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JNNESOTA SOLONS. oceedings of Both Branches of the Minnesota Legis lature. Tuesday Jan. 6. SENVTt he twenty-second session of the state slature met at St Paul.ond opened what mines to 4 one of the moBt exciting sea ls of that body yet held The fact that ead of twa great political parties there now three *n the legislature makes the nse oflegialaUon uncertain ""he first Dusineus wai announced as the mentation of certificates of election, en they were all in and the roll had been ed, the senators advanced to the front took the oath which binds them to the port of the constitutions of the United tea and the state and to a faithtul ormance of their duties A .recess was take, the democrats and alliance men ing together hen the senators began to gather in the moon there was great curiosity expreas i to tho effect of the Alhunce Democratic ibmation The Republicans hoped that ould not hold together, but they were taken A coalition had been formed as as a stono wall The fint business was nomination a sec retarv Mr La Due sented the name of Fred Van Dnzee of /erne Mr Barr named Hunt of ^nkoto, the two gentlemen being respec- "l\ the caucus nominees of the combina (i and the Republicans The roll call eloped the stone wall acaniHt which the uiblicans vainly butted their heads all afternoon Air YanDuzee who is very Hilar among all the parties, was successlul a vote ot 27 to 23 liter a Aery Inely dincu^sion the follow resolution oflcred by Mr Donnelly was opted -Resolved, That the standing com ttees of the senate and the senate's reselltation on all joint standing cora ttees be elected by the senate he vote stands 30 for taking the appomt nt of the committees out ol the hands of President of the Senate, and 2d against notSE. "or the prelimmui\ organization of the use Lane btone ot Ramsey county was pointed clerk pro tern and as the assis nt secretary of the state, Hermann Stock itrom, callpd the roll of members, he re ved from the members then certificates of etion Eaeh member, after delivering his tihciite passed to the right of the speak chair and was sworn in bv.Iudge Collins, the suprtme court After this formality, ne btone called the roll, and 113 mem- __rs answered to it, the one absentee being presentative McC. Reeve of Hennepin In pursuance of the agreement between Democratic and Alliance membeis John rurlongof Freeborn mo\ed 'that when nouse adjourns, it adjourn to 10 o'clock moirow morning" This was earned, It A Walsh ot Ramsey county moved that the house do now proceed to take i informal bnllot for speaker This introduced the speakership question id Representative O Turrell inquired if motion made by the member from Ram would not anticipate nominations for speaker Mr Walsh then withdrew motion, and Lomen of Ramsev oved that a formal ballot be taken foi eake This motion met with no opposi on, and the house proceeded to ballot he candidates were as previously an iunced, nameh E Searle of St Cloud the Republicans, Stivers nf Brain for the Democrats, and E Champlm Garden City for the Alliam 1 he ballot suited as lollows feearle 41, Stivers 40, Champlin 32. The suit simply displayed the htrength of ich paity in the house the Democrats =Mng the tie with the Republicans when Mc eeve is present Without further ado the onse then adjourned until 10 o'clock this ^orning when the struggle to elect a peaker will be resumed in earnest Wednesday Jan. 7 SENATE The following bills were introduced By Mr DavisAn act relating to interest nd usury By Mr PetersonAn act mak ig Milages separate election distncts and dnisting their liabilities Bv Mr. Kellar act relating to interest and usury, and _a act relation to the manu .cture of binding and sole of binding vine to prevent fraud The following committee was appointed to lvestigate the need of the senate as to fur aer officers for the senate Sanborn, Don elly, Day, Erickson, Geissel and Brown 'hey reported after a brief absence the fol )wmg vacancies to be filled Assistant enrolling clerk, assistant en roling clerk, chaplain, second assistant -^-^cretary, ergeant of the gallery (new) poat laster of the senate assistant feer_eant-at rms and cloak room keeper All ot these salaries of $5 per diem A. Swanstrom of Rt Paul wins first lace on this hlate, Poor ol Renville, econd W Ahem of Hennepin, for third ',ev Edward Savage of Cottonwood, lor ourth, McGhee of Chicago, for sixth, Conrov of Hennepin, seventh, and A .tyve of Freeborn oi eight John Scheffer of Cloud will probably be appointed as ser eant of the gallery HOISE Another day passed and the deadlock in he house still continues, the voting stiength if the three parties remaining practically ho same as on the first ballot taken for the ipeakership The fort}-one Republican epresentatives stand firmly by