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3 All the Things They Steal.
There is a,mouse in Florida locally
known as the trading mouse. It is
commonly awoods mouse, but it quick-
ly adapts itself to human habitation. A
colony of such mice carried two bush-
els of shelled beans thirty feet during
six nights recently and replaced the
1 beans with seed pods of a weed. J ew-
elry, too, has , been taken by these
little traders. One woman on the east
coast of Florida at an Indian River
winter resort found a. number of seeds
ins cad of a pair of earrings that she
had left on the bureau. A search in
the place where the seeds had been
kept disclosed the earrings.
A man who had a box of poker chips
in his room in an Open-topped box was
surprised to. find in their stead a string
of prayer heads, a mall crucifix, and
a number of shells; He started an in-
vestigation immediately. A priest who
had roomed near by was equally puz-
zled by finding the colored poker chips
in his room. _
It is generally believed that the trad-
ing mouse learns its curious ways by
robbing squirrels or bluejays of nuts
laid by for future use-New York
Sun.
Two Heads that Think as One.
The most interesting personality in
New York is Millie-Christine, the two-‘
headed girl. She is‘ wealthy, intelli-
gent, God—fearing and devout. She
never works on Sundays, and is a
strict churchwoman.
You man call the combination Millie
or Christine, or Millie-Christine, but
whatever name is chosen two pairs of
lips respond in two voices, so similar
that not even their manager can, wit'
closed eyes, tell from which of the
two heads the voice comes.
A caller wondered how he should
shake all the hands. They stood ap-
parently back to back, wound two
arms together and offered him two
hands to grasp at once. Two pairs of
lips murmured “I am so glad to see
you,” and two voices went on talking
in a sort of respOnsive duet, until one
felt like Alice in \‘i'onderland—mysti-
tied, dazed.
“ Ye always agree. We always
think alike.” Another pair of lips, I
could see, was saying “\Ve never have
any difference of opinion. Te al-
ways eat the same things.” But it
sounded like the same voice all the
timer—New York World.
Zi'et Ilarte’s Stories.
Bret Harte estimated some years
ago that he had written 60‘) stories. ant .
as he has since continued to be busy
with his pen the Bus =11 Herald think:
he must be regarded as the most pro
lific story—writer of the time. He has
written only one long novel. “Gabrie
Conroy.” ’
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A RAILWAY TO nova A WOMAN.
Betsey’s Longing for Sm'ie y Accomplish-
cd lllC‘FPilt.
The. most curious problem‘that evex
confronted the legal authorities of the
United States was that of' moving
Betsy Mullins, weightSSO pounds.
They gave it up. but the task which
could not be performed for the en-
forcement of the law was undertaken
in order that Betsy might attend a
dance.
Mrs. Mullins belongs the race of Ten-
nessee mountaineers, and lives on the
top of Walden's Ridge, in Hancock
county. lIer occupation is that of sell-
ing moonshine whiskey. 1t furnished
her with a livelihood for twenty years.
She enjoys absolutely unique advan‘
tages for engaging in this nefarious
trailing In the first place, her hut
among the mountains is four miles
from any other house, and is reached
only by a winding and tr‘acherous
path.
It has been found impossible to r“-
movc her. The old lady is of a trucu-
lent spirit, and is powerful as well as
heavy. It required the efforts of six
strong men to get her as far as the
door, and then it was discovered that
she could not go through. She was too
large for that. The question of demol-
ishing a house in order to make an ar-
rest for selling liquor illegally was a
delicate one, and could not be decided
on the spot. .
Betsy returned to her great wooden
chair in triumph. having defied the. au-
thority of the United States, at which
she jeered.
It is several years since Betsy grew
too large to get through the door. She
has lived hitherto contentedly in her
little hut, with a big chair and a big
jug, but recently a desire for social re-
laxation awoke in her. She said she
would like to attend a large dance
which y'as to be given at Sneedville, a
village six miles from her mountain
home. Obviously, it was no light mat-
ter to move Betsy Mullins. Her
neighbors built a sort of railway to
facilitate her progress down the moun-
tain. The side of Betsy's house was
taken out, she waddled, will assist-
ance, to the specially constructed car,
in which she was loaded. Then with
a very stout cable and a Windlass,
worked by strong hands, she was low-
ered down the mountain and on to the
dance—New York Journal.
