, 1883-11-15
TIE D.IhOT-I Girl.


When the Bona Dea, out of her boun-
taou-uc-S. makes a Dakota maiden she
takes cart never to spoil the job. A
soft. wnite, warm body, translucent
with divine light. and curving to lines
Of beauty Is naturally as the tendriIs of
tie vine, is the groundwork upon which
nature limns the human angel. Eyes
softly sright, but Iuminously intense;
che X like the dauask rose, with but
tercups Of dimpIes, in whose honeyed
h..ut sly PucI, or Oberon might sleep;
Iip- like ox-hcart cherries at the center,
but flexible rs Il smoke wreath, and
fuiiry away into the soft cheek like the
hearts blood Of strawberry into
Iur.uHs cream; chin fairly fashioned
a, the golden apple Paris gave to We
nus. who trembled with delight at TAX
inn it: the brow OF Juno, and the bust
of HcIe; the sea nvmph's pearly ear,
the wood nymph's springy stcp-these
are few of the charms that nature
gives the maiden Of Dakota.-COL. Pat
DDuHy.
PROF. ScHELE DE WERE says that the
shcrry-cobblcr was known in England
long before it was fashionable III this
country: but the sucking OF the bever-
age through strawS or slender glass
tubes is Il genuine Americanism.
HOW" SPOOPESDTKE" REPORTED IN
AGRICULTUR1E MEETING.
About the first newspaper work STAN
ley Huntley, the "Spoopendyke" of the
Brooklyn Eagle, did, was on the New
York Tribune, when Greeley was its
editor. His maiden assignment was to
report a convention of eminent agricul-
turists. 1t struck the newIy-fedged
reporter that the delegates did not
know what they were talking about,
and lie alluded to them frequently in
the course of his report as parcel of
old women and idiots, who hadn't the
remotest idea of practical agriculture.
As he sat at his desk rounding out his
report and filling in few adiectives in
dicative of his disapproval of the pro-
ceedings of the day and the men who
participated, he noticed Il man at the
other end of the room shooting copy
through q tube into the composing
room. When he was done, the man
who had been feeding the tube was ont
of his seat, and the innocent Huntley
fired his own matter to the foreman
without submitting it to the man at the
tube, who, as lie afterward learned, was
the city editor The next day he was
summoned before Horace Greeley, who
opened out on him with a stream of pro-
family that made Huntlcy's hair stand
on end. 1t WAS evident that the great
editor was not pleased with the new
mans effort, and the luckless author
received a dressing-dOwn he never for
got. At the first break in the torrent
of invcctivcs that flowed from the good
mans lips, Huntley veDtured to ask if
his report was not correct, and if the
first duty of q reporter was not to state
facts.
"Yes, of course, but you could have
stated the facts without calling The con-
vention a congregation of old idiots,
and then followed more language in
italic.
"But were they not set of blanked
! old idiots?" timidlv inquired the victim
of the great editors wrath.
"Yes, suppose they WERE" he de-
sparingly exclaimed, thoroughly ex-
austed, and realizing the poverty of
language in dealing with such subject;
but, blankety, blank, blank your fool
soul, l was one of 'em myself. was
President of the meeting. "-UaShing-
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