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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1896. Davis5 Seasonable Goods Davis, the Bicycle Man, IRA. L BARE, Editor and Peopbietor SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Tear, cash in advance, $1.25 Six Months, cash In advance 75 Cents. Entered attheNorthPlaUe(Nebrasks)pOEtofflcea-second-class matter. PICKPOCKETS. THE VIKINCx, is the "biking", Best of cycles. THE ELDREDG-E, strictly first-class. THE BELVTDERE, a high grade at a popular price THE CRAWFORD, absolutely the best wheel earth for the money. Choice of all kinds of handle bars, saddles and pedals. ALL KINDS OP BICYCLE ACCESSORIES. on Davis, the Seed Man, Has afuil line of BULK GARDEN AND FLOW ER SEED from the celebrated Rice's Cambridge Val ley Seed Gardens. Davis, the Hardware Man, Big stock of POULTRY NETTING, GARDEN TOOLS, RUBBER HOSE and the celebrated Acorn Stoves and Ranges. jggpMDon't forget Davis, "that no one owes" when in need of anything in his line. Samples of "bikes" now in. INTO. 34,9 S. JTirst Rational Bating In 1.875 there were sixty-foui cases filed in the supreme court of Nebraska; in 1895 the number was 781." Thisis a plain argument in favor of increasing the number 01 judges. James Whitehead, of Custer county, is the latest gubernatorial candidate to be trotted into the arena. The entries for the con test should be closed; too many good candidates may confuse the delegates in the state convention. Those who supposed the appoint ment of W. R. Akers as secretary of the state board of irrigation would Jdll off the congressional bee which has been buzzing in that gentleman's hat, are mistaken. Akers still thinks he is the only re publican who can be elected con gressman in this district, but in this opinion he stands pre-eminently alone. Capital, Surplus, $50,000.00. $22,500.00 H. S. WHITE, Pres't., P. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres't. ARTHUK McNAMARA, Cashier The republican county conven tions held in the state this spring have been unusually enthusiastic and this is a guarantee that the members of the party will whoop er up lively next tall. With strong candidates on the state, congressional and legislative tick ets there is no fear of the result, even should a fusion of pops and silver democrats occur. A General Banking Business Transacted. A. F. STREITZ, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, our TOi I 07 1 ' ets where it is now difficul PAINTERS' SUPPLIES, WINDOW GLASS, MACHINE OILS, 3DIsu:EQ.sm.tet Spectacles. The statistics show that we pur chased goods to the amount of $246,826,801 from the Latin-American countries in 1895, and sold them merchandise to the value of only $143,000,000. This is not as it should be, says the Globe-Democrat,- and not as it would be if the democrats had permitted the reci procity policy to remain in force. The republican party will restore that policy as soon as it regains control of the government, and the result will be a large increase of in mark- difficult to dis pose of them on account of tariff discriminations against them. Tfeuy Must Have Nerves of Steel to Be Successful Operators. Because a man is a pickpocket it does not necessarily follow that he is not well educated nor a close observer of his fellow mortals. The latter trait might he said to be an absolute requirement to a successful purJoiner of pocket books. One of the gentry who possessed both characteristics expressed himself the oth er day to an Enquirer reporter at police headquarters : "There is no class of artists who in their calling are as dexterous as pick pockets. This is due to a double incen tive. Not only do wo find a bait for effort and exertion in success, but havo the added spur of a fear of failure. Success means as much to a pickpocket as to any man, and failure means a great deal more. "A vocation in which the slightest slip means a loss of liberty and perhaps of life will ever be apt to have a degree of expertness in its followers not present in more reputable and safer avenues of trade. "Pickpockets, like poets and other people, are born, not made. Their nerves must be iron and yet as sensitive as in stinct'. Their hands must be as com plete in make up and accomplishment as Herrmann's, the magician, and strong as steel, while light as down. Out of the vast army of hnmauity who are soldiers of the shadows only one-fourth of 1 per cent can or do become pickpockets. "These form the nobility of thieves and are reverenced by the burglar as of a higher cIues than they. The practice of a pickpocket while not really at work is as constant as that of some famed professor of the violin or harp. He keeps pace with the profession. No sooner does some jeweler invent a new fastening for diamond pins or studs than these men of finest touch devise tho motion which evade3 its purpose. "The chief object of a piepkocket, after certainty, is speed. He cannot