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v el it christmas eve at the whiteheads my love said mr simeon whitehead as he tat before the fire on christmas eve this is a xlad and joyful time a time to draw fond hearts nearer to each othe and make them throb in loving unison yes simmy said his wife and withal he went on oracularly it is a rollicking merry time and jus to carry oat the spirit of the hoar lets hang up our stockings 0what fun 1 chirped mrs whitehead though i havnt a thing for you simmy dear so you mustnt be disappointed with delusive cmile s3 with many childish gargles of glee they went off to bed arm in arm leaving what looked like a long black sausagebig suspended from the chimneypiece by the side of a short etriped sock with a hole in the heel in the silent watches of the night mr simeon whitehead sneaked guiltily down stairs with a sealskin sacque under his arm ho grooped his way to the yawning black stocking and there ensued a wild and in effectual struggle to stuff it in the sacque but though he rolled it into its smallest possible compass and stretched thu sausage- bag to the form of a peck measure it was clearly a hopeless case and wiping his perspiring face with a convenient portion of his attire he hung the garment on jthe chimneypiece and left it hugging himself as he thought of the surprise it would create in the morning for he wot not that the de scendant of eve who shared his jiys had opened his drawer with a false key and torn a hole in the paper wrapping with a hairpin meanwhile mrs whitehead awoke and taking a tiny white box from under her pillow slipped stealthily out of the room at the top of the stairs she came in violent collision with her husband coming up and with womanly pretence of mind she grasped his bushy beard and screamed burglars 1 murder i simmy p taken off his guard and his feet at the same time mr whitehead suddenly sat down and his wife clinging to him desper ately they coasted together down the stairs landing in a confused heap at the bottom a locie orpetrod had played havoc with his abreviated garment and scraped the poreus plaster anda considerable portion of epidermis from hil back jj sj as fie struggled to his feet with a volley of choice expletives his wifewho had escaped without a scratch recognized the familiar tones and cried oh simmy are you hurt i v hurt no i dingiest it no hopping about in an agony of pain its rare sport to bo used as a toboggan by a fat old porpoise that weighs three hundred i perhapsiyotl will inform mo madam where the humor ous part of this performance comes infqr mrs whiteheadhad turnodjipthe gas w4 now stood giggling hysterically at his capers must you stand there grinning like a dangfestcd idiot because youve kno4keo your husband down stairs and peeled his blasted back for him took me for a con demned burglar did you well if s veri burgle in this way again you may have the rest of my blame skin li s a1x j 0 simmy dear dont swear you slid christmas was a joyful loving time i did did i well aino we enjoying it t aint we out in full dress in honor of the occasion j glaring wildly at his tattered garments havent i sacrificed half a yard of cuticle to make this thing a howling success wantto try another whirl per haps im too slow for von maybe youd like to rig me up with a set of wheels and an air brake for a dangfestcd rollercoaster anything to carry out these joyous festivi ties in rattling style there madam- he continued kicking the sacque savagely about tho room theres the condemned instituation that has brought such an oveiflow of joy into this family theres the last blame christmas present youll ever get from me theres the dang festcd article here he kicked a table leg he didnt injure the table leg but spoiled tho shape of his largest corn and he limped groaning up stairs simmy dear his wife called softly after him shall i come up and bathe your poor bick with arnica j but a vicious slam of the door was the only reply so she tried the effect of the sealskin scque over her robt ce null and said as she paraded before the glass i donc care he cant take this bck any way and if he wont have the dia mond stud ill trade it for a bracelet emma s orr the latest the managers of the fairs have not yec exhauited the resources of oivilizition here is the latest novelty at a fair in one of the interior towns of pennsylvania two youngwomen noted for being ex cellent housekeepers with a desire of miking a sons of america fair shortly to be held as profitabe as possible have consented to be chosen in public to be the wives of any two young men who may prove acceptable to them and their parents the young women will be at the fair every evening and will have charge of booths any young man who is serious in his intentions will be required to siy publicly in a loud voice in the hall where the tair is held i am here to this the young lady who is nearest will promptly answer so ami the wooing is to take place in sight of all spectators and if au agreement to marry is arrived at it is to be publicly signed the witnesses thereto to be selected from the audience it is tolerably safe to say that this sort of marrying and giving in marriage is bound to end in the divorce court struck with lightning neatly describes the position of a hard or sole corn wkea putnams painless corn ex tractor is applied it does its work so quickly and without pain that it seems magical in action try it recollect the name patnsma painless corn extractor sold by all druggists and dealers every where sir