No Use For Carlyle

Scène - Book counter in department store; bargains in standard works; two overdressed, pasty faced damsels lingering carelessly to examine titles. "Did you ever read this?" said one, picking upa 19 cent copy of "Sartor Resartus. " "Mr. Smith says it's splendid." The other took the little volume rather gingerly, glanced for a moment into its solidly printed pages, aud with a contemptaoas "Excúseme!" tossedit across the counter. The vulgar intonation of that "Excuse me!" and its flippant application to so ponderous a work were amusing, to say the least. - Art In Advertising. Dainty StraziDi. Strazini is the name of a wonder in Leipsic. Strazini astonishes his audiences by first eating a soup whieh consists of sawdnst plentifully mixed witb coal oil. The mess is set afire, and aftor the fiames have been extinguished Strazini eats the peculiar mixture, ladling it out vrith a spoon. He follows this up with bitiug piece after piece from the lamp chimney, crushing the glass between his teeth and swallowing it. He washes it down with a little water. For dessert he munches pieces of hard coal, peat, washing soap, tallow