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VOL. 27—NO. 2.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

Was there ever anything like this free silver craze that seems tote sweeping over ythe country? In previous campaigns we have had issues strongly defined, and ardently discussed, but 4bere was never any tflhing like the silver talk, whk+i has

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reached its height tot the past sixty or ninety days, and which will possibly die away in as short a time—that is, apopn lar craze. Standing around the bulletin boards this week, it was interesting to hear the finance discussed in as ^confident a manner as if the parties concerned had taken a regular cour.ie of financial study with every meitiL Alexander Hamilton, John Sherman, Albert Gallatin, and John G. Carlisle cotfid learn a great deal about how to run this government's finances by listening to some of the discussions that are in progress all the time. And the figures they flre at a man, who askp for information Why if one carried an encyclopedia of financial information around with him he would find it impossible to answer all ihe questions and prove or disprove the truth of the figures that ane thrown at his defenceless head. The "crime of 1873" and "the dollar of our fathers" are the expressions most coramDQjy In tine, and the man who can't elaborate on these subjects is ruled out of the discussion. The discussion of the silver question is not confined to the members of any political party, nor are the views decided -by previous party ofliliations The warmest discussion I have beard took place the other day between a bard money Democrat from the east and a free silver man from the wjjst. They bad forgotten their former party affiliations and were condemning the policies of their (former associates in as strong language as their respective opponents had ever done. They grew excited as could be, waved their hauds in the air, and asked each other questions about the fineness of silver, the gold reserve, the gamblers of Wall street and Lombard street, the Bland dollar, that w.-ru unanswerable by themselves or an,' other living person, and each went away thinking that he had wiped his opponent off the face of the earth so far as the argument was concerned. It's a great tiling, this money question, and after listening to a few of these arguments by men who made a mistake in not. giving up ieir whole time to the dear people, I have bout come to the opinion that there is mow misinformation about this subject than abunt any other that has ever been presented to the American people as a political tissue.

It is announced that the saloon keepers

are going to boycott the Yandaiia road unless it discharges the employe, Porter, who enjoyed his Fourth of July in looking up iolators of the *Nicholsou law flagrant and against whom he filed a number of complaints. The job of hunting up offenders and prosecuting them is not one that will.commend itself to everyone, and the only thing to be considered is the matter of one's own conscience. I have no doubt that the men who did this last Saturday had the approval of their own conscience, and that is the main question. As to their right to do this there can. be no question, .and the saloonkeepers are not going to do themselves any good by attempting to drive a man out of town because he has done what he believes to be ,'fght. Such things as that are not going to make the Nicholson law unpopular, or cause any cessation in its enforcement.

The police board has ordered the enforcement of the law, but two members being present when the enforcement- was ordered. The order, however, came at a time when the saloonkeepers themselves were ol»eyiug the law. They are still obeying it, too.

NEWS OF THE CITY.

Henry Brewer has been appointed by the school trustees to take charge of the city school carpenter work, heretofore in charge of Joseph Lauer.

Airs. Anna Irmiger, wife of Julius Irmiger. the wnith side butcher, died Wednesday afternoon at the family residence on south Second street.

B. and S. C. Stimson have purchased ink McKeen the brick building at Ohio street, and after remodeling it fill remove thelrlaw office to that location.

He v. W. W. Witner, the new pastor of he Central Christian church, preached his first Sermon last Sunday, and strengthened le favorable impression already formed rnrerning him,

L. B. Root & Co. are doing a most commendable act in giving their regular clerks a ten days' vacation on full salary. They are giving this vacation in details, the first enjoy it being Kluxar Ransfoid, Harry

Vek'h, Wesley Black and Miss Kate Mc".ntee, whose vacatioa began Monday. The Terre Haute Elks who went down to incinnati to attend the grand lodge meetthis week, seem to have made quite ui impression there. Their striking uni'orni of white, from hat to shoes, made a .it with the spectators alone the line of arch, and the Enquirer says that if the allies had had the right to siake the dexhm of primes that Terre Haute would tare won the first prise. instead of Matt' to which tt was given. As It was, Yrre Haute won the price for having the out unique uniform in the parade, being »handsome gold elk, several feet in height, annoaitcemeni# that were first sent it from Cincinnati made It appear that is prise had been awarded to the lodgei

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that the banner of the New York lodge was carried in froat of the Terre Haute crowd, and made it appear that the latter were from New York. Yesterday ternoon a dispatch was received from Cil iinnati saying that the error had been corrected, and the 'prize awarded to Terre Haute.

