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â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€".â€"â€" ~...â€"â€"â€"- ._ __ communal Evidence. l And English lawyer once said that circum- stantial evidence would hang the King of England. While that was putting it pretty strong, it is admitted that a chain of ciro oumstantisl evidence has often sent men to the gallows. If a circumstance can be ex- plained away, it is but a shade N. If it cannot be explained aWay, it becomes a menace to the prisoner's life. A witness may be bribed, abducted, or impeached. A circumstance is a lion in the path demand- ln blood. t has been often asserted that innocent men have been hung on circumstantial evidence. There may have been such in. stances, but they have been rare indeed. In my own experience in law and detective work I have seen some curious things about circumstantial evidence. it is, in one sense, the strangest chain which can be forged, in another the very weakest. About twenty years ago [ was detailed on a murder case in a Kentucky town. It was not to work up the case, but to save if possible the young man arrested for the crime. W hen I got the facts and details I felt helpless to accomplish anything. He was a young man of 23, named Graham. and was of respect able family. He had been engaged .to a young lady of the highest respectabili y. but they had quarrelled about something. Gammon friends had brought about a reconciliation, but a new suitor had_appear- ed upon the sceane, and Graham's Jealousy had provoked another quarrel. He had not visited her for two weeks. when on the evening of Saturday. 03: 3)., one of Gra- ham’s friends met him and said : “ Your rival is up at Lossiug’s and seems bound to out you out. Adele seems very sweeten him." Graham truly loved the girl, and this speech made him wild. He turned pale, trembled, and finally said : ‘° He is an adventurer and an interioper. Let him look out for himself I" An hour later he started for Lossiug's. He passed several people who saw inst he was excited. The house stood back from the road in a grove of trees, and was approached by two paths or drives from the front. Gra- ham fully intended to enter the house, but when he came upon the grounds his courage failed him. He was afraid he might say or do something rash in his present mood, and vet sensibly decided to return to town an defer his call till the next day. Next morning his rival’s dead body was found on one of the drives, about half way between the house and the fence. He had been struck down with a bludgeon. Conclusions are always jumped at in murder cases. Two of the negro servants were at once arrested, but before noon they were set at liberty and Graham was taken into custody. The chain already contained several links. Others were added the moment he was arrested. He was dreadfully agitated, hesitated to ac knowled e that he had been near the place, and a b cod stain was found on the right side of his vest. Before he had been in jail one day even his own father believed him a murderer. He was examined and bound over, and it was only after that event that he began to protest his innocence. The girl who had been the cause of it came uebly to his rescue. While she truly loved him, she had been willie to make him jealous, and when murder iad crme of it, as she believed, she felt terrible mitseience stricken and anxious to believe in his protestations of innocence. , When I came upon the ground, the State had its case all worked up, and when I went over it to look for a flaw I could find none. I had to acknowledge that I was without hope. Indeed, I believed Graham guilty. His own explanations rather strengthened that belief. Losslng's house faced the east. The highway in front run north and south. The lawn was twenty rods wide, and one drive led in from the north and the other irom the south end. Graham approached ' from the north. He would naturally turn in at the first drive, but he claimed to have gone on to the second. He followed it to the house, passed around it, played for two or three minutes with the dogs, and then circled about the fish pond, and took a short out across the grove and struck the road, not hitting the north path at all. The dead man had come from the village as well, and on foot. He had come and attempted to :eturn by the north drive. 