The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1873-02-08

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NJ Cdmsoefoss seized The bHa
dls snj cfisii IN ioud, tfianphsni
voice
If seat Of IL. cap I roll II out of
the hannss, And bsaold :"
lie hsll 10 bis bAsd by the nsps
Of 10 neck sqHirmiug IirrziliaB
spe'
"Abd whsrss M. baby ?" soroech.
ed the nurse, the mother asd the
doctor.
"Ah" mufmured the scientific
man. as gently closing his eyes he
allowed Bis head to sink back in a
very scslaey Of joy, "ah ! another
link in the chain. | will write b.
Darwin will write 10 Huxley.
This Is the pleasantest momest OF
my lite We are all monkeys
"But where's the baby-ths
blessed babyi"
"The baby repeated the philos.
ophcr. abstrnctsdly, the baby-O,
the other one? | put til put it,
in the fire."
"The FIRE Good heavens :" cried
the doctor.
"Stay No, | mean--don't make
so much noise, plcase--I didn't put
il in the fire. really have forgot.
ten where put it-somewhere
near the fire---the next thing to it
all, yes it was in the coal scuttlo."
Taking his son and heir BY one
leg, aud handing him to Mrs.
D, head downward, the philoso-
pher locked and boted his library
door, and sat down to write. His
lubrications exhausted some sixty
pages of foolscap, and it was tour
o'clock next morning when he
| placed in bold characters at the
head of the first page these words :;
"An Account of an Experiment.
Proving tho Impossibility OF Deter
mining as to whether u Flannel
Bundle Contains o Small Baby or n
Small Monkey. BY Professor Adol-
phus Crimsonrose, Member Of the
Society for the Digestion Of Fossils
and Old Bones, Etc" Scarcely had
he laid aside bis pen, ere the great
mesmerizer, Sleep, made pass at
his scientiiichead, and carried him
straightway to the Land Of Dreams,
which most people visit every night,
with the exception Of policemen and
hard working doctors, who know il
| by reputation only.
lie thought himself in Africa.
Yes, before him twas a collection Of
| bamboo huts.i oA Hottentot woman.
With . ring in her, nose, advanced
aud sang to him:
| ''The winds roared and the rain fell,
The poor white man, faint and weary 5'i
Came and sat under our tree. s~4.
| lie has no mother 10 bring him milk,
No wife to grind him eorn Rf3
CHu; rs; AHaxt ta&Et
Let us pity the poor white man,
No mother has he to bring him milk,
No wife to grind his corn as&
A lion roared. and a niger rode
by on an ostrich. 1t was Africa,
indeed ,
Suddenly the scene changed, and
he found himself in A. particularly
black jungle with large gorilla Of
the female gender, staring at him.
lie, with pallid cheeks and starting
eyes, returned her gaze, expecting
to be squeezed to deatl, Ut once,
and resembling, in a general way,
Han let looking At the Il ost. What
then was bis relief when, extending
her hand, she asked IN quiet and
lady-like manner, Allows Darwin"
Mr.. Crimsonrose was too deeply
affected to reply. 4 4
"a How me to introduce myself.
am the missing link--that mysteri-
GUS and long sought after being
who connects mankind with mon
keys---being six of one and half a.
dozen of the other that is to say,
half-in-half
"By heavens p cried the delight
ed philosopher, "You speak the
truth. You speak--you reason. A
little more than ape, a little less
than human Your ears are but
triae pointed, and"--this the sage
uttered with the greatest concern
able delicacy--"your tail is a mere
rudiment."
Sitting, upon her rudiment, the
lady begged the philosopher to be
seated on d stump; then she COM
menced in a low and melancholy
voice the history Of herself.
81 was remarkable childw WI
am sure you we're" intsrpolated the
sage.) "At five years Of agoI was
able to repeat, the entire alphabet in
Chinese." st'&' r "s& IN i
"How did you discover the let
ters!' demanded the sage. !
u spontaneously generated them,"
replied the lady. "Ask the great
man--ask Darwin. He'll toll you
how"
(@I'll write to him Tomorrow, !"
quoth tho sage.)
| "At an early age ] chose a hus-
band. Y II was partial to a
short tail, and having myself
but, a. short tail, a son was
born to rs having no tail at all. He
was the first monkey who could
abuse his wife IN irish, csIfs
done inlrish to this day." murmurs
cd the, sage.) "Hs was also the
/ first barber, for he shaved himself
A n