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about the cia-nge In her mother. I
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tit. of in ha.
Ile rolled an I nodded 11, head,
and id• 21anee I at the et ilin; and tlo,
-tie:,l, . el:lft •1•••14 :It lat. .I.lri bill
1...1 it• •••• were tleitiz4 that he wa. al
urn.4l4 4114;:r. and the, itotti3O tio•01 0 ,
Iroltdred
opodon ot Mr- 11 ' 1i:won'. look. :I/ 44
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toot to the other, Ha he 1:44,4, , 1 belore the
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s, I I, SOW, and winning
r harto.•.l ohl,
that. a. lif :I- I, kn. iv, MI, W
144 t• •I external allad , were ali right
an I. a- ror peat e ot timed lie knew of
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her It, I 'II I n 441 vidlllt• I,lf ter reafa .
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that be thought he sholit.l Lane known
ir any much Ihn,C sea• to he apprehend
fir .• :1 II: 441 :.441ig 1,1 4., went.
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it MrP Wharton't mind
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1,0 di4a.tere could be f 11.121)% errd to
ha happened N l l.l,ert..e. 11., IBA..
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card rrfjitid,hl PlrW ,le; ref.. Loth Jr
diem reco.er..l r I , o'lll l r
rhilne-- arid efi.e of maw, r --near
hot it alingethl r 7..1 r ai TVA!"
(II e,..aewh.at -alellied in (,i11.1.11/11,1',.
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1.1'1 . 11( . 1! when some nithje‘ te were talked
ii, 11111/ np ViN Il,e cif rid
hr..--1 le It was if the
twofer aan explained. Nfy mother
way warned I.) that time, iui.l reamv
ed her 1.11101,1/ lilllll, lon it, 10 in
murk hrtgliter city in the South. She
11-, .1 to to II lioolot we grew updhe etor
of NI re \Vharton, and whirl she elide'
ed , and we could, tt we had I,ul, 1.1,11
1011111111•11, hate gone on to eay, am 11
lolli hero little eltildiet., "tell
Ilm itgaiii
When we ware going into llie nort It
to ti-it our grandparent., it won all
t e tt well to 1.11 iis of coal uagorts that
we , doold ~.• ranting! without horses,
or iron rails laid down in tire rural..;
and of the keelr»en rowing their keel
boats in the river, and all at once kick
ing tip their right legs foitind them,
when they gave the long pull; and of
tine gin.. houses to the town, with fire
eotiong out of the top of the high ti . liiin
ne24, and or the ever hurting; InOtintis
111.11 r the ~,,,,iihm of the corthlais,wheihe
blue nil )edow Ilaines leaps,' Aunt,
all iiiidat, through fire whole year
round It was all vtry well to _think
of seeing these things; hot we thought
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nre of walklng past old a.
Wharton's house, and perhaps Ind c.,
ing Mr. Gurney to tell us, in his w y,
the story we had so often heard my
mother tell in liei'a.
The story wan this:
One uwlNummer morning Mrs.
Wlinrion wir. PO aliment at breakfast,
that her daughter found all attempts
at conversation to be in vain. So she
quietly tilled the coffee-pot, which her
mother had forgotten to do, arid in the
middle of the forenoon ordered dinner.
which she found her mother had also
forgotten. They had just such a break-
t4'lng,.three limes more loran z the
next fortnight, Then. on Mt•is Whar
ton eros.ing tlie hall, he met her moth
er :n bonnet and shawl. about to co
it. .o early a+ half pa..t nine.- The
ctremn.tance wolld not have been re•
ttrirlse I, bit for the trice li , (8 (.011flISP
d'l , l A 11.2-lic4l ww, :teroip.tit f g
, nt. She said ••,e Iv" 11 , 1 r .t I
long Sl.e Slit! size hal a lit , •
'l' to !II tkr• ar• I ••, 0... ch,
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•he a had, rtt Mr litirme% Ile
na• I+ II /1.1 there aa. a
mouth litre lie
a.ked -
"%What time did you mop that
night
"Noa" -he •oin are nut
in: to ,t‘, 1 tome, that it sA:t4
mare Nlost people "null , hat
that nun loiea llie better than lir
lrillVeie that I eat, such wiiiipe N
,‘"111,1 of, want nightmare, or that I
nut nightmare trout reap
Jut my dear Mrp
eati I may ?"