Frank E _oearle, the foity Democrats voting solidly or E Stneis, and the thirty thrpe Al tancemen rem aining true to E Champ in It is evident that there will be no hnnge until the Democratic and Alliance uembeis come to some agreement. Thursday Jan. 8 SENATE. Mr Day offered a resolution authorizing he secretary to purchase all supplies needed or the senate, not already contracted for by he secretary of state which was adopted inanimonsly Mr Lienau's resolution placing Messrs )onnelly, McHnle and Stevens upon a special ommittee to draft rules for the government jf the senate met with the instant disfavor if Mr Stevens who did not desne to serve ipon the committee specified. Mr Day of "airmont was substituted upon motion of xlr Tawney. and the resolution was adopted. Mr Donnelly moved to fix the salaries of loor-keepers at 3 per diem instead of $5, as eported by the committee This waB put tnd unanimously adopted. HOUSE On the ninth ballot E. Champlm was lected speaker. Just before this result was -reached Representative H. Stivers, the democratic candidate lor speaker, arose and _jaid "Recognizing the necessity for break ngthe deadlock, 1 withdraw my candidacy nfnvorof Mr Champlm of Blue Earth" This announcement was received with loud ipplauee, and the taking of the ninth, and, is iB pr oved, the ballot resulted a fol- OW Champlmfinal Allianc candidates 7 2 rotes, E Searle, Republican 41 votes. Friday Jan, 9 At 1010 of the senate chamber clock yes terday President Ives'gavel called the mem bers to tbeir chairs, and Rev. William Wil kinson ot Minneapolis led in praver Im mediately alter roll call Mr Dean of St Paul was recognized by the chair and spoke it length defense of the Republican iniar iianship of state lunda. This was in reply to Mr Donnelly's accusation of Thursday iinon which he asserted that the Repub licans had nearlv bankrupted the state Mr Dean declared that the state's money had -Seen well taken care of by his party and wisely expended, and that by the first day jf next February there would be $700,000 to the credit.! the State of Minnesota. ,4 til' fji.*: &T***Z!!&* am Mr. Donnelly replied that he was not so sure of this state of things, and trusted a committee would be appointed later to look into the matter. Mr. Wood (Alliance) moved to recon sider the resolution appointing superin tendents of tho committee rooms. He liad voted against such appointments under a misconception. Mr. Donnelly showed the members the danger ot losing important documents if the committee rooms were lett unattended in the absence of commit tees. By this time the hands ot the clock indicated 10 30, the hour at which the special order ot business was to be taken up, on Mr. Leavitt's amendment, changing the hour from 3 p. HI. Thursday to 10 30 a. na. on Friday. John Dav Smith of Hennepin sent to the secretary's desk a lull list ot the standing committees as agreed upon by the Republi can caucus, and moved that every commit tee should elect its own chairman. Upon moving that the list ot committees as re ported "be appointed The house was called to order at 10 o'clock, before the Republicans had quite completed the business ot their caucus. The newly elected speaker mounted the ros trum exactly on time and proceeded af calmly to business as though to the manor born. The proceedings of the morning ses sion proved to be exceedingly dull, consist ing ol a series ot roll calls, which inevita bly resulted in the Alliance-Democratic nominees receiving about tvvo-tlmds ot the votes of the members The Democrat and A'hance candidates were the same as those agreed upon at the caucus the previous evening, and they were carried through without a break A second motion was passed to the effect thai the clerk of the house ofhually inform the senate that the house had been organ i with tlie follown% officers (Jhict CleikP. Smalley, Caledonia First Assistant ClerkEd O'Brien, Hen nepin becond Assistant ClerkC A. Moody, Benson Enrolling ClerkC. Haynes, Wabasha. Assistant Enrolling ClerkL A. Nor ma ndera, Ramsey Engrossing ClerkAlbert Wanen, Lin coln Sergeant-it innsHenry Plowman, Ot ter I ail Assistant Scrgcant-at-ArmsE. E Egan, Hennepin ChaplainRev. William Wilkinson,Hen nepin Before the committee appointed to notify the governor departed on its errand, Mr Searle asked that the time for the house meeting again a ter adjournment be fixed so that the governor might be notilied hen the house would be in readiness to hear the message He thereiore moved That when the house adjourns, it ad journ until Tuesday next at 3 o'clock in the afternoon He thought the adoption of this would give the speaker ample time to prepare his committees and aid in expediting business. The motion on the suggestion ot Mr. Feig was changed to read "4 o'clock" instead ot 6 o'ciock. The American