"BIRDS OF PRAY." LATER NEWS. UPON the recent death of an eminent English divine at Cannes, the following bulletin was placed by the family upon the door of his late residence: "Mr. S departed this life for heaven at eleven o'clock A. M." Some passing wag, possessed of more drollery than reverence, placed beneath the notice a telegraph blank filled out in the following manner: "HEAVEN, 12 M.-Mr. "ANOTHER LETTER FROM ALFRED? WHEN DO YOU EXPECT TO MARRY HIM?" "HE HAS TWO YEARS MORE AT THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL. AFTER THAT HE WILL GO TO YALE, AND WHEN HE HAS BEEN GRADUATED THERE HE WILL GO OUT WEST TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE. WHEN HE HAS MADE HIS FORTUNE WE SHALL BE MARRIED. O, IT ALL SEEMS SO BEAUTIFUL." Chip Fifth Ave. Phantom: I SAY, RIBSEY, THE STAGE HAS AS BAD AN EFFECT ON HER AS IT HAS ON US. |