Diamond Cut Diamond

a weii-to-ao unaertaKer, oí Han francisco, owned a small house and lot in a block that was coveted by one of the Pacific coast millionaires, who had built a palace there and wanted all the contiguous land for a garden. He succeeded in getting all except the undertaker's property, wbich projected into the very heart of his grounds, and which its owner would not part witli at wliat the millionaire considerad a fair price. The latter, therefore, erected a high fence, said to be the loftiest in America, inclosing the obstinate undertaker's property on three sides, and depriving it alïnost entirely of sunshine. The undertaker trained vinos to grow up tlie wooden wails, and stood it coolly for a year or two. Now, at last, his patience has given out. A few weeks ago he had his house removed bodily to another part of the city, and, obstinate as ever, is about to putup a very tower of Babel. The stylo of the projrosed building, it is said, will be plainand substaatial ïorthe flrst five storiea, lout the remainder of the towering ediflce, rising above the fence, will present a cominingling of renaissance, Gothic, and Babylonian architecture, surmounted with a section of Chinese pagoda. He declines to say to what use3 he proposes putting this remarkable ediflce; but it is believed that the flrst and paremount use will be to torment the hitherto-triumphant millionaire.