f
pleasantparagraph ^
“Barney,” said she, pulling her
‘ Old Dan Tucker” was another i
There is no death! The «tare go down
hand away from his grasp, I’ve a
song that created great enthusiasm 1
To rise npon some fairer shore;
test to put you to before I give you
at the time, and according to Uncle] The Esthetic flat 1« t «* i I- Donah“«"’» T»l- 1st, saul Balzac one day u t
And bright in heaven’s jeweled crown,
an answer. There is a corpse lying The Polk*Clay Campaign*, Intereetlng Bob’s version was sung as follows:
„„t
a Sculptor Coming to Snooooa the elder, "I intend to wrifa t
They shine forevermore.
Kacolleetina ef Henry A. M. Wlea and
Htag«.”
“Begin at ouce.J'
in the chamber where my grandsire
< lid Dan Tucker is a nioe old au,
Through Contorted Feature».
Wilke
Booth.
There is no death! The dnst we tread
plied Dumas.
He used to ride a steam engine:
died, in the unchanted wing of the
Shall change beneath the summer showers
Late one flight across the track
house.» If you dare sit with it all
A young man says he k
To golden grain or mellow fruit,
The locomotive broke his back.
When Oscar Wilde last lectured
night and let nothing drive you
Robert Williams, known to a large
Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
attempt the feat or gome f
Ho get out of the way. Old Dan Tucker,
in Chicago a young man named Don without working. He savs iU
away from your post you will not circle of acquaintances as "Uncle
You came too late to get your snpper.
The granite rocks disorganize
ask me again in vain.”
ohue was living there. He had a ployers don’t watch him he ti?
And feed the hungry moss they bear;
Bob,” is boss of the I ootblacking de Old Dan Tucker, he got drunk.
"You will give me a light and
The forest leaves drink daily life
strong bent for sculpture, and his can accomplish the task.
He
fell
in
the
fire
and
kicked
up
a
chunk;
partment
of
the
Riggs
house.
He
From out the viewless air.
bottle of wine and a book to read?”
A red-hot coal got in his shoe,
Policeman (to group of
artistic talent was backed up by
belongs to the remnant of a type of Lord bless your soul how the ashes flew.
“Nothing.”
There is no death! The leaves may fall
shrewdness and common sense. He —Come, now, move l)0
So get out of the way, etc., ete.
“Are these all the conditions you colored people now almost extinct.
And flowers may fade and pass away;
nothing the matter here, s»
They only wait through wintry hoars
can offer me, Barbara?”
had previously managed to study boy Of course there isn’t iT
J. WILKES BOOTH.
He has turned IN) years of age, hav
The coming of May-Day.
“All. And if you are frightened
Several years lie fore the war Un for a brief period in Paris, and a was you wouldn't be here. 4
you need never look me in the face ing been born 1792, tight years be
There is no death! An angel form
fore the death of Washington. It cle Bob was at service in the 1’ow specimen of his workmanship had
“Take care of the useful
Walks over the earth with silent tread,
again.”
And bears our best-loved things away,
must lx» said, however, to the credit hatan Hotel at Richmond. There been admitted to tha Salon. Then beautiful will take care of iZ
So
Barney
was
conducted
to
his
And then we call them “dead."
post by the lad, who had been in of Uncle Bob, that he does not affect he waited on J. Wilkes Booth the his funds gave out and he had to This is what the fond and un *
He leaves our hearts all desolate,
structed in the secret, and whose to belong to that numerous class of greater part of three years. Ac return precipitately to Chicago. He father remarked when be
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers;
his ugliest daughter first
*
involuntary start at Ernest’s placid partriarcbal servants who lay claim cording to his recollection. Booth
Transplanted into bliss they now
a handsome AWMVm,
fellow, wsvwnn*
dressed .......
like opened a studio there, but met with
moo ,»
face as he lay in the coffin was to the honor of having waited upon was
A guileless girl wrote toherw
Adorn immortal bowers.
la a dandy, and who in this day would little recognition or encouragement thus:
attributed by Barney to the natural the first man of the republic.