george trevelyan made a hit when in speaking oa the proposal to spend a sec ond rive millions sterling in buying up irirh landlords he inquired how many eng lish counties might have been blessed with allotments worth 10000000 how many siill plots of gronnd sufficient t keep a bardworking man and his family in com fort might be provided if the government were only as wiliiag to lend to english peasants as co irish landlord tho strange thing is that the common tense of such are- mark strikes everybody bat that nowadays nobody takes the trouble to point oat that it is rink sodalim toronto globe a sew freak two sidedneat fa a visible peculiarity of the current belle no matter how fair and square her disposition may be her gowns have sides that do not match each other ioes halved robes suggest those trick cos turn that the double- voiced songstresses of the stage used to wear with a dark heavy side to turn to the audience when she sang ia a deep contralto and a light side to expose during the high soprano warbling the heightened the illusion the coquette of to day might keep two wooers simultaneously at her sides and neither would afterward be able to confound her with the other by a de scription of her apparel even if it were evening and her hands rloved one chap might swear truly that the hand he had fond led was pink while the other might as cor rectly vow that the hand he had squeezed was drab it is a freak of the more daring and eccentric girls to mismatch their gloves in that manner making each hand harmon ise in hue with its side of ihe toilet oh 1 1 am glad to meet yon said a very gallant but very nearsighted chap to one of a bevy of girls i think i was intro duced to your sister a few minutes ago it was to me thatyou were introduced said the girl then observing his doubt she explained you were on the lace and- velvet side of me then but you are on the satinandbrocade side now and she turned around to show him how like joined but dis similar halves her dress new york sun while it ia admitted that lord diffarin has handed icdia over to lord lansdowne in a more tranquil and satisfied condition than it wasiu four years ago the new viceroy still has his difficulties before him lord linsdowne has to meet the demand made by the native congress that the educated men of india should be given some share in the management of that vast empires affairs lord dafferlns parting speech at calcutta pointed out clearly the almost insuperable obstacle to the establishment of what is properly known as a democratic form of government this will doubtless make it easier i or lord lanadowne to resist too am bitious attempts on the part of the natives of india but it lcaveshim notwithstanding a serious problem to solve- his career in india will be watched with a kindly interest by canadians there 13 great scope for achieving success as there is also for failure the egyptian war party are bringing strong pressure to boar upon the ministry in favour of extending to the cocqoest of khartoum the compaitjn just begun at suakim and the answers given by mr goschen in the house of commons and lord salisbury in the house of lords are to say the least extremely ambiguous and denote if they indicate anything at all that the end of the campaign cinnbt tie foreseen lord salisburys statement has failed to inspire confidence evenfemong the tories since it willbe he promised last spring t iat there would be no expedition to suskjm the saturday jtuiew strikes the keynote of conservative thought in an article which asserts that there will never be quiet in northeast africa until england has established civilized power at khartoum this theifciieu declares is as certain as that the sun rose yesterday and consider ably more certain than that the sun will rise tomorrow that done everything else wiu follow stanley the friends of henry m stanley- includ- ing a nnmberiof african experts after thor- oughly sifcing all the recant news from sua- kirn and zanzibar have come to the con clusion that the african explorer has not baen caught by the mahdi they believe that stanley made a cucnit through the bahrel ghazsl district to reach enin that while near lado which is many days jour ney further north than wadelai he sent a messenger to enin at wadelai and that this messenger was captured at lado the mahdi obtained possession of the letter from the khedive to emin from this messenger and the story of the capture of emin and stanley was based upon ihe documents found in his possession hence there ia no thing in the recent story of osman digua to prove the capture of either emin or stan- ey and tie latcers friends expect shortly to hear good news of him sir francis de winton in an intervie v said toe state ment ot osman dgnt that the mahdis troops have taken liao recalls the extensive spread of the religious oi tanaticvl move ment which has expelled the earoneau friends from the sudan the vast distance from cairo to khartoum can since the nile expedition be to some extent realized by everyone but khartoum is only half way from cairo to lado the mahdis rule in short extends over an area measuring 1500 miles from north to sonth and about the simo distance from east to west lost dlusion what is everybody wicked mamma dear yes bsrtie are you wicked yourself mamma dear not so good as i ought to be and the police consumption sorely cored- to the editor please inform your readers that i have a rtiva remedy for the above named disease its timely use thousands 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