``That dints the dimple now, and kinks the lip ```That scarce may sing in all this glad increase ```Of merriment! So, pray thee, do not cease ``To cheer me thus, for underneath the quip ``Of thy droll sorcery the wrangling fret ```Of all distress is still. No syllable ``Of sorrow vexeth me, no tear drops wet ```My teeming lids, save those that leap to tell ``Thee thou'st a guest that overweepeth yet ```Only because thou jokest overwell.= BILL NYE'S SPARKS REQUESTING A REMITTANCE [Personal.] Washington, D. C. Along toward morning, 1887. _Cashier World Office_, New York.-- |MY DEAR SIR: You will doubtless be surprised to hear from me so soon, as I did not promise when I left New York that I would write you at all while here. But now I take pen in hand to say that the Senate and House of Representatives are having a good deal of fun with me, and hope you are enjoying the same great blessing. You will wonder at first why I send in my expense account before I send in anything for the paper, but I will explain that to you when I get back. At first I thought I would not bother with the expense account till I got to your office, but I can now see that it is going to worry me to get there unless I hear from you favorably by return mail. When I came here I fell into the mad whirl of society, and attracted a good deal of attention by my cultivated ways and Jeffersonian method of sleeping with a different member of Congress every night. I have not written anything for publication yet, but I am getting material together that will make people throughout our broad land open their eyes in astonishment. I shall deal fairly and openly with these great national questions, and frankly hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may, as I heard a man say to-day on the floor of the house--the Willard House, I mean. But I believe in handling great political matters without gloves, as you will remember, if you have watched my course as justice of the peace and litterateur. Candor is my leading characteristic, and if you will pardon me for saying so in the first letter you ever received from me I believe there is nothing about my whole character which seems to challenge my admiration for myself any more than that. Congressmen and their wives are daily landing at the great national Castle Garden and looking wildly around for the place where they are told they will get their mileage. On every hand all is hurry and excitement. Bills are being introduced, acquaintances renewed, and punch bowls are beginning to wear a preoccupied air. I have been mingling with society ever since I came here, and that is one reason I have written very little for publication, and did not send what I did write.