“Don’t come to see »7
The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones
He took his scat fact, the venerable shoeblack can not lie called a brilliant “masher.'' "Ha The debit and credit ends of his ac more just yet, John, for father'
Make glad these scenes of sin and strife, awe of a corpse.
recall
to
his
mind
any
recollection
of
wan
’
t
much
with
the
southern
la
and the boy left him alone with the
Hings now an everlasting song
counts could not be made to meet been having his boots half««
Washington, though in his time he dies,” said the sjieaker. “but all the
Around the tree of life.
darkness, rats and the coffin.
by a very wide margin. His fortunes with two rows of nails rota?
has
served
many
distinguished
men,
actress«
s
and
the
common
women
Soon after, young Fritz, the tan-
Where’er He sees a smile too bright,
were at low ebb, and he was seriously toes.
and
his
memory
is
rich
with
the
stir
were
in
love
with
him.
The
south
ner, arrived, flattered and hopeful
Or heart too pure for taint and vise.
Upon seeing a tire engine at,
thinking of adopting some more
ring
events
of
seventy-five
and
fifty
ern
ladies
kinder
looked
down
on
from the fact that Barbara had sent
He bears it to that world of light,
years ago.
To dwell in paradise.
actors as they does it yet. Booth was remunerative occupation, when Oscar an exquisite remarked: “W ho »
for him.
BORN A SLAVE.
a great pistol shot then and used to Wilde arrived in the city and began evah have dweamed that such,,
“Have you changed your mind,
Born unto that undying life,
Barbara?”
They leave ns but to come again;
He was born the slave of Thomas go out in the back yard of the hotel, a course of lectures. Donohue at diminutive looking appawatus«
With joy we welcome them the same,
“No; and I shall not until I know Sedden, in Fauquier county, Virgin wheel and tire at a chicken, cutting tended one of his lectures and then hold so much wattah!”
"Exowpt their sin and pain.
"Dear Louise, don’t let th,,
that you can do a really brave ia, but upon his death became the in off its head (the chicken’s) every called upon him.« He invited Oscar
Uncle Bob once saw Mr. to visit his studio and pass judg come too near you when court,
thing?”
And aver near us, though unseen,
herited property of J awes A. Sedden, time.
The dear immortal spirits tread;
“What shall it be? I swear to afterward Secretary of the Confeder Conklin, the proprietor of the hotel, ment upon his work. The esthete “Oh, no, dear mu. When ChaA
For all the boundless universe
' on his open palm and felt flattered at the compliment to here we have a chair betwi^l
satisfy you, Barbara.”
ate States Treasury. During a great hold an ai ipple
Is life —there is no dead!
Booth split
»lit it in two with a pistol his critical acumen, He pronounced Mother thinks the answer rather:
part
of
his
slave
career
he
was
hired
“
I
have
a
propasal
to
make
to
vou.
— r.S'ir A. Iluhrer Lytton.
the specimens he saw excellent ] biguous.
My plan requires skill as well as out to other people, one of his rem ball.
Donohue then told him his story. | Theodore Hook, after having )
courage ”
porary owners being Henry A. Wise,
THREE BRAVE MEN.
Oscar Wilde at his next lecture up- awfully crammed at an Alden»
"Tell me.”
to whom he bore the relation of body
A GANDLR PULLING MATCH-
braided the people of Chicago for i feed, being asked to be helped»,
Pretty Barbara Ferron would not
“Well, in this house there is a servant while Mr. Wise was Governor
On the programme of an after their lack of appreciation of home 1 replied: "No, thank you, 1 don't?
marry. Her mother was in conster man watching a corpse. He has of Virginia. He was thus brought
nation.
sworn not to leave his post till morn- into close communication with many noon’s frolic at Presidio del Norte, talent.
I any more; but I will take the res
This naturally led to inquiries as I money, if you please.”
"Why are you stubborn, Barbara?” ' ing. If you can make him do it I of the noted people of the Old Do Tex., was a grand “gander pulling”
match,
in
which
everybody
partici
to
who
this
budding
genius
could
be
she asked.
"You have plenty of 1 shall be satisfied that you are as minion. Two years before the war
Aunt Esther was trying fo,
lovers.”
smart and" brave as I require à hus ho was hired to Mr. Matthew Murray, pated. The gander, a very venerable who had heretofore remained com suade little Eddy to retire at .-u
bird,
purchased
from
a
peon,
was
paratively
unknown.
