HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-9-24, Page 7SEPT. 24, 1897
THE BRUSSELS POSir.0
GURREN1' NOTES,
1,—, ,
otkteial and ooaolueive proof of the
irreparable decline of farming in Great
Britain is furnished lie the 'l'ately pub-
lished regort of the Royal Commission
On agricelk'yral depression. The cone-
missions was appointed in 1893; it has
sat 177 days ; it has heard many scores
of voluntary witnesses, and it has pro-
fited by lithe expert observations of
agents delegated to visit specially se -
feted areas in Br, land, Wales, and
Scotland. The contusions reached are
peesemiatio in an extreme degree, the
Royal Commission having been livable
to discern signs of ,recovery in any
'quarter, or to agree upon any remedy
for which more than a palliative ef-
fect can be olaimed,
Let ne gpanee at the data relating
to the extent and distribution of the
agricultural depression. 4.11 parts of
Great leritaiax have eat been egva+lly
auffeoted, but there has been a general
-withdrawal o6 land from llhe plough.
Delete this mean that some hope is dis-
cernible in the gradual reversion of
Haglund, tram an arable irate) a pas-
toral country, such ne it was under
the Plentagenets4 Undoubtedly the
depression is of, a miller character in
the cattle -raising and sheep -raising
counties., yet even is most of these the
depreciation in the melee. of live stocks
between 1880 and 1893 and the persis-
tent fall in the price of wool have
largely diminished farming profits and
rents. Only in districts suitable for
dairying, market gardening, and, poul-
try raising has the decline been re-
latively less marked.
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Portentous are the figures exhibit-
ing the falling off in the capital value
of agricultural lands. Calculated on
the basis of the income tax assesse
menta, this shows a decrease el 34,170,-
000,000, or 60 per cent. in twenty years.
The gross annual value of land in Eng-
land and Wales, winch in 1879-80 wase
about 3259,000,000, had fallen in 1803-04,
to 3200,000,000, a ;decrease of 359,-
000,000. In Scotland during. the same
period the decrease in gross annual(
valvae exceeded 37,500,000. So much fon
the ices which has fallen primarily on
o.
veers and. tenant n f angors.
The effect on agricultural laborers
should next be noted. .Tho reduction
in the number of male wage-earners
in agriculture in Great Britain between
1871 and 1891 ovns,187,356, the decrease
in the first ten years of the period hav-
ing been 105,414. Tai the number of
female wage-earners the redaction be-
tween 1871 and 1881 was 16,385, and be-
tween 1881 and 1891 it was 38,312. 'In
other words, while the total population
of Great Britain rose in the twenty
years from 26,072,284 to 33,028,172, the
number of the agricultural laborers fell
from 1,161,738 to 919,685. As regards
wages, there has been a decline since
1892 In the groniip of counties between
the Wash and tiie Thames, in Lincoln-
shire. South Wilts, and in parts of
Berkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire
ted Westmoreland. In the remaining
English counties, in Wales, and in Scot -
lend there seems to have been no
downward tendency. The number of
laborers has fallen not because employ -
mentis less lucrative, but because there
Las been less work to do.
IAs to the cause of the depression
there is no disagreement on the part
.of the Commissioners. All ascribe it
to the serious decline in the prices of
farm produce, which in. turn is imput-
ed directly to the pressure of foreign
' competition,. Ofany permanent abate-
ment of this pressure the•Oommission-
era can perceive no prospect. No doubt
the high price of imported wheat this
year will afford the British farmer
.some temporary encouragement, but,
in view of past experience, he is unlike-
ly sensibly to increase the amount of
acreage under the plough. The Com-
missioners are unable, as we have said,
to agree upon hny remedy, but, on the
^oonrtrery, look forward to a further
reduction of the area of British land
ceptible of profitable arable cultivation
'together with a corresponding contrae-
tion of productions Ind a diminution of
'the rural population,
IDt[S0 A1OFS ABOUT MOUNTAINS.
Ninety-nine people out of a hundred
.appear to be under the innpression that
Mount Elena is in Switzerland, where-
.as it is whl within al y vithin the French fron-
tier province of Haute Savoie, Next,
Mount St. diets, is not the highest
mountain in North America but the
peak, which is 1,511 feet higher, nonxed
after Sir William "Logan," founder of
.the Canadian Geological Survey. And
whet is more, the assertion that both
mountains are in British territory has
been confirmed' since 1867 by the Can-
ada -Alaska boundary'survey, And of
another'mountain-Ararat; The usual
statement that this was the place on.
which Noah's Ark rested has no foun-
dation in the Hebrew text, which reads
On. the mountains of Ararat" Ararat
won the ancient name of a district in
Eastern Armenia, and has been used
for all Armenia.