METROPOLITAN STAGE JOKES.
Jesse—I wouldn't touch you for the
world. '
Fan Tan—You would if I had it.
Jesse—Under what unlucky star
were you born? 4
Fan Tam—Probably the lodestar.
“I have twin brothers; one is twen-
ty and the other is twenty-two,” says
Smith to Campbell at Tony Pastor‘s.
“How -an twins be different ages?"
“They’re not different. One is twen-
ty and the other is twenty. too.”
Of the many new shows in town,
“The Mandarin" has the merricst jests.
I quote a few:
\Vun Wing—We'll have one
drink and then go home.
Fan '.l‘an——'l‘hank you, but I couldn‘t
do both.
lllt) 1'0
Aubrey Boucieault. in his sketch at
Keith’s, lras many jokes which are,
however, allied to the comedy. Str: ngc
to say, the one “outsider” which takes
the best has this familiar ring:
Helene Powell—Why don‘t you take
something for your cough?
Boucicault—I took everything for it
even a cable Ct r. Now I have the
grip.
Al. “'ilson. the German comedian,
has a hunting story of the Munchausen
type.
“One, cold day last “lint'er I went
tiger hunting in New Jersey. After a
long search I found one in a tree and
was about to shoot when I found I had
left my bullet pouch at home. The
tiger was about to spring upon me and
the helplessness of my situation
started me. perspiring profusely. The
sweat on my forehead froze in lumps
and I broke off two or three, rammed
them in the gun and, aiming between
the tiger's eyes, fired. The heat of the
gun melted the ice bullets, but my aim
was so true that the tiger was killed
by water on the. brain.”
A Recitation “Ion a. Horse.
A tramp appeared at the house of J.
II. ‘Bartou. three miles south of Col-
umbia. )Io.. the other day, and asked
for cold victuals in Greek. He stated
that he was a graduate of Princeton.
Mr. Burton. himself a Greek scholar,
was just-about to start for Columbia,
and his horse was hitched in front of
the house.
Jestingly he offered to given the
tramp the horse if he could recite the
Greek alphabet without a mistake.
I‘he tramp looked at the horse and then
at Mr. Barton. and then inquired if the
bet included the saddle and bridle. Mr‘.
Barton said that it did, and went into
the house to get a Greek book;
Returning he found the tramp had
mounted the horse. As Mr. Burton
stepped from the porch the tramp rat»
tled -cff the alphabet without a mis
take, and turning the horse's head, dis-
appeared in a cloud of dust. The ant-e
mal on which the Princeton pilgrim
rode away was one of the best saddle
horses in Boone County, noted for its
blooded stock—Philadelphia Press.
Be “’as Very Observing.
Hg At a lunatic asylum an inmate was
found wheeling a barrow upside down
bricks. A visitor took the b. rrcw, and
turning it right side up, said, ”This is
the proper way ’ Reply: “Ah, that‘s
{1’ ye. ken. -"sl'hcn I try
may fill it fn’ rt bricks."
between, a new wing and a. stack of.
it that way.
A Chesterfield Chestnut Street.
Philadelphia’s finest, the Chestnut
street reserves have gained a national
reputation as specimens of physical
manhood, but it it is doubtful if any of
the blue- coated giants have ever utilized
their superior size so uniquely as did
the big reserve who stood at the corner
of Thirteenth and Chest-nut street yes-
terday afternoon. A trolley car was
coming up Thirteenth, and a dainty
miss, with an essence of spring in her
every irill and furbelow, was waiting
to board it. The car stopped, the vicion
of loveliness started for the rear plat—
form, only to stop half way, to be con-
fronted by ’a puddle of mixed mud and
'ater. The ever-watchful guardian of
the peace saw her dilemma, and was
quite equal to the emergency. He may
.liave read of how Sir Walter Raleigh
once spread his cloak in order that the
Queen might pass dry shod. but he had
no cloak. He had a foot, however. and
it was a big one. W'ith true chivalry,
he planted his pedal tegumcnt squarely
in the middle of the road, and mur-
mured gently: “Allow me, miss.” she
placed a dainty little foot down on the
big one. thus reaching the step without
soiling her shoe, and boarded the car in,
diantly. “Ding, ding,” went the hell,
and the modern night resumed his for-
mer position.-—~Philadelphia Record,
’ MRS. PEARY’S GOVVN.
