Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-29

the chicken has Matched: ut least 1t has PIP
ped the shell, and will soon be out the hole
is already large enough to see what manner
OF a chick he IS. It's a Narrow Gauge as
sure as you're born so here's our laugh.
Haw . haw . haw who-ee. whoop-ee. hur-
rah Whar's Mayview? How's your CUT ::
Whar's Greenton: iiow's your interior!
Whar's Texas Prairie? How's YOU big
town! Whar-we liked to have said whar's
Le.Le-Lexinyton Coal, coal! All right,
us too. We're going to Kansas City now.
riding on the Narrow Gauge. We're sll
hunk now. It's no use say-hand us a ian
throw ice water on us. and-swOoned, by Ju-
| piter, and that before we were half through.
It's too bad. But we've got it as sure as north
lies straight to south. We're going to Kan
sas CITY to buy our wife L fashionable fall
and spring bonnet, to buy her a new dress,
No. II CATERS. a Grecian bend, q Poliy-knees
and all them other sort OF things that women
are made up of nowadays. We're going to
Kansas City to Sunday School, TO take our
morning stomach bitters, to prayer meeting,
our eleven o'clock cocktail, attend church,
take our two o'clock mint jullp, sing. drink,
pray, dance, exhort, play euchre, and all
sorts of things to suit the times nowadays.
We're going to spend our of Iou-lies there.
picnics, eX-cuSsins, etc. Every fellow to his
.ga' and ride her to Kansas City and back on
the railroad. Amt it nice? Gosh, we fee
railroads.&c. all over. Ting.a-ling, tOot, toot,
buzz; now she goes. We've had our laugh.
and now we'll sober down and be quiet and
tell YOU lust how it is. 1t is here the iron
la. -rl r,N Ant y,r rrf ~ 4 nNA.r,
every day, making the Sni hills and valleys
ring with a sound never before heard here.
BY the time your types PRINT this 1t Will be
completed to the '2G-mile point and then
what? Well, just say yourself; further than
that sdeponent knoweth or.sayeth not Do
come up and see It; it has to he seen to be
appreciated. 1t is the funniest railroad you
ever did see. We're going to call it the CEN
tennial Narrow Gauge. There may be some
of your readers who have never seen u Mar
row Gauge. For the benefit of such, and
your correspondent 'k.' and others east who
are, apparently, anxiously looking for it
there, We intend shortly 10 take its dimen-
sions with tape line in all its departments to
the inch, and send to you, that all who are
expecting it to come their way may know
what to look for.
Josiah A. Bennett, of the Kansas City
Times, was In our town last week, writing
up the Marrow Gauge and the towns along
the line.
MIR. John Hall. OF this place, has a mich
cow which he weighed last week, and found
she pulled down 1,.2S pounds good sized
cow, that.
The depot for the Narrow Gauge, it is
thought, will be in Mrs. Tidball's field. adj
joining the town on the west.
Our town was made quite lively several
days last week by Independence and Kansas
City folks, visiting these parts to see the
sights. Among the number several business
men and a good many boys.
Weather warm and pleasant, and every
thing getting greener and greener.
Every boat that passes down takes on a
good lot of produce from this place. We
don't see where it all e, mes from Wien we
consider the grass hopper RAID last year.