Yamhill reporter. (McMinnville, Or.) 1883-1886, October 18, 1883, Image 7

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ROMAN’S BRAIN.
SUCH A NICE MAN!
As to the demoralization produced by
IDLE CHATTER.
GOLI) BROKERS
doming down the river from the
“HALLOE.”
gold
stealing, and dealing in and
... of Her Emotional Rather than 1 Flats the other day was a mau about
A
strange
old gentleman, who seems
transporting stolen gold, who can
Nature—A Good Imitator. . 55 years old, neatly dressed, white Gold Thieves |D Siberia—A Groat Ilraln
To Telepohne Across th« Orean Webster to be cracked on the subject of or­
I poo the Mine» Cauaed by ao Organi»«! estimate it at a money value?
plug hat, kid gloves, and aDpeanng System of Robbery.
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VHlett’s Apparatus to Increase Trans­ thography, is going about the city
furnishing entertainment and some
HONORS AT WHOLESALE.
mitted Sound.
female brain, however, ia not to be a real nice man. As' he was
instruction to whomever will listen to
«done, some took him for a widower,
, jailer than that of man, but it while others argued that he had been Gold stealing is perhaps the most _ It is said that while the Rev. James
him. Last evening he was harrangu-
There is an inventor in the village ing a small crowd in Lake Front
jjflereat in structure, and this fact disappointed in love in his early prosperous business in Siberia It Keeno, generally referred to by the
boys as Jim Keene, was a resident of Flushing, L. I., who believes he Park on his favorite theme. Said he:
lveg much more as regards the , days and had never married. But can hardly be called mere stealing, of
the Pacific coast, a rough looking
“More than half your lives are wasted
he
was
nice.
He
chuckled
to
the
.racter of the mental faculties than
for it is conducteil od such a large specimen of the California farmer has an apparatus that will revolu­ in idle chatter that means nothing
babies,
patted
boys
and
girls
on
the
tionize
the
telephone
business
and
j^e element of size. Thus, ac
burst
in
upon
him
one
day
with
:
and teaches loss. You meet, a friend
head, and sat right down among the scale, so many men are engaged in
“Say, Kuruel, my wife has got a materially increase the usefulness of and say good morniug. He says
rate measurements show that the ladies and related all the Indian le­ it, it is so well organized and pays so
bran-new
baby,
and
we
’
ve
named
it
the Atlantic cable. He has rooms good morning to you, and then you
tenor portion of the brain compris- gends of Lake St. Clair. Ever so well, that it fully deserves the name Jim Keene Thompson.”
in
a large boarding house about a say it is s pleasant morning. He says
the frontal lobes, in which the many of them said he was the nicest of an industry. True, the industry
“Y e-s,” slowly answered the Rev.
it is very pleasant; pleasanter than it
¡¿best intellectual faculties reside, gentleman they ever saw. and one is not recognized by law; on the con­ gentleman, as he passed over a $20 block from the railroad station. Here was yesterday when it rained. Of
little woman who turned up her nose
he has passed the last four months course you acquiesce, and probably
, much »wr» developed in man than at the idea of his being too sweet for trary, it is harshly punished when gold-piece.
In about an hour another man at work upon his invention. His add that you hope it will be pleasant
woman, and this not only as re- anything was promptly wilted by a discovered. Discovered? But that
from the same neighborhood entered name is Webster Gillette, and he is to-morrow. There you stand like two
■Ljj its size, but its convolutions score of glances.
is where all the difficulty lies. It is with the salutation:
geese squawking ulxmt something
When
the
boat
arrived
in
Detroit
■> Taking 100 as representing the
“Say Keene, what do you think? from Michigan. A reporter found
the nice man with the white plug not easy to discover a new and un­ We have built a church up our way him seated in a little room in which that isn’t worth a word, and never
intire length of the brain, the frontal hat had agreed to Bee a lady and two known thing, but to discover what is
teaches anybody anything. Now, if
and named it the Jim Keene Chapel. were three tables loaded with elec­ you would only study your pronounc­
Gyelopmeut in man will be expressed children over to the Central depot. known to every gold miner, to every Can
’t you come down with a shiner trical apparatus, and a network of ing dictionaries to night and learn
»-the figures 43.9, while in woman Oh, no; it wouldn’t be the least proprietor of gold mines, to thousands or two?”
something you might be able to do
twill be indicated by the figures 31.3. trouble to him. On the contrary, he of secret gold agents, and to the
“Well, I suppose 1’11 have to,” re­ wires stretched between the walls. your friends some good when you
The
inventor
appeared
to
be
about
was
delighted
at
the
privilege.'