1‘? Graham was innocent, who was guilty? Not the slightest suspicion had been direct- ed elsewhere. It seemed hopeless to look. I questioned and cross-questioned him, but he could not give me the sligt test foundation for t. clue or a theory. What I not came by accident. I asked to res the blood stained clothing, and I found it to be a single daub of blood on a white vest. It was a curious mark, such as I had never seen before, and when I quietly investigated further I dis- covered that the murdered man had been struck on the back of his head and fallen forward on his face. He had ve. thick hair, and while the blow had crushe the skull, be bad bled but little. The blood would not spurt from such a blow. The body had not been lifted, and so how did Graham get that blood stain? Accident gave me the know- ledge. I was looking the ground over at Loesing‘s for the fourth or fifth time, when one of the dogs came and leaped upon me in a caressing way. Loosing observed it and remarked: “ Old Fan was always very fond of Gra ham, and I believe she misses him. Here, Fan, let me look at your paw. Ah 2 it’s about as well as ever. isn't it 2" "' What ailed her pan 1'" I asked. ' She got a terrible cut on a piece of glass a few weeks we." “ About the time Graham was arrested 2 a. Yes.” “ Then it was her bloody paw that made the mark on his vest that night I" “ Good heavens, but it must have been I" I had a clue and a hope. Everything ch (1 in an hour, and I now believed Gra- ham out and went to work to locum proofs. I posted up to Louisville and exam. food the police records for arrests. lowed a score or more of cases to their finish, but got nothing. white man committed the crime, returned to the village and looked everybody over, but not no satisfaction. The day the trial was coming and I was in des but accident came to my aid again. I pensd ulled a lot of an away it was brought to light the man exclaimed : \‘whless me, here is the dead man's sad- dle . ‘“ Was it missing 2" I asked. “ It was stolen on the night of his murder. rubbish out of a stall. Hid- It was my belief that a and that he meant robba ry, but use frightened o8. I Air. ap- into the hotel born as the landlord with it was a fine saddle, and as That's the reason no went down to Lossicg‘s on foot.” Who stole it 2 What for 3 An outsider, who stole the saddle for its worth would have carried it 03. An insider only would have stored it in the stall. Who was inside 2 A white man and two negro assistants. Within an hour I had ascert.iued that the white man, whose name was Foster, was absent for an hour on the evening of the mur- der, and that since he had acted very queer- ly. [arrested him. charged him with the crime, and he did not hold out fifwen min- utes. His motive was robbery. He did not intend to kill his victim, but only to stun him. He had just struck him when the dogs barked greeting to Graham, and, overcome by sudden fright, Foster dashed away and dared not return. He thought he had only to keep still to render himself safe, and, but for my being present when the saddle was found, he might never have been suspected. Graham was cleared and Foster was hanged. The change had been brought about by the fondling of a dog. The second case occurred in Ohio, in a town not far from Cincinnati. A young man, Frank Meyers, had become infatuated W.th a doubtful woman. The afi'air created a scan- dal, and his father and friends made every effort to break it up. The young man was finally brought to see the error of his ways, but when he attempted to sever the tie the woman sought to hold him by threats. This angered him, and he indulged in some hard talk of what he would do in case she further annoyed him. Thus matters stood when he set out one evening to see her and make a last attempt to settle. It was a summer night, and they were seen walking in the suburbs of the town. They were overheard in angry talk. She defied him. He return. ed home pale and excited, his clothing dis- arranged, and his face bleeding from scratches. An hour later she was found dead, choked to death. Young Meyers was arrested at midnight. He did not even assert his innocence. It was only on his examinat'on that he protest- ed, and even his own f.t':ier believed him guilty. I happened to be in the town, and the way I came into the case was by relating the incidents of the one I have already nar- rated. The prisoner himself sent for me and told me this story : “ I met the woman, Mrs. Albrigh’c, by appointment. We walked out on Clark avenue to be alone. I told her that my mind was firmly made up to see her no more, and she was very angry. I should have returned with her, but at the little bridge she ordered me to leave her, threatening to do desperate thin if I did not relent by the marrow. I d d not return by the