"Perhaps rout had better h4t ea t ar
thrt, Lel.,re NMI Nay
11. 110.1c1e4 111141 fir uuu li ay
iii ,as. that tt rim true
I Lase...cell the earei appearance
II Illfel ie'eamegia way%
three i.elA nights about
the -.tine !mar Aa 1, , irice the fir...t
aria aratiee, illy 'wiper Lae been were
II a little bread ar.l butter, With it
titer. 1 to I k, lii h
tia:tre, a.. I 114•111 , / •‘ihi IR at, -
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alipeariiiite teirrib e •
11'hat ofirt of a lave im II '
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• and broad -.r11,, and p.t
.i e lir.] th e teaturea gihin•r and vi
_4 th ' fearittlis !•
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I) gu n hetir it come afil go?
• !N., When I wake (and I never
wake in thr night it . 1.
there . and it dl.appeara --to arty the
truth rriy eye 4 are covered ; for
cannot meet its evee. I hear notli
iii2..lVher, I svntiire a glance, eonie
11/111,... it is etill there, •ornetirrien it 1..
gone.
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Have you mined any property?
"No! nor lonnd any trace whatever.
We have lust nothing, and there is
really not a door or window that reeve.
ever to hale been touched, riot an
opentng where an) One could get it or
out '
"And it there were, what could he
the object'' Wbat does your daugh
ter nay to it""
Mr. Wharton, ring
quickly, '•ehe dues not. and, indeed..div
now not know a word of it. I ought
to knit' said, at first, that what I am
telling you is entirely in confidence. It
I told my daughter, it twist then go no
limber. We Could not keep our see
vards a weeYe, if it gut out And it I
should want. to let my house, I cool I
out get It tenant, The value or the
property would go down to nothing;
and, in pence to toy daughter, I inlet
col eider that ; for it is to he here here
after And we could nevei burr 11
guest to may with oe. u one would
•Itep in the house a single night. In
deed 111,1 Ililint
viell; I will not mention it
Nit I don't nee
Ile paused • and Mrs. Wharton re
plied to his thought
"It is difficult to form conjectures—
to say anything, in such a case, wh reh
does not appear to loolish to he .utter
ed. But one must have atone thought.,
and perhaps—it one can talk of poesi•
hilitaes—it is possible that this appear
ance may be meant for Inc alone; and,
theiefore, iLI can conceal it from nay
daughter—till I am convinced whether
it is meant for me alone
"1 would soon try that," observed
M Gurney. Seeing Mrs. Wharton
look wistfully at him, he continued :
"My advice is that you have your
daughter sleep with you, after hearing
your story. 'fry whether she can see
this face."
"You do not think she would ?"
'I think she would not. My dear,
frienthif I were a medical atan,l could
tell you fatts,which ‘ou ere little aware
of —anecdotes of the strange tricks
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which our nerves play with us—of de harm . and they had now got merely
lus•dons so like reality—'' . to (len the ir drowsy eyes The last fish story comes from Now
to see if it I
../I'' ton think I have not consider 'fuse there : and to d ro p as l ee p sh e To o.
