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The ffitRENADA 4 n 'Â A* OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE OF CRENADA COUNTY. VOL. 1V.-NO. 26. GRENADA, MISS., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY lb \m, I GOODS FROM ci^Tci^rnsr^i.'TX. Queen City Club, Spring Water, Billy Moore, . Joksfoorni Old Stud. BUM Ladd & Heath, Sole Agents _ Satisfaction Guaranteed In every Instance. ALCOHOL IN ANY QUANTITY. JUGS FREE.^flf B. H. GORDON ! »DEALER IN Choice Staple and Fancy oceries, Canned Goods, Candies, Cigars and Tobacco Goods Delivered in any part of the City Free of Charge, 5. FJ. LcI@!(FOLiD, SOUTH Side Square, : Grenada, flhsa. ssazjsb ar Fins Watches, Clod;^ Silverware AND «JEWELRY. Impairing op Fine Batches a Specialty J. F. MOSS, rtr Staple qxlcL STarLc^r I Cigars, Tobacco, Canned Goods, CarLd.iG9, ZFrvLit®, ^Tiats, Etc. EEPOÏ ITBBET. «.EB1IASA, MISS. Money to Loan! OiT IMPROVED FARMS Containing not less than Eighty Acres, in cultivation. From 3 to 7 years, at ten pei cent, per annum. No shipments of Cotton App., to Tm 2=a3rno. Illinois Central R. R. THE POP VU A R Through <Dar Line BETVVYEN THE North and South. Buffet Sleeping Cars on all the Through Trains. Connections at Chicago with all Bu ffet and Dining Car Lines TO TUB North, East and West At St. Louis, in Union Depot, for all POINTS NORTH AND WEST. At New Orleans with Southern Pa elüo for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. With L. à N. for Mobile, Montgom ery, Jacksonville, Fla.,and all points in the South East, #. W. Coleman, A. G. P. A.,.New Orleans ... Chicago A. H. Hanson, O. P. A.,. T. J. Hudson, Traffic Manager,. R. T. Jeffery, General Manager,. Granite, American -AND-* TOMBSTONES! Of every Imaginable design and at almost every price, from $2 up These Gravestones and Monuments are mads of tli# very best Marble, by tompetont workmen, and present a bandsoms finish. I am prepared to supply the public with monuments of any description, at prices below thogs «de red by any 9tbar agency. Respectfully, N. a KOOK LOUISVILLE, New Orleans «Texas railway. (MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ROUTS) THEPOPULARLINE -BETWEEN Memphis, Greenvtlle, Vieksburg, Baton Rouge and Mew Orleans. TRAVERSING A MAGNIFICENT AND EVEN PICTURESQUE COUNTRY. Th« Rice nd Sugar Mentation« And great massive Sugar Houses and Refineries south of Baton Rouge ars especially interesting and never patl to please the observant pees enger. Between Memphis and Vicksburg the llm passes through some of the flues t Cot tot Plantations In the Yaxoo-Mlmlsslppl Delte^ the most fertile agricultural section ofoou» try en earth. The Equipment and Physio a! Condition el the line are flrst-elaae la every particular permitting a high rate of speed and Insuring the comfort and safety of passengers. Magnificent Pullman Buffet Bleeping Can run between Loulav and New Orleans via Memphis without change. Passengers should purchase Tickets via this line I It ie emphatically the most attrae* tlve route la the Booth to-day. , For Time Tablai, Map«, Fold« ri. and Price « Tickets, Hdilrcn, Oen'l. Tray. Pus. Axant, Memphis. Tcnn. « P. K. Roorrs, ass'I. G. P. A. P B. MAURY, fa. K. W. How, Orn'I. Paw. Aft J. M. KDWARDH, Vice-Pres. A Gen'I. Mnn'xr., Memphis, Ten, -? 0. J. Austin à Co. have a very large (took of misées' and childrens 1 Double-Knee Stockings, the beef manufactured, at astoolefeingiy iaw ,4 A FRIEND, LADS, A FRIEND." Of all tho good gifts that ln royallest measure Drop down to the earth from the beautiful skies, A friend, lads, a friend is the fittest to treas ure— A friend with a soul In his straight-looking eyes; 1 one, a dear one, a sterling and sound one, Scarce twice !s ho found in our life's working day; Thank God with rejoloinglf only you've found A near And lovo him and keep him for over and aye. Ah. comrades enow (be It said with decorum) You'll get for the asking lu hamluts and towns, Who uayly will empty the glasses you pour And laugh at your saTlios and borrow crowns. But those jolly birds your of volatile feather; They fly with tho autumn and come with tho spring, If clouds ■ presaging a change in the weather, They'll bid you good-bve with <» • A friend, lnds. God bless him! warm-hearted, stout-handed, He's