A Rake Reporter

-A Washington paper haring statod that a short-miml reporter in that city can write witb bpth banda at the samo time, the left taking DOtea and tho right transcribing, tho TifHj Wiig comes to the resoné with this bigger story : " There is an old reporter now rctirod from active life, who uscd to take notos with his left hand while writing a check with his riarht. He is now wrestlir.g with his mustiina gray stone front in Sing Sing, just becauso he forgot himself and took notes with one hand in a hurry." County bonds issued for the support of the wives and chüdron of confoderate I soldicrs in Tennessee havo beon declarod 1 illegal by the coiirt,