Mrs. ---- was born in Somerset County and resided in this city
before the flood."--_American Paper_.

At first we thought the headline a little previous, but the last
sentence shows that it is, on the contrary, decidedly belated.

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[Illustration: _Indignant Patriot_ (_to Local Food Committee_). "I
WISH TO REPORT THAT THERE'S A GROCER IN THIS TOWN WHO IS SELLING
BUTTER, SUGAR AND JAM WITHOUT COUPONS. HE--"

_Food Committee_ (_as one man, ecstatically_). "WHICH IS HIS SHOP?"]

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SOMETHING LIKE "LITERARY GOSSIP"!

Are you not, dear reader, a little tired of what is called "Literary
Gossip"? Be frank. Aren't you? And have you not sometimes longed even
more to know what the industrious fellows were not writing than what
they were?

But suppose we could come across an authentic column like this?

Mr. KIPLING is putting the finishing touches to a new Jungle book.
The first and second Jungle books have waited too long for this new
companion; but it is now on its way. A friend of the author, who has
been privileged to see an early copy, says that it is full of all the
old enchantment.