loving and loyal and always the same: cl candid— You prize his approval, you shrink from his blame. He'll laugh at your stdo when the Maytl shining. Hut closer ho'll draw on the storm-beaten way ; ne's like the old coat with tho honest warm lining— You And out his worth in the winterly day. —Frederick Langbridge. Rut still to your follies he's open is THE CLUTTERBY WEDDING. Not as Pro8onfe»able an Affair as Was Anticipated. "Of course we'll invite the Bigbeos?" said Julia Cluttorby. Sho hold a pon cil in her chubby fingers, and a list of names lay boforo her. "Well, I Lordly Cluttorby; "they are poor as Job's tur key, you know," reflectively. "But they have such exquisite taste, and dross like fashion plates," remon strated tho daughter, "one likes to j have stylish-looking people at one's wedding. " "And they would pawn their old shoes rather than not bring a present," said Mrs. Clutterby, still reflectively. "I declare it's enough to make one laugh to see how ridiculously poor and how absurdly proud they are. One can see a mile off that every rag they wear has been turned and made over a dozen timos, and yet they wouldn't carry a little parcel home from a store for tho world. Well, yes, have the Bigbeos, though 1 presume they'll go on mush and molasses a week to pay for tho present." uuvfR: ir&nuy; "mere s tue Cottrells. ' "Tiio Cottrells! You know, child, they always carry bangle-boards or pin-cushions. " "Which I am supplied with for the next generation," and Miss Julia's plump shoulders shrugged suggestive ly. arguing oblivion for the Cottrells, so far as the wedding was concerned. "Sentiment and pin-cushions are all very well for every-day affairs, but one doesn't got married every day In a week. Captain Parmaloe?" "Yes, of course," Mrs. Clutterby be came all animation. "He can't decent ly do less than a French clock on his income." "If thcro is any thing which I could survive having a variety of its clocks," said Miss Julia. "There are such love ly designs this year that I would like ono in each room." "Suppose you mention in an artless way how you dote on clocks in Captain Parraalee's presence, suggested the mother, craftily. Her sex hud spoiled her for a diplomatic position in the nation, hence her tal ents wero confined to the home and social circle. "Oh, ma!" and Miss Julia giggled outright, putting tho hint away in her memory nevertheless. "What a plot tor you arc. " Tho mother smiled complacently, evidently taking the remark as a com pliment "Have you put down the Allens?" "No, ma; they are so horribly vul gar. Mrs. Allen is always saying; 'La, sue,' at every thing, and the sight of those four girls ranged along the wall in a graduated way makes mo nervous. " "But they have such an allowance, and are so tickled at being invited out, that each one makes a separate spread by herself." "Just think of tho Allen name five times repeated in tho list of wedding gifts," and Julia rolled up her oyes in much despair; "but just as you please, mother, though I know I shall giggle if I catch a glimpse of thorn during the evening." "I will take care that they are seated in convenient obscurity," and the ma ternal head nodded sagaciously, "and a few of their names might be accident ally omitted from the list." And so the makingmp process went on, and the Clutterby wedding was evi dently to be a strictly present-able af fair. a..5r1 Mfj. If n nur for for instance," old to n on all to me a Miss Jitlin Clutterby was naturally an amible and thorougly nieo girl, hnd sho not hnd tho rnlsfortuno to bo hor mother's only daughter. Mrs. Clutterby, n selfish nnd arti ficial woman, reminded her acquaint ances of an old hen with one chicken In her superabundance of cluck and fuss. Julia was sont to a fashionable school, and tho burden of Mrs. Clut torby's conversation became; "My daughter is at Madame B. 