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BLOOMS THAT POISOS
ODORS OF FLOWERS THAT ARE HARM
FUL TO HEALTH
ISevmrc of the Poppy iih It Contains
Opium mid Induces Drowsiness
Tulips That Are Daneersn and
Produce Lrght Hcadcdncss
The majority of people think that
the tulip has uo smell and this is true
of a great number of the fashionable
variegated kinds The old self colored
sorts however particularly those of a
deep crimson hue have a powerful
odor which is dangerous when inhal
ed This odor is of sailron flavor and
affects many people In a very peculiar
manner If breathed deeply It has
the effect of producing light headed
ness which continues for some time
causing the sufferer to do and say all
manner of remarkable and ridiculous
things Its influence often lasts for an
hour or two and Is followed by deep
depression
Another common flower whose odor
has evil properties is the poppy This
Is doubtless due to the quantity of
opium which the blossom contains
Numbers of individuals especially
young ladies of highly strung temper
ament complain of the drowsy sensa
tion which comes after walking
through a Held of these flowers and
afterward of violent headaches and a
disinclination to move about In Asia
Minor where the poppy Is grown In
vast quantities for the purpose of ex
tracting the drug tourists are fre
quently incapacitated for many hours
after inspecting a poppy plantation
and two cases of death among Eng
lish tourists were traced to the same
cause last year
All flowers grown from bulbs are
dangerous in rooms where there is ill
ness Although bunches of flowers are
invariably taken as presents to pa
tients such blooms as hyacinths lilies
of the valley tuberoses and even daf
fodils and narcissuses should be care
fully avoided The perfume is as dan
gerous to a person in a critical state of
health as a dose of morphia would be
without possessing the benefits which
that drug sometimes confers
Perhaps the most remarkable effect
which any garden flower has on the
human body is that which follows the
handling of the particular variety of
primula known as obconica Expe
rienced gardeners are always careful
to wear gloves when potting this
plant as should there be ever such a
slight scratch or prick on the hands or
fingers evil results are almost certain
to follow
The first noticeable result is a slight
itching of tlie hands and arms and this
precedes the breaking out of a skin
disease which frequently extends to
the body It dies away in the autumn
when the leaves fall and by Christ
mas the sufferer is free but the pri
mula has by no means finished its
deadly work When spring comes again
and the sap rises in plants and trees
the dread disease makes its reappear
ance and continues all through the
summer
This continues for many years fre
quently for the whole of the victims
lifetime and there Is no known rem
edy for it although years of the most
rigid dieting have in some cases pro
duced a diminution in its violence
If blood poisoning by the primula
obconica does not take this form it
brings about the still more dreadful
erysipelas Cases of poisoning through
eating the berries of the belladonna or
deadly nightshade are all too frequent
but there is the gravest danger in even
handling this attractive plant
It is a very common practice in the phone
country among parties of young
pie to pick the berries and flick them
at each other with the fingers for
sport Then when heated by the fun
and fusillade the face is sometimes
tmopped with a handkerchief upon
swhich fingers sticky with the juice of
the berries have been wiped
Should but just a little of this get
into one of the eyes a fearful calamity
may ensue Iritis or paralysis of the
dris of the eye which invariably re
sults in blindness has been known to
come on and against this dread dis
ease medical skill has as yet proved
unavailing This too is in face of the
paradoxical fact that treatment with
tincture of belladonna is the one usual
ly adopted in the elementary stages of
Iritis
The dainty heroine who is so often
to be heard of as idly plucking to
pieces the petals of a flower must be
iware which blossoms she chooses for
the purpose Lilies begonias rhodo
dendrons and peonies are likely to set
up festers with consequent loss of
linger nails if treated in this way
London Answers
Russias Many Holidays
In addition to the fifty two Sundays
Russia has about thirty nine holidays
or feast days of the church They are
Ikept as rigidly almost as a London
ISunday Business ceases except in
nooks and corners while drunkenness
the bane of the Russian cripples work
for twenty four or forty eight hours
after each feast In round numbers
there are thirty days on which the
western world works while the Rus
sian stands idle Scribners Magazine
r Dobs Fate Not Such a Happy One
Higgios They talk of leading a dogs
jllfe as though anything could be more
jpleasant A dog does not have to work
for a living and he does not have to
