•Did you ever hear about John Osborn and
his setter pups?"
On being informed that his listener had not
only not hoard of thorn, but was surprised
that the man owuod setter pups, he began:
“John Osborn ran for sheriff in St Paul,
Minn., aud while ho was working all tho boys
with his good nature ho had frequent calls at
his house, and whenever a man with a fancy
for field sports came the talk always fell upon
a beautiful setter and her fine puppies
“ ’Nice puppies, John.’
“ ’Yes, bully puppies, ain’t they?’
“ ’They are’tho moot beautiful setter pups I
evor saw anywhere. ’
“Then tho candidate for sheriff would take
tho man aside, and, in a confidential tone tell
him:
“ ’You just wait till after election and I’ll
give you ono of those pups.*
“ *This thing had been going on for a couple
of weeks, and one evening a man shut the
door and left the house with the promise of a
pup lingering in his ear, when Mrs. Osborn
asßed.
“ ’John, how many puppies are there?’
“ ’Five. Why?’
“ ’Well. I was thinking that to-night you had
promised the twenty-third man that he should
nave one of them. ’
“ ’Oh, well, Mary,’ said Osborn, ’don’t you
think it would be a mean man to run for sheriff
who wouldn't promise a pup to bis friend?' "
Railroad Building.
A contractor versed in railroad building says!
“A common prairie track costs 812,000 per mile
to construct—B3,lso for grading, 83,022.50 for
fifty-aix-pound steel rails, leaving less than
85.000 for bridging, ties, track laying, etc.
