcage basket and Jour then difference there Is in legs?’ iwer nt every and stage of file ed nd away. ■ he will lie ex lasted to mnin- "What did we de? We grabbed our jat conductor thought i« iqsin none bats and took tbe first train for Bos Ihe tbe discipline of tbe railroad person'» Chien- • refined ins. That may business. menu In — tlie one ton. and we never dared to report!”— iwz the ejectment of a passenger Ladles’ Home Journal. nee refuses to pay bis fare—ami stii: lust Selling uot Involve road in any Baked the Potatoes. The Carbuncle. ■amage i baked suit |>otato —or merchant In another lx tlie n mm- sub- Carbuncles, to which the ancients at Ively of modern Institution In mat tbe tributed fantastic properties, were in tlon some gang of drunken >n Tbe streets, real wonder the first of It ¡Mitato Is that can so reality rubles. They served. It was f g conductors come as near as they said, to give light to large serpents or made Its npiieanince. ni-cordlug Mayhew, about the year » enry tbe Chesterfield inn standards. — dragons whose sight bad been eo- Fifteen years later, May- feebled by age. They bore them con- ■ rd Huugerford In Out wlien lug Maaa- lubllxhed Ills "Loudon I.Mlx>r and stnntly tietween their teeth and laid ondun Poor." he eslinialed that them down only for eating and drlnk- were 2<W) hot potato renders In ing. It was even claimed that tbe car- o. each selling on an average IVsi hnncle emitted light In darkness and nny pots Ines ■ day. “In cold that the thickest clothing could not er.” adds Mayhew, “the potatoes stop Its rays. Without all tbe exag ■oily are Ixiugbt to warm itm geration of sueb legends It was be Indeed, an eminent divine lieved for a long time that rubles con i them In a public »¡ata h annaig tained luminous rays. Tbe truth Is •st of modern improvemetita ax that they bare double refraction and ig an excellent nwdiutn for dlf- send out the rod rays with unequaled warmth Into the system liy lie brilliancy. Traversed in a vacuum by 'Id In tbe gloved h.-ittd -Loudon an electric current, they are Illuminat Ide. ed with a red fire of extreme Inten sity. Tbe greatest beat does not Giving Him Hse Trade. change tbelr form or tbelr color. re was a new clerk at tbe corner more. Old Days on the Stage. ■41 yon please let me hare a 1 have known n dress coat banded F smiled the woman. from one to another In tbe wings sev clerk laid one on the runnier eral times during a performance. It •ok tbe money. was a current idea that white cotton rlsh." said she. “that yon would stockings assumed tbe appearaoce of 1 this letter. Maybe If lakes more silk from tbe front by making a heavy 2 cents." He weighed It. line of white chalk on tbe shin booe. ly 2 cents, madam." he «aid. A white tie was easily made from a taking the stamp np from the strip of note l>aper. and even a shirt •r where she had left It lying, front could be managed from highly led politely. “Allow nte Io put If glazed note |>a per. White cotton gloves I yon." and he did. were de rigueur In place of tbe more it are so nice." «aid «he “that I'm expensive kid ones. A comedian, hav I tn begin to buy my |t>*t<-ards ing no Mack stockings, once blacked ton."—New York Pre««. bis legs. After tbe sbow be asked tbe stage manager. "Do we play this The Flying Idea. piece again?" "Yes; next week." first man who gut <be theory of "Ob. tbei> I nerd not wash my legs'” Ing machine right was m> ‘ess a — From "Ramblings of an Old Mum i than the painter l-eouarrio da mer." by Russell Cranfurd. He pictured It as heavier than •ovlded with wings and uplifted, Might Have Been Worse. te of Its weight, by tbe rapid ‘Toor b'yeT exclaimed O'Hara, con tfcma of a propeller l^onanto doling with Cassidy. who bad been In a Idea that tbe propeller might jured by ■ blast ~ Tto tough tack med by clot kwork nr by setting to liar yer hand Mowed off." •her of laboring men to turn a “Ort! Faith. It might ’are bin " Suppose ?. but la that respect be was iuia- worse." replied Cassidy Old had me week's wages In It at tbe —Fall Mall Gaaette. tetato.” I headlight , J anuary 20;i9io. STUDY CF JAPANESE. THE UBIQUITOUS CENT. Difficulties of ths Spoken sad th. Written Language. Army ofli'-erx who are lliiiiking of taking up llie xtial.v of Japanese should pause before lliey atleuipt Ibe task and ask tlieuiselies wbellier they have I s peculiarly strong linguisiie nptiiud*. Even ibe Japanese find their language very ditticult. The Anglo-Saxous who growl a lx mt ibe ditttculllex of our spell ing and favor tbe siui|ilified ayateui would never live If they had to under go what tile subject of the mikado suf fers in the matter