high- way, as our meeting was a secret one and I did not want it known. I crossed a corn- er of the graveyard, fell off the fence as I did so, and there my face was scratched by the briers. ‘3 But you hardly denied your guilt," I sat . “ Because I was confused and stunned by my arrest, and because I saw no use of it, ' he replied. “I have told you the truth. I want you to help me prove myself clear." I left him with the feeling that he was ly- ing to me, and that nothing could be done in his case. Ten or twolvs days had elaps- ed, but there had been no rain. I went to the bridge, crossed the creek at the point he told me to, and soon came upon his trail. At the graveyard fence I found a broken rail and the spot where he had fallen. I found the briers broken and crushed, and from the thorns I gathered several small fragments belonging to the suit he wore. Further on be had stepped into a ditch where mud was soft at the time. It had now dried hard and preserved the print. I measured it, and when I returned to town I had begun to believe that Meyers was either a good talker or an innocent man. His story was all right in one sense, but all wrong in the other. Did he make the trail while leaving the woman alive or dead! An old saying always goes with an arresl: "If he didn’t do it, who did '2" Somebody must be held responsible. After two or three interviews with young Meyers and his parents, I doubted if he could have choked the woman to death, He was frail and in poor health, and she was robust and strong. She had scarcely struggled at all, proving that she had been attacked suddenly and that the ip was a terrible one. Her neck was disco cred as well as her throat, proving that two large hands had been employed. However, no suspicious characters had been seen in the neighborhood, and the murder- er, if other than Meyers, had made his escape. I was completely blocked, and could only hope that accident would help me out. It had been said that the body had not been robbed. The only theory seemed to be revenge. if it was not Meyers, then it was some former lover, and I went to Cincinnati to make inquiries. 0n the way up my watch stopped, and in first call was at a jeweller’s. I had not sen in his place sixty seconds when in walked a stout sfron fol ow, who laid a lady's watch on the owcase and said: " I am going away, and I want to sell this. It belonged to my wife, who is dead." " We don't buy second-hand watches," re- plied the jewoller, but be carelessly picked the watch up, examined it and then said : " This is one of our watches. I remember selling it two or three months 0." l “ Yes, ' replied the man, reac ing out for 8. “ Let's seethe name," continued the jew- ellor as he went for a book. “ Never mind,” replied the man. " If you don't want to buy, very well ; I'm in a hurry." “Sold to Mrs. Alhright of -â€"," laid the jeweller, as he handed it over. “ The woman who was murdered l" I said to the stranger. “ Were you her husband 2" “ Nâ€",yeo l" he slammered. “And you have not been near-w» 3 That is strange 1 You will go with me to the pol. 10..., He tried to draw his pistol, but I was too quick for him. The police recognized him as a bull and a degraded character. and inside of hal aday I had established the fact that he was formerly alover of the murdered wo- man. Then I traced him to the depot and on the train to the village, and later on found two villagers who remembered seeing him there that night. When I had got him reasonably sure I confronted him with my facts, and he broke down and and made a full confesses. He and the woman were bleeding young see her that night, and he had found her on the bridge and quarrelod with her. She was desperate and defiant, and in a fit of passion he had choked her to death. He had seized the watch but '-:...ft all else, and so the Cor- oner's jury had been misled. Meyers. He had come out to ' Tne fellow, whose name was Dan Cumm. ings, was a craven as well as a bully. Ho confused all and cleared Moyrcs, but while awaiting his trial committed suicide. Filling 3. Horse’s Teeth. An interesting and unusual dental open. tion was performed yesterday afternoon, says the St. Louis Republic, at 1306 Wash- ington avenue, by Dr. W. E. Murray, D. D. 8,, which for about an hour attracted the l close attention of a group of studious specta~ tors. This was the somewhat unusual spectacle of the filling of a horse's teethâ€"an operation which had previously been per- formed but twice. Dr. Murray's dental Work yesterday afternoon was very similar to that of the regular tooth doctor for the