year and a half, and don't pay it, and he meets you on the street and asks
for five dollars more, and you turn him around and kick him right before
the crowd, that is a loan exhibition.


THE WICKED MON KEE.

Mon Kee, a Chinaman that was converted to regular United States religious
doctrines, and opened a mission in New York for the purpose of converting
more heathens and shethens, has been arrested for stealing. This is a
terrible blow, and Mon Kee was a terrible plower. A few weeks since the
religious papers made more blow over the coming into the fold of that
Chinaman than they did over all the editors in the country, who went not
astray. Now they have shut up their yawp about him, since he has proved to
be no better than Talmage or Beecher.


UNSCREWING THE TOP OF A FRUIT JAR.

There is one thing that there should be a law passed about, and that is,
these glass fruit jars, with a top that screws on. It should be made a
criminal offense, punishable with death or banishment to Chicago, for a
person to manufacture a fruit jar, for preserving fruit, with a top that
screws on. Those jars look nice when the fruit is put up in them, and the
house-wife feels as though she was repaid for all her perspiration over a
hot stove, as she looks at the glass jars of different berries, on the
shelf in the cellar.

The trouble does not begin until she has company, and decides to tap a
little of her choice fruit. After the supper is well under way, she sends