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Tue clergyman’s little boy was spending the afternoon with the bishop's children. “At the rectory," he sald, “we've got a hen that lays an Bishop, “ my father lays a founda- tlon stone once a week."— London Globe, OSCAR'S SAUCE. TRAVELERS on the luxurious trains of the Pennsylvania and New served at the Waldorf-Astoria) an added consideration for enjoyment of the dining-car service. Visitors to. the rf-Astoria can take or xend home to family or friends cacy than a Jar of Oscar's Sauce, prepared ened with appendicitis, Jewerr: Who threatened you—the doctor ?—/tazar. MAVE IT With telephone serv IN YOUR HOUSE h everyone you want in a few seconds. It puts the whe a great elty at your fingers’ ends day and night. It may be had in Manhattan for $004 year. New York Telephoue Company, | 115 West 38th St,, 18 Dey St. Tommy : Pop, what Is vulgar ostentation ? Towmy's Fatnen: Vulgar ostentation, my son, 18 the display made by people who have moi y to doit with than we have ourselves,—[iladelphia Record. THE SMART SET. It ts probably only a coincidence that the frst number of ‘he new magazine, “The Smart Set,” contalys contributions, from a number of writers who happen to belong to the smart | set of modish Ife. The prize story, a social xatire, ts the work of Messrs. If C, Chattleld-Taylor and Reginald de Koven, Mra, Van Rensellaer Cruger Juilen Gordon) ls rep- resented by an exquisite comedietta. Ellot Gregory, Edgar Saltus, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Mist “Salle? Hewitt and Ollver Herford have obviously put tito thelr coutributtons to the critical Issue of this * maguzine of cleverness,” much of the brilliant wit that has made them famous tn fe monde ou ton samuse as well as in the world of letters. Doubttess tt ts pure chance that hus Included so many soctal stars in this Mterary galaxy, but the result of thelr collaboration tn one humber of a new magazine will surely be studied with Auterest “My dear,” began the minister's wife, ** down at the millin—" “There you go again,” he toterrupted ; always thinking | of worldly things.”* “ But, my dear, you wrong me,” she sald, 1s perfectly heavenly."— Phiadelphia Press, THE PLANT SYSTEM. ‘The hotels of the Florida West Coast, comprising the Plant System, will remalu opet until the end of March, MANK Twatn related In a recent address that he once set out to ride from Hartford to Hoston on a bicycle, got tired of itafter five tntles and took an express train. “+ What time did you leave Hartford?” asked @ friend in there's a bonnet “This bonnet + About seven.” “What! And you don’t mean you've ridden all the way ‘on your bicycle.” + Enough of it, sald Twatn, ‘to prove tt could be done.” — Exchange. AN ENORMOUS INDUSTRY. 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