The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-07-22
The "ROil BengOl Tagger."

These are Little Johnnys observa-
tions OH the "Roil Bengol Tagger," as
communicated to the San francisco A,.-
gonaut::
"One time there was man who had
a tagger, and the tagger it was sho,
and the man he tuke the money for to
get in. The man he had big paper
naill onto the tagger's den, and the
paper it said. the paper did: The Roll
Bengol Tagger, sometimes called the
Monnerk Of the Jungle. Hands of. No
Techin the Tagger!' The monnerl of
with its nose tween its poz, and the foxes
wich had paid for to get in they was mad
cos it wudent wock, and rore like dissent
thunder. But the sho man he said:
That's oil rite when git the new cage
done, but this is the same cage which
the ollie Teller broke out of in Oregon,
time he ct up the seventeen men and
their families Then the foxes they
would oil stand back and took in wispers
while the tagger slep. But one day a
Teller wich was drunk he t1lke to punch
in the tagger with the masthead Of his
umbreller, wich stampeded the oddience
wild, and the wimmin foxes they stud
onto chairs and hollered like it was q
mouse, but the drunk chap he KEEP q job
bin the monnerk of the Jungle crewel.
Pretty sumo the monnerk it bellered ofle
and riggled, but the Teller KEEP pokin
like he was fireman to steam engin.
Bimeby the monnerk it jumped onto its
hine fleets and shucked itself out of it's
skin and rolled up its sleefs and spit on
to its hands and spoke up and sed: Il
bedam if cant jest whol1ip the pea
green stuf1in out O. the gum-dasted ga
loot wich has ben a proddin this ere
tagger! And the oddience thay was
stonish p
Registering Women Voters in Boston,.
We are indebted to "staff CORE
spondent" for the following anecdote
concerning the recent registration OF fe-
male voters in Boston. Its accuracy is
vouched for by an eminent artist-one
of the most distinguished stone-cutters
of the Hub:
Enter old lady Of certain age.
I wish to register, SIR"
"Your name, please?"
"Almira Jane Simpson"
"Your age?''
"Beg pardon"
"Your age?"
"Do J understand that 1 must give
my age?'
eyes, miss, the law requires it?''
"Worlds, sir, would not tempt me to
give it | Not that I care. No; Ihad as
lief wear it on my bonnet, as a hickman
does his number; but I am taui,2, and
if my sister has q weakness, it is that she
dislikes any reference made to her age;
and I could not give my own, because /
don't wish to offend her "--Harper's
Magazine.
CHARLES PERRAU1r, a French writer.
was the author Of ''Cinderella's Slipper"
story. At the accession of Francis II.
husband of Mary Queen of Scots),
Paris was involved in continued broi1s
by the struggles for presidency between
the confraternities Of the diapers, tho
MERGERS and the furriers, in which the
furriers finally triumphed. Two cent
uries ago furs were so rare, and there
fore so highly valued, that the wearing
Of them was restricted by several sumpt-
uary laws to Kings and Princes. Sable.
in those laws called vair, was the subject
of countless regulations. The exact
quality permitted o be worn by persons
of different grades, and the articles of
dress to which it might be applied, were
defined most strictly. Perrault's tale Of
Cinderella originally marked the dig
nifty conferred on her by the fairy, by
her wearing o slipper of vair, privilege
then confined to the highest rank of
Processes. An error Of the press, now
become inveterate, changed vair into
verre, and the slipper of sable was sud-
denly converted into glass slipper.