human race, except that the patient was not seated in that awful plush chair wherein we all have suffered and grosnad. “Billy,” the patient, a variedsrk roan horse about 15% hands high longing to Dr. Merrill of Washington avenue, has been suffering from toothache for several weeks. He has been unable to drink except by pressing his tongue against his upper teeth so as to keep the water from them, and as soon as Dr. Murray was called in he saw the necessity for the filling of the decayed teeth. Exam- ination showed that three of the incisors were badly decayed and preparations were made to fill them and relieve poor “ Billy" of his sufferings. The scene was a peculiar and interesting one. Dr. Murray had a table placed at the side of Billy’s" stall, upon which be laid out his array of glittering steel instruments, similar to but somewhat larger than those used in human dentistry. Forceps, excavators, probes, scrapers, drillers, all were there, and “Billy” glanced at them with a wondering eye, but did not evince that shaky nervousness with which a human being undergoes the dentist’s work. Strange to say, in his dental work on horses, Dz. Murray, who practiced regu- lar dentistry for four years before beginning on horses, uses no gag, twitch, speculum or other contrivancs to secure the horse’s head, and states that he can do better work with the head entirely free. An attendant held “Billy” in his stall simply with an arm thrown loosely over his shoulder while Dr. Murray examined his month. There were three teeth to be filled, two of them badly decayed, and the doctor began on them at once. “ Billy’s " behavior was a model for human visitors to dental establishments, and he showed a degree of fortitude and nerve not often met with. Dr. Murray dug and out and " excavated " large hunks of decayed matter from his teeth, and “ Billy ” stood without a movement, his intelligent eye following the doctor's work as though be fully appre- ciated it. Only once, when the nerve of the worst tooth was touched, “ Billy " quivered and drew back, but stood firm again and let the doctor finish the filling. The teeth were all decayed from the bottom upward and the cavities were something fearful to contem- plate. The amalgam which was driven up and hammered into them would have filled the teeth of a dczeu men, and “ Billy," with a napkin tied about his mouth and brought over his nose, seemed to appreciate the ex- tent of the work. as he occasionally glanced at Dr. Murray with a look of calm approb- ation which was very encouraging. The work was finished in about an hour, and “ Billy ” was led away considerably improved as to teeth, and having behaved in the most cour- ageous manner. “ I have very little trouble with horses," said Dr. Murray. “ I leave my patients entirely free and rely altogether upon firmness mingled with kindness to man- age them. Horses are very intelligent and they seem to understand when you are on- deavoring to relieve them. Even in pulling teeth I never secure a horse and have but little trouble with them. I have performed dental work on over 1000 horses since last January. Brute Ethics. A recent writer says: “ I have been ex- ceedingly interested as a horticulturist and student of nature'in observin g then-ecognition of-the rights of propertyin domestic animals. A hen will not concede a grain of corn as be- longing to another, but the one robbed will manifest indignation; buts. hen will recog- nize the right of another to occupancy of a nest, if not thereby seriously discomforted. A cat makes no claim to possession until her foot is on the piece of meat. After pos- session, hewever, she asserts her positive rights, and hi avier cats will allow the claim. Old cats will often allow young ones to rob them, but they will not allow older ones to do the same. A dog not only claims a bone while in possession, but establishes his right to the same bone when buried, and woe be to the dog that opens the ‘ cache.’ ‘This recognition of property rights is seen every- where in lower life. although theft is com- mon,’ comments Mary E. Spencer in the St. Louis Globe. Again, if you find your horse in his neighbor’s stall eating oats and scold him for it his retreat is made with marks of shame. I have seen the same mansstation in a fowl. The idea of right comes of course before the idea of abstract right. Natural rights are rocogn’zzd by every creature that exists. The birds rsco 'ze not only their own rights and family rights, but the rights of their neighbors. A thieving outlaw is held to be a common enemy to be chased and destroyed by the cooperation of all honest birds. We seem, as human beings, to inherit from our animal progenitors some- thing very like a moral code. So that, it seems to me, we are not to despise the idea of animal descent, since by it we get some- thing more than structure. This study is exceedingly interesting, and if one will keep open eyes he will be sure to see some curi- ous moral legislation all about him. I be ilsve it is well established that some of the social and associated creatures have a code of punishment. I have seen sparrows de- liberaly join in the punishment of a rogue. At least so it seemed to me, althou h I could not discover the special fault o the delinquent. It is «posing interesting to see the indignation excl amon all the birds when a prowling hawk has ospoiied a nest. ‘ Come on 1" shout the birds ; and ‘ At him 1' cries every robin ; and often the crows for once join the smaller birds. The chase excites the whole neighborhood." A Lawyer's Precaution. A celebrated criminal lawyer, having just defended a notld assassin so brilliantly that the wrench was acquitted in the face of over-wheimlug evidence, steps up to the Jud e, "A word in your ear, your Honour." ‘g‘Vell, what is It?’ “I wcnld ask that the prisoner be detained in goal until to- morrow morning‘ I have to cross a lonely field on my way home, and the rascal hap- pens to know that I have money about mo.’ “0h, certainly."â€"[Csrtoou. An Hour in the Packing House. We have been a long time getting to the packing house. perhaps some of you think, after that first visit to the orange grove. But you knew it always takes a in time to get anywhere when there is a crow of children along wanting to see everything new, and asking questions about everything they see. That's right, children, always ask to have everything you don‘t understand explained to you, and in that way you will gather a valuable amount of information if you will only try to remember what you are told. New this is what the children learn- ed as they walked through the orange grove to the packing house. They saw some tall orange trees with their lower limbs away above a man's head, and some others with low drooping limbs that touched the ground and reminded one of a shy little girl try- ing to cover her bare feet with her skirts, so,. of course, they asked, “ what is the difi'srence in those trees 2" meaning is there any difference in the variety of those trees, and they were told that the tall trees were the native sweet oranges and the low drooping trees were Ster and Mediterranean sweets. Then they noticed two other kinds of trees, one with narrow, slender leaves, and the other with. broad, coarse looking foliage, the latter they found were lemon trees and the others ware Tan- gerines, or the kid-glove oranges. By this time they were in the packing house, which was a large, broad building with doors and windows alternating closely upon each side. “ Why was that 2 ’ they asked. That was for two purposes. A great many doors Were needed in the busy seasOn, so that a number of oranges could be loaded at the same time while others could unload on the other side. Then a great many windows are needed for entilation, for if there was not a great deal of fresh air when these houses are filled with pips fruit or green vegetables they would be Injured by their own boat and moisture before they were packed. The model pack- ing house hasa kind of stage built across one end, and in this are out several pits for the packets to stand in, which brings them Just on a level with the crates they are pack- ing, so that they can pack them very fast and slide them along to the doors without any lifting. Near the packers is arranged the slzors, which are sometimes made this way : Two planks aboutsixfeet long are nailed so as to form the sloping sides of a trough with a crack about five inches wide at the bottom, fitting into this are very thin pieces of boards, carefully smdothed, and arranged to slide up and down on the sloping plank. These boards are eight inches long, and when the sizer is ready to work each of these are set by a measure and screwed fast. Then the openings in the bottom of the trough represent the size of oranges that can pass through it, and the packer knows how many of each size it will take to fill a box. Under each opening a rough box is set to catch the fruit, and a man stands at the upper end of the sizer and rolls down the oranges until they find a place they can drop through. As these boxes are filled they go to the aoker, who wraps them in beautiful