Idress and undress every day
j Wiggins True but think of the
wretched plays that are tried upon the
dog Boston Transcript
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The Backward Tenants PerU
The man who owes his landlord lives
Iflmiratively speaking over a volcano
IWby Because he is likely to bebldwn
wp Fnjiaaejpma
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Whence Comes Electricity
At a time when electricity is rapidly
transforming the face of the globe
when It has already in great measure
annihilated distance and bids fair to
abolish darkness for us it is curious to
notice how completely ignorant the
plain man remains as to the later de
velopments of electrical theory Some
recent correspondence has led me to
think that a vague notion that electric
ity is a fluid which In some mysterious
way flows through a telegraph wire
like water through a pipe is about as
far as le has got and if we add to this
some knowledge of what he calls elec
tric shocks we should probably ex
haust his ideas on the subject Yet
this Is not to be wondered at Even
the most instructed physicists can do
nothing but guess as to what electric
ity Is and the only point on which
they agree is as to what it is not
There is in fact a perfect consensus
of opinion among scientific writers
that It is not a fluid I e a continuous
stream of ponderable matter as is a
liquid or a gas and that it is not a
form of energy as Is heat Outside
this limit the scientific imagination is
at liberty to roam where it listeth and
although it has used this liberty to a
considerable extent no definite result
has followed up to the present time
Academy
Licking Her Stamps
We find the following anecdotes in a
Naples paper At the postoflice yes
terday amid the large crowd gathered
around the window was a young Eng
lish lady handsome well dressed and
accompanied by her maid The young
lady had just purchased some stamps
and was about to affix them to a num
ber of letters which she held in her
hand Delicately tearing off a stamp
she said to her maid Pull sic out
your tongue And the maid with Eng
lish impassivity thrust forth her
tongue while the mistress passed over
it a postage stamp which she subse
quently stuck on a letter She went
through the entire package of letters
and for each one the obedient waiting
maid thrust out her tongue for the
mistress to moisten the stamp Curi
ous manners these English people
have
The Canon and the Lawyer
The point of the following story lies
in the important part which the three
penny bit plays in church collections
in England Canon Blank was having
a friendly game of pool at the squires
and one of his opponents was Wigsby
the barrister The canon lost a life
and took from his pocket a threepenny
piece to pay for it which he placed on
the edge of the table
Oh said Wigsby I see canon
you have had your finger in the plate
The canon drew himself up to his full
height a good six feet and lookii g
the man of the law full in the face
said Im surprised that you Mi
Wigsby in the presence of this re
spectable company have the audacity
to recognize your own paltry contribu
tion
Lamps That Talk
j Electric lamps not only can be made
to talk but also to sing An ordinary
arc light can be made to produce
sounds in two ways One is by placing
the arc in the circuit of a telephone
instead of the ordinary receiver and
the other is by placing it in the circuit
instead of the ordinary transmitter
In either of these positions It will
pronounce words which can be heard
distinctly at a considerable distance
It naturally follows also that the elec
tric arc can be utilized as the receiver
and also as the transmitter of a
The French Horn
The French horn or cor de chasse is
regarded by some musicians as the
sweetest and mellowest of all the wind
instruments In Beethovens time it
was little else than the old hunting
horn which for the convenience of the
mounted hunter was arranged in spiral
convolutions to be slipped over the
head and carried resting on one shoul
der and under the opposite arm The
Germans still call it the waldhorn
that is forest horn
Actors Superstitions
To rehearse a play on Sunday is a
sure sign that that play will not be a
success for the manager ordering the
rehearsal and that salaries will be lost
by all who so participate on the Lords
day To twirl a chair at rehearsals is
just as good as betting on a sure thing
that a fight will disrupt the friendship
of at least two members and perhaps
cause loss to the management for that
week
Tough Flour
Mrs Youngbride Ive come to com
plain of that flour you sent me
Grocer What was the matter with
it
Mrs Youngbride It was tough I
made a pie with it and it was as much
as my husband could do to cut it
Philadelphia Press
Her Cooking
She You say she won three hus
bands by her cooking
He Thats what she did
But how did she get rid of the
j bands after she won them
Oh I believe her cooking had some
thing to do with that too Yonkers