RETURNING THE DOG.
Dieting petite between Turkey and
Greece seems indeed to bo assured, for
the Sultan has ordered I{enan Bey, his
aide-de-camp, In return Zeno, the cap-
tive clog -of -war whish wee. captured at
Larissa in the abandoned headquarters.
of Prince Xenia= of Greece. Zano, is
a large Dano of correct slate -colored
hue, and became a great favorite in
rho'went
.lhirkiah army, whore ho w n
about with a bodyguard of two 'PPri-
vates endesergeant, andwas supplied
with the warm, shaggy coat of an 114v-
aene, After the war he ons sent to
Constantinoopple, Where he was taken
inter the Yildiz Kiosk aa a prtsonor of
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INE NEWS IN A WliSlllfll.
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WORLD OVEIL
Interesting items About Our own t}'oantry,
Crest Britain, the United States, and
All Parts of the Globe, Condensed sad
4lsorted ter L3esy.Reading.
CANADA.
The sof, of the Ontario Tack Com-
pany at B4ni,ieton wee forced open and
$103 nigher, from. it•, ,
The assessment returns of London
show an increase in the population dur-
ing the past twelve mouths of 1,553.
Tile building of a railway from Jun-
eau to Lake Tulin is now assured,
which will lessen the route to the lCon-
dyke very considerably.
Vies Frances B. Willard announces
Writ the conventions of the l'4' C.T,U. at
Toronto and Buffalo will protest ag-
ainst lynebing.
Mrs. Tomkins, of Hamilton, was fa-
tally burned by the explosion of a lamp.
A. youth named Dei tutusky was fa-
tally crushed in an elevator at Bran-
don, Man.
A Mycrological Society has been
formed in Berlin, which, it is claimed,
is the first of the kind in Canada. ,
The latest intelligence from Labrador
confirms the report of the complete
failure of the cod fishery this season.
A daughter of John Underhill, of
Winnipeg, is dead at that place from
lockjaw, caused 'by stepping on arusty
nail.
The daughter of Mr. George R.
Holmes, of St. Catharines was so se-
verely burned by her clothes catch-
ing fire that death took plan in a
few hours. ,
2L'bomas Thompson, one of the prin-
cipals in rho fight near Minden in,
which W. I3. Sawyer was fatally in-
jured has been brought back to Minden'
in charge of the police.
On Thursday the steamer Merrimac
took from Montreal for the London
market, a quantity of Canadian toma-
toes, pears, and peaches in cold stor-
age as an experunent.
A well-dressed young woman who re-
gistered at the Cadillac Hotel, Mont-
real, as Miss Warner, of New York,
was found dead in bed, with two emp-
ty bottles that had contained carbolic
acid by her side.
The Ontario Government has decid-
ed to sant Prof. Willmott to the Kichi-
picoton district to investigate and re-
port to the Bureau of Mines
concerning
the report that there ere
new gold
finds there.
Eighty new grain elevators and thir-
teen flat warehouses have been con-
structed during the present year toaa-
commodato wheat along the railway
lines in Manitoba and the Northwest
Territories.
Two more smallpox cases were re-
moved to the City Contagious Diseases
Hospital at Monlareal, the patients be-
ing the wife and three -year -olid daugh-
ter of a street railway motorman, who
lives in Fulham lane.
Montreal is threatened with awater
famine owing to a break in the, big
supply pipes carrying the water under
the Lachine Canal. A dredge employed
.in deepening the canal tore up several
sections of two 30 -inch' pipes.
The largest sale of sole leather ever
made in Canada was made at Mon-
treal by Shaw, Cassils & Company to
Tames McCready & Ooanpany. This
transaction involved the transfer of
25,000 sides for a consideration of about
$75,000.
/Che plates of the jubilee stamps and
postal Dards were destroyed yesterday
in Ottawa in the presence of the Post -
teeter General. About thirty-two mil -
Mon stamps were printed from the
plates and about seven million postal
cards.
There are more than four thousand
men at work on the several sections of
the Crow's Neat Pass railway, and tbere
is no doubt the whole line will be com-
pleted well within the time first esti-
mated by the Canadian Pacific railway
managtpnent.
