The Wrong Spring

The following story is from Bartlett Springs, where, as is well known, therc are a nutnber of siuuil springs possêssiug various qualitits. The watei1 oí S'mie ih recomruended tor drinking purposes, ot others for bathing, or tor ttie uuih of ceitain diseases ; but the one to which our narrative refers is a small soda spring the water of which. is oonsidered au ex cellent drink, and the spring ïecouiiiieuded for the uure of coma. It seems that an old gentleman whc was troubled with corns ruwde it a practice to go to the soda spring every eve niug and g ve his corns h. soak befon turning in lor the night, under the ini prtssion that it was the eoin spiing Th. aristocratie visitera likewise n:ade it h practice to go to the soda spiing and Uiki a drink before rutiring, which was usuall_ a little after the old gentleman gol through soaking his corns. They wen rather fastidious in tlieir tastes, ana would very cheerful'y rinse out the cii belore taking a dnuk, Uut one evvning one of thein happened to come down little earlier than coininon and funud thi old getitleninn soaking bis coras as usmtl. The high-toned chap iudignantly de maiided what he njeant. "Ainv tllis tb coru spring!''' wetikly iuquiied the old man. ' Corn spring ! 'ibis is a sod spiing." "Woll," Büid the old man, ] thought there must he eometbing wrcng : I have been toining here evtry nipht toi a week, and I couldn't see as it helper my cornsa bit." The water of that spiini: has been neglected since that eveuing - tíutter (Cal.) Banner, Avgutt 23.