dally with his victim by tho hour. "What he does is to be over in a flash. Speaking of pins and studs, there has never been a fastening so complex but the expert thieves could defeat it in a motion. They do in their business as fine work, as any Hindoo, and the thief himself could not analyze or explain its detail. His powers of execution havo gone far beyond his powers of reception or relation. "A pickpocket consults his own nerv ous condition constantly. No fine lady ever has such a timo with her nerves as this aristocrat of the outlaws. If he does not feel right, he won't 'work.' " Cincinnati Enquirer. Highest of all in Leavening Power. -Latest U. S. Gov't Report WHY DON'T YOU LAUGH? Absolutely pure HAD MONEY TO WASH. CURRENCY THAT SOMETIMES QUIRES AN AMMONIA BATH. RE- MEMORIES. SAND AS AN UNDERSTUDY. Trace tllaa Deutsche potlieke Corner of Spruce and Sixth-sts. WALL-PAPER. PAINT AND OIL DEPOT. WINDOW GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAF, GOLD PAINTS, BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES, PIANO AND FURNITURE POLISHES, PREPARED HOUE AND BUGGY PAINTS, TT4 T,SniTTMT?. AT ATP.PT AT. WTNTnnw GIT A TYCO ESTABLISHED JULY 1868. - - - - 310 SPRUCE STREET. F. J. BROEKER. A Mne Line of Piece Goods to select from. First-class Fit. Excel- MERGfflNT TAILOR. lent wo. 1 With Governor Si out of the race for the populist nomination for con gressman in this district, the chances of either Judge Neville or Colonel Gantt grow brighter. The question is, which can secure the delegation from Lincoln county? After his defeat forjudge last fall Neville denounced a number of pop ulists for their lukewarm work, and the probabilities are that they feel a little sore towards him. This condition together with the fact that Colonel Gantt controls the Era, gives the Colonel a little edge over the Judge. Both gentlemen, however, should not forget that Bill Green of Kearney is in the race. nsriEw IjITvieirz" jljstjd peed stable (Old. "Vaax Doran StaTolo.) Good Teams, Comfortable Hiss, Excdbfil Accommodations for lie hmw Public. The republican state convention to select four delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention, will be held in Omaha to-morrowi It is generally conceded that two of these candidates will be John L. Webster and Peter Jensen; the others are yet to be determined upon. The western part of the state has two candidates who de sire the honor of being a delegate, E. B. Warner of this city, and Matt Daugherty of Oealalla. Both cannct be elected and both may be defeated, but here's hoping our townsman may be elected. He is a hard working republican and his McKinleyism antedates the Min neapolis convention ot 1892. 8-xt . , ELLEB & LOOK. ESJNorthwest corner of Courthouse square. JOS. F. FILLION, Steam and Gas Fitting. Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper vind Galvanized Iron Cor - nice. Tin and Iron Roofings. Estimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth, xN orttL DPlatte, - Congressman Hainer has fully succed ed in banishing the customary items for District of Columbia appropriations for the maintenance of charities and schools under sectarian management. The committee has stricken them all out and in place therof has made a lump sum appropriation of 04,000 for the re lief of the poor to be expended by the district commissioners, with the proviso that none of the money shall be used for maintaining sectarian institutions. Journal. ISTebraslc BradstreeVs figures make the country's business failures in the three months which ended with March 4512,which is the largest total for any corresponding period on record. This is not an en couraging condition of things. Still the business comm unity is hopeful. One of the reasons for .this feeling is that nat ural causes will Qon bnnrr a reeovarv in Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at .the Bar. any event, and another reeeaa is jtbat the Our billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables recovery will be hastened and extended and comnfttent attendant will snnnltr .1! i by the knowledge that the republicans KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE 'flE UNTO? PAfiTWn TYB!PnT -P301 to wm tpepreeideocy. and both FINEST SAMPLE E00M IN N0KTH PLATTE Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment. It Caused the Wrath of a Doomed to Hap p. Jack Moynihan, known chiefly to fame from tho fact that he managed a play called "The Scarecrow,." which was written ny a umcago newspaper man, and which ran one consecutive night in St. Lonis, tells of the only actor he ever knew as being legally executed. On the day beforo the execution the condemned man called the sheriff to his cell. "Are we going to have a good house?" he inquired of the offioial. "Fairly good, I guess," was the reas suring answer. "Have you papered the town pretty well?" "Two hundred tickets to the sad event have been issued. " "Worked up