The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-20
VOL. 5. NO. r.
LIMNINos.

It is said that nearly all truly great actor. become insane. Look out Fred Warde, leok out.
 Be.va Lockwood to dress-maker-"Oh, gracious, don't want such long train to my dress. am running for president, you inow, and it will be in the way"
 Two young men walking down the street. Bob. here. comes Spillers." ]" That's all right, let him come" Why, the other day you dodged into a store when you saw him coming" "Yes. but you see have managed to pay him since then.n
 Marriage" said an eminent writer, "does not make writer's productions more brilliant but it makes them more respectable" This speaks well for Ella Wheeler, for less of "yum yum" and more respectable expressions would im- prove her poetry.
 The Arkansaw man h as peculiar local pride. If, in his company. you should be nearing his village and should say, "this is my first visit to Coonville, he will with great surprise exclaim What your first visitm He does not see why every one has not made previous visit.
 An old negro who had been summoned to work on a levee, and who oblected, gave the following reasons: "Dese heah levees wucks ergin de cullud folks, ease why? Da keeps out de water. When de waters kep' out de nigger hastez wuck jes' de same, but when de water comes in, de Newnited States gubernmen, sens CT boat 'roun' an 'sributs meat an meal. aim no fool. doan wantes wuck when doan hafter an if de guber- ment wouP sen CT few britches an shirts Tong wid de visions I'd think dat dis wuz CT mighty fine country fur CT DO man."
 "I want you on the jury," said deputy sheriff to an old fellow who was enjoying his first visit to town. "I reckon you've struck the wrong man, podner, fur don't know how to make a speech" "You won't have to speak" "What will have to do?" "Sit on a bench and listen.' T Bench in the shadeT "Yes." "Cii pay, do Ir @Oh, yes" "Then I'm your man. This is the job pve been hunting for some time." "Ifyou've beer hunting the place, we don't want you -"Wall, m swear if this ain't the beatenis, come oG l ever seed. Don't want me jist because want to 60. This is the first occasion ever seed whar hang back hand was the best"
 It is estimated by Prot. Cannymore that in the United States, during one sea son, 67A,o gallons of human blood arc drawn by mosquitoes In twenty years, the grand total amounts to I,z4SAooo gallons of hlood-oeahy e much as was spilled during the war of the rebellion. These facts are alarming. Just think, win you, thSt in one hundred years IsAS4o,ooo gallons of as good blood as this country has ever produced will have been spilled without a siagle point hay ing been gained. It is very well to talk about the navy, but something should be done to protect the American people against the singing vampires of the night The navy indeed-~hy the navy never sheds blood except when some bare foot tar, shambling across the deck, sicks . splinter in his ho~f
 "I wants ter tesserfy ezxin de fraud e dis heah lection" said an old negro, re- ierring to the recent ballos-box contest in Arkansav. # Do you, of yosr ewn kso~i- edge, know that faud vas csamiaaed F' asked . nan who vas inaeseseed is cna- testing the election sCose does, ssA. has psoof at d lection vast hoses' out heaA h = Six vasd.s "Whas proof have yoa7 ?" "oA, rse eoe ihuG proof Yer - q dimeTuan cane ous dar an suneer by siggn ssses" .Weu, b4 thas b poiisieal insAssd q bsing dissrtly fasdslsne a.A anenahse to she lsw." Dafs n rigks, bm db a 'me.esahle t9 q lss. D. n all de uddsr .igsss q dellar q piece an didn't sia ne but ssbnay-F csnsk Dat vaa's hcues' fus q law sscezniss dst ny voc is vuaA jes' e nsrA q q nsixt maais, an' e didn' giede fall valne . ny voas, ", says l& = n1nmcshsn VI = suip.le - w fasd Dsss de psos1 saA-"