's this year —the finest school in the State (ruffling her foathers). "In what rospectP" asks a listener with a sincere desire for knowledge, "Oh—ah— or— why, my daughter goes there." (Clincher.) Miss Cluttorby took oil painting. Mrs. Cluttorby, looking at ing in a friend's house, should see some of Julia's painting. Mrs. Oliver. Such taste in color and design." (Cluck, cluck.) Julia came home at vacation and a friend calls. "Como, my dear, show Mrs. Melville how beautiful play (cluck, cluck). Julia obeys. "Isn't that perfectly lovely, Mrs. Mel ville?'' (rapturous cackle) and soon. Through all the details of her exist ence Julia seemed to be the pivot on which Mrs. Clutterby's thought ran. and it is not to be wondered at that the wedding of the one chicken should be a phenomenal affair. match-making mamma, and she had angled in waters deep and »hallow for Julia, but with such a bare hook that the fish had invariably flopped off and returned to their native element, until Miss Julia, in despair of reaching a satisfactory settlement under her moth er's wing, had the good sense to leave the home coop and do a little scratch ing for herself, c make a dear friend a summer visit, and by this means sho in# a very presentable üsh. '1 rue he was not a whale, either financially or socially, but a good enough young man with was as desperately in love, as she had ! been with ten or a dozen more eligible | predecessors, who might have c proposing point had not Miss Cluttorby been so anxious to sav "Vos.'' Mrs. Clutterby was delighted. Any one who had good Liste and sound sense onough to love her Julia com mended himself to her without further qualification, and if hie had any mis givings in regard to wealth! she hid them skillfully under a tremen dous flutling and bridling over the wodding arrangements, which she cal culatod wij^h a view to bringing in th" greatest possible returns for the least expenditure. Like the proverbial ostrich which | hides its head in the sand. Mrs. Clut "Ah, you in other words, to wooded in hook horn Julia ■1 station j I terby imagined that no one but hersolf ■ioty is lynx- : eyed, and tho air was thick with sly; hints and knowing remarks as tho ! time drew near. :ouId know this, but : "(roing to tho Clutterby old chappie?" and Captain clapped a follow evnniaito on tho shoulder. , u»u 'envi- mmMv ' tA , iV 0, i!. d unpleasant, came within an inch of getting in the bridegroom's place raeself, old boy. Thought the old lady had me booked sure, and out of gratitude, y< Cap—," and ho winked suggestivoly. "So your wedding present will be a sort of thank offering, eh?" laughed the Captain. "What is it to be?" my soul, I don't know. Some sort o' silver trumpery 1 Confounded boah, anyhow.' 1 "Miss Julia hinted pretty strongly toward a French clock," said the Cap tain. vedding. know. -I' SUppOSuJ. "Just the thing, Cap. I've got a gilt Wattlewap that I drew in a lot tery. It's showy enough on the out side, but it couldn't run a day to save j the nation. Wouldn't it be a good one for all us fellahs to take clocks," and the facetious young men poked each other in tho ribs with their elbows. "Isn't it a shame those Cluttorhys have slighted the Greens and tho Cot trells in giving out their invitations?" said Miss Blanche Newcombe. ' Such old friends and neighbors, and just be cause they are poor and not erushingly stylish*" "And the Oglesbys, who have just come to town and scarcely know tho Cluttorhys by sight, have cards," re joined the friend to whom she was speaking. "1 declare it's disgusting bare-faced begging for a to sec such presents." "It would serve them right if wo all sent regrets and a bangle board," re plied Miss Blanche. "But I confess to a curiosity to see how the affair goes off," hastily replied the friend. a There is u peculiar fascination about n wedding which docs not pertain to any other form of entertainment, and however presuming or uninteresting the parties maybe, people will go from motives of curiosity, if no other. So the Clutterby parlors were well filled on tho wedding morning with a cu riously-assorted crowd, out of which, perhaps, half a dozen cared a rye straw whether Miss Jtdia's matrimonial hark anchored in safe harbor or in a divorce court. "Oh, you dear, sweet tiling, how perfectly lovely you do look this morn ing," gushed Miss Blanche after the ceremony, "and what charming com pany you have," her eves lighting on the four Misses Allen ranged in mathe matical precisioa against tho wall; they had clubbed togothor, contrary to all precedent, and sent n pair of an tique vases, cosily but intensely ugly, to Mrs. Clutterby's horror and Julia's wrath; indeed, they