James Tarxance, formerly of this city, but of late a resident of Austin, Tex., died suddenly «t bis home there last Tuesday night. At one time he was auditor of VermiLlteacounty, and at the time of his death was auditor of one of the most imj portant southwestern railroads. He had resided in Austin for fifteen years.

Earl 3?. Hamilton, of this city, went up to Fort, Wayne last week and won a num ber Of prizes in the state bicycle meet there. He won fourth place in the two mite state handicap, third place in the one mile state handicap, and third in the two mile-state championship race. He was the -only Terre Haute man entered in the races.

The members of the Jolly Mokes orchestra and their families went up the river Tuesday in the steamboat Mallard, for a week's trip. Stops will be made at Covington, Perrysville, and Clinton, where the orchestra will give concerts. The party will go as far as Lafayette. The following persons comprised the party: Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Breinig, Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bundy, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Weinhardt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pugh, Misses Lucy Flinn and Amelia Kantmann, and Messrs. John Cook and Joe Richardson, Clarence Bisby, H. W. Harrison and Captain G. J. H&mmerstein and crew. a

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ADDITIONAL PERSONAL.

Mrs. E. L. Larkins and son Ernest and Miss Mattie St. Clair left this week for Minneapolis for a month's visit.

George Wolfe, formerly of Wolfe, Connelly & Johnson, has taken a position as bookkeeper and day clerk at the Terre Haute House.

Messrs. C. B. and W. F. Mefford and ft T. Gay and daughter, Winnie, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Webb, of north Second street, have returned to their homes in Pekin, 111/"

J. B. Holmes, of Bay City, Milch., son of the Rev. J. S. Holmes, is in the city visiting. Mr. Holmes is connected with the Commercial bank at Bay City. He will spend several days with his parents on mth Seventh street.

Irving and Hadley Cox are spending the summer in Rockville with their sister, Mrs. Ella Sanders.

Miss Margaret Dupell, of Peoria, HI., is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. C. Dunlap, of 1025 north Ninth street.

Miss Alva Davidson, of Highland Park, and Miss Mayme Pence, of Evanston, are the guests of Mrs. Robert Paige, of south Fourth street.

Miss Sina Warner, of Crouthersville, Ind., is the guest of the Misses Kenens, of Chestnut street.

Mrs. Charles May and Mrs. George Nattkemper have returned from Denver, Col., where they went for the benefit of their health.

C. P. Wolfe, of south Seventh street, left yesterday for Michigan and Wisconsin for the benefit of his health.

Mrs. W. Robert Paige entertained a number of friends at the Hunt farm east of the city Thursday, in honor of her guests, Miss Reese, of Evanston, I1L, and Miss Davidon, of Highland Park. The guests were Mesdames Weller, Briggs and Crawford, Misses Alice Weinstein, Maude and Jane Paige, Lucy Brokaw, Agnes Parker, Cora Lee and Louise Barker, of Chicago.

Miss Pearl Davis, of New Middletown. Ind., is the guest of Miss Sarah Kirkham, of north Ninth street.

Miss Bertie Bagane is the guest of her sister, Mrs. John Potter, at Dana. Mrs. Kate Donnelly, of Chicago, is visit iug her daughter, Mrs. Stanton Merrill,

W. A. Hamilton and family left Wednes day for Newcastle, Pa., to spend the summer.

Miss Ida Shryer, of north Center street, was given a surprise by a number of friends Tuesday evening, it being the anniversary of her birthday. The evening was spent in various games, and a most enjoyable time was had.

W. H. Green man, of Janesville, Ills., is visiting his brother, Geo. F. Green man, manager of Pixley & Co.

For Thin Women.