Girl Kate Field's Washirgton. The maid ns of other lands have two distinct educati /Ps They are first given the training of the jeunnefille, which is essentially a knowl edge of the world as it is not. This is sup posed to last them until they are mame'd, or are definitely beyond any probability of matrimony, when they take their post giaduate course in life as it really is. If lasted for a thousand years, this ar rangement would be a little less wicked and wasteful, but to take out of the brief span of three-score years and ten the time lor two distinct educations, encourages verv little hope for thoroughness in either With the American girl, however, all this is changed She does not suffer the humiliation of seeing literature, the drama, and even society itself in expurgated edi tions, carefully adapted to the purityand povertyot her mental constitution. She is not surrounded ou every side by pleas ures winch she is forbidden to enjoy, or oiced to live, move and have her being wholly under the wing of a chaperone. Her delicacy and good sense are taken for granted, and, before she is scarcely in her teens, she begins to regulate her own life in all minor matters, taking up her responsi bilities one at a time as she is able to bear them, instead of leaving them to De as sumed in a bunch at the altar The result ot this national method ,in anything so negative can be called a meth od, has been to prod ace a singularly indi vidual and self-reliant sort of young wom an, who is a refreshing satire upon all pre vious ideas of womanly excellence. She has proved that she can be feminine with out being lcnorant, that she may be at the same time charming and sensible, and tnat to be virtuous she need not be a fool. In a vague way she is perfectly conscious that she is an important factor in a knottvsocio logical problem, and takes daily delight in proving that a woman's field ot knowledge and action is defined by her own abilities and not by a sot of arbitrary rules. Now it happens sometimes that the verv quality which is the greatest charm of the American girl becomes her chief reproach Her lannliarity with the world and her habit of managing her own affairs nave given rise to a sort of manner which her admirers call "poise" and "assurance." and her detractors are very likely to speak ot as opinionated and swaggering Inere is a little unreasonableness here on both sides It is ridiculous for the world to ex pect from a young woman brought up al most exactly in the same way as her brother the sort ot behavior which the last genera tion called "maidenly." It the modern young woman succeeds in preserving the de erence always becoming in the attitude ot youth toward age, of experience toward mci-pcrienoe, she may congratulate herself upon having done her duty very fairly. mm Fish Roosts Forest and Streams Your correspon dent "Isaac, Jr," describes how fishing grounds were made in a lake in Missouri which he calls a cropple roost. In Penn sv Kama there is a lake containing Wack bass and other fish All the land surround ing the lake is cultivated, and there no stiearns flowing into or fiom it, being en tirely spring water. There is no refuge or shelter loi the fish and for some time 1 ate ly the fishing has been unsatisfactory, the fi*h could not be lou id, they were appar ently scattered. On one side of the lake there was a clump of small willows, which during the winter were cut off and thrown on the ice as the easiest way of getting ot them. When the ice broke up in the spring, the wind carried the ice and branches to the lower end of the lake, where th latter were dropped on the bot tom together in one mass, about fifty leet J" diameter, in about filteen feet of water ine branches were soon covered with ani nialciilaj and spawn, and they have made the best fishing grounds in the lake. A dozen black bass were caught out of the brush, while others near by not knowing the reason were unable to get a fish. I send you this with the hope that it may cause those who would be interested in a 'fish roost, during the proper season lor fishing, to exert themselves a little with the hand axe at this the proper season for its use thinking the pleasure thev will give themselves and others this "season of good will, in addition to making a leedmz place for the fish. Four hours' active exercise in the opeh air as one way to break up a fresh cold is a sensible prescription. Such aeration re lieves the air passages ot the obstructions which clog them, and the exercise sets the blood in vigorous motion through tue veins. *iA THE HUT IN THE PJRAIRIE A N INEXPLICABLE ADVENTURE O N TEXAN WILDS. True story of What Happeaed t a Elder &earchlntr for a Righto ShelterTho Occupants of th* Lonely House to Which the Guide Led ffta. I checked my horse, and after one