It
gradually
“But they do not suit,” said Bar band to be.”
of Washington city, and he has been
using as an argument that the li
bara, coolly tying back her curls
“Why. nothing is so easy!” ex a resident of the national capital hung from a tall pole by his legs, so leaked out that Donohue was the chickens went to roost at that h
that when fully extended his head man. Donohue was sharp enough to
before the mirror.
claimed Fritz. “I can scare him ever since.
"Yes,” said Eddy; “but then, u
“Why not?”
away. Furnish tne with a shoot, BUT NEVER BELONGING TO A POOR MAN. could be easily reached by a horse see his opportunity. He was natu the old hen always goes with th
man riding under the pole. The rally of a jovial and sociable temper
“I want to marry a man who is show me the room and go to your
Recalling his early experiences as
A stonecutter received the foil
brave, equal to any emergency. If I rest, Barbara. You shall find me at a slave Uncle Bob said to a reporter feathers were first carefully removed ament and had no sympathy with
from his neck anti when rendered the affectation of estheticism, but ing epitaph from a German to
the
post
in
the
morning.
”
give up my liberty I want it taken
yesterday afternoon: "1 never was a perfectly bare the vertebral elonga he perceived that in order to win upon the tombstone of his i
care of.”
Barbara did as required and saw poor man's slave, and that was a
“Silly child! what is the matter the tanner step lightly away to his great thing for a colored man in slave tion was liberally smeared with hie point he must "dissemble.” He “Mine vife Susan is dead. If she
task. It was then nearly twelve times. If you wanted to insult a grease. The "pullers’’ were ranged hied him to a tailor and had made a lived till next Friday she’d been)
with Big Barney, the blacksmith?”
“He is big. but I never heard that o’clock and she sought her own darkey you just say, ‘O, youse a po’ in line and at a given signal the suit of clothes of fantastic cut, in shust two weeks. As a tree fall,!
leader spurred forward hie horse and cluding a pair of trousers of the must stand.”
he was brave.”
chamber.
man’s nigger,’ and then you’d see
A man bet a neighbor that
Barney was sitting at his vigil, and two niggers go to kicking one an dashed under tho pole from which tightest possible lit. He banged his
“And you never heard that he was
dangled the patriarchal bird at a mad hair. He contorted his features into
not. What is the matter with Earnest, so far ali had been well.
other’s shins until one hollers. No, gallop. As lie passed he clutched at an expression of wobegone melan couldn’t walk half a mile with
looking to the right or left, and j
the gunsmith’”
The night seemed very long, for sir, 1 tell you Mr. Sedden was a gen
he had no means of counting the tleman, a born gentleman, every inch the slippery neck of the bird and— choly. His brow was corrugated as as the man started on his walk sell
“He is as placid as goat’s milk.”
“That, is no sign tha? he is a cow time. At times a thrill went through of him. He inhaled it from his missed it. The next man did no bet with the intensity of his aspirations dogs to fighting about half-waydj
ard. There is little Fritz, tho tan him, for it seemed as if he could hear grandfather who was a Virgitny ter, neither did the third, nor the for the ideal. He attitudinized in the track, and won his money ass
ner; he is quarrelsome enough for a low suppressed breathing not far gentleman before I was born. When fourth, nor the fifth. One after an public places and got himself talked Is as could be.
away. He persuaded himself that, 1 was a young man James Sedden other the riders, essayed to grt sp the about. He succeeded all the better
yon, surely!”