There is a splendid regimen mapped out by a specialist to help thin women gain flesh. Breakfast, porridge and milk, followed by cocoa, weak tea or coffee and milk, with rather fat bacon or fish and jam. At 11 o'clock a cup erf milk, bovine or egg and milk. Lunch, meat, plenty of potatoes and sweets. No afternoon tea, cqpoa being submitted. Usual dinner, with plenty of vegetables and sweets. Eat fata, sauces, batter, gravy, bread and sugar in abnndanee aad all starchy foods, besides peas, beaas. etc. This, with the rubbing in of 41 (always upwards), will soon make a change in her appearance.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

Writing of veils and the effect of their use, a well-known woman correspondent says: I do love veils, but after a talk with the doctor I began to look around and note the havoc these dotted films wrought to feminine eyes, and I then queried, Is the game worth the candle or, in other weeds, are veils sufficiently enhancing to make wrinkles tolerable

Entering a street car I noted a staid, plderly matron, upon ,the tip of whose nose appeared a particularly wicked little sprawl of threads, outlining a shamrock in the meshes of ber veil. One did not need to be a fashion critic to feel that the design was hideously unbecoming and out of place. Beside her sat a pretty, goldenhaired girl, whose face was disfigured by an arrangement in purple, with white spots, and in the corner were two middleaged women wearing sailor hats and veils, one white with huge black spots, the other black with big blobs of white spattered here and there over its surface. The effect was such as to make both ladies appear decidedly rakish.

In the course of a day-I saw blue veils, Ted ones, gray, green, pink and yellow, with dota of all shapes and sizes, frpm the •big, fluffy balls, nearly the size of my thumb's end, to the minute specks that gave the 'wearer an appearance of being dreadfully freckled. There were veils with ^borders and veils without veils coming to the chin and veils making a wad beneath lit, but in nearly every instance the wearer sported, as well as her veil, a troubled frown between her brows, and I wondered if the doctor was right, after all, in attributing feminine wrinkles to the omnipresent veil.

But the veil, particularly in this climate, and when our summer winds do blow, is an absolute essential to the street toilet of a woman who does not wish to look like the witch of Endor and scare the school children when she takes her walks abroad. Hair will blow and straggle in the luerry breeze, and comfort and tidiness alike demand the veil. Moreover, there are very few women to whom a veil is not becoming. Some of them even look well despite the dots. Every one of them looks well wearing one of the numerous sorts of plain veils that are made for and worn "by the sensible few. Plain, soft, dainty tulle, thin, delicate illusion make light, comfortable veils that shade the eyes, keep the hair in order, do not interfere with the vision and impart a pleasing softness to eve^y complexion. Tuile, in fact, plain, inexpensive tulle, makes the most becoming of all veils. It may be as fine as one chooses, edged with lace and rendered a thing of costiliness and fashion, but unmarred by the obnoxious, sight-destroying, mirthprovoking dots that make it ugly. °V

But wrinkles, weak, red-rimmed eyes, dizzy heads, impaired brains! These are a terrible price to pay for the fashionable folly of a summer season. What if the doctor's predictions should prove true, and the new woman, when the ballot is placed in her hand, should find herself without eyes to read it or brains to comprehend its meanings

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The habit of painting the face and darkening the eyelids is as ancient as the deluge. The Chaldean women painted their eyes to protect them from the sun. Alpinists did the same to protect them from the glare of snow and ice. In Greece the stibium was in constant use to make the eyes larger. Homer recommended an essence to Penelope to restore her faded color. In Rome the statutes of the gods were periodically painted red, Vermillion being used for the cheeks. This custom spread. First conquerors, and afterwards the women painted their faces with red and white. Roman women used oxide of lead for the purpose of whitening the skin, Vermillion for the cheeks, blue paint for the veins and black for the eyes. False eyebrows and hair were worn. In Tartary a mixture of balsam, alum and goose fat is used to give a yellow look around the eyes. This is greatly admired in that country. Arab women beautify their eyes with compound of burnt sugar, oil and pounded walnut shells.

There Hue mothers who make slaves of themselves for children. Yet the serfdom is sweet sometimes. It is certainly making oneself a slave to sit night after night and rock a child to sleep. The simple act of doing this sometimes is not hard, but one of the greatest pleasures. But the habit commenced, must lie kept np night after night, until it gets to be weeks and months. There must not be a break in the meanwhile no one bat mother will do for the child, if she commences it, else the whole household may be sufferer* because of the persistency of said small piece of humanity that rules. Us true, babies are babies bat a short time, and, too, if 'twere bat one in a lifetime, then mother would not be a slave. But it may take many years of her life then what else is she good for? Is it not well and right for as to think some of our comfort, while at the same time of the good of oar children? If they are with their first days lain in the crib what awake to let themselves go to sleep, when the eyelids will no longer open, the habit thus nnconsdonsiy formed, they know no other way, and what a rest mother can have, and to what the has to look torward, The benefit fat two-fold. Children often fret, and worry then the wonder is what can be the matter} It hi simply the child wants to be pot to bed. It is surely an act of humanity to put children to bed early. Tbey are mote healthy, their brain is testing. There Is rest all through the home. One may sit aad read, sew, play garnet, indulge in coavenation, ail In peace

