A New Kind Of Fool

A eitizen walking up Chestnut treel tlic ether day, trod upon the flowing skirts of a kdy. The skirts were distended by ilie most lavish cii conference of criuolina, and trailed upon the sidewalk at least four luches The drapery was so voluiuinons, at auy ratethat the wuarer was simio t'eet diatatit t;-Q ijï lier liusband, besidp whoin -lie was wal k ing. Tlie citizen trod upon the hidy's skirts, briuging her to a stand still. The oitizen apologized ín tho most Immbíe íuanner, and tlie jady gtMiitcd it. . To bis surprise, as tlie lady passed on, tho hus band turued short about, and said to tlie citizen : " You're a fooi t " " Sir?" said tho indignant and astocished citizen, with an eye that forbjded a resent to the insult. '' Oh, I don't me;in to insult you. I see by your appearance tLut you are a gentleman. When i say you're a fool, I íiican you're a fool fur apoloyiziug to a womau who wears t rail skirts, becauji; you accidenully trod upan them. Th.it lady, sir, is tuy wife. I haya to get my bouta blacked four times a day to walk with her, fur fear of soiling her flounces. The ncst time you tread upon them, pruy don't apologize íor it. If you had torn off tho wliole trail of the dress I should have been pieased rafljer '■Unn othbrwisu." "And you retract your offensive rei.n.rk, then ? " asked the uitizun. u Id the sense you uuderstand it, I do, of eourse. Should you again tread upou my wifo's triil, and tlien apologize for it, I should leel very much üko repeating tho epittjet " The citizen wcnded Lis way like a man who had acquired a new wrinkle. ïhe above we find in the Plnladelphiu Gazdte, and we must add that tho " husband " was rightj at easi in ihis, that it is the duty of any lady wilh dragging skirts, to apologize to the gentleman whose locomotion her tea tl interrupts - If a roll of silk should be tumbled frota a store, over which roll, the passing pedestrian should stumble, who should make the apology ? And wherein is there any distinction ? The artieles offenilinír, in hoi.li caaes, ara " dry goods," and both are where they have no business - iu the dirt. W'e i.isist upou it, that when a lady's dragging dress is Rtcpped upon, she shuuíd apclogizi', oven if, by the accident, every "gather'' ia her ítfrt U ripped. - Cleveland Ueyald. gr A country man sowiiig hi;ground, two eniart fellovvs riding tlial wny one ot tl. er; pallefj to hiin, witn an insolan t tir : " Well, ljoiiest fellow il is your business to sow, but wo Èëap the 1'riMts ol yoijr labor." To which the couutryinan replied : It is very l.kely you may, for I am sowing heiap ! " Gen Halleck said in coart, on Saturday, that in his opinión, nf er examiinng all the official papers beariug upou thb question, Harper's Ferry Uligtyt anii should have been relioved. He said ths testimony taken implioatos at least ono. j pd probubly two Geüsrals, -vLo a;-o still