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Phone 12
Effectually Squelched
TUt clerk In n dry goods store was
waxing sarcastic at the boarding
house table because the schoolteacher
said she was tired I dont see how
you have the nerve to say that he
said You have a snap Your hours
are short and although you say you
have to look over papers In the even
ing I reckon you dont have to spend
much time on them Then look at the
vacations you have u week or two
at Christmas another In the spring
two or three days at Thanksgiving
time and then the entire summer
Look at me I have to work eight
hours every day with only a half hour
at noon and once In awhile I have to
put In an evening at the store when
they take inventory of stock And my
vacation I get the legal holidays
two weeks in the summer and during
the hot months a half day off and
heaven knows what a good half day
does Gee Schoolteachers certainly
have u cinch
During this harangue the school
teacher listened carefully to the noise
he made while he talked When he
finished she said sweetly Well why
dont you become a schoolteacher
Theres no law to prevent you that I
know of
And the rest of the table grinned
audibly while the clerk grabbed a
toothpick and went out New York
Press
On the Dynamite Ships
There is a service whose conditions
are little known to the outside world
that of the men on the dynamite ships
that lurk in the shadow of Canvey Is
land It once happened that a cargo
boat took fire near Canvey island The
crew could not extinguish the flames
the vessel had to be abandoned and
the tide carried her straight for the
dynamite ships By a miracle the
blazing hulk steered safely between
them But the tide turned and with
it back again she came Another mir
acle and the floating inferno missed
them all a second time A spark from
her blazing timbers the least shock
from a collision and she had exploded
such a mine as would have blown the
half of Essex into Ireland She float
ed hissing and spluttering down the
tideway and passed away to burn her
self to the waters edge beyond the
reach of dynamite And the silent
lonely men stayed uustirring at their
posts and twice saw the grave open
and close before them Army and
Navy
Missed the Towpath
There was a little girl five years old
or so living in an inland town up the
state Near her home there was no
river nor in fact any water but the
Erie canal
The childs mother made a visit to
New York and on her return was tell
ing of her trip down the bay and of
how wonderful the sea had looked to
her Her little girl was listening
eagerly
Tell me just what the sea is like
mamma she said
Her mother made an effort
Theres the beach she said all
smooth white sand You stand on it
and look out over the ocean and all
you can see is water just moving wa
ter waves coming in and breaking
nothing but water and sky
The child sat trying to picture it
then in an awed little whisper asked
Oh mamma isnt there a tow
path New York Times
Little Mamie Rose Rose
It doesnt take these little Russian
children long to catch on to things in
this country remarked a teacher of
the Educational alliance When one
explains a word to them they never
forget it and they are always ready
with an illustration of its meaning
too I remember that some time ago
I had explained to the class the mean
ing of the word ambiguity aud then
as the custom is I turned about and
made t7i explain the word to me
Now is there any one I askec3
who can give ini
A grimy lit tic- Inck
of the room str h ul
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British English
Englishman I say ye knaw whats
tlie bookage to Boston Railroad
Ticket Clerk The whatage English
manThe bookage ye knaw the tariff
Whats the tariff Ticket Clerk I
havent time to talk politics New
York Weekly
The success of a movement depends
much less upon the force of its argu
ment or upon the ability of Its advo
cates than the predisposition of society
to receive It Lecky
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FISH FAMILY
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New York New
port and Chicago
has been consider
ably in the lime
light of late Stuy
vesant lish has
had his name in
the news a great
deal on account of
h I s controversy
with E II Ilarrl
man over control
of the Illinois Cen
tral road Mrs
Fish is as promi
nent in society as her husband Is In the
business world Their daughter Ma
rian contributed to the family fame by
furnishing the occasion for one of the
biggest and swelJest weddings of the
season when last summer she became
Mrs Albert Zabriskie Gray
Stuyvesant Fishs quarrel with E II
Harrlman dates back to the period of
the insurance inquiry He was then
president of the Illinois Central and in
various matters of policy found him
self at variance with the colossus of
roads This disagreement with the
great railway financier and transpor
tation expansionist led to Mr Fish
being defeated in his campaign for re
election as president of the road At a
directors meeting not long ago Mi-
Fish and his successor James T Har
ahan had a clash and it was reported
that there was a mixup in which
President llarahan got the worst of
the encounter The fight now on for
control of the road between Mr Har
rlman and his allies and Mr Fish and
his followers is a bitter one and the
public awaits with interest the out
come of the meeting of stockholders on
Dec 18
Mr Fish and his friends claim that
they are making a fight for a principle
and rightly or wrongly an impression
prevails in the railroad world that he
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has been made a martyr to principle
He has contended for the right of the
Illinois Central stockholders to have
that road managed in its own interests
rather than in the interests of other
i i he is credited with the be
1sJ iT the railroads of the country
sboar - run for the benefit of the
r - or than to build up great
ur t fortunes He once said
j1 tle Illinois Central
I J or run this railroad from
W Ii t 1 I shall never do so no
r te v happens With all the