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and contentment, for the children are aslee^p and well. Habit being second nature, how soon good or bad ones may be formed, It won't do to start the rocking process if you do there will be trouble. If you'have done it, and regret it, it is not too lpte to turn over anew leaf and begin anew. *A few nights it may be hard work, and there may be some crying. A baby's cry goes to the hearts of all who hear it, but for the good of the child persevere. You njust not lack the firmness such a proceqjir will require. There is, of course, a great difference in the disposition of children some will be won overbythegentlest measures, but nervous and persistent dispositions may need something more. After trying love and reason with the ob sbiriltftones, there is a great deal of moral suasion In a spanking sometimes. It is mother's duty not only to mend the little onefe clothes, keep things in order, but we mnstjjot forget our own lives need mend ing and looking after. Raise your family but keep step with them, too.

A new occupation and fashioia atnofig English women is that of drawing room weaving upon, light house looms. Upon these .looms hand-woven table linen and towfels, with or without borders, are woven. Though the world- is not suffering for these, band-woven products, they are thought by some to have an artistic value .that machine-woven fabrics have not and as we copy English fashions, sooner or later, it is predicted that ere long Ameri can women, too, will perhaps return to a bygone .^occupation, from which their grandmothers are very thankful to be free

Bicycles Everywhere.

Bicyclists, says an exchange, have pushed their frOzen way to Siberia, have mopped perspiring faces under the Temples of Thibet, and have discussed tires and gearing beneath the shadow of the great Pyramid. Ijjtje maidens of Norway have laid their Ibsen aside, and the matrons of Ger many leave their babies to glide abroad on the public highways. The tinkle of the too familiar bell startles the bronco on the tracks in the Argentine Republic. In Londcfn, in New York, and in Paris wheeling is the fashionable fad of the hour, a fad extending to every class of society. But abouf the very last place where one would ex^ct the bicycle to become the rage is Vehice, where all the great thoroughfares of the city consist of water, and gondolas institute the ordinary means of conveyanfeQ, Yet, according to the report of the British consul at Venice, just pub^hi#in iLflt&jro, the Queen of the Adriatic has succumbed to the charms of the wheel, which monopolizes at the present moment all her attention and all her in terest. 8®|

lie Was for Free Silver.

A Well-known politician of this county, who sometimes "ras'les" with the flowing bowl, went to his physician the other day to secure a prescription that would fortify him against the temptations of a campaign that promises to be warm and ex citing. The politician told the physician of his trouble, and the latter looked wise, asked him a number of questions, and said: "Well, my advice to you, sir, is to take the gold cure."

The politician sprang to his feet and, bringing his fist down upon the doctor's desk with such force as to rattle the surgical instruments in their cases, exclaimed as his countenance grew livid: "Damn gold. I'd die firdt. I want you to understand sir, that I'm a silver man. A silver man at the ratio of 16 to 1, sir a silver man, sir, independent of all other nations on the earth, by gad, sir. Good day, sir."

And the silverite sought another physic! an

J. A. Parra, son-in-law of Chas. O. Ebel, the directory publisher, committed suicide last Saturday afternoon on the grave of his wife in Highland Lawn cemetery. When Parra's wife, who was Miss Angie Ebel, died two years ago, about four months after her marriage, her husband created quite a scene in Centenary church where the funeral ceremonies were held by resisting the efforts of the pall bearers when they started to remove the coffin to the hearse, and was removed from the scene only by main force. He was com pletely, prostrated by his sorrow, and when the coffin was deposited in the grave he threw with it a letter written in Spanish in which he renewed all the vows he had taken when they were married, and declared that he would be faithful to her to the end. After the funeral he went west, and was for some time located at Butte, Montana, as a mining engineer, for which he bad fitted himself as a student at the Polytechnic, and by a course of study in a Colorado mining school. He came back last week from Montana, visited Mrs. Ebel at Decatur, and then came on here, where he was sick, requiring the attention of Mr. Ebel for several days. On Saturday Mr. Ebel left him at the Terre Haute House to meet the train which was to bring his wife from Decatur. When be returned Parra was missing, and his body was shortly after discovered on the grave of his wife, with life extinct. Parra was a native of the United States of Colombia, Soath America, and met Miss Ebel when be came here with his brother several years ago to attend the Polytechnic. His father is one of the prominent residents of the South American republic, is immensely wealthy, and is said to have a number of times refused to accept the presidency of that state.