red and and blue striped tissue papers and packs them for their journey north. The next man nails up the crates and slides them into the waiting we one. While the ildren have been watching this we have peeled some small brownish looking oranges for them that had been cast among the culls, and they reach out eagerly for the ever-welcome fruit, but as they pull them open intending to “suck the bass,” they look up in disgust and exolaim: “Why this oran e is all bloody, just see how red it is. ’ “Yes” in answer, "that is why we peeled it that way so you could see how pretty the Maltese Blood orange is. Now eat it and see how sweet and winey it is also.” then here is a Star orange, see the stir like ridges which radiate from stem to blossom end of the fruit. It is next to the blood orange in delicate flavor. And this is the famous Naval orange, with its ugly, curious distortion at the blossom end. It is not half as fine fltVOI'Bd or sweet as the others, out because its pecuâ€" liarity is outside instead of inside it has won fame and become popular. You see, children, that is always the way, the very best things and the best, people are always quiet and selfcon- rained, and their virtues must be dili- gently sought for before they are discov- ered. And now fill your hand-bags with kidgiovo oranges and let’s go home and I hope you have all learned from this visit to appreciate the fact that oranges are not al alike by any means, but that the differences in them are great enough for even the cnildren to discover.-[ Mrs.Charles. A Reptile Wreath. On a frosty morning a few days ago, as Mr. Jere. Feuton of South Orange, N. J., was walking with his niue~year-old daughter in a smallplantation near his house, he saw what looked like a wreath of variega- ted cords lying at the foot of a tree. It was about ten inches in diameter, and perfectly circular. Supposing that some children at play in the wood had woven it and carelessly flung it away, he picked it up and playfully crowned his little girl with it; but there was a cold, clammy feeling about the thing that the child did not like at all, and as it touched her forehead she hastily shook it off. Then Mr. Fentou made a more careful examina'lon, and was considerably startled to find that what he had mistaken for a cordsge wreath was very much like a double-headed snake. The two heads were exactly op site each other on the circular brand ut . Fenton soon perceived that each head was attached to a separate body. The variegated ring was, in fact, two snakes that had mixed themselves up, as a sort of mutual benefit society, for the winter. Their tails were not visible, because each had swallowed the caudal extremity of the other, and as much of the upper anatomy as it could stuff down its throat, The strong Teutonic good sense of the German housewives rises against the Anar- chist movement, which is again raising its head in illinols, and so strong is their infin- ence with their husbands that only 70 men dared to appear at a meeting in support of Anarchist principles which was held on Sun- day at Malplswood. A Sunday school, how- ever, is to be established to instruct the young in Anarchy. To some people who have made occasional efforts to train the headstrong " young idea ” this may read like a joke, and schools will recur to their memory in which a considerable amount of anarchy existed without any teschln‘gnat all. A verbatim report of the roused gs at the new Sunday school woul be interesting reading. along Basil, saw in the edge of the stream a great mass of iron ore. At a low stage of water a pair of chariot wheels have been visible bo- neath the edge of the mass. oric origin, and to though no one knows at It was first discovered in 1784, and an attempt was soon made to transport it to the coast. her '.f Moving a Meteorolite. For more than a century the travellers a river in the province of Bahia. Tuis mass of iron is known to be of mate- have fallen from the sky, precisely what date: As the meteorolite had been ascertained to weigh about six tons, the feat of transport- ing it Ms not an easy chariot, or truck, was constructed, and b dint of the exertions of one hundred an forty this chariot. But at the very first start the vehicle sank up to the-hubs in the mud, and nothing could dislodge it. The attempt was then and there abandoned, chariot wheels testified for more than a oeu- tury to the failure of this effort to remove the great meteorolite. one. An immense oxen. the meteomlite was laden upon and the A recent attempt, however, aided by modern science, has been