long-, straining look around owned to myself that I wa9 lost I had suspect ed the fact some time since, though my horse evidently realized. With patient endurance he plodded along, resignation plainly expressed in the droop of his tail and ears. Now that the sun was gone, I found my knowledge of the point of the compass gone with it As I sa per plexed and worried the gloom of twilight gathered fast and the chill of coming rain smote me through and through, while in the distance there was the roll of thunder. My horse strode on of his own accord, and hop ing that his instinct would lead us to some house, I let him have his will. Presently it began to rain. Of course I did not mind a little rain, but the prospect of spending the entire night exposed to it was anything but agreeable, and I grew really violent in denunciation of the folly which had led me, an utter stranger in the country, to attempt to find anything less than a volcano in aotive eruption on a Texas prairie. It was now quite dark, and very dark at that, though at short intervals close to the horizon a faint gleam of lightning showed, too distant to cast brightness on my path and only sufficient to intensify the blackness about me. All at once I saw a man walking about fifteen feet in front of me. Yes, I know I said it was intensely dark, but all the same, I repeat it, I saw a man walking in front of me, and fur thermore I could see that he was a large man, dressed in rough, but well fitting clothes that he wore a heavy, red beard, and that he looked back at me from time to time with an expres sion of keen anxiety on his otherwise rather fixed features. "Hallo!" I cried, but as he did not halt I concluded he did not hear me. As a second hail produced no result I spurred my weary horse up to over take the stranger. But though the gray responded with an alacrity most commendable under the circumstances, I soon found that this strange pedes trian did not intend to let me catch up with him. Not that he hurried him self. He seemed without any exertion to keep a good fifteen feet between us. Then I began to wonder how, with the intense darkness shutting me in as four black walls, I was yet able to see my strange companion so clearly, to take in the details of his dress, and even the expression of his face, and that at a distance more than twice my horse's length when I could hardly see his head before me. I am not given to superstitious fancies, and my only feeling was of curiosity. When after attempt after attempt to Overtake the stranger had failed, I took mercy on my jaded horse, and resolved to follow my unsociable guide as he must have some definite destination. We went on in silence for nearly half an hour, when as suddenly as he had appeared he was gone. I looked around for him, half afraid from his instant and complete disappearance that I had been dreaming, when I perceived that I was close to a small, low building of some sort I reined in and shouted several times, but not the slightest response could I hear, and at last I rode boldly up and tapped on the wall with the butt of my riding whip. Then, as this elicited no sign of life, I concluded that I had stumbled on some deserted house, or that it was the abode of my eccentric friend, so dismounting and tying the gray I re solved to spend the rest of the night under a roof or to find some good rea son for continuing my journey. I felt my way along the wall till I reached a door, and trying this and finding that it yielded to me I stepped inside, striking a match as I did so. Fortu nately I carried my matches in an air tight case, and as it was dry the one I struck gave me a light at once. I found myself in a large room close to a fireplace, over which a rude shelf was placed, and on this mantel I saw an oil lamp, to which I applied my match as I looked about me. On the hearth was heaped a quantity of ashes and over these crouched a child, a little girl of 5 or 6. At the other end of the room, which was plainly and scantily furnished, lay a man across the bed, and as I raised the lamp I saw that he was the same I had been following, but there was something in his attitude and face that struck me as peculiar, and I was about to go forward and look at him, when the child who had at first seemed dazed at the light fairly threw herself upon me. 