IT stents like ancient History to discuss tbe*atr«ae-time-talked-of third term boom at Prarideat Cleveland

PEOPLE AND THINGS

When the great trans-Siberian railway is completed it will be possible to travel around the world in less than forty days.

Chauncey Depew estimates that he could make 150,000 a year by writing recommendations for patent medicines, wines, liver pads, bicycles and other such articles of commerce. That is what he gets as president of the New York Central.

The German emperor has had his left arm photographed under the rays, and expects to submit to an operation, bastd on the information thus obtained, which it is believed will restore the partial if not the complete use of the now helpless mi ber.

Adams county, Ohio, boasts the youngest Pchool-tencRr in the United States. I-Ie just 11 cars old and his name is xViiuion Glasgow. His father is S. A. Glascf Winchester. Marion holds Lc«.cUcr's certificate for one year. He attended the teachers' examination there last Saturday, attired in kuickerbocker.-i, and took his place among the^rown applicants.

The enormous growth of the bicycle in dustry is indicated by the sale recently of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tire Company's property in Dublin for §15,000.000. When first formed a few years ago, the company's capital was $112,500 it was subsequently increased to $520,000. The stockholders have received $8,295,015 in dividends and premiums, and will receive $14,437,500 more from the proceeds of the sale.

Miss Elizabeth L. Banks, the young journalist who left America four years ago, and achieved notoriety in London by disguising herself as a nurse girl, a street sweep and occupying sundry other roles and then writing out her observations, is to return to tha United States in September. She will come as the representative tive of a London paper, and send over political letters picturing the approaching presidential campaign from a woman's point of view,'

The smallest newspaper published in New York this summer is the Ocean Wave, which is issued "in the interest of all good man-o'-warsmen around the world," by the jack tars on the United States flagship New York. The editor states that it is "entered at the postoffice of Neptunus Rex as strictly first-class male' matter," and that subscriptions may be paid in "gold, silver, or jewels." It is a six-page paper, neatly printed in colors, and illustrated by sailor artists.

DUBBED HIM NAPOLEON. tm

It Waifl Democrat Who Was Trying to Itldlculc McKlnley. In the lobby of the Hurford hotel at Canton one day sat a party of prominent politicians, one of whom bears the distinction of having first applied to William McKinley the historic name of Napoleon. He is a tall, slender, gray-haired man, whose race in life is nearly run, and who now, in the shadows of the end, is one of the most interesting characters of the little city which suddenly is of national note as the home of McKinley. He has been a resident of Canton since the early days, and is known by its citizens as a living encyclopedia of its progress, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Archibald McGregor, now a typical gentleman of the old school, gave McKinley the name of Napoleon. This was in the early history of the ex-governor's political career. At that time McGregor was the editor of the local Democratic organ. McKinley was a candidate for his first congressional term. McGregor was a sarcastic writer, and in some of his criticism of McKinley he took occasion to comment upon his mannerisms. He called attention to the seeming fact that he was fond of posing. The general appearance of McKinley then, as now, was much that of Napoleon, the genius in the art of war. McGregor recognized this, and became imbued with the idea that McKinley was given to emphasizing his appearance by adopting the general demeanor of Napoleon. He handled McKinley without gloves in the matter, and mentioned at length the "Napoleonic" manners of what he termed the "would-be Napoleon of Stark county politics." The shot, while striking the mark, redounded somewhat to the benefit of McKinley.

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TO THE MOON, 38 MILES.

The Xew Telescope, It Is Expected, Will Bring Luna W1 tilln That Seeming Distance.

The huge block of crystal which will become the mirror for the great telescope has safely arrived in Paris. If it goes well the exhibition of 1900 will be able to boast of a distinct feature. Whether the moon's features will be equally distinct is another question. Professor Loewy thinks not, bat M. Deloncle is still determined to carry through his idea. "The moon one yatd off." It was thus the scheme of the gigantic telescope was spoken erf in the papers, but M. Deloncle, protests that be never had so preposterous a notion. He claims that it will be possible to throw on to a screen views of oar satellite bronght within a distance of thi rtyeight miles. This remains to be seen.