He
few. the part of the brain which is had a satchel in either hand, and Czar's authorities, is exceedingly diffi plied the Rev. as he shelled out a ten
meet them to-morrow.”
piece.
40 years old. He has lively dark­
The old man tLeu gave the boys
specially concerned in the evolution was in the crowd waiting for the cult, if it be possible at all. Here is dollar
Thirty miuutes had scarcely uassed blue eyes, a high forhead that bulges some examples of common errors in
mind is the gray matter constitut- gang plank when a woman’s voice room for another Columbus, but then when in came a third man with:
in the region of constriictiveness, prouounciation, and the Neuvi report­
he must be ready for Columbus’s
ngthe cortex, and this is increased was heard crying from the wharf:
“Good ruornin'g, Judge. We are brown mustache and side whiskers, er turned away with a fresh resolu­
fate.
"Yes. that’s him—that’s the mis-
r diminished in accordance with the
building a school-house over the and a ruddy and healthful counte tion. Entering the office he met the
With the beginning of summer. creek to be called the Jim Keene nance.
umber and complexity of the con erftble old deceiver!”
exchange editor on the stairs, with:
The nice man suddenly dropped ; when the work in the gold mines School. Want to contribute a few?"
On the largest table in the room
olutions. The frontal lobes contain
“The word ‘possess’ has no hard
.greater amount of gray cortical mat both satchels, and tried to push back, becomes lively, secret agent» appear
“Yes," was the reply, as a five was stood a disk about thirteen inches in sound of s in it ’’
'U- Iter than any other part of the brain, but the crowd was so dense that he in the woods all around the mines. passed out.
diameter. Projecting from the cen­ "Well,” said the man of shears,
u. ■wd they are, as we have seen, larger was pushed along up the bank. He They get up their camps and open It wasn't over twenty minutes be­ ter of one face of the disk was a fun­ “what of it?”
had no sooner reached the wharf than their business, which lasts till the end fore a fourth man bustled in and nel-shaped object Running into
iu man than in woman.
“And ‘new’ and ‘blue’ rhyme with
the table from the lower edge of the ‘few.’ ”
Again, it is only necessary to conj­ his white hat went sailing, and a of the gold season. At night a bright called out:
torch
is
seen
on
some
hill,
and
the
voice
hissed
out:
“Keene, I discovered a new canyon disk was a number of wires. On the
ure an average male wilh an average
“Well, don’t you suppose I know
“Had to go to Pontiac on business, gold miners understand the signal. up the country the other day and 1 table, arranged in a row a short die that, you ninny?”
female brain to perceive at once how
With
their
gold
dust
they
go
to
the
tance from the wires, were ton black
dedicated it to you."
mmerous and striking are the differ- did yon? This is the way to return
The commercial editor was coming
camps in the woods, and then begins
“Look here,” said the reverend cylindrical induction coils. That is from the library
uees existing between them. Not from Pontiac, is it?”
a
lively
trade.
The
miners
get
vodka,
He
dropped
the
satchel»
again
and
what
the
reporter
noticed.
This
the
gentleman,
as
he
turned
in
his
chair;
lonly is the former longer, but its ver
“Dog is not dawg; it rhymes with
«nd
[tica'l and transverse diameters are broke for the street, but she hit him provisions or clothes, but chiefly "I want you to go back and hunt up inventor said:
‘frog.’”
«I
vodka,
and
return
to
the
mines.
a
whack!
whack!
whack!
with
an
“
That
funnel-shaped
object
in
the
all
tho
new
babies,
school-houses,
«Tester proportionally than those of
in tunketsaid it didn’t?” and
l»ey.
There follows in the miners’ barrack» churches, trotting horses, canyons, center of the disk is the resonator. the “Who
me latter, and hence the shape is umbrella, and called after him:
man of the stock board ran down
an
indescribable
frolic.
You
Hee
that
it
is
not
like
the
speak
“It’s the first time you’ve had on
lunatic asylums, burying ground»
stairs.