more successful. A Brazilian engineer has succeeded in rah- ing the meteor, and transporting it to Rio de J aueiro. Brazilian Government appropriated twenty thousand dollars, and an equal sum was contributed for the purpose by a rich private citizsn. To accomplish this result, the When the meteorolite reached Rio de J an- eiro, it was cut into two pieces, in order that its structure might be studied. It is com- posed of iron, mixed with other substances which is characteristic of all the iron which has fallen from the sky in meteors, and which is known as meteoric iron. of crystalline formation, and â€"-a condition It is a most interesting fact that none of the meteorolites, so far as is known, contain any chemical element that is not known on the earth. They always contain iron, but it is compounded differently from any known iron native to the earth. .___._â€"â€".â€" A Meteor Analysed. A blazing meteor fell on Chicago avenue, Chicago, on the morning of February 2nd, scaring some of those who saw it, and who thought it a monster Anarchist bomb. It exploded on striking the ground, and a num- ieces were found, the largest being about vs inches long and half as broad. Analysis of a fragment of the metallic por- tion showed it to be an alloy, as follows :â€" Psr cent Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.5 Nickel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.4 Aluminum..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . .8 Manganese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Traces of tin, magnesium, copper, arsenic, calcium, potassium, and sodium were dis- coveredâ€"[Philadelphia Ledger. â€"â€"â€"-â€"-.â€"-â€"â€"-â€"" Both In Hard Luck- This story opens on the third floor ofa magnificent Earle m compartment house. He had been twisting about on his chair trying to find words toex ress his undying devotion, and had alrea y begun to hem and haw, when a voice came from the floor below: “Miss Candlewick,” it said, “I love you passionatelyâ€"madly: bid me but hope. and all the dark colors of my life will change!" This was a bonanza for the young man above. . ° "Miss Clara, darling,” he said tremnlous. ly, “them's my sentiments." Then another voice came from below : “No Mr. Goatee, I cannot bid you hope; I love another." “And them’s mine, Mr. Morris,” remark- ed Miss Clara.â€"-[Harper’s Bazar. What Had Happened. Anxious Motherâ€"“Why, my dear, in tears i What has happened ‘3" Married Daughterâ€"“Iâ€"I not angry at Arthur this morning and said a lot ofâ€"of mean things and then he said a lot of manner ones and â€"andI couldn’t think of anything man enough to say back, I couldn't. .._._-_ Paternal Seepticism. Millyâ€""Pa, Mr. Skeggs has asked the privilege of paying his addresses to me." The Old Manâ€""I don't believe he’ll do it. He has been promising to pay our firm for his last suit of clothes for over a year, and hasn't done it yet." Hadn't Thought of That. “ V'y, Moses, vere are you going 2" ex. claimed Isaac, as the two met on the train. " Oh, I vos yoost going oudt to Oeonomo- woc to sbend Sunday mit J accb Ruben- stein." “ Veil, py gracious, dot vos lucky i I am going there meinselluf. Say, Moses, dot vos a shnap ven you buy a return dioket, ain’t it! It vos so much cheaper." " Dot’s all right uf you dink so, Isaac ; but I taught you had a bigger head as dot. Vy, man, vot uf you got killed venoe mit a smash up, den vot goot vosdot redurn dicket l” “ Ac , Himmel, I uefer tought uf dot l' Somewhat Ambiguous. Visiting friend: "You have a tty house." Lady, who had just me in : “Yes ; but wears all in confusion, and it does take such a long time to get things set- tled." Visiting friend : “Yes, a time." Lad :"Yes;butlhop3w;psh beall set ed before you call again. Pretty Far Gone. A onngmanwho wasvisi ayoung ladyyto whom he is engagedeniean the clock strike ten, eleven, twelve, and remarks ecstatioally: “How the hours fly, dearest Clara, when I am in thy com ny l" Claraâ€"“Thou art a little 0 George." The hall clock has not been striking right of late, and pa is regula it. Then George heard e clook rtrike one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and perceived that he was mistaken. Wouldn‘t be Gone Long. "1 want to see you pretty soon," said the head of the firm on pay day to a young traveling salesman who was receivtng a small compensation. ” Yes, sir. Will I have time to go down the street a couple of blocks 2" " Will it take you ion 2" “ No ; scarcely any t me whatsver. All I want to do is to spend my week's salary." The head of the firm saw that he got a a raise.