, 1877-08-05
CURRENT GOSSIP.


! GU RRENT GOSSlP.
/ t.a1Y GIRL"
think Of her,-I often do;
I love het.-ves, and dearly, too{
I told q friend, --he said he knew
| Ny Girl.
| asked him who abe was. Said he,
/ 'sWhy, Clara Belle Roxana Lee.''
| "ko-rcct," said /. ''Hoorah." said he:
! My Girl!
.tshc's fair, ~ said /; 'sshe's fair said be.
'.She's true, said I; ''you bet." said he.
| t'she loves" ''She does, not you. but me ;"
| Mr Girl.
s'Loves you'll Why, moi that cannot be-"
.'As sure US my names Mick Magee;
And, if you don't believe me, see
lily Girl"
He called her by her own sweet name;
Size sp7ang into his arms, tafamc.
And where was II Out in the ruin:
My Girl!
sighed and sighed for weeks and weeks;
browscd on naught but green, green leeks:
Am conyalescent now On Beats:
Ny Girl!
CHICAGO. JosEru D. TuRsET.
Il IhAAE'S t1Ef OF
Puck.
He came in slowly aud laboriously, as If five
tons Of weariness were weighing down his
spirits.
He dropped heavily into chair, sighed sew
eral four-foot sighs, and then bombarded us
with the following conuudrum:
.tWhat is idlenessl What does it consist
ofN'
14r&f 1-unu 1va%~
"Now, some people woulu call doing nothing
idleness, wouldn't they?''
~ suppose they would"
"Yes; and that's where some people make q
mistake. There is no such thing rs idiencss.
No man is ever wholly idle; if his body isn't
busy, his brain is. l know Ihat If q man sits
around and shows Discrimination to work,
ioks vii! call him tramp aud cucumber Ut
the ground as Shakespeare says; but it don't
make any difference It isn't so, and can pro-
ducc plenty OF proof to sustain the position, |
ever heard OF Napoleon getting up at o'clock
in the morning aud starting out to the field
with hue over his shoulder, or chasing 4 side
hill plow around field fourteen hours days
Did Napoleon ever do that2'f
Never heard that he did.'
.'tNo, sir; he laboEe1 with his intellect, and
when he had any real work to perform, thou
sands OF men were ready to do his bidding.
That's the sort Of q man Napoleon was. Ec
never sawed g cord Of wood or did hard days
work in his life; and yet he was never arrested
for yagranry, and no interfering policeman ever
came Eossng around and told him to move
along or the hand Of the law would snatch him
to the jug.
man was hea On the unbalanced ledger Of his
tory do we find On the credit side auy entry Of
this kind:
'sDiogenes, CT.
'+By one days work -.......... ..........S1 90?
''Nothing Of the SORT Diogenes was a nan
ever did that We have any record OF was roam
ing AROUND the streets oi Syracuse with an old
tin lantern in his hand he pretended to tc
looking for au honest man. More likely hc
was mapping out free-luuch route. So much
for DiOgcnes.
Snow turn over another page aud glance at
the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. Nasu'k he 4
tramp? All he did was to sit
out IN his garden under an apple-tree, smoke
bis old clay pipe. and build castles in the air.
Sir Isaac square in the eye The circumstance
made him famous. Wnys Because he was a
genuine, philosophical tramp, aud tuok things
:ooliy. When the apple hit him be didn't get !
mad and throw threc-corncred Greek words |
around through the atmosphere, or anything OF |
hat sort. He simply. picked the apple up, |
oosed it over carefully for woru1-holcs, anu
slipped 1t in his pocket TO eat after supper ]
Fncn he began to WONDER why the apple didn't
70 up instead OF falling down to the ground,
lou see, before that be had never paid any at |
ention to che matter, and he diun' know whether
t was the usual aud correct thing for fruit to
y off ut tangent from the earth when il be-
anne detached from the tree, or to come down,
Ike Col, CEoekett's coon. He determined
0 Investigate So lie hired q small boy to
limb the tree and shake, and he watched till
very apple fell to the ground None vi them
ew up. Sir Isaac was satisfied. He had made
great discovery. The next day ne cut
ut a Eastwood model Of an apple-trce with |
alf-grown pippin Just in the act OF starting on
voyage to the earth, aud sent it on to Wash |
'gtun and had his discovery patented. This
latie Sir Isaac q noted man. When a little
hing like that lifts a man up and plants him
Il the pinnacle Of tame. isn't it an encourage
rent Tor lis all to sit around and wait to BE- bit
something! II wanted to, could 60 and
ork for railroad ut IS ceuts day, aud board
lysclf, but l won't do it. I'll han. aroun:I
nd wait for an opportunity. Ny intellect will
ave chance to show itself some time; and i;
gu hear Of anybody waking rp and startling
ae world within the next fifteen or twenty
,ars, you'll know it's me. Tn, ta.''
Ard tue weary man arose and slowly glilcd
ne hope, to return.