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Free Postage. 
When the postoffice was first dened: 
at Kai Feng, China, the clerks had a 
fight with some men who “bought 
stamps and refused to go away until 
the stamps were licked and stuck on 
their envelopes for them. The foreign 
postoffices in Palestine are usually con- 
vulsed by a spirit of keen competition. 
If a parcel exceeding the regulation 
weight or size is taken to an office © 
and refused the traveler in the ma-. 
jority of cases has only to threaten to 
take it to a rival office, and it is 
straightway received without a mur- 
mur. So keen is the rivalry between 
some of these offices that residents in 
Palestine possess a free post within 
eertain districts. Between Jaffa and 
the surrounding colonies and also with- 
in Jerusalem the German and Aus- 
trian offices make no charge for the 
delivery of local letters. — Chicago 
News. 
An Obedient Dog. 
Schnapps is a dachshund, and the 
people who know all about the breed 
eall the queer looking animal hand- 
some. Inthe house in New York where 
he is the pet he is credited with more 
than ordinary dog sense and with un- 
derstanding every word said to him in 
English or German. In order to dem- 
onstrate his sagacity his master said 
to him a few evenings ago: “Schnapps, 
the young people have been here long 
enough. Go down and tell the boys to 
go home.” Downstairs he waddled 
and, standing before the. -visiting 
youths, barked and howled, then ran” 
to the front door. and back again and 
kept up the performance until, as his 
proud master explained, ‘‘the -young 
men heard and saw the point. Pretty 
smart for a dachs, eh?’—Exchange. 
Reason For Bravery. 
“I’m not afraid of bumblebees.” 
“Aren’t you? lam.” 
“Well; Iam not.” 
“Why? 9? 
“"Cause they always stay in the 
covatry. and | never g0 there,” 
Told Her Nothing. 
“What kind of a man~ did Belle 
marry ?”’ 
“| hear he is an. octogenatigt:” 
“Oh, 1 don’t. care. anything ‘about his ” 
religion. How much’ money has- ae 
got, and what is his age?” 
“NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Her Husbands. 
It is said that before a man has dis- 
sovered the color of a girl’s eyes she 
Is planning hef trousseau and leading 
him to the altar—but— 
The bachelor girls’ destination ne- 
cessitated their going through Wood- 
lawn cemetery, a portion of the city 
they had never before visited. 'CThey 
stopped fer a long time on fhe bridge 
which crosses the lake to admire the 
wonderfully well. kept banks, which 
slope down to the edge of the lake, 
with here and there some artistically 
arranged shrubbery serving as a back- 
ground. As they cast a last look at 
the island, situated at one end of the 
lake, which is so tiny one wonders 
how the large willow tree standing at 
the water’s edge, with its drooping 
branches hanging so low that they 
sweep backward and forward in the 
water with the wind, could possibly 
have grown there, one of the bachelor 
girls’was beard to remark to her com- 
panion, ‘Wouldn’t this be an ideal 
- place to bury. one’s husbands and 
come and weep over their graves!”— 
New York Press. 
Minstrelsy In Bostonese. 
“Mistah Howjames, may I ahsk yo’ 
to point out de distinction ’tween a 
Roman stoic philosophah an’ a metrical 
narration in lofty an’ impressive style 
of some great historical event, de same 
being a paht of de scholastic co’se pre- 
scribed in our institutions of learn- 
inge> 
“No, Mr. 
Ticklowell; I confess my 
_inability to discern the points of dif- 
ferentiation. Will you set forth cate- 
gorically the reason or reasons why a 
Roman stoic philosopher should not be 
confounded with a lofty and impress- 
ive metrical narrative of some great 
historical, mythological- or imaginary 
event, legend or tradition, et cetera?” 
“Yes, suh; de one am Epictetus, an’ 
de uddah am an epic taught us.” 
“Ladies and gentlemen, I have the 
pleasure of announcing that the re- 
nowned scholar and essayist, Professor 
Wendell Osgoodson, will recite at this 
stage of the proceedings his celebrated 
monologue on “lhe Apotheosis of the 
Enhemeral’ ”—Chicago Tribune, 
He Did Not Hesitate. 
“You must rest,’’ said the specialist 
after a knowing thumping of the pop- 
ular preacher’s person.. “You will be 
in the next world in three months un- 
less you go abroad and take a com- 
plete rest.” 
“Oh, then I'll go abroad at once,” re- 
plied the preacher quite innocently.— 
Youth’s Companion. eh Sid 
Johnson on Poverty. 
Poverty, my dear friend, is su great 
an evil and pregnant with so much 
temptation and so much misery that I 
cannot but earnestly enjoin you to 
avoid it. Live on what you have; live 
if you can on less. Do not borrow 
either for vanity or pleasure. The 
vanity will eud in shame and the 
pleasure in regret.—Samuel Johnson. 
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