THE COURIER.
He I'm in love with you.
She Well, you're in good company.
tonight pa;
"George is coming to call
do you mind?"
"I'm not kicking now, but
when he comes."
"The girls nowadays are worldly crea
tures indeed?'
"I don't tind them 60. Where did you
get the idea they were?"
"You know that all the world loves a
lover.'
is a wonderful intelligence outside of
the physical body of Dr. Cooke which
should like to paint your annihilates space and accomplishes ap
parent impossibilities. But about that
Artist I
wife.
Husband It
isn't necessary; she at-
tends to that.
Ned Do you feel encouraged?
Ted Yes. She's not wearing as many
engagement rings as she used to.
Brown You don't look well.
Jones I don't want to look well; if I
looked well my wife would think I could
work.
me spirit 01 mortal man mav communi-
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has now cate with the spirit of departed man is
broken all records. No one before her something that the great Dr. Cooke will
ever occupied the English throne for so fully demonstrate the various methods
long a period. Henry III., Edward III, employed by such renowned spirit
George III, ard Henry VI, whose reigns mediums ad Maud Lord. Mrs. Huffman,
had been or great length, were distanced Professor Taylor, Richard Bishop, Dr.
on the 23rd of September when Queen Arnold and others in plain open light,
Victoria passed the mile stone which and every-poseible means will be used
marked the extent of her grandfather' to enlighten the audience. A small ad
reign. Her Majesty will not complete mission fee will be charged. At the
her sixtieth year of queenship until June
next; when, if all goes well, there will be
throughout her world encircling Empire
a celebration befitting an occasion sr
ausnicious and unique. The prayer of
the national anthem has been answered
a much more general disposition to cry
amen to its sturdy petitions than there
was when she came to the throne. Eng
land has had sixty years of her sover
eignty, and iB not satisfied, but asks for
more. She will never have a better
sovereign, nor one whose reign will
leave a more dazzling record in the an
nals of the race. The English have in
deed grown 60 accustomed to think of
their monarch as the queen, that it wil
be awkwaid when the time comes to
speak once again of the king. England
has prospered so well under its female
- i r;
soverigns that many are disposed to
think it would be well if she could have
no other. Of course no one seriously
thinks of passing such an inverted
Salic law; but so great is the force of
use and wont, and so much more splen
did have been the national achievements
under Queen Elizabeth, Anne and Vic
toria than under the kings, that there
would be a distinct sense of satisfaction
experienced if It tould be decreed by
the fates that for the English throne in
the future no man need apply.
Editor I suppose you think your
poems will fill a long felt want.
Poet No. If I did I would eat them.
Miss Antique Are you quick to take
a hint? t
Young Harum Scarum Yes, very.
"What would you do if should turn
down the gas?"'
"Call for help."
He My love for" you is like the
boundless ocean.
She I don't doubt it; it makes me
sick.
"What was the crime of 73, pa? '
"I married your mother that year."
,",,
"Stop," cried the old maid as the
burglar made for tho window.
"Can't," he replied, "I am a married
man."
e
Polly What is th most up-to-date
thing in garters?
Mary I am.
DrCooko and other noted mediums
will give a seance for the purpose of
demonstrating spirit power in full gas
light. Dr. Cooke is a mysterious being
who has mystified tho world by his sup
I shall be erhuman power. He apparently defies
all laws natural and spiritual, and pro
duces evidence which convinco tho be
liever and unbeliever. The manifesta
tions which take place in his presence,
have been submitted to the cool bright
steel of scientific minds which admit
nothing but facts. All admit that there
there is a diversity of opinion. Some
believe it is the spirit of the dead. The
veil is drawn so that all may have an
insight into the spirit world and see
many things that are strange and start
ling. Scientific men have believed that
there was a grain of essential truth in
the claims of spiritualism more on ac
count of the want of a reason for deny
ing it than for any other reason. The
idea that under some strange condition
unke Sunday night
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