Iquite different. Moreover, its con
■»olutions aro more intricate, the sulci glove» in a year, and you’ve got your Now, is such a transaction a secret and berry-patches in your county ing tube of an ordinary telephone.
The funny man was coming out of
one?
Far
from
it.
The
guards
were
which are to be Jim Keened, and The larger part of the funnel is held the editor's room. Said the reporter
■are deeper, the secondary fissures whiskers dyed since morning! Oh!
aware
of
it,
bnt
they
remained
silent,
■more numerous, and there is some you base old deceiver! Here the for they had their portion of the come back her» and give me the lot to the mouth. The volume of the to him:
■reuon for believing -though the ob children and I haven’t had a square vodka and their share of the golder. at wholesale, for I’m blanked if I am voice, instead of being concentrated “The last g in ‘demagogy’ is soft.”
-'hew
“Good moruing, Mr. G.,” remarked
Rstrvation» on this point are not per meal in two weeks, and yon are booty. It would be unjust, however, going to fool with the retail busi­ in a small space as in other tele
I ness any longer! Good day, sir!”— phones, is spread over and causes the the ioker as he darted out.
hips sufficiently numerous to warrant around playing masher!”
whole inetalic diaphragm to vibrate.
“Give it to him!” cried a voice in to say of tho officers that they, too [ Wall Street News.
Tne editor in-chief was the last re­
the positive assertion—that the gray
take part in this retail business. No,
You will notice on the opposite side sort. The reporter entered hie room.
¡matter of the corresponding parts of the crowd.
no.
As
to
the
wholesale
—
well,
we
of
the
disk
there
are
ten
deviating
OUR
BOY.
“Oh, you bet I will!” she replied.
“‘Squalor’is not ‘sqnawler:’ it iB
the brain in the two sexes is decidedly
better recollect that though
poiuts, which are held in fxisition by pronounced with a long sound of a.
■ thicker in man than it is in woman. “I saw him before he did mo. and he had
Every
well
regulated
newspaper
th»
speech
may
be
silver
silence
is
gold
­
ten rubber arms, that may remind you
Hit is quite certain, as the observations was trying to look purty and inno­ en.
oilice has “our boy.” He is always somewhat of a cuttie fish. When And ‘slough’ is pronounced to rhyme
exit
cent, as if he hadn’t been married
with ‘now.’ ‘Duty’ is not. ‘dooty,’
tat I ■ of the writer show that the specific
on
hand
when
not
wanted.
He
is
■ gravity of both tne white and the twenty-three years and had seven of The gold miners cannot resist the the boy who goes to the Postoffice a you talk through the speaking tube but rhymes with ‘beauty,’ and the ac­
■ gray substances of the brain is great the ruggedest children in Detroit! temptation to steal gold. Their million times a day. At least so he or resonator, the metalic diaphragm, cent in 'microscopy' is on the ‘cros.’
I’ll sweeten him—I’ll play masher wages are ridiculously small. They says. Our boy doesn’t, vary from the or popularly speaking, the tin plate,
"Say, young man,” said the editor,
Bar in man than it is in woman.
vibrates. The vibrations are com “this little piece of paper will gei
get from $25 to $100 for a season,
till he hasn't a whole bone left!”
■
It
is
not
necessary,
therefore,
in
or
com­
which lasts nearly half a year. Thev b°y >n any other newspaper office by mutiicated to the ten deviating points some money for you in the counting
“You bet!”
bar» Ider to the advancement of the view
“Yes. and you bet! Which way are kept in wretched barracks, death i a hair’8 b«^adth He calls the editors or needles. The needles penetrate room. You take that money and go
■ to be presented in this connection,
tute of every sort of comfort Their a“d
their last names through rubber cushions into Hmall for a long, long vacation—an endur­
I that we should insist upon the fact did he go? Who’s got a club?”
food is bad, even in the moujiks’ I 'vhen tbe>’ ar.e absJ>,,t' " hen asked brass cylinders containing granulated ing. permanent vacation. If you tell
|
that
as
man
has
more
brain
than
ML
opinion. If one of them wants some- to go anywhere lie starts oft and carbon. The cylinders are secured an Ogden avenue car conductor to let
MR. L0RILLARD AND THE JERSEY
| woman he must possess more mind.