A stock broker, returning to I
slippery prize, but all signally failed. because he had a fine figure and was
"He is no bigger than a bantam it was the wind blowing through made me his footman. He married
office after a substantial lunch
Finally
Mustang
Joe,
the
last
man
good looking. “Who is that, idiot?” with a client, said, complacently,
cock. It is little good he can do if the crevices of the old house. Still Miss Sallie Bruce, the peartest young
the house was set upon by rob it was very lonely and not at all lady in Richmond. One day when in line, galloped forward. As he was frequently asked by curious ob his head clerk, “Mr. Putkin, the we
neared
the
pole
he
raised
himself
in
servers; and the number daily in looks different to a man when he)
cheerful.
bers."
the family had been out riding the
The face in the coffin gleamed carriage drove up to the front steps the stirrups and. although his horse creased of those who were able to a bottle of champagne in him.” "I;
“It is not always strength that
wins a fight, girl. It takes braius white still, The rats squeaked as if and I got down and opened the car passed under like a flash, he seized answer: “That is the genius who sir,” replied the clerk, significant!
as well as brawn. Come, now Bar there was a famine upon them and riage door, but 1 didn’t help the la the gander's neck with a firm hand was discovered by Oscar Wilde.” And “and he looks different to the won
bara, give these young fellows a fair they smelled dead flesh. The thought dies out. Mr. Sedden came down the and tore it from the body.—| Phila so it befell that lie attracted the at
A lady and gentleman were i
tention of a rich merchant in Chi
made him shudder. He got up and long stone steps and says to me: delphia Times.
trial.”
cago, who made Donohue’s acquaint gaged to be married, and they <1
Barbara turned her face before the walked about, but something made a ‘Why, Robert, you ought to have
mice, became convinced that the op day beguiled the blissful tedium
GOOD MEMORY.
mirror, letting down one raven tress noise behind him. and ho put his more gailantee.
Why didn’t you
portunity was a good one for the in courtship by talking over the naa
chair with its back against the wall help the ladies out?’ and I always
and looping up another.
J. J. Allen has a widespread repu
"I will, moi her,” she said at last.” and sat down agaiD. He had been did it after that. In these days if a tation, being no other than the fa vestment of a i-mall poition of his of their future children. They |
very well till they cametol
That evening Earnest, the gun at work all day, and at last grew footman was to offer to help'» lady mous “hat-keeper” of the Lindell superfluous wealth, and offered to along
sleepy.
Finally he nodded and out she'd be insulted."
pay Donohue fl,500 a year for five name of their fourth child, and os
smith, knocked at the door.
Hotel, St. Leuis. For the wonder years, during winch period he was to that they quarreled so violently til
“You sent for me, Barbara?" he snored.
ful faculty of recognizing the proper study sculpture in Europe, only stip the engagement was broken off.
wise ’ s eccentricities .
Suddenly it seemed as if somebody
said, going to the gjrl, who stood
Uncle Bob bad a vivid recollection ' owners of hats as they entered and ulating that in return he should re
“Henceforth we meet as strange!,
upon the hearth, coquetishly warm had touched him. He awoke with
left the dining room a medal was
ing one pretty foot and then the a start, and saw nobody near, though of some of th« eccentricities of Gov ! presented him as being the “premium ceive the best piece of work that the exclaimed Brown, in a fit of angl
in the center of the room stood a ernor Wise: “He was kinder excit
young artist might produce in the "Thank you, Brown, my dear felloil
other.
able, ” said he, “but a perfect gentle hat man in America.”
interim. Donohue eagerly accepted gushed Fogg effusively; “youalwq
“Yes, Earnest,” she replied. “I've white figure.
“
I
was
for
years
the
wondering
“Curse you, get out of this,” he ex man. Sometimes he would get in a j gaze of the ignorant,” said he in'a the proposition and is now in Paris, did treat strangers better than yd
been thinking of what you said the
claimed, in a fright, using the first rage and throw a book or a chair at
where it is needless to say his fea friendsand acquaintances, and jl
other night when yon were here.”
a servant, but as soon as the mad fit private conversation. “I never made tures have assumed tlieir wonted ex make me excellently happy that II
words that came to his tongue.
“Well, Barbara?”
a
mistake,
if
I
had
once
seen
the
hat
The figure held out its arm and was over he'd give the servant a pair
pression of careless good humor, and henceforth to share in your dis#
Ernest spoke quietly, but his dark
j on the man’s head. I connected the
blue eyes flashed, and he locked at > slowly approached him. He started of shoes, a dollar, or something like I two instantly, and the picture would the garb which he once wore as the guislied consideration.
to his feet Th»specter came noarer, that. I tell you he was a man of the
insignia of blighted genius has been
her intently.