The new telescope mirror is the largest ever made, and in Its present nearly rough slate It cost 130,000.

The mirror will be mounted on two arms ten meters long, and will be set In motion by machinery at the usual sort. The rays gathered from planetary space will be reflected horizontally through a mammoth tube sixty meters long, laid on piles of of masonry. The lenses of flint and crown

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glass will be one meter twenty-five centimeters, the largest in the world, and rbeimages,enlarged (,000 times, will be thrown on to a screen, which thousands of people will view at a time.

The moon will, if it goes well, be brought within thirty-eight miles, but it is most doubtful whether images on this scale will prove correct. M. Loewy, the assistant director of the Paris Observatory, who has submitted some splendid photography of the moon, believes that the limit of ninetyfour miles he has reached is the utmost practicable for a long time to come. Larger images will be indistinct.

NEWSPAPER PHILOSOPHY.

Inspiration, like death, always comes unexpectedly. Many young men of to-day need guardians rather than wives.

The sneer of a cynic ftnd the bite of a lamb are alike harmless. Bicycles all look alike—until after you have bought a cheap one.

The softest thing in the world is the hand of a woman when it caresses. After a man has once attended au hour bargain snle, the battlefield has no terrors for him.

Generosity often follows the possessionof riches, but riches are slow in coming to the generous,-

The woman wtio acknowledges tlie has been always poor is very rare, as rule she says she has been better days.

The daily newspapers have been so full of politics for the last week that women have actually had to read books.

The man who waits for the wagon would get there quicker, sometimes, if he expetnL'.l a little energy and walked.

There is oue advantage about the mantel bed. Even the timidest old maid doesn't have to look to see if there is a man under it-

A woman may not care to marry a man who professes to love her, but she will never forgive him if he marries some on®' else.

It is not giving away any secret to say that many a woman wears another image in her heart from the one she carries in her locket.

The woman who cAn express and stick to a difference of opinion without either raising her voice or losing her temper never comes out second best.

No young man is excused from carrying a lantern on his bicycle after night merely bccause the light of his life may be on another .wheel beside him.

GOSSIP ABOUT SHOW PEOPLE.

John Phillip Sousa was playing the vio» lin in the orchestra of Mrs. John Drew's theater in 1878.

Johnstone Bennett and S. Miller Kent have become partners and intend doing a sketch on the vaudeville stage.

Francis Wilson's new opera, adapted by Harry B. Smith, with music by Ludwig Englander, has been named "Half a King." It will be produced in New York In September. M-

J. M. Barfie has dramatized his book. The Little Minister," and the dramatic rights have been secured by Charles Frohman. The play will probably be produced in this country next season.

Sarah Bernhardt wrote an article for her son's magazine in which she said that the United States had nothing like a national drama, but subsisted on foreign adaptations. She was not so wrong In her subse* quent opinion that sensational pieces and fine scenic effects of a play pleases us greatly. "In ten years the American staga will be one of the finest in the world," concludes the actress.

Pauline Hall has the very latest advertising dodge. She was fined in Pittsburgh Pa., recently, for riding h«r bicycle withont a license plate. A city ordinance of Pittsburg fixes a tax of fifty cents for each. bicyclist, and stipulates than no one can ride a wheel without a license plate attached to it. The usual fine is $25, but in/' view of her ignorance of the ordinance Miss Hall's fine was reduced to one dollarand costs.

i- A Few Conundrums. What is that which no one wishes t» have and no one wishes to lose? A bald' head.

Why is a gate post like a potato Because they are both put in the ground to propagate.

Why are coals in iSondon like towns given up to plunder? Because they are sacked and burned.

What is that which is often brought to the table, always cut and never eaten A pack of cards.

What moral lesson does a weathercock on a church steeple continually incalcate 'Tis vane to a spire.

Why shouldn't a boy throw dust into hlv teacher's eyes? Because It may occasion harm to the pupil.

What are the most unsociable things In the world Mile stones, for yon never see two of them together.

What Is that wbicfii Adam never saw, never possessed and yet gave to each of his children Parents.

Why is a restless man in bed like a lawyer? Because be lies on one side, then turns around and lies on the other.#

Why is chicken pie like a gunsmith's shop? Because it contains fowl-In piecesu Why Is a clergyman's horse like a king? Because he is guided by a minister.

What word may be pronounced quicker by adding a syllable to it? Quick.

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