Statesman
The Motto That Suited
It would be helpful to you said
the prison visitor if you could take
some motto and try to live up to it
Thats right replied the convict
Id like to select for instance We
are here today and gone tomorrow
ITIattery is often a traffic of mutual
meanness where although both par
ties8 intend deception neither Is
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Wasnt His Hat Anyway i
Mr Weddle visiting his wifes rela
tives up in Maine fairly had to go to
church that Sunday He didnt want
to go but his wife thought it would do
him good and would be apt to preserve
the harmony of the family
The sermon was long and powder
dry and Weddle stole off into the
arms of Morpheus gently and a renely
As he did not snore his wife did not
suspect that he had gone to sleep
alongside of her and gave herself up
fully to inspecting the bonnet of the
woman In the pew in front
Like all things good and bad the
sermon came to an end at last but
Weddle slumbered on like a baby even
after a deacon began taking up the
collection in a hat When the derby
was passed to Weddle Mrs Weddle
was surprised to see that he did not
respond She nudged him violently to
bring him back to his senses and Wed
dle awakening with a start sat up
right and bewildered gazed at the hat t
in the hand of the deacon Then he
shook his head sleepily and said
No that isnt mine Mine is a gray
one New York Tribune
Hnd Nerve
Well aint that a lovely customer
I just dote on waiting on- that kind
Did you see her though The shop
girl was bubbling over with rage A
woman and her daughter had looked at
not fewer than twenty five silk waists
At last they took up one and the wom
an brought fyrth a tape measure I
think we might get it out of three and
a half yards or three and two thirds
anyhow Just wait twenty three
inches down the front three quarters
for the sleeves allow a quarter for col
lar and cuffs Yes thatll do it As
she talked she ran the tape overthe
waist the clerk standing by almost
bursting with indignation Three
yards of lace one and a quarter of in
sertion she went on measuring the
trimming Put that down Amy
Now lets go We can get up a waist
exactly like that for 750 and they
ask 1498 Theyve got their nerve
havent they New York Press
From the Theater Gallery
Mr W Pett Ridge tells in the Eng
lish Illustrated that the best repartee
he ever encountered was in the gal
lery of a theater An extremely stout
good tempered woman contrived to
wedge herself into a space that would
have accommodated a person of ordi
nary size to the unconcealed annoy
ance of a smartly dressed youth next
to her She began to peel an orange
and the youth with a gesture of com
plaint removed his silk hat fussily to
a safer position
I suppose said the good tempered
woman that youd rather have had a
gentleman sitting by the side of you
Bir wouldnt you
The youth replied snappishly in the
affirmative
Ah said the woman thoughtfully
so would I
Presence of Mind
During a performance at one of the
London theaters a man and his wife
had to quarrel on the stage the worn
an in a rage of jealousy the man try
ing to persuade her that she was too
suspicious and too passionate Both
were acting with great spirit when the
wife moved her arm too near the can
dle and her muslin dress was in flames
in an instant Both actors kept their
heads however The husband extin
guished the fire and proceeding with
his part interpolated
You see my dear I was right You
are ready to flare up at the least thing
Xot Left Out
An English paper tells a story of
some childrens theatricals A party of
children were giving a little drama of
their own in which courtships and
weddings played a leading part in the
plot While the play was in progress
one of the grownups went behind the
scenes and found a very small girl sit
ting in the cornev
Why are you left out he asked
Arent you playing too
Oh Is not left out came the reply
Is the baby waiting to be borned
Without a Rival
Printprs Tnk nnriprtnlrps tn pvnlnin
unrivaled medium of publicity It
can be said of no other medium it af
firms that it goes everywhere and is
read by everybody A certain few only
read the billboards the street car and
steamboat cards etc but the newspa
per goes into every home and is the one
supreme source of information
His Final Instructions
An old darky who was fearful of be
ing buried alive left these final instruc
tions
Atter my time come lemme stay ez
long ez possible Dont make de fu
neral sermont too long kaze dafl
make me sleep only de sounder but
blow de dinner hon over me Ef dat
dont wake me I is sho gone At
lanta Constitution
Forethought
You are probably not aware sir
said the angry father that last year
my daughter spent 1500 on her dress
Yes I am said the young man
firmly I advised her to do it over a
year ago when we first became en
gaged
The Mornings Work All Done
Mistress Is that sewer gas I smell
Servant lately arrived from Osh
kosh No maam Ive cleaned the