of language. It takes a Ja|siuexe c hild seven years to learu the essential parts of tlie alphabet, There aro214 signa wbk h serve tbe same pur|K«e as initial lei terx in English dictionaries. Then after you have trucked down in oue of these 241 signs some ¡curt of tbe char acter for which you are alsiut to make a search you still have a veri table darkest Africa a bead of you. The poui|MHis first persoual pronoun is avoided whenever it is possible in s|X‘iikiug Japanese. If it must be used it is Iutrcslueed casually, but gen ernlly the ulmtraet nouu "selbshness" serves In Its stead. For example, a Japanese would not say. "I don't drink wiup,” but “Wine don't driuk." or. if this is uot dear enoiigli. "Seltishuess wine don't drink." Refereuee to your possessions must be I deprecatory. Thus if a man wishes to ¡Kiint out bis own residence he says. "That miserable house." which, of course, could refer to uo other than his own. Uli tbe other bund. “That beautiful house” would easily identify tbe house as belonging to some one else, More over, any one who wishes to tea rn Japanese must be prepared tn lea rn two languages—the written and tbe spokeu. The one differs so materially from the other that if a Japauese is reading a book or uewspa|>er and w ishes to do so aloud it becomes nec essary for him to translate the written words Into tbe colloquial. To be able to read any of Ibe higher class Japa nese newspaicers It is necessary to master at least from 2.500 to 3.000 ideographs.—Army aud Navy Journal. No Other Dereimination Has Under- gone So Many Changes. The universal money of the people In Ibis country Is tbe cent. Tbe child does his earliest businesa thinking In terjus of ceuts. Tbe hobo bolds up the passerby with tbe request for a few cents to relieve the ¡utngs of hunger. It is the unit of coinage. On the other side of tbe cuutlneuY tbe contempt for It is rapidly being overcome, and the miuts have to take a constantly In creasing denmnd for luto their reckonings The appearume of the new Lincoln cent Is one of tbe most in teresting additions to this coinage that have been produced, For practically the first time it substitutes the real for tbe ideal, or. rather, the fanciful. I’erhaps no other monetary denomi nation has undergone so many changes of design. Since tbe republic was born there have lieen almost annual changes In tbe character of tbe cent. Most of these have been trivial, though some have been radical. The cent of 1792 bore a bust of Liberty, with flowing hair and tbe legend "Liberty. Parent of Science and Industry.’’ The next vear wbat was known as the ‘‘chain •ent" was produced, showing on the reverse, a chain with fifteen links. There were many imperfect dies in those days, but tbe fmperfoctlona have not infrequently made them more pre- ?lous to coin collectors. A genuine 1799 cent lias been among tbe pieces aiost prized by the numismatist, since they early became very scarce. This ffas said to be due to the enterprise of a Salem firm that secured several hun- lr«Hl thousand of them and sent them to the coast of Africa, where, punched with holes, they were bung as orna ments on the necks of tbe natives.— Boston Transcript. PROMPT TO ACT. A Man Who Seemed Always to Bs Ready For Emergencies, To lie ready for emergencies was one of the gifts of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, the great teacher of the blind, writes his daughter. Mrs. Laura E. Richards, who has edited bls "Letters and Journals.” She gives several In stances in which his quick action pre- vented serious accidents. Once at Green Peace my father was going tn drive with my mother and my sister Florence In a cloned carriage with a large window In front. As tlte driver wns mounting the box 1.1 dropped his whip and got down Io recover It. This startled the young horses, and they bolted down tbe driveway. My father tried to open the big win dow. but It stuck fast. He flashed through I he ¡date glass as If It bad been paper and. catching up Ibe reins, slopped ilte runaways In less time than It takes Io lell it. When Thomas came running up. while and breathless, he found “doc tor" quietly shaking the bits of glass from his coat and lint and explaining to my terrified mother that he “went so quick there was no time to get cut." Still another memory of my mot Iter’s nhows bls quickness In a different way. He was walking along Washing ton street one day when a furious dog rushed at him and lilt Ills hand severe ly- There was no Tasteur Institute In tbe forties. My father Instantly raise«] up llie skin nnd flesh of the bitten part aod. Mild Ing It