THE OOLOGIST V 
By way of showing that tne west 
does not have a monopoly in the op 
portunities it offers for home seekers 
may be cited the case of a colony of 
Italians who a short time ago settled 
in Chautauqua county, N. Y. There 
were 400 men in the colony, which 
numbered 2.000 with women and cbil- 
dren. They bought up 1,758 acres of 
land at $85 an acre and put it into 
vineyards, and the same land is todar 
valued at $150 an acre, an increase 
in value of more than 400 per cent 
The same thing on a smaller scale is 
being done by other foreigners in this 
and other New England states, the 
land being used for the production of 
a great variety of early vegetables and 
other stapie food crops. Bred to an 
almost painful thrift in the old coun- 
tries, they have come to the new and 
by applying the same methods in the 
sections mentioned are becoming well 
to do. where the less thrifty American 
is scarcely able to eke out a living. 
The Awakening. 
Two weeks after he bad faced the 
parsou with the only gir: ip the world 
he chanced upon Jones, one of bis old 
bachelor friends. 
“Well, old man,” remarked the lat- 
ter, grinning, “] can’t say you look the 
part of a happy benedict. What's the 
trouble? Have you suffered a disap- 
pointment?"’ 
“IT have.’ answered the other grimly. 
“My wife can't sing!” 
“Can't sing’ echoed Jones cheerily. 
“But in that case | should have said 
you were to be congratulated.” 
“That’s not the trouble.’ responded 
the young husband. ‘The trouble is 
she thinks she can!” 
His Authority. 
Browring—I hear you are engaged 
to that young widow who is visiting 
relatives here. Is it true? Greening— 
Yes. Browning—How did you discov- 
er that she was the one woinan in the 
world for an old bachelor like you? 
Greening--Why,. she—er—told me so — 
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