News has been received of one of the
parties which left Montreal some weeks
ago for the Klondyke. The members of
the party are all well, and, while they
are meeting with great difficulties in
the White Pass, they are in the best
of spirits, and are confident of success,
Mr. T. G. Shaughnessy, viae -president
of the Canadian Pacific railway, who
has returned to Montreal, from a tour
of inspection, gives a glowing desorip-
tiaa of business in the NorthtWest. The
wheat crop of Manitoba, he says, will
exceed the first estimates and he thinks
there will be between, twenty-two and
twenty-three million bushels for ex-
port this year. 1
1 GREAT BRITAIN.
Sir Lewis W. Cave,. judge of the Eng-
lish High Court od Justice is dead. lee
was seventy-five years of age.
The Prince of Wales has accepted the
chairmanship of the Royal Commission
for the Paris Expositions of 1900.
The British Government has instruct-
ed Scotland Yard to notify the United
States of the departure, of Anarchists
for that country.
al test ease is to be made of the
right of the vicar of Shakespeare's
oh cin at Stratfordoei-Avon, to exact
a toll from visitors.
Sir Everett Millais is dead in Lon-
don. Ole recently succeeded his father,
the late Sir Jahnl E. Millais, president
ce the Royal Academy.
The Duchess of York having acoept-
ed a red fisher cloak from. Father Doo -
lay's home in Galway, that article has
become very fashionable.
A passing steamer reports that the
Circassia,.oil the Anchor ]sine, is disabled
about pavan hundred mules off the Irish
meet. Tugs have gone to her rescue.
The Earl of Cadogan,Viceroy of Ire -
Land, has teemed a statement to the ef-
fect that the reports of famine pros-
peots in Ireland are unjustifiable.
The Trades Union Congress in seeslon
at Bi.rmiingham,.oai Tuesday, passed a
srasoLution pledging moral and finan-
ced. support to the striking engineers,
Sir Ellis Ashamed. Bartlett bas writ -
tee a bock au 'The Battlefields of
Thessely, which will be published short-
ly, in which ho is an apologist for the
Sultan.
Great exeiteanent has, been comma in
the financial world by the ennounao-
nient that ,the Bank of England intends
halcling one-fifth of its revery() in sit-
ver. ,
The Ibsen is said to he taking great
interest inthe reports from the 1(1on-
dyke, and is anxious to know if there:
is Adequate Protection for her subjects
in these regions.
At the Trades Union Congrens in BIr-
mtsgiten yeeterdaZ a resolution was
passed declaring in favor of the na-
tiontai federation of all traders and in-
dustries,
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg mile
Remake, has purchased Slubo Castle,
an estate comprising 20,000 acres of the
beet rebooting and fishing Matelot of
Suthoiaandshiro,
Prince Alexander of Took,' wbn is
staying at Belford hall, Northumber-
land, stated that neither, he nor any
of the 'reek family intend visiting
America'.
,Lord Salisbury's latest proposal, that
the Greek finances be controlled by the
powers for the benefit of all the orad-
iters of Greece has been accepted by
the powers.
The Duke and Duchess of York at
and o� ed the nesreceived e Prince's doce civic authorities
tThe
city was profusely decorated in honor
of the visit of their Royal highnesses.
(Gr, a booklet written in cypher by a
minor rayed personage and recently
published in Landon, it isasserted that
over 6,000 persons are an German state
prisons on charges of les ma.jeste.
/Reports from Ireland say the crops
of oats and potatoes. have been ruined
in nearly all sections of the country.
Famine is inevitable, and it is feared
the hard times of fortytseven, will, be
repeated:•
e (;ween bus written, to the Lord
__The
of Ireland, asking him to
convey to the Irish people her thanks
for the lbyal and kind reception ac-
corded
scorded to Ler grandchildren, the Duke
and D'uhhess of York.
It le stated that the British Govern-
ment has acquired the concession of the
French company to bated the Panama
canal;, The Washington authorities
say if this is a fact there will be no
necessity for the construction of the
Nicaragua canal, as English' capital and
engineering akild will carry the Pana-
ma enterprise to a saeoesstui conclus-
ion.
UNITED STATES.,
ldtt,endants of a herd of diseased
cattle near Topeka, Kan., have them-
selves become mended with ttuberou-
losis.
Scott and Reuben Gray, brothers and
noted desperadoes, have been captured
murde
at Barctr.w,eil, Ky., and are held for
Wild borses have become such a nuis-
ance in Northern Arizona that the A1-
torneS General has been asked if they
may be legally slaughtered.
