Lay In Your Calendars

Lay in loar tif.miirs. This is the time to lay in a stock of calendars. The railroad compames vie with the insurauce companies in getting out handsome calendara. The drug manufacturera' monopoly of the almanac business is only disputed by a few newspaper publishers. "We are overrun with applicants for calendars," said a veracious insuracce agent yesterday, "and if we had 2,000,000 calendars we would give them all away mside of two weeks. Women are the most persistent applicants, and if we refuse their requests they'll return the aext day and ask for blotters. Some applicants are very nervy, and will 'ask for one of each kind,' and if we give the applicant a handsome souvenir ten to one he or she will ask for another for her pa or ma or big brother. They come in droves at all hours, and we encounter quite a number who boldly announce themselves as 'collectors of calendars.' The calendar business at this time of the year is a, decided nuisance. It is a