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ODDS AND ENDS. 



Next to running against a rocking-chair 

 or an open door in the dark, the most pro- 

 voking thing is to be led into reading a 

 medicine ad., thinking, from its misleading 

 title that it is a romance With bated 

 breath you read the story of the fond 

 young wife who early in her married life 

 sees her husband becoming estranged and 

 distant. He is changed, gloomy; some- 

 thing is preying on hia mind. You are 

 right, there is, and if you read far enough 

 you will learn that he was suffering from 

 either dyspepsia or liver complaint and 

 upon taking so-and-so's medicine he re- 

 covered and the home was no longer 

 gloomy, etc., etc. And then you feel like 

 the man does who kicks the old hat off 

 the side walk on the first day of April. 



It is nearly time for some enterprising 

 reporter to interview Mr. Roberts of 

 Utah, regarding his "white man,s 

 burden. " 



''Did your sweetheart write to you 

 while you were away?" "Write to me?" 

 said the poor soldier. "I had to give 

 away my clothes so that I could bring her 

 letters home. " Ex. 



Watts Seems to have been some 

 trouble over at Wickwire's house, 



Potts Well, yes. His wife told him 

 to advertise for a parlor maid, and he 

 goes and puts in the ad. "blonde pre- 

 ferred. " Indianapolis Journal 



A Thorough Sport. The Deacon 

 Young man, don't you know that there's 

 a rainy day coming ? 



Spendthrift Mebby there is, but I've 

 got $5 that says the weather man won't 

 call the turn. Come, now, if you've got 



any nerve show your money. Chicago 

 News. 



"I suppose your uncle had no scruples 

 against killing people?" 



"No, I think not." 



''Did he ever say anything about how 

 many he had disposed of?" 



"No. He was a modest man and not 

 inclined to boast. " 



"Let me see Avhat branch of the ser- 

 vice was he in ?" 



''He was an army surgeon." Cleveland 

 Plain Dealtr. 



The fourth biennial report of the State 

 Engineer of Wyoming, Prof. Elwood 

 Mead, is a neatly gotten' up little work, a 

 credit to the printer, and aside from its 

 mechanical excellence, is an exhaustive 

 and complete report of the progress of 

 irrigation in Wyoming. A great part of 

 the book consists of statistical tables giv- 

 ing the permits issued since November of 

 '96 to appropriate water and the certifi- 

 cates of appropriation, permits for new 

 ditches, names of officers in charge of irri- 

 gation; records of ditch surveys, stream 

 measurements, etc. , etc. 



The adjudication of water rights, 

 stream gaging, reservoirs, irrigation in- 

 vestigations for the Department of Agri- 

 culture are among the many topics, of 

 more than local interest discussed. "The 

 Agricultural Problems and Possibilities of 

 Northern Wyoming," running in the 

 IRRIGATION AGE is incorporated in this 

 report, wh.ich abounds in beautiful illus- 

 trations. 



Tke Eedfield (S. D.) Press says: "There 

 is no truth in the rumor that Mr. P. D 