firmly, entered tbe nearest apotlmeary's shop. "Cut this piece off." be said briefly. The nisithecary exclaimed In horror He could not. lie would not. without a surgeon's order. It wa» out of th* quest Ion. “I am a surgeon." said my father, “and I command yon to cut It off." It was «-nt off. My father dressed tbe wound with bls other band aod went about hla businesa. Made Him Sick. A not«M golfer one afternoon played rntlier Istdly. He turned to his caddie sftet be had fixizled a drive and said In bis genial way: "This Isn’t a pleasant spectacle for you. I'm aa tied aa a Scotch laird at Ht. Andrews. The Mt. Andrews cad dies are all old men. and one day when tills In Ini was In especially bad form bis caddie, after nine hole« of missed shots and putts, shook bia gray old bead, surreudere«! tbe laird's bag of clulis to atiotlier c addie aud said: "‘Ye’ll uo mind, laird? I made but a poor liren'kfnat this tnornin'. and I'tn no lu ■ n »Millloo to stand any malr o t.’ ” The Navsl Orange, Tlie first we know of the navel orange, which Is very valuable not only on account of Its fine quality and taste, but also liecause of Ila being seed teas, lx of a single tree that was p.mid growing on the northern shore of the Mediterranean sea. This was Slanut lite year 1ML Grafts of this tree were taken to Hpaln by the Mdona several hundred years ago. and from F| m I u tlte trees were rarrled to Month America by the Kpaniards.-iM. Nleho- The Campanils of St. Mark’s. "in Venice the campanile of St. Marx's has now reached such a height ts to make an almost startling object lesson on tbe terribly prosaic state of barduess. tightness, smoothness, novel ty aud rigid repair in which the ages of antiquity possessed tbe buildings we bold veuerable.” says, a writer. “It is a iierfect facsimile of the orig inal belfry tower of which tbe fall gave a shock to all hearts, and that beautiful tower before it fell bad a surface, a sweetness, an imperceptible disintegration, which was tbe bloom of time. A random touch of green lodged between Its bricks, thanks to tbe birds or tbe winds, its successor Is au almost hideous disappointment and looks like nothing but a part of some monstrous factory.” Outrages of the "’•lephons. That tbe lileplione has Uicssed many * man. saved many Ilves and bellied A Fascinating Occupation For '•he pile up fortunes is true, but Ims It uot Tourist In Paris. cursed some ivomeu. ruined more Ilves Window gazing lx one ut the recog and hastened domestic ndsforluue? nised vcH-atiouH of the tourtxt lu Paris. It has. lias it not liecouie tbe favorite Eiervtiudy engages lu tuia tuacluatiug pastime uf the women with notbiug cM-cuiuithin. a'ad. in truth. It would be to du? It bus. Hoes it not accelerate lni|HMxlble to resist tbe temptatlou. fur gossip aud aid tbe flirt and tbe way tbe roust beautiful wares are xet forth ward constantly? It does. Self In lu tbe must artistic manner, aud tbe dulgent womeu waste tbelr busbauds' only way you cuu withstand tbe desire money by ordering food over tbe loo for ¡xiKHexaioii Is to leave tbe coiu of bandy telephone rather tbau bother to the realm and even your letter ..r dress for the street, thereby losing credit al home; otherwise there is uo both tbelr wholesome morning exer- telling luto what extravaguuce. uot to else aud their chance thriftily to xe- «a.r useless purchase, you may be |>er- cure tbe best there Is for the price at suaded wbeu probably you have just market or at stores from which tbe goue out tor a moriilug stroll. family larder Is supplied. The lime Ut all these windows tbe jewelers wasted by women lu foolish phoning seem to tie the greatest magnets. Hui can never be offset by time gained by Ibe bewildering |>ari of It is I bat to forehanded men lu business, fur wh»t tlie uinn or woman unversed lu tbe shall It profit a man If be gain ilio knowledge of pracluus stoues (lie lull- whole world if bis "jvorld" Is lust tatlous thereof look quite as gcxsl as through folly? tbe genuine articles. I'earla. dlamouds. Telephoning, from a habit, finally lie- rutiles, suieraids aud so tbrougbout comes a vice and a menace to tbe cour the loug list stones are qp perfectly lui tesies. It has destroyed tlte tine art Puled that It Is small wonder many of social correspoudeuce. It has American women succumb to the crowued Haste with Courtesy's laurel. temptation of buying them Hut there —Minna Thomas Antrim lu Lippin tbe temptatlou does uot end. for they cott's. bring them home wltb all tbe luteut Io dazzle, bewilder aud deceive tlieir Old Name» For Guns. unxus|iectliig relatives and friends As tbe use of artillery lieeaine