A Queer Fancy

-One of James don tíennett s queer iancios was aa íuiínonso bird cago fillod with raro birds froin every section of the globe. So ho had it made as largo as a houso, and beforo it hu would stand for hours and study thc habits of the different meinhers of tho feathery tribe. Sometimos hü would Uken bis different birds and fowls to well-known men ia real lifo. Once ho stood with a neighbor aud kept him laughing for a long timo as hu would point them out, with an apt remark. Pointing to the robin, he said thftt was Thomas A. Hendrioks; the woodpecker.that is Ben. Butler; the old goose is Sumner; the sparrow is Logan ; the owl is Qrant ; tho parrot is G uret Davis ; tho old gobblor is Conkling ; tho crow is Fred. Douglusa ; tho hawk is Wendoll Phillips, and tho canary is Sunsot Cox, etc. This largo house :;igi is still to be at Washington Heights. Pranklin is said to have been deniccí a prominent part in drawing up the Declaration of Indepondencc, lost ho should put a joke in it. Sotne such man must be .."espoiisiblo tor tho tolluwing ezquisitely Iudricou8 bit of satire in the Jfhiladolpbia platform : " Monacing forcigu diititulties havo been peaoefuily und honorably compromised, and the honor and power of the nation kept in high repute throughout the world." This sugg-ist a (ali fornian story of the days of 'lü. " Ihoir you tried to shoot Brown," said a man to a notorious braggart. " Woll, yes, but we compromised the matter." " How was thíit'r" "Well, you seo, I flrew a six-shooter on him, and ho knockod iuo down and stamped on mo." We havo throateuod both Kngland and Spain, and have been thoroughly guubbed for our pains.- Chicago TribuM.