A Chicago Trick

-i saw a queer tncK íu Jlncago tlie other day. " said the drammer as he lighted a fresh cigar and pared his uails with his pocketknife. Of course two or three of the group j wanted to kuow all abont it, and he j contiuuud: "One of you let nie have a clean $1 bilí for a moment. Ah, that's a daisy of a bilí - jnst off the press last week. Now, then, I lay the bilí face downward on the floor - thus. The chap %vho ; did the trick was not a professional jug gler, btit lie did it with neatnees and dispatch. I don't say lean do it myself, butl'll try. " "But what is the trick?" "Why, 1 take my knife and cut the bilí lengtirwise - so. Then I cut it crosswise - so. That diyidos tho bilí into fonr equal portions, doesu't it?" JSvory one in the gronp answered that ! it tlid, and tue drummer gazed at the I pieoes awhile and said: "The trifk is to blow the pieces toi ether so that theedgeswill unite. The ! Chicago mau did it, bat just how I i couliiu't iiml mt. Let's see. I will now ! blow. Al), they do not uuite. I will ! blow again" - ' ' What in the Oíd Harry are you trying to do?" demanded the owner of the bilí. "Why, I'm trying to blow the pieoes togetheiv" innocently replied the drummer. "But you can't do it. " "No, I see I can't. The Chicago man did it, but I'm not on tothe trick. Hero are the four pieces, and I guess you' 11 have to get a bottle of mucilage and a sheet of paper and paste them together. Awfully cute trick, but I can't do it. Wish I could, but I cau't. " And, strangeiy enongh, the owner of tbe bil] looked at the pieces, and from the pieces to the drummer and back, and then cal led the drummer a doublé dyed idiot and walked off with the declaration that he'd like to punch body's