Lord Kensington, the junior LM
greatest honor. He would never ' not pass out of my mind, however relegated to the most obscure corner al whip and colleague of Lord Pud
pressing him into the corner.
“I want to test you.”
|
many
such
there
might
be
there.
”
stoop.
One
day
lie
picked
up
his
“The mischief take you!” cried
of his wardrobe. But Oscar Wilde I ard Grosvenor, has been made I
“How ?”
“Did it require no practice?”
vest to put it on. The change rolled
and Donohue are good friends._ subject of a mild joke.
“I want to see if you dare do a ; Barney, it; his extremity.
A ml
“
Not
any;
I
could
always
do
it.
In
I New York Tribune.
Involuntary he stepped back; out of the pocket, and he said to me:
very disagreeable thing.”
member has decribed him a« i
:
fact,
I
could
not
help
it
It
made
me
still the figure advanced, coming ‘By G—d, Robert, I never stoop-—
"What is it?”
greatest anomaly in the House, u
famous, and I have been spoken of
IN A BUSINESS WAY.
“There is an old coffin up stairs, nearer and nearer, as if to take him pick up that money.’ So 1 picks up I in Europe, Asia, and in parts of Af
for this reason—the noble Lord isi
the
money
off
’
n
the
floor
ami
puts
it
in
a
ghostly
embrace.
The
hair
It smells mouldy. They say Red
“Mr. Smith, will you indorse ray Irish Peer with an English title, 1
i rica.”
in
my
pocket.
He
was
de
boss
in
started
up
on
Barney
’
s
head;
he
mond, the murderer, was buried in
J has married a Scotch wife, and si
“How many hats did you ever have note of $20?”
it; but the devil came for his body grew desperate, and just as the etiquetty. I Lad to wear white socks I in your mind at once?”"
“Why, I should expect to have to for a Welsh constituency.
and
low
quaiter
shoes,
and
have
the
{
ami left the coffin empty at the end gleaming arm would have touched
A Pittsburg tailor sadly refers I
“The highest I ever »vent was 703, pay it if I did.”
of a week, and it was finally taken him he fell on lhe ghost like a whirl pants made so just as to show the I and I made no mistake.”
“Certainly—certainly.”
his recently broken engagement l
white
socks.
Mr.
Schaeffer,
the
tail
from the tomb. It is up stairs in the wind, tearing tho sheet, thumping,
80 1 might as well lend you his “kilt suit.”
“How do you account for this
room grandfather died in, and they pounding, beating and kicking, more or, made all my clothes. One day, | power?”
She sang “I want to be and angdl
say grandsire does not rest easy in and more enraged at the resistance after I had put on a new suit, the I “I have a sort of second sight. I
“Exactly, you are quite correct."
and he swore that she was onealreM
his grave for some reason, though he met with, which told him the Governor called me before him. He , do not like to be called a fortune-
And I shouldn’t expect you to ever To this she blushingly demur™
looked at me all over very criticumly, i
that I know nothing about Dare truth.
i teller. I am not. Still I can tell pay it.”
Then he married her. Demui^
and
said
he
to
me,
says
he:
‘
Robert,
As
the
reader
knows,
he
was
big,
you make that coffin your lied to
“Of course not; of course not.”
and Fritz was little, and while he is one of your legs shorter than t’oth fortunes.”—[Chicago News.
night?”
"Then why didn’t you ask me di sustained.
was pounding the little fellow ter er?’ And I said: ‘They boaf de;
Ice cream is now made from kwN
Ernest laughed.
rect to give you $20.”
T hought O ut B y F rench T hinkers .
“Is that nil? I will do that and ribly and Fritz was trying to get a same length; and then he said: ‘You
"Because, sir, I do business in a a white clay used in porcelain mta
take
that
suit
back
to
that
d
-----
d
j
—Women of the world never use business way. I never borrow money facture. Notwithstanding this st«?
sleep soundly.
W hy, pretty one, lunge at Barney’s stomach, to take
the wind out of him, both kicking Dutch tailor and tell him to make [ harsh expressions when condemning of a man who will indorse for me, ling fact the appetites of young wok
did you think I had weak nerves?"