'Have you anything for Nelly to eatP" she said, and then began to crv. "Oh, Nelly so hungry!" I ran my hand into my pocket and drew forth what had, been a paper bag of chocolate candy, but was now a pulpy unappetizing mass. I must con fess to a childish fondness for sweets, which I usually carry in some form about me. I handed the remains of my day's supply to the child and then walked over to the bed. Yes, it was the same man, red beard, rough clothes, but setting off the magnificent frame to perfection? the sanw man, but dead, long dead. I took his hand only to find it stiff and cold, while his face had the doll gray aspect never seen in the newly dead. As I stood gazing down on him, a little h^nd touohed mine. "Nelly so hungry!" said the child. "Have yon eaten all the candy?" asked her, 'Yes, yes! But me hungry, for me had no dinner, no brekkus, no supper, and papa won't get up." The house, which consisted of the large room, a smaller kitchen and a shed, where I found a quantity of bay and fodder, seemed quite bare of food, but by dint of searching in the hay I discovered a nest, which Nellie in formed me was there, and in it two fresh eggs. These I boiled for her. When she had finished I soothed her to sleep on a bed I made for her before the fire. Then after I had put my horse in the shed room and fed and watered him I performed as well us I could a service for the dead. When day dawned 1 was able to discern at some distance from the house a line of telegraph poles, and taking the child with me I followed these to the nearest town, where I notified the authorities of the death. The dead man's name was Frederick Barnstaple He was an Englishman, so 1 found, a recent arrival in those part". His daughter was restored to her family across the water, and is now a pretty gu-l of 17. I have never told this story before, bu 11 am ready, to take an affidavit to its truth. It all happened about thirty miles frorr Dallas. A Strange Dual "Do you see that tall man standing there?" asked the colonel "Notice how he brushes his hair forward on the sides, as some Englishmen do. One of these locks hides a scar which bears eloquent testimony to a narrow escape from death." "Thirty years ago he was a deputy marshal in Nevada. He started out one day to arrest a gambler who had killed a man over a game of cards. The gambler knew that the marshal was seeking him, but, with cool effrontery, w.tlked about the streets all day. Johnthat is the deputy marshalheard that the man he want ed was in a well-known bar-room. He set out for the place, and carelessly walked boldly into the room. He had not crossed tho threshold when he found himself looking into the barrets of a 4six-shooter. Come, Hardy,'he said, 4 4 4 4 4 this won't do. I've come to get you and I want you.' 4See here, John,' said the gambler, 'I don't want to kill you, but won't let any man arrest me. Go away and let me alone.' 4 4 4 No I want you,' said the marshal, quietly. Put down the six-shooter and come with me.' *4 Til see you shot first,' said Hardy.can't 4I 4 4 4I help that,' said the other. must have you. Now, you have the drop on me, but you must come with me4o4r kill mewancoltd in blood. I don't kill you, said 4 Hardy. 'John put downbe your gun. I won't arrested. Don't toucn me. I don't want to man without 4if tshoot cause.it, Tve got to do Hardy 4 4 4 4 a 'See here, said the gambler, turn- ing white, you move a foot I'll kill you, but I hate to be a coward. That was fair and square last night We both pulled together. The marshal shook his head. 4 4 Ti do one thing John, Hardy wen't on. Til back up to that wall. You'll back up to the other. I'll draw my revolver to my hip and you can draw yours. Then it's the best mau.' "The Marshal moved backward to the wall and hardy did the same. Then the Marshal drew his revolver and held it at his side muzzle down. All this time Hardy had kept his weapon levjeled at the Marshal. Slow ly his arm sank until his weapon touched the seam of his trousers. "Both men were perfectly calm and immovable, the Marshal determined looking, gambler still pale. 'Nowthe John, said Hardy In 4 4 stantly both weapons went up. It was all over so quickly that both men went on the floor together. But Hardy had fired too soon. His ball went at an upward angle and grazed the Mar shal's temple, but the Marshal had sent his bullet straight into Hardy's heart and there was no need to arrest the gambler."Anaconda Standard. Not a New Thing. The thief is not a thing of recent date. As early as the year 1187 bolts and bars and padlocks had to be in vented to offset his predatory cunning, and even when the stealing of a shill ing's worth of bread was a hanging offense in England that country had more thieves than she has got to-day. Not in Spanish The New York Telegram, in com menting on the fact that few or no Spaniards ever naturalize or take the least interest in politics, says it is be cause every one of them expects to re turn to Spain and die there. They are akin to the Chinese in that hope. i The Orank. A crank is a man who has an idea that other people do not comprehend., Western' Rural. SOME SUPERSTITIONS. Everybody Ha Wesfc Potato l the Ida* af tfct Weakness. 