FARMER.
thing extra in the way of provisions, 8°^ d”wn sta'r8 tbrt)e 8‘eP8 Rt„ a in their places by ten brass arms at you off at. some suitable place the car
| The question we design to submit is
. i. clothes ~ oi .......
in« 1».»
.. .......
J ( tune.
from
tools,
votirtci,
ho . mav
>xet
»
, He -»» cant ■ 1» even
a. 11 wait for the tached to the rim of the disk that will be stopped right at the door of
A
good
story
is
going
about
the
| not so much one of quantity as it is
it at the store of the gold mine pro- eleVa‘°,r'
t.nmble ‘,', OOr °?or holds the metalic plate. Ten wires the Cook County hospital.”
clubs
concerning
a
New
York
million
­
| of quality. The brain of woman is,
»tort within reach a“Jb^y°n tbo fta,r8' «nd he rushes run through the arms, form the
As the reporter went out he stopped
aire who owns a big stock farm in prietor, the only
dr, I as we have seen, different from that
'
-
•
..
..
..
through
the
counting
room with euch primaries of the induction coils, and
rail
I of man, and difference of structure New Jersey. He has put in force of the laborers, and in that store the j j speed that everybody puts his hat return to their respective poles Tho to say:
are usually sold at treMe the | and coat on and wonder where the
“Air. Editor, this decoration around
I necessarily involves difference of Btrict rules about the admittance of goods
U
prices. Daring the work- j ' fire is. When he reaches the door ten secondary wires from the indue the room is not 'daydo,' it is ‘dahdo.’
I function. Doubtless it is perfectly curiosity seekers, and if one happens ordinary
tion
coils
are
carried
to
a
plug
switch
ing season the miners remain in a j I his haste instantly expires. In fifteen
Ta ta.—[Chicago News.
1 adapted to the nroper status of wom­ to get in, he is soon hustled oft’.
so arranged as to place one or as
The other day a neighboring state of slavery. They can be fined.' minutes he will return and ask:
an in the established plan of Nature,
MAKING A YOUNG MAN DISAPPEAR.
rnauy
wires
as
may
be
desired
in
cir
­
flogged and even imprisoned by their
and for that very reason it is not farmer called on business, lie had employer
"What’s that man’s name you sent cuit The power of ten batteries,
with
impunity.
In
order
i
never
been
on
the
place
before,
and,
Mr. John Barry, a tall, middle-
suited to the work which is required
after?”
ten induction coifa. and a correspond
to save their wages, they steal gold, , j me He
. of man’s brain. It is a brain from entering at a gate he found open, and
knows every apple vender and ing number of deviating points, aged man. residing near Galena, Ill.,
thus
procure
vodka
and
provis-
:
which emotion rather than intellect was strolling about looking for the ions.
peanut woman on the block, and acted upon simultaneously by a is visiting friends in this city. He
is evolved, and this circumstance, superintendent, when the owner, who The number of secret gold agents when sent on an errand “in a hurry” single vibrating tin plate, may thus crossed the Catharine street ferry
while itconst tutes one of the strong- happened to be there, encountered is legion, and they are excellently he can be found an hour afterward be concentrated upon a single wire. from Brooklyn on Wednesday and
walked tip to the Bowery. At the
sat factories among those'which are him. Supposing him to be merely organized.
There are the militant interviewing them, as to the origin of This is something that has never corner of the Bowery a well dressod
concerned in the preservation and an idler or a prying person, he asked agents, armed to the teeth, who deal peanuts or the success of the present been done before.
what he was doing there.
„
.
man ot gentlemanly appearance step-
happiness of the human species, is at him
’s apple crop.
“I claim that conversation may be {>ed
The farmei, taken aback by such | directly with the^miners, . There are year
up to Air. Barry and extended
It
was
but
yesterday
that
ho
en
­
the same time one which thoroughly
carried
on
over
an
ordinary
telegraph
I the protectors, the spies, the station 1
disqualifies her in whom it is mani­ an address, replied: “Nothing.” you l keepers, the postmen and the foreign tered the City editor’s room with a wire with my telephone between lis hand.
“Do yon know at which gate
“I knew at once," Mr Barry said
handful of crumpled copy.