any fake about confession and previous crimes to rouse interest and give free advertising?" "I think the newspaper men have been pretty vigilant. " the thing so as to get your lines?" "I don't believe it will be necessary. Everything has been designed pretty well. We tested the gallows and rope with a 400 ppund sack of sand just an hour ago." "Sand? Sand? The thunder you say ! Do yon mean to tell me, a man who has gone on with Forrest andgeau, that you are using an infernal dumpy sack of sand for my understudy, and that you depend on your rehearsal with it to see you through? Here you've gone and got a packed house just on tho strength of my star part, and yet you insult the dignity of the profession by running on a sack of sand to rehearse the leads with. Well, I'll warn you of one thing if your rehearsal fails of effect, and you find you've forgotten yonr lines, you needn't expect me to invent a lot of business at the trying time and to make a gag talk just Jo fill in a stage wait. I'm a game sport, bnfc my dignity has been stepped on by you and your sack of sand. " Chicago Record. Fat Laughed Last. An Irishman on seeing a notice in a haberdasher's window one day which ran, "Everything sold here by the yard," entered and asked the man of the shop if he sold buttermilk. "Yes," was the answer. "Then give me a yard, " said Pat. "All right," said the man, and dip ping his finger into a dish of milk at his fride he drew it a yard in length on the (Boauter. "Anything else?" he queried trium phantly of Pat. "No," said Bat. "Just rowl it up in a, picee of paper, and I'JJ fake it with me." Limerick New s. A Coming Prophet. Mrs. Wabash I shall not be in the least astonished if Johnny develops clair voyant powers. Mrs. Jackson -Parke Indeed? "Yes. He is the son of a seventh hus band, you know." Indianapolis Jour nal In the neighborhood of Shanghai there grows an herb known as tho laughing jJant, the flowers and seeds of which, when e4ten, arc caid to cause the same effect as that produced by ths laughing gas sometimes used denffstj." ' The first adobe houses were bujlj; by the swallows. in The sum of 875,000 has been raised New York to erect a monument to Thom as Jefferson in that city. It seems that democrats feel liberal this year if the subject of modern history is not introduced. A Fair Yonne New York Cashier's Plan, Which Includes an Increase of Salary. The Experience, of a Young Actor and His Brilliant Wife. The fair metropolitan cashier has add ed a new factor to her growing valua tion which will not prove so desirable a wile in the eyes of her employer as the honesty and efficiency whiclT have won for her almost a monopoly in the busi ness. It is the result of the microbe craze, and is nothing less than. washing all tho money she handles and charging her employer overtime too. The discoverer of this new way to en hance her usefulness and cost is Annio Nesmyth, the money taker of a big down town hotel. Miss Nesmyth serves at night mostly, and, while less money comes in then than in the day, she is generally kept busy enough. The money is often very dirty and to the last degree repulsive to handle. Now, tho cashier is a trained nurse "resting" from her ar duous professional labors. After a sick spell from handling the soiled currency she concluded to resign. She was per suaded not to by an increase of salary and permission to wash the money. So every night sees a soup plate of am monia water at her elbow, into which each note, as it arrives, is dropped. It gets a quick bath and is then laid out on a piece of flannel to dry as tenderly as if it were her best pieco of jewelry. The water has to be changed two or three times in a night. The cashier recently had an offer of another similar job. Being asked what salary she wanted, she mentioned her usual figure, with the proviso that it must be so much more "if there's money to wash." "Money to wash?" said the aston ished would bo employer. "Why, I haven't enough for my hides (he is a leather and tallow dealer), much less to wash." "You see," she said calmly, "your business is dirty, and it's likely the money will bo. I won't wash another fellow's money in ammonia water it's bad for the hands and beadwithout a consideration in my salary. Different if it were my money!" She says she's "passing the tip along," and soon all merchants in a business that calls for an unusual fortitude in the olfactory arid perceptive nerves will have to pay extra salaries if they wish to retain steady and efficient help. A money washing episode which con-verted-Cbarlie Bigelow, the actor, and his wife to a belief in banks is worth recording. By dint of great saving and denial the young couple got together $800 in the first year of their marriage. The money fas kept in a chamois bag, which the wife strung around her waist under her lorset, and as tho fund wa3 a great secrut which both tried hard to forget, so that the well known borrow ing propensities of their profession might not bo excited, it was never touched or even looked at for months. jBut a run of bad luck finally drove the young folks to draw on the chamois bag, when tp iheir intense dismay it was found the money had become per fectly illegible. One by one the eight .