Customs inspectors at Laredo, Texas,
have found an unclaimed grip on a
train containing 3200,000 worth of dear
monis, jewellery, and other valuables.
A negro woman suspected of having
smallpox °ratted a panic in a church
at Columbine, us Miss.,. on
ndoy. He
r
hod. i
was found later, in a field.
Y ilea
Henry Wall the young white man
lynched at Friend's' Mission, near
Richmond, Va., for alleged criminal
assault is new said to have been inno-
cent.
Abraham Rbsen'tha1, aged 18, at New
York on Monday night drank a flask
of whlekey on a wager, and then fa-
tally stabbed himself, imagining him-
self a tragedian.
An explosion of nitro-glycerine at
Cygnet, Ohio, on Tuesday caused the
death of six persons whose games are
known and of several persons whose
names are not known.
Thomas Kennedy, about 60 years of
age, fall from the second storey win-
dow of his residence in Troy, lee Y.,
while walking in bio sleep on Tuesday
morning. Has neck was broken.
There is a steady advance in the
movement of trade in the Untted.States
according to the commercial advices of
Messrs. Dun and Bradstreet. There is
a noticeable increase in production, in
empployanent, and in the demand for all
seasonable goods.
There was a head -an collision' yester-
day a mile west of Newcastle, Col., be-
tween a Denver and Rio Grande pas-
senger Iran and a freight( at the Col-
orado and Midland, by which twenty-
five persons were killed and many
mere severely injured.
The big mining strike is practically)
over, the men having accepted thecom-
rpromise terms offered by the operat-
ors, but unfortunately the last, day of
the struggle was disfigured with blood,.
the sheriff's deputies halving fired cap-
on marching miners near Hazelton,
Pa., killing eleven men and wounding
many more. . 1
GENERAL.
Drought is said to have destroyed
the crops of a large portion of South-
ern Russia.
An Austrian priest claims to have
discovered a certain cure for cancer by
means of eating lizards.
The Swatis up to the present have
surrendered two thousand guns, one
thousand swords and seventy breech -
loading rifles.
Another large filbustering party is
reported, at Havana, to have landed
arms and ammunition for the insur-
gents.
Tt is reported at Simla that the'Af-
ridis are collecting in the Benin
Valley for an attack oneither Baraor
Jamrud.
¶0be king of Siam arrived in' Paris
on Saturday and took up Oris reaidenim
in a mansion provided by the, Govern-
ment.
The Conservative and Agrarian pap-
ers in Germany have renewed thein ag-
itation for tariff war agai.ast the
United States.
The admirals in command of the
fleets of the powers in Cretan waters
have decided to raise the blockade of
the island on Friday next.
The Indian frontier reports are more
favourable. The epies say the Orakzais
appear to be disheartened, and the
Swells are submitting. .
The Spanish Government is taking
steps to prevent all nowslpaeer com-
ment on the conduct of ,affairs in Cuba
and the Philippine Islands,
Among the gifts nvhich President
Faure took with him to Russia were
three dolls for the Grand Duchess Olga,;
which can tally and sing in French.
Jose Ventre, the French anarchist,
who reaentty arrived in 2taaioo from
Spain, will be expelled from the coun-
try as a pernicious foreigner. ,
Where was an explosion of dyna-
mite near Johannesburg, in South
Africa, yesterday, by which five white
men and twenty-five leeffirs were kill-
ed.
A despatch from Barcelona aims that
the present Government will not last
Iwo weeks, and will leo succeeded by a
Liberal Administration under Setter
Segasta. 1
Berril, the Anarchist, who attempt.
ed to assassinate the Chief of Police
and Assistant Chief of llareelana, has
been sentenced to forty years' lnnzpri-
eon:ment.
Mee Kropp, the German ironmaster,
has withdrawn his offer to equip the
next expedition of Dr, Paters to Afr1e
ca, owing to :the sentence recently
passed on the latter.
Since the alliance between France
end Russia was announced the tone of.
the Germany press has changed, and
there is now u disposition to eaurb the
friendship of Great 73ritain.
The President of the Argentina Re -
tariff wlull h tee is prob bitoryC gaainst all
articles of American, manufacture in
retaliation for the Dingley Act,
A despatch from Uganda states that
a mutiny has broken out among the
troops of the Congo Free Steta, and
that the mutineers killed lfifty-nine
Belgian officers and glen.