I interi or of that
ed that . ?' exclamsed the poor la Is nest it was there nOionger• T i o , „,,,
l i Jersey. Lately,
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"Mr. Gurney, I did not think that you semi strange to those alio has e rot. and ;
ed lita l t:
would try to per-undo rise out of rut also to those who Istivelseen ghosts; but i . ' r a sil n ro l ad ;sir, bearings bundle tied
handkerchief; which lie placed
en-es, when I tell nu, that lo , tr tune+ n one of us know what we may come
u t p id u e i r a tinder hi, swat at the end of the
1 !roc F , 'Ti ~ ti d.l sight, and why n to: a n d these two lashes redo!, .1 the
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r - After trinssling along for 'shout
nil's stwake.l ssl :is perfect he sith.wlsst ,
r. ' ;sit
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turning their
orating on ihe ' r . ear
all hour, a I olv •itting in limit sit
1 kis e =lll , l 1 ;,ow-. w i t h out muc h orating 01 heart, ,
the countr6»an funs iili-crved to move
M - • 1 ; 17 ' '" " '''rY gently ; I" , '• ,' .. let the gibb erin g o'' " b '', /e ''''' L'' l ''''' . l nit , ti-liv 111 hi r-, at, and to cast sits a 1 . , ,t
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l ' . 1 ' , (net was [ " ..1 11 "''• lie lkskel sinu s,,- t •, and at lit-t, rt-rug in her rent,
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s o man, l• pa... 1 ,1 11,$ay NlithAut a
Ili it Mt. Wharton began to be
a little planned aboiti her own wits,
an 1 to tisk hersell whether, tiller all, it
as not po—thle that this a trick
of the tier%es I iiie night nI Jannary,
that doubt, at least was settled ; for
the re at the same hed pooh, was t h e
saute lace. Mrs. \Vitamin aeon 111
alter this interval, subdued at or '4..
'lse had Intrite, for halt it year,
pastors suspicions of her rligo-11011
allll of her wis,tum, 0101 110, (lit. really
F 4 111 14,11 In Slit' let 111111 tell
her daughter Ile( lion, rather than tell
II hers, hi , , all, he 1 • 401111 make light
of .1, and she could not and islite
hull, ii l reed to let her daughter sleep
w 116 her. For along time she gained
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liurmg the whole fortnight that the
11-011 10• W (mil 111111 , 1, MISI4 ‘‘ ' llarton
,10 the lave She tried to
i• the 1110111e111 her mother touched
ti. -lo• tried to keep awake, but site
11 , Ir -Ile/ the Mee, and tither that t
II 8101 001 come again till .Ipril
ti ne bright Ma ) dawn, she saw It
Ile' !outlier pulled her wrist, and she
waked up to a sight which blirned
ascii In ois(n her lirain She suppress
rd at the /11 1 110(011 ; but she
,1.1 tell Mr (iiiritey of it after
ward, without tears She wanted that
.lay to leave the imit , e immediately ;
but t h e thought of her mother's long
itutlerolg with this horror, the consul
erat.oll of the serous consequences of
declaring themselves ghost seers in the
town, and the disastrous effect upon
their property, and of the harmless
nessoT the ghost, induced her 10 HUM
111011 tip her eourp , e, aunt hear on.
Sh e did more When a little inured,
she one night sprang out of bed, rush
the foot of it, and out upon
688 I iieling The stairs were stall dim
In the 111T11 1011 she was confident
!list -lie saw something moving there
peso rig 110140 tie hall. An bOOll as
she 1 0 /111/ make the servants attend
she told them she believed some
hod% was 11l the house, arid all the
lour WOllOOl--two ladies and two maids
—went, armed with pokers and silos
els, and examine the whole house.
They found nothing, neither in the
chimneys, nor Under the beds, nor in
the eltetet -nothing from cellar to at
tic .And when the maids had recov
ered a little, they agreed what a tire
none and wearying thing it was when
ladles took limeies. Vita was only
their first night of disturbance. Miss
Whatton called them up
,three limes
nude., and then she gave the matter
up. The servants thought her strange
ly altered, add writhed she might not
he going to be 111.
Thus matters went on for aome yearn.
The oddest thing wan the periodicity of
the visits. In winter they were rare; but
there wits generally a short series in
or about Januar), after which they
ceased till the end of March, or the
beginning of April. They went on
through nearly the whole winter, with
one or two intervals of about a fort
night.. The servants never suspected
even the existence of the mystery.
The ladies never mentioned it; and no
article was ever misplaced at night.
The ladles became in time so accus
tomed to the appearance as to bear it
almost without uneasiness. It occurred
to them sometimes, howl odd it was to
be living under the weight of such.,a
mystery ; and they were silent when
ghosts were talked about, and f e lt and
looked ery merlons when ghosts were
laughed at; but - their alarm had sub
sided. The thing never did - them any
IVliiiritin, what
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Ilan In:- parl . t Of NtriOlgVre , to those
•Il nod he innv lIIVIICII the
the gla....h.une 1111“ g
iirtnr, ,Vi t 4 IltiftVlol'lllllly en;rage.l at
th.• -11, , 1.01, but her !wailer Avent
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iii,tr-e-t hind glitsw 'drawing -that
izri en gill.t4 ' 1 , 011,4 - Mr.* Wharton
t, , 1 Mr I"iirkelil.i IMP With
(111 e hand. aria with the other .he
the panted. pile , ' the glare, to a figure
on the other ride 01 the hi rliaCe.