more with tbe uiagnlficeuce of tbelr sudden common and tbe advantages of ¡airt- ly acquired wealth of jewels. Womeu ability and a greater rapidity of tiro whom one would uever suspect of were recognized guns, except among wearing linllnlioii gems frequeut the the orientals, became smaller, but of shops where they are for sale tn I'nr Is better workmanship and construction. lu the most opeu. not to say brazeu. Inventors began to try their bauds at manner, while tbe toretgu papers fair all sorts of improvements or attempts ly bristle with advertisements of re at improvement, and in tbe course of constructed aud Imltstlou gems, which a hundred years or so tbe number of only goes to sbow wbat a lucrative different pieces of ennuoii. lurge and business It must be.—New York Trib ■ mall, tuuzxle or breecbloadlug, was une. simply legion. There were can non, cannon royal aud deml-caniion. three or four classes of culverius. bombards, AN OLD BUSYBODY. mortars, perrlers, serpentines, car- What ths Bridegroom Thought of th* tbouns. curtails, passevolants or zebra- tauas. basilisks, orgues. sakers, uilu- Old Native at the Station. While waiting for tbe train the bride ions, mojaues. falcons and falconets, and bridegroom walked slowly up aud robinets. fowlers, bases, slings, port pieces. murderers, drakes, aspics, dou down tbe platform. “I don't know what this Joking and ble dogs and lagtors. to say uotblng of guying may have been to you." be re- rlliadoqulua. flying dragons aud par mark«-d. "but It's death to me. 1 never tridge tuortara.-Geutlemau's Maga zine. experienced such an ordeal.” “It’s perfectly dreudful," she an A Cutting Retort. swered. “I shall tie so glad when we Before dinner, at tbe house of a rich get away from everybody we know.” "They’re actually Impertinent,” be banker In Florence. Colonel (afterward tbe Earl of) Dundas hud said some went on. “Why, the very natives”— At ibis unpropltioua moment tbe ■burp (hinge about tbe crudities of thia Notwithstanding wheezy old station master walked up Americans. rudeness It fell to his lot to take M me. to them. “Be you goln' to take tbts train T' he Bonaparte (Betsy I’sttersoui In to ta- ble. He Impertinently asked Mme. asked. “It's none of your business.” retorted Bonaparte If she bud read Basil Uall’a the bridegroom ludlgnantly as be tKxik on America. In which he pro guided the bride up tbe platform, nounced nil Americans vulgarians. "Yes. Colonel Dundas." she an where they condoled with each other over the Impertinence of some of the swered. "hilt It did not surprise me In tlie leust. If my compatriots were de natives. Onward came tbe train. Its vapor scended from tbe Itolluns or B|uinlsb. curling from ofar. It wax the Iasi any display of low lir«‘eding might as to their destination that day—an ex tonish me: but. being the direct de press. Nearer an«l nearer It came ai scendanta of Englishmen. It ls naturili full »¡teed; then lu a moment it whiz euougb that they uhuuld be vulva- rlaus.” zed past and was gone. WINDOW GAZING. Ths Highest City. Cerro de Pasco is tbe highest town in tbe world. The remarkable broad ’gauge railway by which It Is reached passes over a higher altitude, about that of Mont Blanc, nnd there are mining can>i>s and Indian villages at greater elevations. It Is also true that, there are higher railway stations, for on tbe Arequlpe-Puno line tbe station of Crucero Alto attains tbe stupendous "Why In thunder didn't that train elevation of 14.060 feet, but at 14,200 feet above tbe sea level there Is oo •top?" yelled the br.degroom "Coa you .sett 'twaru't none of my other real towD of 8,000 inhabitants, with a*railway station, telegraphs, tel busIneM. k4uis to signal If ibat train’s , ephones. churches, shops, clubs, bosp»- to stop.” And aa-tbe old station master softly tals and vice consuls. It is a wonder ful example of American enterprise.— stroked blici^'flrd there wss a wicked twinkle In bls ey«-— Loudon Tlt-Blts. W. A. Hirst In Loudon Spectator. Ha Was Acting. Stephen Phillips, th« dramatist and poet, begau life u» a member ot F. R Benson’s repertoire company. An ■ musing story la told of bls debut. Mr Bensou hud told biro that tbe great thing for an actor la to act. "It does not mstter," be continued, “so much wbnt tbe words are which tbe actor ■peak* ■• the Impression wblcb be con vay« to tbe audience by those wordu.” Then be gave Mr. Phillips tbe pari of Balthasar to "Borneo and Juliet." On th« first nlgbt Baitbazar managed tbe first line of hto part and then forgot tbe rest. Romeo. In tbe person of Mr Benson, toad to go to his assistance aud speak tbe rest of tbe part for him. while Baltbazar exhibited ao agony of Sing Sing Prieon. speechless grief. “Wbat do you mean,” Sing Sing prison is to be moved Mr. Benson sfteewsrd demanded, “by across the Hudson river fifteen or going on tbe stage without knowing twenty miles northward, just eight your part?" "1 was only doing wbat miles south of West Point, where a you told me. You said tbe great thing large tract of land has been purchase*, oo tbe stage was not so tnueb tbe and a gang of several hundred coe words you spesk ss to act. Well, I victs has been working for two yean was sctlng.”