4'I have no patience with gupertU- tious people, 'T cently. tion. I used to believe, when I was a Country People Fade Early It is an observation of mine that people "grow old" in the country at a much earlier age than in the city, says "Amber," of the Chicago Herald. They have no way of forgetting them selves and keeping the heart young. Their life is a daily routine and it grinds on in the same rut. The only variety that is thrown in is the kind and vivid interest taken in their pri vate affairs by their neighb^s. An mmmmm said a Chicago man re 4 'There is nothing in supersti- boy, that it was good luck to soe the new moon over my right shoulder, anal that the evil one would pursue me for get along another day without her a month if I saw it first over my left. And after I was grown and circum stances had knocked nonsense and superstition out of me I still felt more comfortable not to start on a journey on Friday, but several railroad smash ups used up the one remaining "What are you doing! Don't open that umbrella in the house!" There were six or seven sitting around the grate, and out in the hall was a gentleman preparing to leave. He opened his umbrella to show the hostess the beauties of the light and slender wire stem. As this command floated out to him his astonished look was equaled by the shout that went up from the fireside. As he came in for an explanation, the speaker said. "Well, that is really the only super stition I have left, but I do think it is flying in the face of providence to open an umbrella in the house." Then it developed that every one of those sensible, sedate men of exper ience had some one thing that meant to him an omen ot good or ill. Yet each scorned the idea of superstition. It was "habit" with most of them. One gentleman present said that he always in disrobing placed his shoes on the same spot and about in the same position as if he was standing in themheels together and toes out. If by any chance this was neglected he could not get to sleep until he arose and arranged his representatives. Another one for over twenty years had carried a thin, flat pocketbook in his hip pocket that bad belonged to his father. He never used it, but the pocketbook was always changed with his trousers. At times, in forgetting it, he had neglected important business to return for it He never carries any thing else in the pocket with it. A lady said one indication of something out of the usual happening to her was, in dressing, to get something on with the wrong side out It did not always mean bad luck. Sometimes, though annoving, it would turn out to be an extraordinary bit of good luck. The omen never failed, notwiths^nding that she never allowed herself the comforting discomfort of wishing and wearing the garment through the day, loyal to the mistake and the old idea of protection against the hoodoo. Then another of the parly took a silver coin out of his pocket and said he had carried it nearly twenty years, and would be much annoyed if he lost it, but of course it is only association. A gentleman who up to this time had listened, without adding to the symposium, said "Well, I know that I am not at all superstitious, but there are some peculiar coincidents in a man's life. Three or four years ago an acquaint ance of mine gave me a poker chip, and said. Tut it in your pocket and carry it for luck.' I put it in my pocket with my silver, not for luck, but carelessly carried it up to six months ago, when it disappeared. Ot course there is nothing in it, but from the time that piece of ivory went into my pocket everything went against me. I lost thousands of dollars. About six months ago things took a turn. The poker chip had nothing to do with it, but I don't want any more of them mixed up with my silver. vat atiair by their neighbor Boston Traveler. interest that has no tendency lease?' the lines of care in the face nor fresh en up the heart It is no use trying to forget that years are slipping by, in innocent amusement, because some hind friend stands by to remind them that they are getting too old for such frivolity, and respect for the opinions of those who lack the courage to do the same thing, crowds them down into the worn-out groove again. A woman of forty-five in a country town, is old, and settled into the place carved out by others. In the city a woman of that age, passes for ten years younger, and thoroughly enjoys every minute of her lira She under stands that perfect health means exercise of tho mind as well as the body, and she interests hetself in the many things that have been neglected in the years, when the children were small and needed her attention. She has made a study also of preserv ing her good looks and making the most of them. Something In It The theory that a vicious man cwt be told by the shape of his head has been laughed at, but out of 400 dia grams of bad men's heads