• That'" thr titce!' hhe excialtned, in
grunt
'Keep quiet, and pull down your
%en!: said Mr Gurney, 111 her ear Sine
drew bark until the 91111.109/, and let
down her std. feehn scarcely able to
wand. Mr Gurney n d not offer her
run aim, he had Hun thing else to IL/.
'\V 110 19 that nom? he inquired of
the foreman, who wag showman at the
mottlent.
The man inquired about looked
Hearcelv human. lie' wn.4 ~tainted 111
figure, targe in lace and hideous - sulk
mg all allowance for the puffing oat of
cheeks, n% lie blew ‘igoriiiisly at
the end of a :ong pipe he was taiLling in
111. balloon like hands
'That poor fellow, sir lit name is
Middleton. Ile is a hall wit —indeed,
%et) near a complete idiot Ile is Just
able to do what you met.. - blow the
coarsest kind of glass.'
Mr. Gurney wished to spak with
him , and Old poor creature wits sum
roomed. Ile came grointittig, and lie
grinned more vet when lie wat request
ed to chow the glass house to the gen
tietiinn. Mrs. Wharton Itimg on her
friend's arm ; and they followed the
idiot, who was rewarkattly light footed
(for a 'solider), to the place lie was
must lurid of Ile took them down to
the annealing chamber; and then lie
observed that it was a 'a nice warm
place o' nights.' Being asked how
he knew that, he began pointing with
his fin ~e re at Mrs. Wharton, and peep
ing under her bonnet. Being advised
to lookhim in the face, she raised her
veil, arid lie sniggled and giggled, and
said lie had seen her many a time
when elm was asleep, arid. many a
time when she was awake; and an
other lady. too, who was not there
Ile hid himself down here when the
other men went away —it was so
warm! and then he could go and see
'her there,' and the other, when they
were asleep.
Mr Gurney enticed hint to whisper
how lie managed it , and then, with
an air of silly cunning, lie showed a
little square trap-door 111 the sail,
close by the floor, through which lie
said he passed It seemed toc
for the purpose; but he crept in 1111
ui flgaill tln the other side he de
Hared was Mrs. ‘Vhartons cellar. It
was.so, Far distant as the glass limoie
soenied from her house, if rail back s o
far, the eellar running hack also, that
they Met. No Mlle was 104( 111 send
ing round to the cellar ; and by a con
versation held through the trap-door,
it was ricertained that when Mrs.
Wliartori'm stork (detail inns lOW, that
is, in summer, and before a fresh sup
ply mute in 'did wittier, Middleton
could get in, and did get in, almost
ever) right. When he did not appear,
it was only because tlie coals cov e r e d
the trap-door.
Who shall say with what .satiefite
lion the ladies watched the nailing up
of the trap iloor,and with What Cerise of
blissful comfort the) retired to rest
henceforth ? Who shall estimate the
complacency of the good clergyman at
this complete eolution of the greatest
gnyetery hp had" ever encountered?
who will not h`onor the courage and '
fortitude of the ladies, and rejoice that
their dwelling escaped the evil repo.
tation of being a haunted house?