“Your nerves will have good proof anil plunging like horses, they were you some clothes that will fit’ We their rivals. Like the savage, they and I make all calculations on the on at the summer resorts remain •
colored ]>eople
. , had about as much
_____hurl plegant arrows, ornamented indorser paying the note. It’s the changed.
if you undertake it. Remember, no petrified by hearing a voice cry:
“Take one of your size, Big Bar fun as the white folks—and more too. i with feathers of purple and azure, same thing in the end, blit we arrive
one sleeps in that wing of the
A man named Gassbi 11 recently k
They paid for everything, and we but with poisoned points.
ney.”
house.”
at it in a business way. I believe in plied to the Arkansas Legislatnrtl
didn
’
t.
When
we
wanted
to
get
up
Love
is
always
seeking
after
the
Looking
around
they
saw
the
“I shall sleep the sounder.’’
making the horse draw the cart You change his name because his girl»
“Good night, then, I will send a corpse sitting up in his coffin. This a little dance I went to the Governor unknown. The great art is to be inl can’t give me $20, sir. but if you will ways objected to his figure wheneN
and
said:
‘
Gnv'uer.
we
servants
penetrable.
When
the
mask
falls
the
lad to show you the chamber. If whs too much. Th»y released each
She said he wa* H
have th« kindness to indorse a note he’d metre.
you stay till morning," said the im other and «prang for the door. They would like to have a hoe-down such carnival ceases.
for that amount, I will see that you high, and tnrned him off
Tho women who raise only excla are $20 out of pocket.”
perious Miss Barbara, with a nod of never knew how they got out; but and such a night’ He’d say: ‘Well,
“Do you think she’s prettv’"J
her pretty head, “I will marry they ran home in hot haste, panting I’ll see Mrs. Wise about it.' That’d mation points in our heart are like
cried. "I do, indeed. I'm really]»
mean yes, and we'd have a band of Racine’s tragedies; too perfect We
Jike stags.
yon.”
People who go to Main» to pass the wild over that. girl. Then why W
It was Barbara herself who came music, a scumtious supper, wid wine, like best those who raise points of
"You vow it?"
summer will be glad to know that in you go in and do the grand? welLJ
and
the
white
people
would
come
interrogation.
and
opened
the
door
the
next
morn
Ernest turned straight away, and
and look at us.
Governor Wise
Happiness is the best anodyne for the opinion of the Biddeford .Journal full the truth, it's just here: Now?
followed the lad in waiting through ing.
they are "worth more to Maine than the other fellows go wild over her)
treated
everybody
well.
When
a
the
violent passions.
“
It'»
very
early;
one
more
little
dim rooms and passages up echoing
of'bar
1 \V iHh
exception i mi
-
gentleman
came
into
his
office
he
I
For
women,
the
enjoyments
of
the
all, , auu
and mere
there’ a
d oe
be no
no crean
credit m
in w
stairs, along narrow damp ways, nap," turning over in his coffin.
Worth more than the ice ning her out."
So she married him; though she would get up an<l say. ‘Take a seat, heart are the all-important things of of bay.
where rats scuttled before to a low
crop, and probably as much as the yi,,
,
-■
chandler. Tho lad looked pale and sent Fritz and Barney invitations to sir; what can I do for yon?’ Now life; for most men they are only a lobster, clam, potato and spruce gum ; a The • groom
th« # ,
^oom . of
of Iroquois,
. -
scared, and evidently wanted to the wadding they did not appear. times is changed. Why, if a gentle compensation,
crops combined. The
*,.n.'‘r,lcan Derl?y winner. «•?» 1
hurry away, but Ernest made him If they discovered the trick they man was to call to see even one of. Much intercourse of mind or society dently understands the art. of tick- ,-hlnKs a? “nch of one b
*
his wife.
the owners
wait til he took a survey by the aid kept the knowledge to themselves these guv’nmeul clerks, who haven't i is not to be expected between two ling one’s vanity.—[Boston Post
l
W lie '« ” L If .. all
---------
, » oft
th
got
enough
to
pay
their
board
bMl.
classes
of
a
different
education
and
aud
never
willingly
faced
Barbara's
of his lamp. It was very large and
O9t'
rnueh of w
“
, horses thought as much
he
almost
gets
kicked
out
for
his
fortune,
bnt
there
is
nothing
in
our
laughing
eyes
again.
full of recesses, which lia<l been
do of tllpir
their horbPS
horses. ' “ , *
Mount McGregor, Saratoga's monn wives as they
tljey doof
impudence.