taken by the warden of Johet only a very few closely fit tho diagrams of visitor's head9. Nearly all murderers have the same shaped uraniums, no matter how much their faces differ. Vr -f fe*f* I tie Got rfis Trunk. He entered tbe "lost" baggage room with a truculent air, says the New York Tribune, and remarked angrily: "Now, I'm not going to wait any longer for that trunk or come here again to find it. My wife cannot sealski" sacque, so I shall go and buy her another at once and you must pay font. Her diamond ear rings, tooI shall be unable to match them, I am sure, at any cost, and what can your dirty money do toward restoring my father's gold medals awarded him for personal acts of bravery on the fields of bat tle? It's a shame, sir, that the care lessness of the employes of the road has cost me so serious a loss, not to mention the time I have spent in running after you to demand my trunk or its equivalent. Now when will you settle up? Five hundred dollars is the figure, and I will not take one cent less!" and his voice rose almost to a scream as he stamp ed on the floor in his indignation. "What did you say the number of your check was?'' asked the imper turbable official. "You've asked me that, sir, at least twice every time I have called here to demand my trunk!" shouted the aggrieved traveler. 4 1 should think that you would get to remem ber it after awhile. It is 640,616, and dont you forget it!" "We have no trunk with a corres ponding check on," returned the baggage-master, but there are a number of boxes that were hauled out of the wreck up the road last night, in a slightly damaged con dition, that are coming in now. Wait a minute, yours may be among,them "No such good luck," growled the injured man, but he turned and scanned with some anxiety the load of trunks being wheeled in. "No. 940,616!" shouted the bag gage-master, as he hauled down the battered box. "Here you are, sir! Sorry to say the lock has been smashed off and the cover knocked corner-ways. But I dare say the sealskin, and diamonds and medals are all safe," and he lifted the lid. "Stop that'" yelled the owner, as he got red in the face. "How dare you open my trunk, sir?" But the baggage-master was too quickfor him, and whisked off the top of the contents a soiled linen duster, displaying underneath a pair of long leather boots, some celluloid cuffs, a patent clothes-wringer, and a bundle of circulars expatiating ou the vir tues of the latter. Only this and nothing more. "Why, you lying began the baggagemaster, as he turned on the claimant, but the man was gone. Next day a boy came with a check for the trunk and carried it away on his shoulder. a--i An Extraordinary Monomania. Boston Journal. An extraordinary case of mono mania has been developed at Vienna. A baker's assistant there has stolen no less than 646 pocket handker 2hiefs, not for their value but be cause an irresistible longing to pos sess them has prompted him to do JO. He never sold them, but used to ^arry some about with himconstant- y. He was first punished in 1883, when he was condemned to a fort aight's imprisonment for stealing twenty-seven pocket handkerchiefs. Be was sentenced to the same pen alty, three years later for a similar affense but the police, instead of aanding him over to tbe jailer, sent aim to the hospital to have his men-' fcal condition examined. The doc tors declared him to be suffering from acute monomania. He says that when he sees a lady's handker chief hanging out of her pocket he 2an not help taking it. Senator Berry's Elopement, Senator 8errin of Arkansas, who is Berr S bis second term, was a poor boy dfld as ignorant as he was poor. In young manhood he made an earnest effort to rub off the rough corners by hard study, and through pluck and enterprise laid the foun dation of future prosperity. He was forced to steal the woman he loved through a second-story window in the night, but the father-in-law would never let him enter his home through all the years that he was a teacher, lawyer, legislator and judge, but when he became governor of Arkansas he wrote him as follows: "My daughter was a better judge of men than I. Forgive me, and dur ing your administration, whenever you want to slip away from the cap ital to enjoy a brief respite from the carea of state, I do not invite, but beg you to make my country house your home." Billy, William, and Will. Haven't you always noticed, asks a New York Truth writer, that men who are called "Billy" are generally pretty good sort of fellows, open, handed, generous, and light-hearted? If a man is called William, he is gen erally one who gets little enjoyment out of life. "Will" is usally heard when we are speaking to or of a fellow who is as steady as one of the pillars that upheld tho Parthenon. te^fe& nJ ml fa&^4^ amtoMBto o*