rr r - ower that is in me I
L i 2 - oep this property from
th rUlv f the money octopus
wl c by Edward H
six footer and well
ix so that he makes a
to Mr Harriman
whose outward appearance and slight
figure give little indication of the
rains he possesses Mr Fish is not
v e kind of man most persons like to
up against in any kind of a fight
- Harahan is not a large man and
s said that when Mr Fish took
1 I of him in the encounter at the
- 5nt directors meeting it was like a
ier shaking a rat
H Harriman was recently quoted
saying it was about time to divorce
the railroads from Newport That was
a slap at Mr Fish on account of his
wifes prominence in the Four Hun
dred Mr Fish himself is not over
fond of society but he does not inter
fere with the social programme of Mrs
Fish and she is generally reputed to
aspire to the place in society long held
by Mrs Astor Mrs Fish has been in
the limelight recently by reason of
the position she has taken against the
so called International marriage that
Is the exchange of American wealth
for European title Of course Mrs
Fish in speaking of the unwisdom of
international marriages in general did
not mean her remarks to apply to the
case of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt aud
Count Szechenyi specifically I am
only ghing my general opinion on the
subject said Mrs Fish I make no
reference t the Vanderbilts wha are
my friends
Wonderfully Good Sight
The Duchess of X once went to
Greenwich to see the marvels of the
observatory It was a lovely night
and for the fair duchess benefit the
great telescope was duly leveled at the
dazzling field of stars
What Is that star she said point
ing to a very bright one
Oh thats Aldebaran a star of the
first magnitude
Is It very far off asked her grace
About six or seven light years your
grace
What Is a light year
Merely an expression which one
uses to convey an idea of the distance
which light travels in a year Rough
ly speaking light travels at the rate
of 116000 miles in a second and there
are about 31000n3ti seconds in a year
In one year therefore light travels
above 3091 8 10000000 miles The ex
pression light year includes these fig
ures
And is that star all those millions
of miles away
Yes your grace as nearly as we
can calculate
Then all I can say remarked the
duchess is that you must have won
derfully good eyes to make out that
stars name at that distance even with
this big relescope Its really most
marvelous London Tit Bits
Slaughtered the Anthem
When I went west first said a
Unitarian minister I was in a small
town called L and in the choir of
my church the village blacksmith did
noble work as baritone He had a
voice that could shake mountains and
whatever it lacked in any other fea
ture it made up in volume He
couldnt read music any more than he
could English but he learned a tune
very readily
One Sunday we were to be favored
with a new anthem because it was a
special occasion and the baritone had
one portion all to himself Unfortu
nately he had missed many of the
practices
The anthem went along excellent
ly until it came to a beautiful part
which reads And dying bids us all
aspire
nere the rest of the singers stop
ped short in that quick sudden way
that choirs have and in the ensuing
stillness sounded the ponderous tones
of the blacksmith
And dying brides are filled with
fire Boston Herald
To a Higher Table
John Barrett chief of the bureau of
American republics after various oth
er experiments in diplomacy came to
Washington from Oregon during Pres
ident Clevelands second term to get
anything he could He brought a
bunch of Oregon boomers with him
and for a time they stayed at the best
hotels The job was slow In coming
and they went from cheaper place to
cheaper place like Mark Twains office
seeker until they were forced to eat
at one of the lunch places on Penn
sylvania avenue One night while they
were at dinner word came that Presi
dent Cleveland had decided to appoint
Barrett minister to Siam Barrett rose
from the table and put on his coat
Hold on John cried one of his
companions in misfortune Where
are you going Arent you going to
finish your dinner
Gentlemen said Barrett as he
stalked out this is no place for the
minister to Siam to dine Saturday
Evening Post
Not Certain About That
Mrs Verdigris was enumerating her
various ailments I havent kept track
of all of em she said but one of
the first things I had was the lumbago
in the small of my back Then I had
the Influenzy awful bad The next
thing was the rheumatiz Since then
Ive had neuralgy nervous headache
sore throat indigestion a breaking
cut on my skin and ever so many other
pesky little troubles that I cant re
member
It would be an interesting list said
her sympathizing neighbor Why
didnt you take an inventory
Im not certain but what I did an
swered Mrs Verdigris I took ever
so many things Ill try it if you think
itd help me but unless its very mild
I just know it wont stay on my stum
mick Youths Companion
Made a Record
lo said in yo sermon Brother
Dickey dat Jonah wuz eat up by de
whale
I sho did
Well den how comes he live ter
tell it
That seemed to stagger theold man
but he gathered himself together and
replied
Dats easy You see Jonah wuz de
fust fisherman an he had ter make a
record Atlanta Constitution
An English View of Robert E Lee
General Robert E Lee was indeed
fully Washingtons equal as a hero and
a gentleman and much his superior as
a soldier It is only in the larger polit
ical or semipolitical sphere that he
stands lower and there perhaps only
because his opportunities were so
much smaller London Times Review
of Trevelyans History
What Dropped
1 heard you let something drop in
the kitchen just now Kate Did you
break anything asked the lady of the
house when dinner was being served
Only one leg of the chicken
maam replied the girl innocently
Charity
Inquisitive
Nell I declare That woman finds
out everything I never knew any one
so inquisitive Belle Thats right I
believe she would even pump an organ
Philadelphia Record
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