Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-02-20
A LEAP YEAR lNClDENT.

we think 1t prudent to state that we
find the following story in New York
paper, without indication as to who is its
shameless author. It was bad enough to
play the coquette, without publishing the
story and then, too, think Of married
nan boas,ing bow be misled q pretty
maiden.
The other evening, as my friend Albert
and sat in my study, with our heels eie.
vated on the backs Of two chairs, and two
glorious Havannas elevated from our lips,
looking round the c'ond Of smoke, ! es
pied the evening paper lying on the table,
which Tom, in his usual quiet manner,
had dep"si,ed there. Withou, in the least
disturbing our dreamy coeita.ions, picked
itup, aud began Ianguid'y to doze over It's
columns, when my eye lighted o" 'hr fol-.
lowing paragraph, which, old bachelor
like, felt quite enough in,eres, in TO read
aloud to my companion:
TAKE THE Lor.-The yonng ladies of
Aurora, Illinois, have resolved that It they
didn't 60, married this y-ar-I.ap year
s"meb,dy would be t. ham-. Tie senior
class in y illams College. have sent a
communication to the Aurora paper otlrr.
ing to take the lot, They say that now,
having been four years under college dis.
cipine, exiled from almost all intercourse
with the fac simies Of Adams rib. we
htp,k III lxt, I bat eLnro
tied in the affairs OF men," and that the
time for tha, knot has come to Us.
No sooner had finished, than Albert,
with merry chuckIe- nobody can chuckle
like him-when be chuckes, he chuckles
all over-,apped me on the shoulder, and
exclaimed:
"By Jupiter! Seth, thereby hangs a
talev
"Ah, ha!' said I.
"Would you like to hear i,2'
"Of course, If there is any end to it,
and any point to the end.'
"Well. there are both according to my
way Of thinking. And now, with your
permission, Ill tell the yarn OF course
you know where Aurora is-one Of the
smartest towns in all the West? 1t lies
just below Geneva, on the Fox river, aud
is in Kane County. Whether the County
was named after OF for the North Pole
Kane. and the town called Aurora because
the Aurora Borealis shines brighter at
said Pole than anywhere else. it is a que'.
tion that some future nomecla,ors may
discuss; but one little item you may bet
your life on-they raise The pre,ties, girls
that ever made fellow mouth water
"llow do you know7'
"How do know7 Wasn't | a. Gene.
va this last winter one whole month? aud
was / not at Aurora every other day to see
our old friend Jack Spau,ding, whn has
just hung out his shingIe there, and gone
into the practice Of law-or. rather. in
tends to, when be gets n case? Of course
| was; and as Jack is death among ,he
women be troted me all around. Ah
Seth, you ought 10 60 to Aurora-you
ought"
but the tale.'
"Why, you see, one gloriou. afternoon,
when it was jus. cold enough out doors to
make it comfortable by Jacks old Frank.
lin, while he was dozi.g away over-some-
body, forgot who, no ma,,er-on con-
tracts, aud engaged in my usual occupa
ton, reading Dickens, suddenly there
came a tapping, as Of some one gently
rapping at the Office door, Jack, while
visions Of fair client who wanted TO get
a divorce, c. get rid Of tes,y guardian,
filled bis mind, cried come in!' and in
walked the two special constable OF Cupid "
"One was noble looking pirl--eyes as
dark as the future to a fellow who docsn /
know where his ne 1t mea is to come from,
and cheeks rs deeply red as Cambridge
professor. All. Seth, she was n perfect
Goddess; the other-well, don't Say any.
'HluE "uous the oku'Es LOT SUc HasH Wucn
to do with my story"
But how came they there p
"Why. up the stairs and through the
door, to be sure !-but their objec, p
"ies, their ohject!'
Why, that was to invite us-ycs. Jack
and me, TO leap year ride-ball-supper,
and all Of that"
"You?"
"Yes, me; and she Of tho black eyes,
too, was the identical one VII, would be
very happy to have my company on little
sleigh ride TO Geneva, TO wind up with .
little warm Flip, a hop at IS aud a
ride home BY starlight
Did yon go?'
"Dih Igor Jack went, and could |
back out? Besides it isn't every day a
man gets such An offer Al 5 r. \. we
stsrted-one Of the merrisst crews that