Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-14

his money back. Instead of laying down her
hand she languidly threw down $50 and said she
would raise him $50, just to keep up the IN
terest. and thinking of her bobtai flush that she
had bluffed him on before. he put up the money,
and she threw down four jacks, as innocent as
baby. and he had only nine-spOt full and she,
as she raked in the money, laughed SO sweetly
that the bachelor said he didn't care for the
money. The game of draw poker is fashion
able. and it is dangerous, unless man knows
enough to cut the cards
The lndcstructible Small Roy.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.
The Early Peach came to place where four
roads met. He slapped his chest with his stem
and looked to the east and to the west.
'Bismillah!' he cried, 81 am the boss, and
drive the ambulance"
The little Green Apple came down the long
road from the west and heard him. He bowed
to the north and he bowed to the west.
IL am the son of the cyclone" he shouted,
"and travel with my own private coroner
''By the camel OF Mahomet," said the Early
Peach. 81 am the friend of the sexton and can
knock You out in four rounds. Marquis of
Tewksbury rules
Come to the wake shrieked the little Green
Apple. land you may call Inc the harmless paw
paw of the wilderness if cannot double up the
man who planted YOU"
Then they looked down the four long roads
and waited for some one to practise on From
the east came fair young girl from Vassar COL,
lege and UP from the south came gray-haired
African.
Take you the fair student" said the Early
Peach.
''Not L." said the little Green Apple; II didn't
come here to attempt impossibilities. For
nearly 10 years that girl has sat at surreptitous
midnight lunches; she has broken up score of
young men with her ice-cream bills. and still
she is hungry. But will stand aside aud give
you a chance at the African"
Il am not on the suicide lay this morning."
said the Early Peach. II know him. and al
ready since yester-even's sun there have re-
posed beneath his untroubled vest a peck aud
half OF my brethren, and ne IS even now fam
1shed. He is known as the destroyer of water
melons, and all my tribe fear him. Allah is
great. put some things are impossible"
So they let many people pass by unframed,
the old. the tough, the wary and the well-sea-
soned. But when the day was far spent. COM
ing down the long road from the west they saw
ruddy boy. the pride and Joy of his home, and
the torment of his teacher. Whistling a merry
roundelay he came, his face as rosy as the glow
ing west his heart as light as thistle-doWn
He was their meat:
The Early Peach and the little Green Apple set
their teeth, and breathed hard as he came near.
Now" they shreked. and livid with hate
they fercely sprang upon him.
In two short minutes that boy had both OF
them down. and as he cracked the peach pit to
get at the ''goOdy," he said:
"'y jimmy jinks, wisht 1 knowed where
could find bushel of them fellars."
The Early Peach, with a dying gasp. turned
and said:
I'VE were taken in"
With hollow groan the little Green Apple re-
Piled:
''Of corpse"
But the boy slept soundly all that night, and
came back the next day to look for more.
Saturday Smiles.
Ruskin says no couple should marry until
they have courted seven years. This would
lead one to think that Ruskin runs a soda
fOuntain.-Boston Post
Surprised eyebrows are among the new
fashions. They are very becoming to a maiden
when she suddenly hears that the ice cream has
given out.-Oculists Oddities.
The girl who hasn't a moment to spare when
the dishes have to be washed thinks nothing
about time when she is trying to coker an eighth
of an inch pimple with a sixteenth of an inch
piece OF court plaster.-Syracuse Herald.
A SANDER: A wild woman has been captured
near Louisville. She had probably read some
where that the ice-cream crop was blgkted.-
Indianapolis Journal
Legal: A French investigator has discovered
that the character of persons dream depends
in great measure on which side the sleeper
lies. The dreams Of a lawyer, then. who habi-
tually lies on both sides, must be very much
mixed.-BostOn Transcript.
Three years constant study in Italy will make
All American girl know too much to sing in
church, and too little to be useful in OPERA
Ne,c Orleans Picdyune.
"Statira Jane" said a fond mother, the other
morning. to her daughter, did Daniel johnson
kiss you On the steps last night?" mo, mamma,
he did not" II the fond parent had said mouth
instead Of steps, It would have troubled Jane to
reply; although. after all, steps are things to a
dOOr.-BostOn Courier.
The Winterport correspondent of the Belfast
Journal relates that little Josie was accused by
her sister of telling a falsehood. She at first
denied, but afterward said by way Of extenua-
but God and George Washington This same
little girl was asked If she said her prayers.
She replied: "NO: / have to take Kennedy's
medicine. and that is enough without saying
my prayers"
'.Hot! Why, 1t 8 five degrees hotter here than
places in the country" my dear sir, this is an
OF year. You know! Every year but this we
have had TO keep up fires in July, and we shall
probably have to next year again. It is sort
OF an extra session, you see." ''But where are
those cool breezes you advertised?" "Oh. they
are over on the other side Of the lake TO-DAY.
You see, this is only one side of the lake, and
we can't expect TO mOnOpolZe all the breeze
there is. We must divide up and give the other
resorts some of it.-Detroit Free Press
Twenty-Five yearsag a young lady Of this
town had singular dream She consulted a
dream book, and learned that she would have
four husbands before she reached the age of
thirty. This made her rather Independent, and
she is now an old maid of forty-two, and has
never had beau. Some dream books are not
as reliable as they might be.-No,risto1n
Herald.
The Indian problem: Indians are like sheep:
they may be ruled by Crook.-Bufalo Courier
John Howard Payne revised Be it ever so
sweltering there's no place like home.-Auqs.sta
Chronicle and Constitutiondhst
The warm weather brings the dogs to muzzlin
and summer pants.-B0st0n Commercial Bulletin.
acknowledgement In the south estimate
that II the comet had put In an appearance a
month earlier they would have had several
thousand more melons for the market It seems
that the class of people who acquire their water
melons on dark night ara superstitious about
comets.-Norristotcn Herald