ly, who will not say that most of the
F oblin tales extant may, if inquired
into, be as easily accounted for as that
appertaining to the good Mrs. Whar
ton ; which has this advantage over all
other ghost stockvv-it is perisotly and
literally true. -
Why should ens never sleep in the
ears V The train runs over the sleepers,
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bundle, un.l had wondod it, WII%
C ingly our --11,2 ddr, r,r,t
A money hunter being nbdntlu marry
a foriune, n friend e•kerl him how long
the }limey m ein would Dont tell
rm• /if be plied, "it
hi the hervelittelion with me. '
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tirtetio4 ~r L:9 r t er• %%111,11 110 en
,•ou ritered ou CllO wil t . g ,•11
and recoil I'4 NlT:light , 11. thing In
that ear, but I)1,• hat I hat Wit- jOtim,/ , 1
(IoWYT, 11111 OW c..unt r% 1,11% Tn 2; 111
the next 4tatien,oo4leemt wao drawn
A Fine Old Man
Th.. following !IWO'S) irf . "a ripe
ttiti Man, 1 , hi %Ilfrrk Twain --“.lohn
Wagner, 111, , oldr ti 6umn iii Buffalo -oe
hundred nail furold-recently
walked n mile and n half in two weik•
110 wna cheerful nail bright 114 nay of
thiNf. other old 111. n that charge around
in the tit.‘k•pttpftr, Will In es. ty was
remnrkable Niivioulair he
live bloek.• lii n rain storm, wttlwutnut
41Ielter but an umbrella, umd t•it•t hip
rtttt. fir reingt king that he hail
r,rty Pr. , nl..nt. it 11101
wits not strietlt correct 'Ali- "se. iitid
t•rtip Of liroaii hair" arrived from New
y..r k i , bi% awl he lit,. n mvv .1! iif
Meth ~111Iti•: intuit 14.1111 !iv
l• to he 11)/IrrIt . 41 rut, t we, k (~ A girl nor
limulreil fool two years Ohl, who still
takes %Vll,4llfig They 11/1,V4. 41'1 II engaged
elghlc yenr•, but their parents per•is
tently refused their 1...11.0nt until threo
days ago John Wagner is two s ear ,
older than the Rhode Ishim i l
and ha. nmer 11 d to(
has hfe, only.. you whir•hey
--King \Villein' el Prie•ia r. r e it
lavish en personal apparel HI. ‘1111•L
recently gave hini a hint of •iitotililling
a new coat fur le• heed
were la„ ~ r Ling' r than he
ought, and was thereepen •11,11,11. , Y1.'d t. ,
the royal tirescle e
'Where is my el'l r mt, .lean'
'I ha‘e takerf it away, eiir
it I, nu longor lb to bo i.norri
'What tiro tuu g,,,11g 1.0 Ju with It,
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.1 believe 1 tun worn!. to ...ell it
'How much do you think will eset
for it
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tilted for it 111'11 lilt-wi•f.,l
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your nip--t%
'l'hr kit 1... k hi ,
the table, 4tp•sted ii and linilll,ll.lonn lho
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houk ,sji,t '
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"But %.ott art I rigir•," rejoined the
t;entl.•nn•n, •ell'.•lu don't
' YO4, ,•11 f•lL , :ar4," repliod the
Lille —.and tee Belt
y•oe , but do,. 1o I boo it to operate in
the At,
•ar, a 4tie WAR 010 clergy
man who iette.ed and addre.yed a man
r•omirig into the Burch alter the pennon
had begun with the rentarla —Glad to
Pee you, sir; Cillill! ; tad to
SMe those here late who ea t early;"
and decidedly fie4f-posm,44ed was the
man thll4 arillres.ed ill the prerenee of
xn atdoni.hed eongrevation,tl-111`revon
ded ' l'hank t ; would you finer me
with the tett 1'
il ,I 1% 11, a rode doctor Wlio
female patient, alter feeling her
pulse, that she only needed rest. ..„!‘l3et
look at my tongue, doctor," which ho
did, remarking, "that need. rest too."--
He lost. that patient.
All Sorts of Paragriphs
"Still life"—A. mute's. "
"tStick up"—Show bills.
On ttw wing—Flying colors.
A real sell—A mock nuotion.
\Vali:red stock—Skating park
!Atm; conclu , ion—A sorii foot
'Chi. , cionce of sorrow —Si heholo
The real s,liool bon: I -Ti."