$100 bills were laid on (be bed, all in the same condition of greasy, uniform black green no color. Husband and wife took turns nt trying to restore the at tractive greenness of the filthy lucre, but in vain. The young wife wept ; the sav ing husband raved. Then together they went to tho bank which had given them the bills. The bank refused torecoeuize the money, nor could Manager Baker's indorsement make the cashier change his mind. Tho manager then took a 100 bill off their hands for friendship's sako and got a managerial friend to do like wise, trusting to their prominence to pass the notes. That was doing a good bit for the young folks, who had sub mitted to being callod stingy many a. $ime to gather the fund together. The flptor then left his wife at home weeping over the remaining $600, while ho went down on the Rialto (o sell it to any speculator at 50 cents for the dollar. But the wife was "no slouch" at expe dients. As soon as he was gone she dried her tears and declared to tho girl that, as the money was no good anyway, they would just experiment with it. The girl made strong ammonia water, and the mistress took some washing soap and soaked and soaped and washed those six bills as industriously behind locked doors as if she were perpetrating the regular handkerchief and hose wash in a fonrth story room of a hotel where "laundry work in the rooms" was for bidden. Patience was rewarded. Rid of heir slimy .coating, the half dozen bills at last shpne feebly put in a wan sort of alive greenness, tppched up with brown, as if under the rays of a dying sunset. They looked like autumn leaves after a big gale. "When her husband camo home with the news that he had sold our bills at 25 cents on the dollar, and would throw the other two in for fear the speculator, an actor friend, would be bitten too badly, she said radiantly, "Guess not," and led him to (ho table where the six faded, wishy washy governmental prom- ! ises lay still damp. Ho rushed one and jjot tho others from his consolers and submitted them 'o the same restorative process. The )ank took the whole eight as the young couple's first deposit. New York Timei, Aa a perftimo doth remain In tho folds where it hath lata, So tho thought of you remaining, Deeply folded in ray brain, Will not leavo mc all things leavo me lon remain. Other thoughts may come and go, Other moments I may lenow. That shall waft mo in their going As a hrcath blown to and fro. Fragrant memories fragrant memories Come and go. Only thoughts of you remain In my heart whero they have Iain, Perfume thoughts of you remaining, A hid sweetness in my brain. Others leave me all things leave me You roinain. Arthur Symons. SOME PECULIAR ACCIDENTS. An Oculist Tells How the Sight of Several Persons Was Destroyed. A prominent oculist of this city gives the following list of queer accidents that have come under his observation recently : " A little boy, 10 years old, was stand ing in front of a bird fancier's shop when an aged parrot seemed to take a sudden animosity to the child and dart ed at him, peeking out one eye before he could get out of the way, Some linemen left a lot of short wirp lying on Euterpe street after repairing the telephone connections in that dis trict. An old negro woman who was on her way to market early the next morn ing stepped on one end of a bit of this wire, when the other end flew up. strik ing her in the eye and blinding her. A milker employed at one of the dairy farms near the city was milking a cow that had got her tail matted and tangled with cockleburs. In the course of the milking the cow switched her tail into the man's face, the mass of burs striking him in cue eye and com pletely destroying the sight of it. A lad shooting at sparrows with an airgun hit his little brother in the eye and blinded him for life. Tommy Peats, the handsome, bright eyed 7-year-old sou of a widow, fell down stairs backward. When his moth er got to him and picked him up, the boy was asleep, the shock having affect ed him in this singular manner, and in an hour after, when he opened his eyes, they were badly and irrevocably crossed. A poor lad who is affected with epi lepsy during a recent attack: fell against tho steam coils in his father's office, burning and blistering his eyes so badly that the sight is gone! As the Louisville and Nashville pas senger train was coming into the city some ruthless person threw a stone at the day coach, shattering one of the windows. The particles of glass flew into the face of a man sitting by the window, as many as 40 of them embed ding themselves in his eyes alone. Most marvelous to relate, every