He points 1,600 miles apart. Twelve
fested for those sterner duties which
agents. They have their own secret slammed
in
the evening, “that he was a con­
it
down
on
the
desk
and
must be performed through the ex­ came’’’ said the owner.
words a minute is considered a fair fidence
routes through tne Czar’s empire,
“I do,” said the farmer.
mau, for I have been ap­
ejaculated:
ercises of the intellectual faculties.
rate
of
transmission
over
the
Atlantic
and
speak
their
own
jargon.
“
Grits,
”
“Well, then, said the owner, •‘get
“The man that wrote that is a----- cable. By using this telephone 120 proached by several of them in Chi­
The best wife, the best mother, the
for
instance,
means
gold
dust;
“
to
”
I fool!”
best sister would inevitably make the out there as soon as you can.”
words a minute may be transmitted cago.
___
And the farmer walked out. reap,” means to go for gold; “to make
“How do von do, Air. Conkling?”
“What!” yelled the City editor. if a shorthand writer is employed as
worst, legislator, the worst judge, the
pilgrimage
to
St.
Innocent,
”
means
Shortly after the superintendent
the man said. Mr. Barry said nothing.
”-----
worst commander of a man-of war.
a receiver. All the important fea
to go to Irkutsk, in order to give gold “Who
“You are from Detroit.”
“At least the managing editor said tures of my invention are now. By
To this great preponderance of the came iip and inquired if neighbor to Chinese merchants for tea.
“Yes, I have been there.”
pause.
And
1
so,
”
he
replied,
after
a
emotional over the intellectual nature So-and-so had been there. He was
tho
use
of
the
granulated
carbon
and
When the gold season opens the .
“Why, don’t you know me? I have
is due the fact that very few women the only one anywhere about who militant gold agents start out in the J then he looked as mild as a grocery - the rubber cushions into which the
met
you there. Of course you are
are capable of an intense degree of had the timber they wanted very woods with a large amount of pro- j store cigar.
needles penetrate I secure a steady, an older
man than I, and 1 suppose
abstract thought, no matter how much much, and they wanted it immediate­ visions, as if going on legitimate J He has a habit of handing the nninterruptable sound.”
you have forgotten me.”
education they may have received. ly. He had promised to come that business. The Siberian police and ; members of the staff handfuls of
Mr.
Gillette
went
into
an
adjoin
­
The female brain, besides being an morning to see about the sale of it. Administration are too shrewd to i ’ “rock candy,” and then, when they ing room, where he had another tele­ The man then told a long story of
emotional, is, like that of the quad- “Well,” said the owner of the farm, interfere with these volunteer gold i j are grasping themselves by the feet phone connecting with the one on his experience in the West, asked
rumana, an imitative brain. It is not ■‘I shouldn’t, wonder if I had just hunters. The agents stay in the [ | and hair to get their teeth apart, he the table. Tho receiving tube of the Air. Barry’s name, and said good day
capable of originating, though it sent him off with a flea in his ear. I woods daring the whole gold season, ' j will tell them he “thought they knew new apparatus was put, in position. to him. It was a younger and more
strolling about here,
looking young man who ran up
it was gum-arabic.” Ho puts wet
copies well. No great idea, no great found a man
a few minutes it began to emit seedy
__ _______________
and, supposing
him to be one of those and it is extremely dangerous to visit mucilage on the chairs and when the a After
to Air. Barry in Vundewater street a
invention, no great discovery in sci­ sfraggiert
series
of
distinct
“
Halloes
”
in
a
i cleared him out. Where their camps. The gold they get they
few minutes later and addressed liim
ence or art, no great poetical, dra-1 I does he live? I will drive over and j would not surrender even at the risk ; victim attempts to rise and severs his bass voice.
name, with a pleasant smile and
matie or musical composition has yet j 8ee j)jm „_______________________ j of their lives. They become regular j I trousers, “our boy” is always ready
After returning to the room Mr. by
a
shake
of the hand.
to
tell
who
did
it,
and
to
produce
a
emanated from a woman’s brain. I Off he started at once. Reaching desperadoes when interfered with,
Gillette said that ten batteries, ton
“Yon used to know my father," the
There have been two or three second- i ; the farmhouse, he drove in, and, j At the close of the gold season the needle and thread with which he in deviating points, and ten induction second
rate painters, and perhaps one first | seeing him, began an apology, but! agents carry their booty to the whole-; variably solders coat-tail, trousers coils have about six times the power Galena.” man said, "Air. Delano of
and nuderclothes together. He has of oDe battery and a corresponding
rate female novelist and when that is
cut short by the farmer, who in sttl”1lleaJe58'.