might have sat directly in front of lier in their prim mest row and she could not have smiled, sho was so thoroughly angry. "And so lovely of you to remember me with that charming— m— er." Miss Julia's memory gave her the slip, and she could not have told for her life whether Miss Blanche had given her a ! china poodle dog or a house and lot. "Have you seen the wedding pres-j ents, Miss Blanche?" and Mrs. Glut terby swooped down to the rescue with a cluck and a flutter as Mrs. Julia's : fuce was turning a mo.t uncomfortably I a detenu ! | *■' | rod. "Such beautiful gifts. I had nc Idea my daughter had so many friends of taste and gen* rosily.'' There in various sizes and shapes of ugliness, pie-knives, fish-knives and other -ii verware in old patter», enough to stock a country jewelry store, and. con spicuous among them, eight clocks of painfully uniform style, tie- only thing» in the whole collection which did rows and row- of va match at all, and, though Mrs Glut terby's heart •inking with disap pointment, sh * kept up a rattling fir*, of admiration for the benefit of other gue»t.-i who were looking them over, and whose gift- were included in the mly display, thoughtful gift in the he The sensible was an sortaient of table linen, a present from a maiden aunt whom Mi-». < Lutterby had been too »1 Not a Poor re : t it a very ou ïe. and th* mmtno arid old-fashioned line of *-.r<du* hud })•*,'!) sharply mime was propo-ed. drawn when her The brid ambled wife's arm a perfect sample. the majority of trie bl are upon sueh on hie f nonentl 1 »'grooms and a very i red and uncomfortah;.* on*.* in this ease. "Kiftv-ni tv. tine» lie r<-marked Hunt ! hi® J the day was a ih-liglp full though hi» •ool on.-, y words, forty-eight time- tim» he had ! ■ I ti rem; his eonv rore ! Un d to "Um-er. Yes ». m-m.*' If any one ii ... <!■> ter l,.i ing a brid.-groom !. assemblage of .-a' i "D >. for pity'- .* overlaying v:mo clocks packed out of mo ho, ma. and 1 hut me back." said Mr-* J was putting ou h j horrible I shall 1 Aii* ■ :< 1 Light 1 tain Darn. "Nt-vci' mind. Wld-M ' !"tj ! Mi*«. 'lutterby: ' shops, little w* Aft**!* th : 'J 1 ;';' . v,t • 1 1 " ■ ' : ! t : n > w : '•rby sh*'d after U cai a maternal tear of propr;*' daughter deprirkd fr.cu th roof. I h* _ various c« her ... 1 thing bv wedding " oast. M •■» F. M. Il- wmd. in i'i'ts INDIAN HEIRESSES. Fxf*ol**nt Counli*' fur Irapeomiioii-t -•y -s ami w Tli.-v The ("n:- !v'i<aw m They nr a re fair to look upi type of beauty. They 'all, gra< ful, with lang i! an ahuu-iane.* ■ Castilian -llitur ll.:, of bliii'l. dress last- fu! : are fairly ed : « • i * ■ i. Chickasaw ci* l.u-n-hin v -•h a' a moderate e»ti:ivi!«» .fS.o I' >. :• now about b.'" 1 ('hieka*a and marri., go. if < i;i were divi-1 : up each inn. u child in t !.. N :V-a v.-ou ■, I»* j about 7.'» IV lands . oman and entitled to Formei-lv tie* mar!-: loose and a the Nation week at an e fee. abused that " : a lice Ti.i: L<- ri»'.a y. ai s ago am citizen of tho UaY-d >'a'. the " I :!. . - - » m • ; s t lv ' side in tlie Nulinn l«'iiy.':ii\ l';-o.lmv j he voue tied a good moral char for by throe Chicka.-aws in good , standing and pay a lio<'n*e f**' <>f */*• before he can in er to qualify him for cit i : *n»hip. Tho Nation,■ i! p:u-ty f;ivops in,--, n-imro lio.Mi'O f. 1 l.t $K*i >:i tho ing tin 1 and putting greater res applicant for mutriunmy. This is not advocat' d in nnv w sdrit. but in , i : It is the interest of good citizenship, a fact that the refuse of Texas, Mi* souri ami Kansas Y dumping it*elf in hero. The National party is opposed j to a cheap and rowdy citizenship or tolerated population. It believes that by increasing the fee* and strictly < forcing the law» only good men would boeomo but I do not expoe' adults will trot about in bare toes, oven for the sako ! of ridding themselves of corns, but I think all parents who cure for the health of their children should sen that their feet come in eonbiri with fresh, clean earth for a little lime on : each sunny summer day. Ladies' I Houic Companion. >r do busino*» in the St. Louis Kcpuhlio. want to marrv Natio Let Children Go Barefooted Children who are allowed to go bare- ! footed enjoy almost immunity from tho danger of colds, by accidental