bit of glass has been abstracted ail(j tiie man's eye- eight remains unimpaired. New Or leans Letter in Philadelphia Tjmes. Merri&aeat DHriBgr Meals Is the Greatest aCedlclae Tor Dyspepsia. A writer in Tho Speaker of London calls attention to the value of conversa tion at meals as an aid to digestion. He says with truth that the frugal repast eaten in silence is more harmful than a copious one enjoyed in the society of gay and vivacious companions. He asserts that an English dinner is, as a rule, a funereal rite of taciturnity, and that his countrymen reserve all of their talk for the political platform and sessions of parliament. The writer in Tho Speaker contrasts this habit of the English with that of Americans and Frenchmen, who, he maintains, aro lo quacious at meals. So far as the latter aro concerned, ho is correct, but his as sertion in regard to the former is only partly true. To those who have given attention to this subject the habit of our people who take their meals at ho tels or more notable restaurants is, dur ing their repasts, one of timid hesitation in indulging in conversation. Men and women seated at the same table are more than sparing of words. Each sepa rate group appears to be oppressed with fears of the others. Oblique looks and an occasional sentence, uttered in low tones, take the place of animated talk. Those who are eating have an air of furtive apprehensiveness. The writer in The Speaker has probably drawn his conclusions in regard to the vivacity of Americans at meals from experience at minor French and other foreign restau rants in this country. In those the fu nereal taciturnity that oppresses our men and women who take their meals at pretentious establishments collapses under the inspiration of example and unconventional environment, and with almost boisterous cayety they give free impulse to a natural love of conversa tion. H? HAD A GOOD MEMORY. What Shall We Call It? The boys call it a "bike" and are happy; the dictionary makers call it a bicycle" and rest content, though heaven knows the philological sin ought to lie heavily on their literary con sciences, and we who rido and are hap py and independent call it a "wheel," in spite of the finicky protest of sundry would be pedants who fill space in the daily and weekly papers. Pray, why not "wheel?" Do you know cf a better name? Surely not "bicycle," for "bi oyde, " besides being an awkward word, does not describe the ipsfrniiient of de light we know, as doubtless the prigina ior of the word fully dreamed it didl "Bicycle" has an 'affected, strained sound that ill accords with the best ele ments of the language we love, the lan guage whose strength lies in its short, crisp words, pulsating with life and It is not unusual to designate a spe cific thing by a generic torni, and we-do no violence to the language when we say we ride a wheel. The term camo in to general use when men did literally ride upon a wheel, in the days of the old "ordinaries," before the advent of "safeties." It was awheel they rode, the. "second member of tho machine trail ing peninrt in almost unnoticed insig nificance. It -was IHen 'that a Jlipusaud tpngues at once named tho wheel. This democratic term of spontanepus birth has had a tenacious life and will still jive, for it is always the people who make language, not pedants nor die tionary compilers. Womankind. Rainbows That Can Change Sex. In many parts of the world it is the general belief that the rainbow has the power to change sex. This queer belief obtains in such widely separated dis tricts as South Africa aud Norway and China and Australia. The Zulus havo a long folklore story of the young man who was changed into a wrinkled old woman by touching tho many hued arch. The Scandinavian peasants have a sim ilar story, and in greece they say that anybody who ruiis against tho end of tho rp.ipbpw wijl haye his or her sex in stantly changed, in Frapce and India to pass under tho rainbow has a similar effect St. Louis Republic. How a Bright Yonpe Axnerican Astonish Some Smart German Oncers. A story is told of a bright young American and several German officer who at a dinner one evening sej; out to. mane mm uncomiortaoJe by qbanjnjj him about bis country. The young man is Albert H. Washburn, the United States consular agent at Magdeburg, Henry F. Merritt, consul at Chemnitz, was the first one of the Americans at' tacked with a taunt from one of the Germans that he could not give tho names of the presidents of the United States. Merritt named them over with some deliberation and drew from his German friend the declaration that he did not believe there wa3 another Amer ican present who could do it. Young Washburn had said nothing until now, but he broke in and declared, "I can do it, and I will give you tho vice presidents." He was about to begin when a second thought struck him, and he said, "While I am about it, I might as well give you the