rooms made the beds and turned on
the gas ready for the night American
Hebrew
Still Young-
Teacher I am surprised that you are
not further advanced You are extreme
ly backward forymr age
Little Girl Yesm Mamma wants
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OSTRICH TACTICS
Blr Bird That Displayed as Mncto
Onnnlnfi us an Apache Indian
A well known hunter and taxidermist
tells this story of personal experience
in South Africa it goes far beyond dis
pelling a slander that has long clouded
the fair name of the ostrich
Arriving at one of the monster hills
of the white ant J climbed upci it and
raised mjT observation glasses to my
eyes for a careful survey of the region
My first glance showed me arising
from the dead level of the plain be
yond two objects each having the
form of a capital S These I knew
were the heads and necks of two os
triches Though I believed they had
sighted me I remained immovable un
til their necks were suddenly drawn
down to the level of the tops of the
bushes which screened their bodies
Then I knew for a certainty that they
were aware of my presence and would
make a quick retreat
Without losing an instants time I
ran to the spot where the birds had
been standing and found their tracks
i These I followed as far as they were
1 distinguishable and then took a course
which I believed the birds would nat
urally follow No sooner had I reached
the top of the ravine than I saw one of
the ostriches climbing the side hill Es
timating the distance I took sight and
fired The ball passed immediately be
tween his legs and struck in the sand
of the side hill behind him
In an instant the bird darted away
like an arrow in the direction of a
small clump of bushes in the center of
an open space That he would pause
behind this bush and then finally
emerge on the other side seemed cer
tain and I aimed to catch him as he
made a fresh start from behind the
thorn He flew over the sand at a ter
rific rate and reached the bushes Then
I waited fully five minutes for him to
emerge from his hiding with my rifle
ready sighted so that I could pull the
trigger the second he reappeared but
finally went forward to rout him out
When I reached the clump of bushes
an examination of the sand showed
that the crafty old bird had shifted his
course at a right angle making the
turn so suddenly that his feet had
plowed up the sand for a distance of
several inches This wary tact had
placed the bushes between the bird
and myself and he had made his way
to new cover while I was innocently
waiting for him on the other side of
the ambush An Apache Indian could
not have executed this maneuver more
cleverly and I smiled at myself for
having ever been foolish enough to be
lieve the traditional story of how the
silly ostrich buries his head in the
sand and believes that he is thereby
concealed Philadelphia Post
SOME WRITERS
Goldsmith wrote the Vicar of Wake-
field in six weeks It is said to have
been a story of his own recollections
Thomas Dunn English wrote Ben
Bolt in 1S43 and some fifty years later
George Du Maurier made the tender
song famous the world over
It has been mentioned as a proof of
Alexander Popes love of economy that
he wrote most of his verses on scraps
of paier and particularly on the backs
of letters
Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre was
rejected by nearly every publisher in
England before it scored one of the
greatest literary successes in the
worlds history
Whittier the poet it is reported said
to the doctors in attendance a day or
two before his death You have done
the best possible and I thank you but
it is of no use I am worn out
The poet Heine on the day after his
TWO ODD FISHES
The Changeable Pink Hind and the
Rainbow Hued Parrot Flub
The clear limpid waters that sur
round Bermuda and the Wst Indies
lie above coral reefs covered with
MEAT ONCE A DAY
rheory That Average Familys Food
Is Too Heavy For Health
Our mistakes in eating begin with
our breakfast In many families per
hnns in most this meal commences
plants and animals many of which are with fruit and cereal goes on to chops
brilliant in color as a rainbow They and potatoes hot breads and coffee ana
look like glimpses of fairyland and as concludes with griddiecakes a nc sirup
your eye wanders from one wonder to At noon when a mans stomach Is only
another you catch yourself striving to beginning to rest from all this he has
peek just around some corner into a a steak more potato bread and but
strange nook half hoping to see a ter coffee and pie while at home his
bevy of mermen and mermaids sport- wife has a slice of cold meat a cup of
ing and playing within the crannies tea and a piece of cake At night the
Here is a patch of pale green sea let- two sit down to dinner with roast beef
tuce there a group of great purple potatoes and bread and butter as the
sea fans yonder some golden corals staples of the meal
standing out like a shelf or branching Now no one but a woodchopper or a
