The Corn Dentist And Plumber

Peck's San. One of those mistakes that aro liablc to occur in the best regulated families created quite a laugk in a West side residence a few days aj,o. The lady of the house had been grambling about a corn on her foot, for months, and her husband had tried in vain to get her to consent to have a rcgularly oidained "corn dentist" come up and remove it, but sho was afraid it would hurt, and was nervous about having a horrid man touch hero bare foot, and sho suffered along until Tuesday, when in a moment of agony she told the old man to send up his corn doctor as soon as he had a mind to. He had already ordered a plumber to go to the house and mend some gas fixtures that had sprung a leak, and the plumber got there first. The lady gavo orders that if a man called with some corn tools, to send him up to her room. The plumber rang the bell, and on being asked wherc the work was to be done, the girl told him to go up to the lady's room, and the man went up. He had a roll of cloth with tools in it, and as he put it down on the fioor to unroll the tools, the lady took off her slipper, and removed hor stocking, and placed her foot on a hassock. She looked at the plumber'3 tools on the Hoor, and almost fainted. There was a big pair of pincers, and two files, and a lot of iron things that looked big enough to remove the corns from an elephant. The man was sorting out the tools, and didn't notice the woman's fright, until she asked: "Is this going to hurt much? If it is I had rather suffer the annoyance." "O, no," said the man looking up at the gas bracket by the window, which had a rag wound around the joint that leaked. "I can screw the cap onto the joint, so the gas cannot escape," and seeing tho woman's bare foot so near him he opencd his eyes in wonder, and blushed like a girl. She looked at him and wondered why he did not go to work on her foot. He was a great, big, muscular fellow, and he looked as littïe like the way sho supposed a corn doctor would look as possiblc. Taking up a big pair of pinchers, and taking a match, to light a small caudle which he carried, to test lcaky gas fixtures, he said: "Where does it seem to be the worst?" "There," says thelittle woman, bonding over, placing her fineer on the joint next to tho lifctle toe. "llight between those two toes. It is a soft corn, and sometimes it makes me wild. Now, do be careful, wont you," as the man droppedhispincers and stood back as though he had "been struck by lightning. Then he laughod out loud, and said: "Madame, I have been in the plumbing business twrenty-two years, but this is the lirst tim& I was ever called upon to repair a bro ken joint on a woman's toe. Excuso nic," and he began to roll up his tools. "Heavens and1 -earth!" said the wonian, as she tried U put on her stocking wrong end (irst, and blushing so she looked as pretty as though sno never had a corn, "I thought you was a corn doctor. There is the gas iixture you are to putty up," and she went out of tho room in her stocking foet to blow up the girl for sei iding b plumber to plumb a corn. Tho corn doctor arrived soon, and did his work, and when he and the plumber went out together they were having a. great laugh as they turned the corn 3r. When slie tells her husband to send up a man to do any work about the. house now, sho stipuates that he sb.all not send a plumber, whatever ho de íes At Baden-B aden tho Ernpress of Ausria rises at 5 o'clock every morning, akes a little refreshment, and then ,akes an hour's boxing lesson an ome gymn astic exerciscs. After breakfast sho makes and receives calis until noon. A Sier lunch she takes a five hours' rido= in the saddlo and a ong walk. Het 7 o'clock dinner consists mainly of corn teef and cabbage. At 9 o'clock in: the evening sho goes to bed and sle eps soundlv until niorning. A writer in Ga.rdening Illustrated uses thin gu.tta-percha in his grafting operations. Pieces two inchos squaro are put in Kot wator.and placed aroond the graft. He likes it better than the eommon n ïixturo for the purpose. Charles Dudley Warner is averse to making now acquaintancos. But h doos not, object to aew readerr.