,. , .
Mr. Barry did know Mr. Delano,
fooled "Central'’ so often that the number of the other necessary elec
eaid all is said. Who, however, will } was
auiredif he knew at which gate he; lhe Siberian gold brokers are to,
had mentioned him to the man
venture to say that the brain which i 1 came in He said he did. “Then,” »11 appearances perfect gentlemen. telephone transmitter might as well trical agencies. He thought that the and
he bad met in the Bowery.
evolves a mother's love, a wife's fidel-. ! said the farmer. "I want you to get They are not armed, and they do not' be a bird house for all the good it is. time was not remote when we could whom
“What business are you in now?”
He is well up in the uses and abuses not only speak across the ocean, but
ity and abnegation, a sister's devo­ cut as quick as you can.”
| tremble for their lives or for their of the banana [»eelings as relating to
the young man asked.
tion, a woman's gentleness, forbear
The owner of the stock farm was gold which they keep in piles on the fall of man and never loses an also see those to whom we might lie
Air. Barry looked cautiously around
ance and constancy, is not a better obliged
to depart.Baldwin's; their counters. The authorities are i opportunity to carpet the floor with speaking. He said that an experi­ and, bemjing over, said in a hoarse
brain than the one that prompts to Monthly
ment with the new telephone proba­
on ^be h®8*1 terms with them. The
If he can catch a plug hat on bly would be made in ten days be whisper. “The confidence business.”
the making, executing and interpret­
_______ ------------- _______ transportation of the gold collected j them.
The friendly young man suddenly
a
chair
be
makes
a
concentrated
con
tween places in Alaine and Alnssa disappeared
ing of laws, to Arctic voyages, to the
T he W oman P oker P layer .—Be by the brokers is attended with dan-
around the nearest cor­
discovery of electric telegraphs, or to ware of the female poker player on | ger.. Formerly there were^only two certina of it and then wonders who chusetts, 500 mile» apart.
ner.
the building of wonderful suspension the E”ropean s steamships! ’ She gold markets. At Nijny Novgorod, I “slid it under him.”
If we should ever reach the Better
A t C ape AI ay .- A man left the surf
bridges ?
S erved H im Riairr.—“Why did yon
•s. ----
and --------------
by them is _ during
of Land
knows the officers,
„ the
. fair, r gold . wai
, disclosed
, •
we expect to see him there with
privately introduced to such old foo to Russian merchants for home nso. hie nose in a schooner of ice cream, at Cape AIay, not long ago, and strike this man?” asked a Justice of
rushed up to the cottage in which we the Peace of a prisoner. “I had suf-
A R ailroad R acket .—A brakeman foos as deposit most ready stuff with But a far larger part of the stolen ,
he'll shout, “Hello,----- ! How'd boarded. They had fritters on the ficent cause, Your Honor. He came
who attended a social dance with a the purser Perhaps the purser is gold went to Kovno, whence it was; and
get in? Slide in on the editor’s table. “Give me another clam frit­ to my house on a visit He criticised
young lady in tow. some evenings in with her She is slender, sharp ' carried abroad, principally to Prussia I you
since, was discovered sitting lone eyed a little made up and deep as ¡by Jews, who constitute a regular pass? Fly you for ten cents’ wuth ter,” he said, after he had finished my children ami langhod at my
peanuts!”
the first The plate was passed to
’s singing, turned tip his
soinely in a corner of the room by one death. She travels with a son (sh», “golden militia.” During the last of If
be were only there we would lie him. He took one, ate it and said, daughter
nose at a fish I had caught ana put
of the floor managers late in the even- borrowed him). The son gives re ' few years two mor« markets have content
to
remain
a
while
louger
in
“Give me another clam fritter.” He my wife to a great deal of trouble
mg. just as a set was forming for the I sortability to her and assurance to 1 lieen oiiened, one in Odessa, where
got another and said, thia time to the at dinner time and”----- “But all
“next quadrille.” There was “one transgressors. The old foo-fcos at the gold is brought by Jews, who! the bleak, weary world of woe.
