NEW YORK L A MOSQUITO PLAG ge Disrespect Shown Indians « York Streets--A C Against the High Chec New York, Jan. 11>-Thyt in the fruit cake can cause t departure from strictly temper has been demonstrated again home of a gentleman living Bronx when several inmgtes house were overcome by the cant used to flavor fruit cqk Kong. a "socer man, was s and shocked to see his two fi cats, Tom and Jenny, stagg: the room like a couple of gilde in a lobster palace at 3 5m. Sat up like , squirrel and sm quettishly as she mde pa r forward paws at somethis only could see. Mr. Kom learned how the felin hac astr-*- for in the felines wi mains of a fine fruit cake an mice. The fruit cake had bee soned for weeks in brandy, a so rich, redolent and tempi the aromg had drawn the mic their holes. Then Tom and had found the mice, and from that so many of them were k tho cats, it was evident that tl in a dreadful state of into when the pussies pounced upo Tom and Jenny were, in tur come by the brandy. And be dents and felines must be gox anv intention to begin the n with 5 jag, said Mr. Koenig full There is a midwinter n plague in Brooklyn. It began ago when a travel-staindd stra tered a restaurant in Adam st asked for a pie. He was t perfect swordsman with the w, the place, themselves adopts, 8 With each piece of pie h ent down his throat to the b in their' admiration the wait: bore to notice a ine like elfin music. Patron of the day and so wa ered responsible. Next morni coffee rush was well under wi a man rose roaring, "Is this . ar July, or is it Coney Isla howled, "I'm it to death T of his neck amd his hands collection of mospito pate was the first case of the da thereafter to midnight cor were many and profanity mud nivht was bitter cold and the tor opened the front and bac amd himself stood guard th hours, believing that the pest being frozen out. He was ali In the morning they were as ever, wor in fact, and t drawer wgus visibly shrinkin ma t worse he was harried terminator men anid drug sto ners, full of advice und expens ders. It was his hope that 1 anitoes would feed to repletion food display but instead they eatables alone and attended to patrons. Thev were mg with malice aforethought. Ly there. was a grand sulphw Sticks of it and candles of'; powdered form were set i the place was full of geri lick, however. The skeeters a vet. Now the proprietor has his plumber and instructed | rip out the pipes. The Afro A chef threw up his iob. He w in the Alabama "black belt,' supposed himself iounune, | coukin't stand midwinter mos: Brookhvn, and so fled. Paris courts ¢ taken twist at dressmakers- suite fc vagant gowns and unpaid bil New York was slightly bef From the French capital come erce which will interest dre well 'as women who have ant for running up bills wh know hubby never can pay. ionable dressmaker in Paris d $35,800 for twentv-one gowns to a woman within two mon sued the woman and her hush the court, in ing judgment amount, cautioned tradesme they should | show prudence serve when ~orders we offere were obviously gexagyerated travagant. question © makers and their clients' resp ies has had many interesting in New York « Judge thy, of the muni ipal court, + served twenty-five years and b much about women and dress suits as anyone in New York "There is ahsolu nothing s about this Parisian decree. in New York makes the husbar for all the nee but we must use our what necessities are.' right for Mrs. Vanderbilt wo A THREATENEL EPIDEMIC OF LA GI London Has It in One «¢ Worst and Most Aggr Forms. Is la grippe going to visit in its latest and most agg form ? is the question now bein by many people who know th ness and society functions ha almost entirely suspended in on account of the unpreceden demic of this disease, One wisest precautionary .measur can be adopted to ward off = attack, especially on .the part ~ ple who are at all susceptible sort of thing, is to fortify the by the use of Psychine. is ful remedy is a certain pr against la grippe. or, if vou Psychine will cure it quickly manently without allowing it any of its disagreeable traces "I was very much run do having la prippe and Psychine just the medicine 1 needed. 1 me at otice, so I can cheerfully mend it to my friends and so. Mrs, J. A. Beckstedt, Che Ont.' g Psychine (pronounced Si-kee positive cure for coughs, col griope, bronchitis, night chills and consumption. At 'a gists, 50c. and $I per bottle Dr. T: A. Slocum, Limited, King street, Toronto. i