A isitclicii-flri•ssor --Bridget on a San
'l•hn 11r , t duty on
stylist. tit Irght. t
he 1.04 -Intr.• in it fartn--tho
1111:d Ca l'llll, a pup's la I
\Villa 113 V, tt , \I , et lit Ip! ,
11111 i1t{,111“,1,.
r 01 v. n 1) al on it
U'~ni~~Lt•r
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it
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ton...dotwl,
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then
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rh, 1.04 •t r-t,,n
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Lill"
II) i nt , iuutlirr
Ail It‘nrß isssisimskii, sifter lin
d s•tssek n i rh us the , : s sj
the Iv Il ns> t., Si•‘ 5. Wllld thitt
Mr Digby +A) hug great rail
at 114.(111•, but r het been 111,1,
("nkirkt her
\V II) aro lorkll melancholy in t
1111 , • their little toll+ 1,
nil "%lq' CeW
A n•u. , ,n why n plan" Wll4 t h at SHN •
lit II 111, ii,.
It.
A lain in r.• harrowing than any
tt6ll e.-The tail of Clark
f•To•-triatk -taitite
u clerg% WWI 1160 n 1001111 , -
.t 11r0 tO look out I , r
bvll ringt
n 1;11i , r1110 4leritivd for t)
11, in 11 1111111 1,1111a11 , ,r1, Wifl• I.
p ' 11 , 1•1. -nothing Iris murk
Ittirrirboy:, Itrinirr's Omit politt
tutu, now in Koriiiiri, u, riot only
t , r, but tb N incr.
A von indrurn ie \Vhs
rmind on both mule and high ii
the middle? Ohio.
Why t the Sheriff like a coquew‘
Ite,ause be 14,4, a new llltill every eh, v
111 it NIIIIi•
.1 •Ign, nrirneineirg "The Vnentun
(' ire. i• 11(1114 fr , 111 the window '
n In,u, 111 1,,,f1d01fl
X \V tt•titri t p hinbi iliat Mr.
ti,trti r h , rm, the Mikado, is an Iri•ti
mutt and I but ht• real name is MeAdot
1,111 ,, r1 (I.etrint• of Hereditary Ge
r.' !I ,•:r,it.,l Grant soul at the foot
!a•• rn th.• military academy.
Why i- H baby II poor euchre player
Iteesti•e it can't "go alone " (Cf coupe
nut, when Lin mother "takes It up.")
11 dL -et s that (rant is "dumb
r SV hat ha e the oysters dote.
ihnt the) •liould be assailed in that WA% ' 7
(nil ybirniiton thinks the trouble with
the is , mari's righters is, that they want
t • 11 , .• and be paid like
h
of hf.. -"lteal estate, real
Ito.l n r.• Igi limner, none of
whleh be realized wlthout real hard
work
There o,• newly-married coo
plo• street in Peoria It
now Or. Ibe soubriquet or "Turtle
„him,..
I, , Riatla that eircumatanco
mile!) t.. heart ' .• Did Fh o , Indeed
The par girl I -.I wimh I was that eir
cuai•taar...—
110 , 0e1 buying been askoxi it
•be wit• Ile ell ellrer Tr.llope's
replied, "Yea, I 11,1 V • 111111/iS4 been
Twlt"re,loger."
2, 11111 , t. I ,iir
Itir.l tintain. that Ow
to 'l , it dawn' and 'eit 111 4 : tiro pr,,per
hlll3 110 11.4.11 to up' with a gal thirt \
years ng,l
hand of -Lillie Race. l ii
A.inericn,' it gentleman is getting up n
of the tilie,t celebrated horses which
have been betten.
A poor author is much like a worn
out printing press. lie may strive bard
and use nnu•h ink, but ho will never
make a good impression.
A policeman was recently discharged
lor corning off his beat on a rainy night
with is dry overcoat. The circumstan
cm looked suspicious.
A Grim(' Rapids doctor dismissod
sertiiiit girl for sprinkling a,•hes on n
slippery ptivonro , nl. in 'front. of his resi
dence, to the dr rmieut of bn•Vocss.
What should it man carry with him
when inlho: tip m 11 , N 9 Al
fa,aimi in hie heart, pert tinin hi,
wanner, and confections in his porketi.
Why chaos', is usod as one COUreo at it
banquet, is Was made us plain as a pike
staff by Kato Ilunnibec "The butyric,
rapriolle, and tabor acids, aid digestion '
—"Mv notion of a wife at forty ii,"
•aid Jerrold, "that a man should be able
to change her like a bank noto- , -tor 01 , 0
twenties."
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