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4 of jobs in which the constituents of various | congressmen are interested. The president has acted wisely with regard to pensions; but | there is such a profusion of generosity on the | part of his friends that they are likely toswamp | the treasury and, as the World says, the | reduction of the war taxes an absolute im- possibility. LET THE BALLET BEWARE. Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, mother of the gentle Lilian Russell, speaks with enthusiastic ap- preciation of the ballet, and in the same breath condemns the bald-headed occupants of the front row. Is this fair? Does an absence of hair unfit one for this kind of enjoyment? Would Mrs. Leonard oblige men to have a certain amount of hair before admitting them to performances of that kind? Establish such a precedent as that, good lady, and there will be such retaliation as, forbidding the ballet association with bald-headed men, will sweep it from the stage as at the burst of a simoom. Mam at the Court. They say in Berlin that Virchow is his own reward. SMiape- A HOT SHOT FOR A COLD DAY. “Don't fire, b Crorus—" W if it is true that Iowa chickens have rheu- matis » they must have to borrow the requi- site legs to put it in. Flowers are so hi » Boston Courier says they can be enjoyed ondemned murderers. valist says the biggest fool in the | world is the woman who marries a man who drinks, Not the biggest, we think. There’s the | man, Mr. Beecher never got into a dress coat but | once, and then he said sternly to his tailor, flaj Canon Farrar complains that the English have made 100 drunkards to one Christian in India, It seems sad, but then it's so English you know. A Chicago court decides that it is not libel ous to call a man a crank, but it had better be KINDNESS REWARDED, To WIGHT marines A TAS 4 Kees OLD LaDy (to young Clapper, who has gallantly assisted her across Broadway)—T'm exceed- ingly obliged to you, sir. aticket, I go on in the grand pas de kicque in the Perhaps you would like to look in at the matinee this afternoon. Here’ second act.” and I will give you a penny each. ain't aldermen, and you can’t bribe us !” | done with much discretion if the crank is lane i-priced this winter that ‘* You go right back, sirrah, and git them | and sensitive. “Corsages have steadily dropped lower? says afashion-writer. Very well! If thatisthe case we are going right out in the Adirondacks to catch some fish. It is alleged that every babe born toa cabinet officer at Washington has been a girl but perhaps the present administration canna be blamed for that. “Clara Belle” of a shrinking, timid nature. Indeed, she carries it to such an ex tenf that she never retires without previowly putting an ulster on. “The J is.a lovely fly,” says the editor jof the Fishing Gazette. Thank you, sir- thank you kindly. But not t . Dot too lovely, you know, Judge Gresham says he shall not be a cand- date for president. “If they should nominate that man we suppose they would have toca him to make him run, A ball dress, an authority says, should be | made plain enough to show off the material | of which it is made. Rather, let us suggest the material that occupies it. They tell of a young lady who insists upot dragging the toboggan up hill, but we ar say the suffering youth who attends her hast do his up-hill walking just the same. Kate Field bought yesterday a Ling in the Philadelphia News, How swift the effect! We noticed a great improvement ® the Netes as much as three months agu. Tobogganing, according to a Chicago ppt, provokes the question whether a lady shall put her feet in her divorced husband's lap. Te capacity of men’s laps is sometimes greatly overrated. No unmarried lady of Bavaria is permite! | to speak toa gentleman friend in public. Ths | accounts, we suppose, for the immense num ber of surreptitious interviews in that locality, and likewise for the extreme loquacity of Bavarian lady once she is married. icbooks.com