like a tree while among them all hunter can possibly eat meat above
swim lovely fishes that take the place all red meat such as beef and mutton
of the fairies that should dwell in this three times a day without inviting
magic land and fascinate you by their uric acid to come and take up Its dwell
gorgeous colors and their graceful ing in his system Nor can he eat white
wavy motions bread potatoes and pastry day after
There is a great green parrot fish day without inviting dyspepsia One
as brilliant in color as his namesake has only to let a doctor trace back
the bird showing himself boldly and these diseases to their source to bo
swimming along slowly secure from quite certain on these points
any assault Ilis scales are green as But if we decide to give uy these
the fresh glass of springtime and each things determine to have meat and po
one is bordered by a pale blown line tatoes only once a day and red meat
His fins are pink and the end of the only once a week If we taboo pastry
tail is banded with nearly every color the starchy vegetables the white bread
of the rainbow lie is showy but this and heavy sweets what have we left
showiness serves him a good purpose for the family meals Nothing the
His flesh is bitter and poisonous to distracted housewife will exclaim de
man and probably so to other fishes as spalringly at first thought but really
well and they let hjm well alone for the matter Is not as difficult as it
they can recognize him afar off thanks seems
to his gaudy dress In planning the meals on this basis
Underneath the parrot lying on the there is first of all chicken which is
bottom is a pink hind You notice invaluable for it may be cooked in a
him and as the parrot passes over him
he suddenly changes to bright scarlet
and as quickly resumes his former
faint color Had the parrot been look
ing for liis dinner and thought the hind
would make a good first course this
sudden change of color might have
scared him off just as the sudden bris
tling of a cat makes a dog change his
mind When the hind is disturbed at
night he gives out flashes of light to
startle the intruder and send him away
in a fright Professor C L Bristol in
St Nicholas
THE HOLY CITY
Jerusalem Still Resembles a Great
Fortress of Middle Acres
Jerusalem is literally builded upon
its own heap Below the houses
courts and paved streets of the pres
ent unkempt city are the distinguisha
ble remains of eight older cities those
of Solomon Nehemiah Herod Hadri
an Constantine Omar Godfrey Sala
din Suleman writes Walter Williams
from the Holy City to his paper in Co
lumbia Mo
Jerusalem has been besieged twenty
seven times a record of vicissitude un
paralleled in the history of the worlds
ciites It has been burned sacked
razed to the ground its inhabitants of
every faith put to the sword ail the
woes uttered by its own prophets
against it have come to pass yet Jeru
salem still resembles a great fortress
of the middle ages Seen from the
Mount of Olives its massive gray
walls its flat roofed houses its
mosques and churches with their con
spicuous towers and minarets present
a marvelous picture beautiful sub
lime unfading from the picture gal
lery of the mind
The city itself has narrow dirty
streets The water supply for its 70
000 people comes in a four inch pipe
The open courts are few and small
and the houses are bunched together
with no regard for room or cleanliness
Some houses are underground and oth
ers on top of the high inclosing walls
The people are fanatical ignorant
selfish There is much to detract from
dozen different ways and seem a new
dish each time and turkey duck and
goose as well Then there are the
white meats lamb and veal fish in its
multitudinous forms there are game in
its season vegetables and fruits with
numberless varieties of soups and the
simple sweets which are made prin
cipally from milk and cream and all
forms of breads Harpers Bazar
A PLEASING FRENCH TRAIT
Love Ilctivecn Brothers n Strongly
Marked Characteristic
One of the ways in which the close
union of French family life shows it
self is the great affection of brothers
for each other There is an intimacy
between them in good and evil fortune
which one does not find in other coun
tries A brother who takes a high po
sition by his talents loses no opportuni
ty to forward the interests of one of
lesser ability or of no ability He never
treats the latter as a drag on him and
perhaps scarcely feels that he is one
Married brothers often like to live in
the same house on different floors and
to hire summer villas in close prox
imity
Most of the famous Frenchmen
whom I knew had eacli a brother to
whom he was devoted Louis and
Charles Blanc though so dissimilar in
appearance tastes disposition and
married to women who disliked each
other were morally speaking Siamese
twins until death severed the bond
The same might be said of the Garnier
Pages of Jules Favre and his brother
Leon of Ernest and Arthur Picard of