”
code
of
morals
or
in
our
religion
to
barred across. Ho remembered that
tain, is becoming as popular w-'tl. ,women would be much happi« ‘
The destinies of a large family
justify either one in treating the bridal parties as Niagara Falls be the
THE CLAY-POLK CAMPAIGN.
the old grandsire Ferron had been
**’“ envy of their sex.
may
be
inclosed
within
the
limits
of
insane for several years before his
Uncle Bob took an active part in 1 other with unkindness or incivility. There were twenty two couples on I A new excuse:
Wife-“"
a
peck
measure
of
apples.
—
|
Woon
death, so that this precaution—had
the Clay-Polk campaign, his capacity ! True dignity has no need to stand on the mountain one day, a few weeks George, I do believe you’ve
l>een necessary for the safety of him socket Reporter Not unless the ap being that of a singer of campaign I the defensive. A {»erson who has .tew« \"r " wV8 one conI’lp
self and others. In the center of the pies are incloeed within the limita of songs, with other darkey vocalists, at little of this quality will always lie down, Mr. McGregor, who owns the taking too much wine!” w
(who lives in Brooklyn and h*9
—| Boston Globe.
room sbxxl a coffin, beside it stood a the family.
Clay gatherings. He described with most afraid to compromise it by mountain, shouts "next,” and another returned home after a lively eve,
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vulgar associations; it is right to be couple goes up.
chair. Tho room was otherwise j>er-
considerable
minuteness
the
torch
A Canadian contemporary asks:
“Wine? Nonsense, dear. Ij,ls‘
fectly empty.
light processions, the polk stalks, the economical of what we have little.—
come over the bridge anil it 9 1
Ernest stretched himself out in the “Dot's Goldwin Smith"—now stop coon skins and baritecues of that ex [Translated by Boston Courier.
C ause anb E ffect .—Beautv: “Still me dizzy, that's all—s'help m« '
right there, please. Gohl wins a
coffin.
citing political period. He has for
a bache or Count? Why do von not
“Be kind enough to tell Miss Bar great many persons, bnt when yon gotten most of tlie songs he used to
Miss Clara (to Mr. Fearing,
New
York
Commercial
Advert
iner
:
marry?’ Count: “Veil, it is not zta
tackle the Smiths yon have a large
barn it is a very good fit," ho said.
sing, bnt was able to recall the fol "The base ball editor of the New 11 am disinchnationed; but vour Eng has a loathing for doge)—"Ob.
family
to
purchase.
The boy went out ami shut the
Orleans Picayune has learned that it lish mees, she is so beautiful, and ven I’ earing, do please take littl«
lowing fragment:
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e
—-
door, leaving the young gunsmith
The cost of stopping a train of Walk along, John, yon can'» stay.
is not profitable for a man to spend I see a nrettv face I tie one knot ffi and give her a bath. The n
cars is said to be from sixty to forty The people'« choice ia Henry Clay;
alone in tho dark.
two years learning to pitch a curved j mj neckpockethandkerchief and ven says she has incipient hydropl
You'd
l»etter
take
vonr
Polk
away,
Meanwhile Barbara was talking cents. When the train is stopped by t
ball, and then get a sunstroke on his I see ze next I tie anozer. and at ze whatever that is; bnt I’belie*«
Else we'll cover him np with Clay.
with the big blacksmith in the sit another train, these prices become j And we'll never stop or halt
head the first time he pitches, with a 11^’*? 1’haU *antttì marry, it is salt water will do her good.” '
— Mr. Fearing hopes to be engk
ting-room.
i somewhat inflated.
Vntil we eat up berries, Polk, and etalk. , whack at the gate money.”
j all knot and no vife!”
to Clara before the season is ov«r-
THERE IS HO DEATH!
OLD TIMES