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------------Wise and Otherwise.

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Wise and Otherwise. KANSAS PHILOSOPHY. A man has been sitting on a dry goods box near this office all day looking for wo:k. The only thing a man can find around a house without assistance is fault. Every time we meet a schoolteacher we find that we have always been pronouncing another word incorrectly. A girl was on the streets to-day wearing a rainy-day costume. She had evidently decided in private that this is a free country, but she certainly felt very uncomfortable in public.— Atchison Globe. A SHORT CUT, "Miss Daisy, you are writing to that little brother of yours who is visiting out West, aren't you ? 11 "Yes. He's a dear little fellow. I miss him so much." "He is, indeed. Have you sealed the letter yet, Miss Daisy ? "Not yet." "Add a postscript, if you please, and tell him I want to know how he would like me for a big brother." "Mr. Spoonamore, it will beat least two weeks before you get an answer-if you ask him," demurely. And the matter was settled in about two minutes. THE FIRST BABY'S SNEEZE. The doctor had come in late from a hard day's work driving from place to place, feeling pulses, givinsr encouragement and writing pre- scriptions. He had eaten his supper at 11 o'clock, made a last call on a man with the grip and had turned into bed dog-tired at midnight with the hope that he would be allowed to sleep un- disturbed until morning. There was a telephone on the wall across the hall, but this he forgot. It was long after midnight when the tele- phone bell rang. The doctor was sunk in a deep eleep. Again the bell rang out sharply and im- patiently, and continued to ring, but the doctor did not hear it. At the other end of the hall a pale student pored over his book. He was studying law. The bell disturbed him, and he at length decided to answer it and end the ringing. He took down the receiver and shouted "Hello;" "Is that you, doctor ? asked an anxious voice. Yes; what do you want," replied the student, who knew the doctor was tired and did not wish to wake him unless the c'lse was serious. "This is Potts, doctor, II..T. Potts. My wife wanted me to call you up to tell you that the baby wouldn't plav wiih his blocks to-night, and seemed kind of heavy and dull. What do you suppose is the inatter, doctor ? My wife is very uneasy." "Hum," said the student, trying to think of something to say. "Is the baby feverish ?" "No, I don't think he i," replied the voice. "But he sneezed oncf to-night." "All," said the I)o,us doctor, "that's a good lifln. If he sneezed and is not feverish he is all right. You might give him a little drop of .water if he wakes and cries: if he gets too warm, take some of the covers off." "All right, doctor. Much oblLed. Sorry to have had to disturb ycu, but my wife wouldn't go to sleep till I called you up. Cood-night." "Ah," thought the pale student, "that's two dollars for the doctor. Wish I could earn it as easily." When he told the doctor about this deception the next day he was thanked, and Mr. Potts's bill was swelled by two dollars, one half of wfiica went to the pale student. "It's their first baby," explained the doctor, "and they're tickled to death to pay any price for it. 1 couldn't have given Potts any better advice myself." Now you know how easy it is to be a doctor- sometimes. -Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. THE VERY LATEST. "I never thought I could be so easily taken In," said Dobson. "I was coming down the street this morning when a seedy-looking indi- vidual approached meaud said:— "'Excuse me, sir, but someone has been mak- ing you the victim of a very silly practical joke.' "At the same time he reached up and unpinned from my coat one of those signs used by the shops, and which read: Cheap at half-price.' "To say that I was mad fails to express it. I gave the seedy party a shilling for. his kindness in calling my attention to the matter, and then started to run down the silly fool who had done- his best to make me appear" ridiculous. "I simply retraced my steps and accused everyone that I had met that morning of pinning the card to my back. "I quarrelled with Spongely, and nearly had fight with Gruniply, and the more my friends denied the outrage, the madder I got. "I was looking up the last man that I remem- bered having met that morning, when I chanced to see the seedly-looking party who had called my attention to the card just ahead of me. "I was about to hand him another shilling, when I saw him walk quickly up to a pros- perous-looking gentleman and quietly pin the same identical card that he had taken from my back upon the coat-tails of the party. "Then with the same words with which he had called my attention to the card, he addressed the party, accepted his thanks and sixpence, and slipped away, while the prosperous-looking citizen went swearing down the street." SHE CARRIED OUT THE ORDERS. Mrs. Smith, who lives on Calumet-avpnue, tent a domestic out the other day with a tailor- made suit that she wanted cleaned and pressed. "Now, Bridget," she said, "these cleaners are sometimes very careless if they think one will put up with poor work. You take this over to —Cottage Grove-avenue, and be sure to impress it upon the old fellow that I want the Vork well done. Bridget came back in the course of half-an- hour, evidently well pleased with herself. "§Pre, mum," she exclaimed. "I'll warrant yer dress is irruned to perfection. Oi tould 'im, sez Oi, the woman yez be goin' to worruk for is the divil. She's the particularest crayther yez iver had daiiins wid, bein' that homely she knows her dresses has got to be disthracktingly good lookin'. Oi fixed him fer yez, mum, an' niver told no lies, neither."—Chicuyo Inter-Ocean. HOW COULD SHE HAVE DOUBTED HIM ? "I declare, I'll not get over it in a thousand years!" said Mrs. Youngfrau, upon her return from the party. "Not get over what ? inquired Mr. Y. Oh! that horrid, adorable hypnotism Mr. Montague did it. You know he has such divinely enchanting eyes, and when he looks at(you, yon feel that he can see way down into the deepest depths of your innermost soul, and you feel uncomfortable and shivery—oh, it was lovely!" andMrs. Youngfrau sighed. "I don't see anything enchanting or adorable or lovely in feeling shivery. If you enjoy it. perhaps we can manage to spend the summer somewhere where they have the ague." "It isn't like that. You feel a strong, irre* sistible will slowly gaining the ascen tancy over yours, and hear a" soft, imperious voice calmly Issuing commands that it seems a pleasure to obey, and you wTake a foolish deli hfc in making a fool of yourself before a room full of company, to the everlasting disgrace of yourself and family, and all because a young rdrot without anv brains happens to have the eyes of a startlpd fawn and the voice of a telephone girl. The pleasure depends upon who does the 'hypnotising, evidently." ,lob you jealous boy! you don't suppose I would allow anybody to mesmerise me, do you ? Why, I would suffer a million deaths first.! I was giving the sensations as Miss Nottingham described them to me. She is engaged to Mr. Montague, you know "Oh!" (in a relieved tone) "No. T didn't know." And Mr. Youngfrau resumed his paper. "He does love me yet! soliloquised Mrs. Y. "How could [ have rVnht-pd him

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