—koodoo Tit-Bits. grading the ground and quarrytag stone to build the walls to abut them Tast. selves in. The present prison was also “I am sorry Ho bars to tall you so. built by convicts in 1826 with mate boya.” aakl the»»lessent looking visitor rial fouud on the grounds; but, al arbo was addressing tbs Huudsy though it baa been enlarged every few artiooi. “but tbare Is uot oue chance yean and Is now one of the largeat lu a ibousand that any oue of you penitentiaries In tbe world. It is not ♦ver will beypresldeut of tbs United large enough - Exchange. Htatea' Htlll be fall«! to secure tbelr und I Overlooked. ▼Med sttenHou. “Here’s a new disease that afflicts "But If you Itos up to your oppor people that alt too mach In automo tuoltlee.” be wuot on. eying them biles." keeuly. “soiuo bright boy In Ibis sudl "Yes. And I remember there was a ence may tiecome a great baseball special ailment for tbe users of bicycle ptteber or'tbe worM's cbampkiu beta saddles." mao.” “Of course the inedb-al fellows are at Inatsotly every boy sat up straight work on a serious stunt for the chaps aud begs» ta Itateo.-Chicago ITtbune who perch on aeroplanes." “No doubt of It. But lt> seems funny that they bare all along neglected to put something pair, fa I on the rural hired man who continues to alt on t tar fence"—Cleveland Plain Itealer a Knighthood and the Stage. II only remains for King Edward to knight George Bernard Shaw to cover every branch of the dramatic field In England Gilbert was the first play wright to be permitted to wear knee breeches in the king's presence, and Gilbert's business was comic opera. Ills partner. Sullivan, died a knight. Irving was knighted for bls tragedy. Wyndham for bls comedy. Beerbotim Tree now becomes a knlgbt by reason of bis exceptional skill in dressing a stage and in casting a play, and last, but not least. Pinero wears a title tn recognition of bia rank aa the first of contemporary English dramatists.— Ar gonaut. Cursory. "Eddie." said the teacher, "can you give n definition of cursory? The word Is generally used In cunnectlun with ¡lubll" speaking. For example, we often retid that aomebo'ly made n few cursory remark.a.' 1‘lense write a sen tence contalnlug the word cursory.” After a brief struggle Eddie evolved thia masterpiece: ____ "Yesterday my pa helped my nijrio hang pictures, aud when tbe ladder fell after pa bad climbed to tbe top of it be bumped hla head iigainnt tbe corner of the dining room table and then made a few cursory remarks."— Chicago Record Herald. -/ On Their Minds. “I've got something on my mind that I’ve got to get rid of,” said Ibe author, bursting In and seizing a pad aod pencil. “And when you bare got iltl of It and bare received a check for It theta Is aometblng down In tbe mllllnef'a window that I want to get on my mind.” said tbe author's wife, pk-klng up bls hat. coat and umbrella. -Ex change. Desirable. A lady just arrived from Australia was recently negotiating with au scent in London fur it bouse In one of the newer districts of Kensington. Rhe asked If It was • nice neighborhood. "It Is thoroughly desirable, madam," replied tbe house agent. "They are, without exception, soup aud fish fam- 11 les." The Amateu ’MS. "If I were you." he said as they started o«it to dloner, “Pd get me an other washerwoman. That waist of yours is very badly ironed. What's tbe matter?’ for suddenly he naw a tear lu tbe eye of tbe Impecunious girl. “1 ironed It myself." said she. A Medset Request. Husband of Gifted Writer-la your novel nearly done? Gifted Writer-Tea, my dear, but my hero must die. you know. ‘‘Well, after he’s dead, will you aew this button oo for me?"-Fllegends Blatter. The Leeson. Bunday School Teacher-What do we learn from tbe elory of the man who was told to take np bls bed and walkf Smell Bemmle—We learn that they bod folding beds In ancient tlmoe.— Chicago Newa. Mads Him Bick. "Whet's the matter? You look fully white. Kesslck?’’ "Naw. There's ■ girl down below reading • love letter ■kmd Io soother girl "-CTevelsod I’tata Deaiar.