landlady, "Will you please pass me that gave yon no excuse to strike him
more couple wanted,” and the floor •vening suggest a game.
exchange it for tobacco on which no ■
T h * P lace roa T ibed M others .— the clam fritters?” “Thera ain’t with a piece of stove wood.” “I
manager sang out: “Ccme, Bill, get
"I can play a little poker,” she custom duty has been paid, and for
your girl aud chaesez into place.” gRyR
other smuggled goods, and the other | The manner of life of the country clam fritters,” replied the lady. know, but let me get through. After
“Can't do it this time,” said Bill, "the
"Weil, let it be poker."
in Kiakhta. on the Chinese Siberian |ieople of Japan íb exceedingly sim­ "Ain’t clam fritters!” gasped the dinner he began to talk on the
Prl’s side tracked for repairs.”
She raises it She raises it high, frontier, where the gold is exchanged ple. Certainly clothing does not cost Itoarder. “No.” “Then what are Tariff question. Then I bit him.”
“What's the trouble T’ inauired the "Bless you,” she says, "my husband for tea. To carry the gold over from them much. Scores of children are they?” “Corn fritters.” “Well, I’m “Tariff, eh! I fine yon $10 for not
other, with concern, "anything seri­ was a gentleman, and left me wealth. Siberia to European Russia is the playing in the street who, as far as blowed!” said the guest; “I ate shooting him.”—f Arkansas Traveller.
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ous?” “Dunno,” the railroader an He taught me not to fear, I raise most difficult task of all. In this case clothe« are concerned, have not made seven of them and thought they were
swered, “but I guees she's tryin’ to you Governor, $500. Are you a gen -; customs, excise, or other offices, or a particle of progress since their full of chopped clams.” After lunch­ It is a grand thing to be a genius.
g?t a misplaced switch into position. tieman?”
! ladiea of high standing, for golden birthday. But the youngsters are eon the landlady remarked to her Queen Victoria asked Tennyson to
We’ll make the run if she gets here
The Governor writes to his family, reasons, of course, join the “golden happy and cool. They might be sister that the surf was such an ap­ write a jxiem about John Brown, and
cooler if some of their dirt were petizing affair that corn could be in three days the poet had found five
°n schedule time, you bet!” The girl! boarding at $25 a week, two miles militia.”
palmed off on bather» for chopped new rhymes for Brown, as follows:
got there, and all went merry as a back from the sea: “Travel in Europe How much gold is stolen from the 1 soaked off them.
locomotive bell for the brakeman and ¡is frightfully expensive. Yon must bowels of Siberia? Parties interested 1 Would you not like to live there, clams, and that stewed tripe passed Celluloid, intractable, jieri helion,
h>s girl the rest of the evening.—| Mar­ economize all you can.”—[New York in tho business affirm that annually tired mother, who, after your boys for chicken fricaseee, and that she transactions, introcarpnlar, and cair-
qnn
I there is disposed in this way gold are put to bed, are sitting in the would make enough money this sea­ niclesiac. No poet living, save Mr.
quette Mining Journal.
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| worth at least 10,000,000 roubles. lamp light mending for ‘he dozenth son to take her to Europe in the win Tennyson, could have thought of
these rhymes.
t»w
lu . k whenever - some
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The Chicago Herald says there are Annually Siberia prodncee about time the W'irnoit t*- i.-.ns of young ter.—[Puck.
It is strange
that
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young" ladies
lad^be^in
to""play
on tne
the quite
quite a number of newspaper men 100,000 pounds of gold. So it appears hopeful? No mer ' ip no darning,
young
begin 1 to
play ’ on
Young Fastboy says the first
William Winter and Oscar Wilde
no
arguing
as
to
wbeuier
the
children
Washington, and the Govern that a considerable portion of this;
Piano many of the audience com , left in AAashington,
are rivals for the hand of a dear pub­ he ever waltzed with was all
mence to talk.
talk One touch of discord . ment is going along very well witb
with precious metal goes abroad without. can wear such old clothes to Sunday lic that will not applaud their playa. whirled to him.
school
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Boston
Transcript.
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the
whole
nartv
chin.
out
the
President
I
bringing
any
return
to
the
country.
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party
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President.
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