A Very Important Baby

The city of Crefold, in Rlienisli Prussia, has fur .ionio timo been in a fluttor of erpectatlon of its lOO.OOOth inhabitant. "Thero prevails," saya tlio ('refcld Z'üung, "a most unusual excUement as to who shall havo the distinction of béng the lOO.OOOth. Look i thore, that youthful faliior running himsolf out of broath lest soruo other happy ffttlier should forostall hira, In order to iinnouuce, all in a perspiration with the lonr run, the happy advent of tho baby. The grhuiing register of birtbs says to the poor, dlsappolnted man. it was No. 99,999. Vivat sequens! The next falher, sure to erup thu prize, comes running to tho offioe. 'Mv baby is tho 100. OOOth, uro he is.' 'You ara mistaken again, sir. Tliero wer two dettths announoed jusl now. Your baby i three leas tlian 100,000. In that way the Btruggle went on.but it coulü not last forever. "The tinjo ig at hanl," Baya Tlie Zettung, "when the lOO.OOOih Crofelder will be lyiug in his eradlo- tho DQ:m of the future, detined to tjee Crefel1 ono of tlie larjest rnaiiufactiir-nr nnd commercial centers of the world. dutirii; liet ctitry into the -cci.iiil hundiod thiiiisaiul inliahilants f rom the moment of nis oivu birth."-