What A Mouse Did

"The most remarkable gruup I ever saw," said a gentleman, "was in young lady's private apartments oa F street, long after midnight. I was a boarder in tho house. I wa3 aroused from a deep sleep by a piereing cry coming from tho third story. An ava lanche of female shrieks came pouring down the stairs. With a blankel thrown about me and a fire sliovel in my hand I made a bound for the room frorti which the crios came. "At the samo moment the lady of the houso, who had just come in from a ball and was in full dress, rushéd u{, followed by her huibuiid, wlio was ia full dres.s also. A lady boarder witli her hair in papera and u sheet over her shoulders app.;art'd armed with s broom; and an old boau who at all other tinii'.s vvore a glossy black wig bounded into the room Jikeawildlndian driven from tho 'happy hunting ground' for want of a scalp. Ho wa. clothed in a crazy-quilt aml armed witi). a feather dustor. "Wc all strncx the room at the saai" time and stoodthere ia tiie broadglarj of light. The cause of the disturbarice was a youn g lady partly disrobed, whu stood on a table in the middle of th room witb one shoe in hor hand. Th-; only other occupant of the room was a. oiouse, which was erouched in one corner, frightened almost to doath. Not % word w;is spoken. Evcryoue at ÜiaS mometit seemed to beconie conscioua ot his or her peculiar appearance. Eacti looked at the rest for au instant and they all disappeared. The aceideat fas never again referred to.'1 - Washington -♦ - A waiter ín :i California hotel' waited 011 a labio at which were seated gentleuica speaking Engliah, French. Italian, Spanish and Germán, and be spoketoeach in his natiye language, talking to any f tbom lluenlH-.- Aferfhant Trac