The Preneh Government is being pe-
titioned to pass a law reducing taxa-
tion in proportion to the number of
elrildren in the family as a means of
reducing the shrinkage in the birth
rata♦
A special despatch from Cairo says
that Berber, the next important town
on the Neein the advance of the em -
glia -Egyptian expedition upon Khar-
toum, has been occupied by Soudanese
who are friendly to the British.
NEWS OFKERE,1 ENGLAND.
ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
MOTHER LAND.
Investigation Into the Money Lending
`.,isles. - Lett his ,Honey to 1(10 1115-
24ervae(-Utld Venins Observed at I)nn-
1(800'.
The most incredible greed, rapacity
and cruelty of the Rriglisl( usurer that
the investigation of the present money-
lending system by a special committee
of the House of Commons bas revealed
is tending to bring these Sbylocks into
even mora than ordinary disfavor. The
other day, for instance, in the Lord
Mayor's Court, Thos. Palmer, a money-
lender, summoned James Broekinton,
a mechanic, for the payment of eleven
poonda two shillings and eight pence,
the balance of aauan of thirteen pounds
two shillings and eigbtpence, which
had grown oup; of a loan of three
pomade and ten shillings, and for which
judgment bad been previously recover-
ed. Brooleington said that he had been
ill and had been compelled to borrow
the three pounds and tan shillings to
support hie family. He had already
paid two pounds and four shillings,
when Palmer brought an cation a
Baust
him that brought the debt with costs
to thirteen pounds ten shillings and
eightpennae. The money lender admit-
ted these circumstances, but said that
the money was dos to hiss, and he
would Ieave it for the judge tosay 12
he was not legally entitled to an order
tram the court enforcing payment. The
judge was not without humour. He
observed that while the law allowed
money -lenders to charge what interest
they Liked, it also allowed him as judge,
to exercise his discretion as to 410e
order he should make for re -payment,
wherewith he exercised that discretion
by making an order for the payment of
the eleven pounds ten shillings and
eightpence by monthly instalments of
sixpence, at which rate the payment
will be extended over a period of
thirty-seven years.
Considerable astonishment has been
caused in military and social circles in
Plymouth and Devenport by the an-
nouncement that Captain Tames, an
old military officer and keen golfer,
who died recently at an advanced age
after many years' residence at Ply-
mouth, has left the whole of his pro -
pert,, amounting to £10.000 together
with his house and furniture, to bis
manservant, excluding els nearest re-
latives, a married sister and a nep-
hew, who is a doctor in North Devon-
port. The terms, of the will provide,
however, that Moon. the death of this
attendant, a portion of the money will
go to some of his, Captain James', re-
latives; but as the lucky legatee is by
no means old, these relatives' chances
of deriving meth benefit under this
clause seem rather remote. Captain
James had served in the Crimean war.
He was never married, and lived alone,
attended only by hid manservant, who
is an old soldier, and the'latter's wife,
untie the wife died, when a niece suc-
ceeded her.
A fere month's ago a going Londoner
was the conf',dential clerk to a mil-
lionaire, who was in failing health, In
his will his employer was generous
enough to devise hianl the whale of the
property on the termis'that a quarter
of a million sterling was to be paid
to the executors. Ther rich man died,
and the clerk at once came Into reee
session of a property worth nearly a
million even on the moot moderate
estimate. A Mellow incident In con-
nection with the bequest is that he
was only confidential clerk fora short
while, and that his predecessor would
have come into the fortune had he not
fallen i11 clueing the distiller's last
days. In fact, the deed prepared for the
one did 'service for the other, with the
single exception ;that the name was
altered.
A peculiar notion for slander and
damage has been taken in the London
courts, The plaintiff is the keeper of a.
porkpie shop inSoulth London, andha
alleges that the defendant -a trade ri-
val -came into his establishment one
Saturday evening when limes crowded
with customers and thing down a dead
cat on the counter, with the words,
"There, that' makes the dozen I" The
result was the imniediete clearing oh
the shop, which has remelted empty
of customers aver since. Heavy dam-
ages will be claimed.
