Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-01

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Dear little man with the slender legs,
Man with the long, long hair,
Why do you dance on your slender pegs
WIN do you rant and rarer
Why do you howl and mutter so
Why do you olench your fist?
"Silly chattsrer, don't you know
/ am an el-o-cu-tion-ist"
A Mrs. Curtis, carrying an alligator skin
hand satchel which contained $22, entered
Photographic gallery in Peoria street, Chi
cago, TO have her photograph taken. Two
men unobserved followed her into the gallery
While the photographer was in the darkness
OF the camera he heard great noise and
pulled the trigger, taking an instantaneous
photograph. When he got his head out OF
the curtain a man was rushing out OF the
door and Mrs. Curtis was screaming. The
hand satchel was gone. Mrs. Curtis said that
a man had rushed in and snatched her satchel
from her lap. When the photographer looked
at the plate be wa. astonished to find that be
had double photograph. Portions of Mrs
Curtis showed up through maze of out
stretched hands, fur hat and q brown over
coat. He had photographed the thief in
action. The Des Plains street officers arrested
William Burns last evening. Some Of Mrs.
Curtis's money was found in his possession
to-day and he was fully identified by the
photograph.
singular accident occurred near Cam
bridge, o. William Gslbreath and James
Arnold were choppipg trees and each had a
tree ready to fall at almost the same time.
By some chance Arnold's tree fell first and
in contrary direction from what was e1-
pected. As it tell, limb struck Galbreath
and knocked him from the ground Just as
his tree, shaken by the crash OF the falling
tree, toppled, splitting from the stump up.
Galbreath's head struck in this split and in
the rebound it was crushed 10 Jelly.
"Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly."
Think of that cherish some flower, be it
ever so lowly. A man is not far in the
wrong way who can cherish lowly flower
Think Of the good, honest clover blossom,
whose lowly head nodded so complacently in
the old meadow out on the old farm where
you spent your childhood. What long days
Of summer under the genial sun, with the
yellow-breasted lark, the noisy robin, and
the meadows brook idly rippling along its
pebbly way. Cherish the lowly unprsten-
| tious clover blossom-honest, true and
lowly.
Bearing in mind that the stomach Of a
horse is small in proportion to the size Of his
| frame, lie requires feeding eften, and, though
three times a day is sufficient, four times is
better. Unlike human beings, horses should
drink before they eat, because, owing to the
conformation of the horse, water does not re-
maiR in the stomach, but passes through into
large intestine called the cacum. IL q
horse be fed first, the water passing through
the stomach would be likely to carry with it
particles Of food, and thus bring about collie.
Whatever groom may say, let horse drink
just as much as he likes. II he be ratered
| four times day he will never take very
much or too much 20 be good for him. A
horse, it must be remembered, 10 fed on dry
food, and this, with the strong work done by
a hunter, always produces a feverishness,
which a sutiiciency of water tends to allay.
Sarah Bernhardt's skeletou-not the one she
uses every day as the principal portion Of her
phy,ical entity, but the one that occupied a
chair in the ve,tibule of her Rue Fortuny
house-.as sold al auction with the rest OF
her belongings seized by her creditors, and
although in excellent condition-not . bone
missing or broken-only fetched sixty cents.
Did you ever see a woman play whist?
No! Well, she does it somewhat as follows:
"0h, dear, don't believe can ever get these
cards arrauged-Now, let me see, that one
goes there, and-Oh, dear, dropped one on
the fioOr-Won;t you pick it up? Thanks
Now, let me see-Oh, is it my play Mercy!
I'm sure don't know which one to play
There, played the wrong one, bat never
mind-Have got to follow suit?-Well, if
can't follow suit can rrump?-Oh, wish
could have thrown awsy on tina. ;rick-Could
l2-Oh, I'm so sorry-Now how stupid I was
l didn't see it was my partners ace when
trumped, but never mind" And so it goes
on, aud at the end OF the game her partner
generally has 10 stand the ridicule OF the
other side because be was so badly beaten.
81 see it stated in this hyar paper" re-
marked a passenger from the South, shat the
esspression painting it red started with
nigger show. Tnet baiE't so. Thet e.spres-
sion started thirty var ago down on the
Mi'sipi rivah. You know there used to be a
heap OF steamboat racin' in them days. just
afore the wah, and if a boat couldn't keep
sumwhere in sight Of another she was secon'
class, even if she cost Sl.OO0,000. Well, in
them days they didn't have all this porter
jacket, stesm-savin' business down so fine in
the eDgine-rooms as they hes new. So
when the engineesh told the coal-niggers to
fill her full, an they filled her, the boilers
used to get red-hot. Whenevah they was a
big race on the captain'd go up to the pilot
house, talk with the pilot mint, and then
yell down the tube: The Belle Of Mississippi
is coming round the bend. Paint her redl
Then the engineeah would yell out to the
coal-hustlers: 'Nigger, the Belle OF Miss'sip-
pi is after us. Paint her red?' And then
they would proceed to paint those boilers red,
rom fre-box to smoke-stack. Thet's the
way the esspression first started, sab, and all
the nigger-show men ever did was to put in
the word town.
The energetic bissing nightly accorded to
the heavy villain in the melodrams now run
ming at the Baldwin reminds old residents Of
the first theatrical performance ever given in
Virginia City. Most of the miners had not
seen play for a score Of years, and when
the Johnstone troupe opened in Othello, the
house presented a packed mass Of red shirts
The then famous little Edwin Booth was the |