She Years Exquisite BlucFox and Arctic '
Scalskin.
In a box with a party of friends at.
her husband’s lecture" in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Mrs. R. E. Peary
was noticed wetting a unique gown.
It was a white silk, trained with p‘ufi'ed
elbow sleeves.
Downtie front, from the open square
neck to the hem, was an Arctic seal
skin, which looks something like our
icoparl skin, but with smaller spots.
while around this, as a. border, and
around the high white silk collar as
well, ran an edge of exquisite blue fox.
Its. Perry has an abundance of this
rare and almon priceless fur, one of
her winter wraps being a superb
pelerino cape of it, reaching to her
. feet.
Little Miss Peary, too, who is one of
the hamlsoniest and most charming of
slilllll girls. goes about delightfully fur-
e..~.d. One cloak in which she is especial-
ly bewitchfng is of thick, soft white fur
~‘,. veral inches long. This is just com-
122' :1 Arctic rabbit up north, but. is rare
a-zxagh here and very effective any-
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It DIemit Business.
Here is a Jew story, and, oddly
enough. it comes from a certain hand.
some clerk in the State Department,
who is himself one of the Chosen Peo—
ple.‘ A Jewish merchant here in town
took his young son not long ago to see
“Julius Caesar” played. S. P. Q. It. ap-
peared on fasces or columns in every
scene.
“What does S. P. Q. B. stand for.
pa?" asked the boy. The father wasn’t
to be put out of countenance because
of a trifling ignorance of Latin.
“It stands for small profits, quick re-
turn-s, my son,” he made answer.—
Washington Post.
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heatrieal DIanagers To-Day.
A vast and disproportionate army of
theatrical managers—men whose dar-
ing desire is to see their names in two
by four letters, and their faces in five
colors, on the advertising boards—has
sprung up by the opportunity thus of
forded for the exercise of the art of
getting something for nothing. By 1m-
perccptible degrees the position of the
actor has been entirely changed. Once
he was a person who possessed a certain
power, and was entitled to a certain con-
sideration.
He knew how to act, and what was
necessary toward the making; of a good
play. His opinion was deferred to his
judgement sought. The commercial
prosperity of the old time agent has,
however, made that member arrogant
in these regards, and he now no longer
defers to the experience of the man who
play. . The latter must conform his
conduct to the direction of the box office
man, and muelr and great is the dissat-
isfaction resulting from this reversal of
functions. Not the least important of
the dissatisfied parties is the public. It
seems, without knowing why, that there
is something wrong with both actor and
play, and it naturally blames the actor.
He is the one responsible to it. No
agent can represent the actor in his
work.
If the actor is blameworthy for help—
ing to br iak. down the rational organi-
zation of the theatre, the manager is
' equally so for thrusting himself into the
actor’s place and presuming to dictate
how. and what plays shall be performed.
Does it not always happen that. the
'pleasi'ng' power of any given play or set
of plays is referred solely to the actors,
and do they not eventually become the
actual controllers of the theatre. no mat-
ter how assiduously the agent of their
work tries to keep his name in print, as
the head of “my theatre” or of “my
company?”
I)9}H.‘\‘.' Says He Enjoys Tafl‘y.
At a Buffalo dinner given Doctor De-
pew, that distinguished gentleman, in
the course of a speech said:
"In bidding you good night, gentle-
men, but not; good-by, for I hope we
shall meet many times in the future, I
want to again express to you my pro-
found appreciation of this unique and
distinguished honor. You might have
waited until Iwas dead and passed a
resolution to be engraved upon my
tombstone. but it is sweeter far to en-
joy taify while living than to be decor-
ated with epitaphs when dead. May
Buffalo, in her marvelous future, al-'
ways have as the representatives of her‘
municipal life in every department of
activity and aspiration as generous, as
gifted and broad minded sons as those
who have made her what she is.”
Remarkable Bulls of a Professor.
A very absent-minded German pro
Icssor named Johannes Amer lately
died at Vienna, and the following are
specimens of his remarkable hulls:
“Julius Caesar, disguised as a slave,
swam naked across the Tiber.” “Cov-
cred with innumerable wounds, Cao
sar fell dead near Pompey‘s statue.
With one hand he covered his face
with his toga, and with the other he
called for help."——Cincinnati Inquirer.
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