Puech the sculptor and his brother
the deputy Paul and Hippolyte Flau
drin the painters were known in their
student days as the Siamese twins It
not infrequently happens that broth
ers go into literary partnership In
stances that occur to me are the Gon
courts the Rcsnys the Marguerittes
It would be impossible to discern the
work of one of any of these brothers
from that of another What is very
curious each brother as in the case of
Charles and Louis Blanc Ernest and
Arthur Picard Jules and Leon Favre
marriage drew up a will in whicn he the ideal city but despite all this and differed strikingly in every
bequeatlied all he possessed to his wite more Jerusalem from the Mount of tic from the other The dissimilnritv
on condition that she married again
He desired he said that at least one
man should regret his death
The Arab Mothers Advice
When an Arab damsel gets married
her mother gives her the following ad
vice for securing her future happiness
You are leaving your nest to live with
a man with whose ways and habits
you are unfamiliar I advise you to
come tne absolute mistress of your
husband Be satisfied with little en
deavor to feed him well and watch
over his sleep for hunger begets an
ger and sleeplessness makes a man
crossbrained Be dumb as to his se
crets do not appear gloomy when he
is merry nor merry when he is sad
and Allah shall bless you
A Way Old Acquaintances Have
It is too bad said the visitor from
home but people who acquire wealth
are not the same to their old friends
Perhaps tlipre is a reason for that
replied Mrs Cumrox reminiscently
People who acquire wealth have feel
ings the same as any one else and
their old friends sometimes have a very
superior way of saying Humph I
1 knew them when they were as poor as
jobs turkey Washington Star
In the Melee
Attorney Did you see the plaintiff
strike the defendant
Witness Oi uid sor
Attorney And was the assault com
mitted with malice aforethought
Witness No sor it wor committed
wid a mallet behoind the ear Judge
Irrepressible
Fast ez you runs de devil out er one
town said Brother Dickey he puts
up at de bes hotel in de nex one No
body sets on him hard enough ter keep
him down Atlanta Constitution
Modern inks date back from 1798 at
which time researches of Dr Lewis
ahaVRibancourt in the chemistry of Ink
began
unves is tne same in its essential de
tails the same in the framework of its
setting the same in fascinating sug
gestion as the Jerusalem of which Da
vid sang and over which Jesus wept
Points About it Good Horse
There are some points which are val
uabie in horses of every description
to enable the head to form an angle
with the neck which gives it free mo
tion and a graceful carriage and pre
vents it bearing too heavily on the
hand The eye should be large a little
prominent and the eyelids fine and
thin The ear should be small and
erect and quick in motion The lop
ear indicates dullness and stubborn
ness When too far back there is a
disposition to mischief
Hid Her Love
Charles Dickons though he married
Catherine one of George Hogarths
three daughters in ISoO was later de
votedly attached to her sister Mary
Why he did not marry Mary in the
first place is not certainly known un
Adams Mistake
Freddie Popper what does it mean
by Adams one fatal slip
Freddies Popper Not hanging on to
that rib I guess New York Time
of the Marguerittes is so great that one
wonders how brothers could be so un
like Alphonse Daudet was not a bit
like his brother
Ernest an accom
plished novelist also London News
Xot Even a nack
In the early days of his journalistic
career Frank R Stockton was
The head should be proportionately ing with a group of newspaper men
large and well set on The lower jaw- listening to the eloquence of ore of
why the newspaper is the foremost and become uis slave if you wish to be- bones should be sufficiently far apart their number who on the strength of
burn smaii autnonty was giving his
views on higher journalism in a
pompous and bombastic manner
At the close of a sonorous period he
paused for breath when Stockton
speaking for the first time ventured
mildly to disagree with the opinion ex
pressed
Who are you to dispute me blazed
the great man Why you are only a
literary hack
Not even that responded Stockton
meekly Im only a coupe
The Souls ne Saved
The pastor called at a Columbus home
the other day where little Freddie a
bright youngster is a great pet Fred
die had previously heard his mnthor
less it be that Mary a young woman say that the pastor was very successful
of great loveliness of character had in saving souls
successfully concealed her own affec
tion for Catherines betrothed in order
to save her sister from disappointment
Percy Fitzgerald a friend of Dickens
expressed this idea in an article in
Harpers Magazine entitled Dickens
In His Books
The Exceptional Case
You say you are thankful you have
a cold
Yes answered the optimist A
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