The, old ountom of presenting afiitob
of bacon to coupe% who can, swear that
they have "ne'er math nuptial trans-
gressions since they were married man
and wife" was observed etDuhimow the
other day. Seven conny4es had put in
claim, but this number was weeded
down. in Live, They were Air. and Mrs,
Tosiali 7,ambort, of Mildmay Road,Ts-
linton; both septuagenarians, and Mr.
enft 16Irs. George Taylor, of Great
Y'.oiglit, near Clholmsford. Both couples
were da
aweede tLitch
i ,
The Countess at Carlisle, who has for
servo tinge past boon acquiring piddle -
limes, In the vicinity of Naworth` Cas-
tle, Cumberland, whonoves the oppor-
Lenity presented Ltself, liar perelrased
by private cantraet, the oklliistoric inn
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fact that all the nervous energy of our
bodies is generated by nerve centres
located near the base of the brain.
When the supply of nerve force has
been diminished either by excessive
physical or mental labours, or owing to
derangementaof the nerve centreswe
are first conscious of a languor or tired
and worn-out feeling, then of a mild
form of nervousness, headache, or
stomach trouble, which is perhaps suc-
ceeded by nervous prostration, chronic
indigestion, and dyspepsia, and a gen-
eral sinking of the whole system. In
this day of hurry, fret and worry, there
are very few who enjoy perfect health ;
nearly everyone has some trouble, an
♦cite, or pain, a weakness, a nerve
trouble, something wrong with the
stomach and bowels, poor blood, heart
disease, or sick headache; all of which
are brought on by a lack of nervous
energy to enable the differentorgansof
the body to perform their respective
work.
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Sold by Deadman & McColl
known asThePlough, atBanks, Lauer -
cost. In almost every instance theme -
party acquired has been turned into a
temperance 'refreshment house on a
more or Less elaborate scale.
Orchid lovers will be interested in
the details of a marvellous bouquet
presented to the Queen by permission
at Buckingham Palace. Over 50,000
orahids were grouped together in its
composition, some of the spikes being
almost priceless.
T00 SHARP.
111.1.11
Bow a Wag ID London Was Heiden at 0l
0N4 Gants.
A wag always appreciates a joke of
his coat malting at the expense of some
one else, but when the swine joke is
turned against himself it quickly loses
its oolor-tire Munoz. of it is gone in
an instant. , 1•
There is in Oxford Street, London,
a shop, on tivbiah even thane who ruin
may read the following notioe: "Ure-
breilas re-covered in twenty minutes,
ate all prices." • .
One day a wag entered the shop with
an umbrella. "Kindly re-cover this
uhnbrella for a peon," said; be to the
shopman.
"Tin sorry, sir," replied the shop -
Man, ."lett our lowest charge le four -
and -six."
"I beg your pardon,", retorted the
wag, "butt your advertisement out-
side says, 'Umbrellas re-covered• at all
prices.' Ople penny is a price, ie it
not8" ,
"Al, but that notice means 'at all,
reasonable prices.'
('Well, 1 vannot imagine a mush
more reasonable price than a penny."
Tile shopman meditated. "You in-
sist sir 4" •
"I insist," said the wag,
"All right, sir. Give me the um-
brella."
Then the wag relented,. end said,
laughingly, "No, eio--Lt is only any fun.
1 won't. held you to it,"
".Not at all, sir,"' responded to shop-
man. "I cannot help admiring your
char 'seas, 1 own you have caught me,
and I will do yeas Umbrella." Saying
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which he took the umbrella and ripped
the covering off. Then he called to
an assistant to fetch him a piece of
the beet silk.
Really, I hardly like to have you
do it, said the wag.
"Oh, that's all right," said the shop -
Meet
The beat silk was duly fetched, and
the shopman placed it over the 'spokes"
of the umbrella, for the space of one
un removed minute a,nd than pec
ve it. Then be
handed back the frame to .the aston-
ished wag. "Oh, but look here," said
the customer, "you told me. you were
going to re-cover 114"
And ere .T. did," replied the shop-
shb.man.
Then the wag meditated, "One mo-
ment, he said. `The notice eays,
`Umbrellas re-covered in twenty min-
utes: You re-covered mice in one
mi auto,"
sl"h'on. haveme Odea more," said the
sailan. "However," be want) on, 'T
I " would cattyout Umterms of
nay notice, and 1 will do so. Calf iu
again in twenty minutes, sir,"
I don't .quite comprehend."
"Why, I undertook to re-cover your
umbrella. in twenty minutess. Ca.11 10,
then, in twenty minutes," And he
handed him baol: the skeleton umbrella.
The wag saw there was nothing to
do but to leave. In twenty minutes ha
het sharia"a.t, want om pumbr said
covered. y, y elle ra-
recieely," said the shoptman. "Gail
again in twenty minutes,
T ;s'ktime the wag gave it up tor a
ba
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