chilling of the feet, and they are much health ier and happier than those who. in obedieneo to the usag of social life, j xtivmities norma havu their lower I neatly invalided, ami so to say. careful ly swathed and put aw iy in rund eases. As regards the poorer class r children, there can be no sort of doubt, | ,l , I in the mind of anv one, that it is in comparably better that they should j boots barefootod that let in tho wet. than g° and stoek ings that are. nearly always dump and foul. If every one should go barefooted during the warm weath- j er. it would be much better for the | foot: corns would disappear, cramped ; toes would straighten out and grow to f a natural size, and tho foot would also henutifnl and healthy. more AN UNMAILED LETTER. A Lawyer's Foreetful Girl from a I.if«: of Misery A lawyer in this city toils » good story apropos of tho habit the groat majority of tho male sex hare of car rying i eitere round in their clothes from one week to a year, which the fe male members of the family ma) have intrusted to them to mail. This attor ney has in his family a servant who has been with them almost from her childhood, and, being an unusually bright, intelligent girl for one occupy ing so menial a po»itiou, her ivlutions « come ha nearly being those "f a m* m her of the family as it is possible for u servant to acquire. Last spring Mary gave her employer a letter to mail. To her it w as n IMt important missive, and as sic- guw it to him »he blus hod slightiv d bur- ! ried away about lier work. He dropped , it in his inside creoat pocket, ami, 1 man-like, never thought of it again. Mary did. though. She waited and watched, and every shrill whistle of balauf.A. 1 the postman for days and weeks sent a ILriU n? »'xpecta being. Her future in •y through her who.o But th-: letter she looked for never cat no. There is no doubt that the song ie letter that based upon this very incident. A f.-w day- ago the law;, reeled hi- h*\*i\ v cever-eoat In ru ranging thr dollar* fo ;ud Mary s ■Mu > ne >-e if there was in a singularl mon feel under such o.ro-j Mary was !.. voice, and she •»ho* » which hcr mi»! :.o "Mary." repeat ol '!.■ nein a sort of a plca r rogtvt T * :-;.Y I ';• • V* 1 - ■ M;ry ' AN ably h h v un-Lw-.uhi ;.> 1 a I torn- y in he had not he t: del ig nhst r • m ' ( her. gala and again. me red story. marry him. ami the e-tt'-r winch hud .-■•.mm*-:' 'a u- an and we-k» she had saw by he paper* hud murmi.-d a 'ther. made the bl uer veins. •■That is too b !n a guiltv \u-u-" "Bet v» nr su jo;n-d Marv I, and cVi-r »im it tiin't -11.u las'. .1 liy for p-.-ver ' g in f-»r ha v from a Vi »lie i> dinner tie- family N. V. Mad a ad Kxte Women Who Shave Regularly. "Did y- -u was vor who w barber by shaved. eu»tomer barb'-r, who went on to t< ii hi» experi of busiia--*. "Tli' re eneo in that lii in town who liave quite a are ladies mustache, and others who have sonio tl>ing like a chin beard, and I have vt*d tho J I » h ui both kinds. noun upper lip of a lady yest-vd: to prepare her to go She k***■ i '» wn the growth party. of hair bv clipping it. but. she wanted to look extra fine on this ooea»ion. Some of thorn whu arc tmuhlcil as sho :t the hail pall ,f kinds of folk* in thi* bar folk* know ho knight of the brush ,, Iu{ t h. M v ;> till they get rid of the whole grow th. u rU-ctrioa! y n-iiioving ih<-m without pain fro part of the fue*\ t 1 k who get barbe times, and others who can suave tlu-m shav them at to pe i V cs just like 1 toll you lliure uro more bnrous world than to Hero of- ' ' shouted "Next?" N. Y. Sun. The Antiquity of Man. With regard to the discoveries on the slopes of the Sierra de Managua, i>,. pjj nt considers that the human bones prove indisputably the existence i'lioeene times. Still wo must recollect that in such an active of man in ami moist climate, nubien up volcanic region as Nicaragua, with its hot heavals and subsidences may be ex pected t ( j ev hnve occurred, while the rich tropical vegetation would rapidly repair the ravages caused by the most . The foot-prints tating eruptii tliemselves tell u» little as regards As before menUoned. they present no evidence of belonging i an inferior type of man. while the their antiquity. sandal-shod foot-print indicates a cor tain 1K j v[vnoe j n civilization, sinee a mnn , vho wears 8 hoos at all can hard ly b e i on(ï to tho earliest stage of ln- | eu i lum Considering all the cir rll m8t-anco8, therefore, it will, per be wisest to adopt Dr. Brinton's clult i ous eonelnsion. that there is not sutiieient evidence to remove these re mains further back lhan tho present ! l'ost-l'Uoeene or Quaternary period.