Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (City of Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1853-1857, 1855-02-13
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Do y0u take the PapeFsi

Do y0D take the Papersf
- One Of cur exchanges hasa good story -
bout a man who never took q paper, but do
peaded upon his neighbors for the news.
1t is worth being told over dozen times, 80
we repeat it over for the enjoyment o!ou
readers. .isi
sExeiting times, these" said we to our
neighbof Slow, after running hasty glance
over the late foreign news. II
s'Eh?" said he as if he did not exactly us.
derstand
''About the war in the East, We meaa.''
::sHadn't heard of it. What's It all about.
Well, ,hem Down casters always was qsas-
relsome set of folks" s-4F.ss 3.
"Oh it isn't they that arc fighting; it, Tuf<>
| key AMI Russia; and England and France
havo declared in favor Ut Tufkey.E Napols-
on has sent out quite . fe1t."
"Napoeon! Why thQnsht ~ ~
dead long ago. The histesx Eys -" ~
eyes, bur this IL = 1Sph9W ofhis-Lopis
Napoleon, ttetesll hins; He i tAs Eups-
ror OF France" IA
-. s.ss }! :ss.,ls ,,... :.
"Yes SO he w6A Is dead now"
swell thai beats ALL"
sit ssems,' We continued, after a pause,
''that the Nebraska bill has been disposed
off,
Hung, suppose yoa mean. Well, lam
gl1d of it. He deserved it."
'Wnat for?' asked ~e, puzzled.
Way, anybo Iy that'll keep dozen wives
deserves to be Dis osed of, as yea call it.
~ nat do YOU me.n?'
"Why, isn't this Nebraska bill the same
nun l'ye hearn tel Of that mas Sc. up for .
pro IN It son-wh re, and married | don't,
hn0W how many wives!"
''Oh, III; tnat's quite a different man.
Bri n IN Young wno lives up in Utah."
.'Taen. who il Nebraska bill anyhow"
sit isn't a man ut all. 1t is a law propo-
sing TO annul the Missouri Compromise.
.sOh. :" said Mr.. Slow in a manner which
showo that he was still puzzled.
'sWell, reckon Daniel Webster had some
thing to say about that. lie is q great man.
Daniel
$50 he was Mr. Slow; but he is not liv.
ing now"
''Dead Gracious! you doa's say So
When did that happen?''
"About two years ago"
"Two wears ago. and never heard Of 1t.
I'll have to tell Polly of that. By the By,
where's your broiher:"
''He,s in Washington. We heard from
Kim, hlita an hour ago. He hid just arrived
there at daylight this morning"
You don't mean to say that a letter came
from Washington in half an hour"
':No, oF course not. The news came BY
telegraph"
I" .egraph."
eyes; it doesn't take over minute t.
come that way"
slow yer talk! Fi-o nunpred miles in
minute. But you gre joking?''
Joking, Mr.. Slow? Assuredly not.
thought Of course, you understood the rapid
ty of the teegraph!'
Then it's true? Five hundred miles in
a minute2 Well that beats the Dutch;
must tel Polly of that"
Mr.. Slow | want to ask question"
certainly, as many as you like"
s'Do you take the papers?'
.sNo, don't; bnt what makes you think
of thar"
Il thought you didn't. | should think
you would wish 10 do SO, in order to get ths
news"
ooh get the news as quickly as most
folks; hear the people talking about it, and
learn it IN that way"
''And you hadn't heard of the European
war"
"Well, no, l didn't happen to hear os
that"
'Or about Louis Napoleon?"
"Why no."
''Or the Nebraska bill, and the death af
Daniel Websterg'
mo, but
''Or the the telegraph.
''No. That beats all. Five hundred miisS
in minute! Won't it make Polly stareP'
And Mr. Slow forthwith be led his name
by salking rapidly home, full of the inteli-
gence whica was to overwhelm Polly with
surprise.
The government OF Paraguay lately or.