secretaries of state too." The Germans got down a book giving the names and kept tabs on the yppngman as he correctly went through the list. They were pretty well backed down already, but Washburn had no idea of letting them off so easily. "Now, I should like to know, " he said, "wheth er any of yon can give the names of the Prussian rulers from the time of Charle magne and his sons down to the Emper or William?" Not one of them could go half through the list, and they were on the point of apologizing to hp young Massachusetts scholar when Jje took them down stili more by modestly suggesting, ?,Berhapg I had better do it for you. " He began with Charlemagne and went through the list without a break, much to the astonishment of his German hosts and the delight of Consul Edwards and the other Americans. "How did you do it?" asked Merritt. "Oh, my father had- a taste for such things and taught them to me when I was a boy, and, you see, they are sometimes useful to know," he replied. Sun Francisco Examiner. Women Sit on the Bight Side. "Havo you over noticed," said a man about town, "that nine women out of fen when they enter a street car invari ably take a seapn'h;e pglif ia$ gidePf the car? I have frequently wondered ap it, and a solution of the mystery did not Occur to me nntil a few nights ago- I boarded n Girard avenue car which was entirely empty, and sat down in the for ward left hand corner. At the next cross ing a woman got aboard and sat down opposite mo. At the next street two more women got in and took seats alongside of the first. After a time there were seven women in the car, all sitting in a row, leaving mo to enjoy alone the comforts of the left hand seats. Then three men jumped aboard and sat down on my side. Finally another wom an joined us, and instead of takings Vacant seat near thp'door ph the 'ladies'! side' she walked the' entire lengthy "of the car and sat down alongside of "me. 5!his. eccentricity pu her part impelle4 me tp watch her more closely than goptj planners- poesibjy warraufed, bjit I solved the mystery tq my satisfaction. She paid the conductor with her left hand! Sho was left handed. See? And all the women on tho other side were right handed of course. Fact!" 'Phila delphia Record. Dr. Sawyer; near Sir: Hating used your Pas (UH.es, I can recommend them to the public. I av t$en attended by four dUerent doctors, but oqb4 a iaIfboes of your medicine has done ma mora good than all of thept. Yours respect fully, Mrs, Maggie JebasoD, roasoa, Branch Coaaty, Ztich. Sold br ?. BT. joaglsy, A. Fellow Feeling. University Extension Lecturer (to manager of Chicago bnreau) The 3C ond lecture of my course on Henry VIH has been objected to by eastern audiences as rather too eulogistic. Perhaps, there fore, I had better change it before de livering it hero. Chicago Manager My dear sir, lot it , alone! It's just the thing we want Why, the president of our circlet has been divorced five times himself ! New York tribune. J" ' i'. Old Story to Him. "My boy," said the passenger with the fur lined coat and the smooth shaven, square face, "it was the success of the season. There wasn't standing room." The conductor smiled a sour smile. "Zif I didn't have the same experience everyday," said ho to the motormau. Cincinnati Enquirer. LHerary Item. "They say very few authprs sleep more than seven hours a day." "But think how much slumber theyj iurnisn otner people I" Unlcago Rec ord. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged. Practice what you know, and yon shall atts;n tc higher knowledge. Arnold. There is a time in every man's educa tion when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance. Emerson. An Astute Dealer. An American who was livirg in Paris went into a fruitshop one winter's day joveral years ago to get something for a little breakfast that she was preparing to give to two or three friends. The pro prietor showed her three very beautiful pothouse peaches, which he assured her iyere the only ones to" JJb bad in all Paris. She asked thp price arid wasphi that they were 30 franpjj. "But that is very dear," she said, "Besides I am not at all sure that the flavor is good. " "Let us try one, ma dame," replied the shopkeeper, and be fore she could prevent him he had bro ken one of tho peaches and was offering her a half, while he himself ate the oth er piece. . "Delicious," was her verdict. "And how much aro the other two?" 1 "Forty francs, madame," answered the smilipg proprietor. "You see, since We have eaten the third these thatre jnain are sq much more rare than they were before. Now, should, wo fry anptlf: er the last one would be 9 francs. ' Fortunately she was possessed of aa abundance of this world's goods, so she hastily paid her 40 francs, lest they go up in price. New York Journal. Chronic Deadbroke-UouId yon iciu ' me a ten, Charlie? 1 Charlie-Ten cents. Certainly. C D. That's what I meau'e. De troit Free Press.