— J Knowledge. —A Hartford paper says that tho j worst criminals in New England ran i li-ttee their genealogy back to ttiu j i'urilan 1'at hors without a break. to THEIR FIRST QUARREL. "Callithumpian, dear, are you ill?" With touching solicitude the youn* wife hung over her husband, a lovely pity beaming from her mild blue eyes, und her low. beautiful voice vibrating "Not at all. Elfleda." he replied. "I perfectly weil. What makes you think any thing is the matter with me thi.* morning?" Mrs. Magruder placed her hand othingly on his forehead "Callithumpian," she j>ersisted she feit his pulee and looked at her watch apprehensively, "show tongue." « your I tell you I am . Klfleda! ••Ne w*dl a» I ever was in my life. D on't fonlish. my lot -Do v ! b* , call it fo'dish, Calli 1 thumpian, '■■•' me our health?" ; I ; : I y, Klfleda, when there is no "Ce I "It is n lag- my dear, that your hand sc*-ms :■■■ tremble, that rou head 1 is hot, HV.d that drink a quart of water before h "Nothing, my afT'-oted 1 n ' nv*-. Every man is iy re. • : n awhile. >f-~ um— ah - - away in p »hört tii •ou ought to do something for "Bu "I tel; you. Li:!-' hing. Don t nano i don t n*>ed any aoout W : I e ; I ~ee tllht V OUT i» a tvith* rodder than usual this Lie t alarm me. iv' go;ng to war the house upside morn. i. ( V. ii thumpian — "Y S m-.-aa how." ■ any redder than you ng à a: it critically, v i» that you've ; ..«y .m Trork in ;ist six months nan t" do. and •rncar any thing rot t< • vou'r*:- aheart ■M •. Don't Re I was going to see you I could •am. Mr». Magrud» •Tak* ta'k a 1 " n." :• in mi. y Bi tlr :■ ■ and claimed .■ ■ • •. Mr. Mugru * ! : u : bottle .a be d-d I- woodshed that brought f if Ik>stn .m :th her own fair and it )i a : ■ j **-•. • •• ; that her own remove the made the aimod ■■Mr and this .■ .:ap-»•'.-ib.e. of >ur plans for the coming mid b*- a mock mav remombv e. to . Aunt Ann. a: • - ■ an : stay -at-. 1 rdinU write to her »ix wi five o not o o--aie. < Y d e damp dm W. Magruder threw to do that. Klfleda?" • Ida,-.ing with un ••Are on !u- g:isp'*u, hi* roll able e\ci ■menu replied, firmly, •T g!" he murmured, in a • M; (lari on voieo. as he buried his face in ■ folds of le-r dross, 'forgive me! nn angel! Only keep that promise and life will bo f ill of joy for • in-»re!" Chicago Tribune. ,, . Betrayed by His Parrot. Detectivo«i obtain their hints and clews from many source», but it is not correspondent of the Loti Jen Dr.il> I- -graph remarks, that they receive them through the instru mentality of parrots; yet this is just what has happened during the re searches of M. Goron, the head of tho Paris Criminal Department, This of fleer has been lately looking for tho rlii-'f ao.-ountnnt of the often, til ' Pari "Oitusso Bund," a fYYnv nam*'d Victor Ghovjv ti'-r. and. irmncr tho other day into the room* of a notorious mviver of stolen p-ood» in Baris, ho heard himself od ilrossod in harsh tones ns "Good old Victor? there you are!" 'This wi •Mioujfh for tho dotoctive, who having silently satisfied himself that tho lo s bird was the property of the man for whom he was looking, pro ..ded to search the receiver's den for juac indications of a more substantial ehnr After ;> long and minute invee peter. tigation of tlie premises, he found a letter from Victor to the receiver, in whicli epistle the robber announced that hi- was in Angers under the name of Felix t'rozet. ately set out for that town, and arrest ed the owner of the too voluble parrot in the railway station. M (ioron immedi | ! J j i drinks plain Old Ti j them fancy brands is good enough so Struck a Bonanza. Woman (to Trump)—So you want a drink of some kind? I'll get you up something nice. She bring* it to him. "There, drink that." Tramp (suspiciously)—What is it 5 n It's a mixture of hydrogen Wi nd oxygen. Tramp (gratefully)—Oh! 1 genr'ly hut I s'pose long us they're gin —Epoch.