The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-28
Before They Got Tired of It.

Before They Got Tired of It.
paled the first time that met your eyes,
Then strangely blushed. Alas my truant heart!
You made some pleasant talk of sunset skies
Unwritten songs that mock the poets art.
l answered smiling. When you came again
(fou sought me next, all breath and speech were
Held back by tumults of exquisite pain.
While of themselves two hands thrilled as one.
brief, sweet moment-Ican feel it yet
We sat apart and talked of common things
And heard the wind and rush of swallows wings
Fill up pauses. Last by chance, we met
In summer dusk, alone, unseen unheard-
Stood, folded heart to heart, without world
Hattie M. Chaplin.
WHIMSICALITIES
The II comma bacillus will soon cross the main;
he is coming to us from his chateau in Spain.
The comma bacillus will never know pause
There is death in his legs there is death in his jaws
The doctors will gather; they'll meet him in VAIN;
He's coming to us from his chateau in Spain.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
How doth the busy druggists clerk
Improve each shining hour
BY drawing soda water from
The font in steady shower!
How busily he plies his hand
In bringing soda FORTH
And charges ten cents for glass
That is three-quarters froth.
Boston Gazette.
Musical Item:
Texas Siftlngs.
zone of these dollars is a counterfeit maam."
''How can you tell?"
Simply by sound. Just tap it and hear how
clear the genuine sounds. That's tenor. Notice
when tap the other one That's base"
Losing Time.
New York Sun.
''My FRIEND" said clerical-looking gentleman
on the front platform to the driver IF you
must use the word, why not say 'sheolP"
II tried that word on the down trip" replied
the driver, "and was ten minutes late at City
Hall"
A Bad Boy.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Grandma" said a young scapegrace, do old
people live very long9"
Sometimes" said the stern old lady.
do you think you will live to be very old!"
81 hope" said the old lady YEARLY, that
shall live long enough to see you grow up to be
ell-behaved young man."
And the incorrigible responded
We'll, grandma, you needn't wait; I'll tele-
graph"
Fortunate for George.
New York Sun.
is it simply sisters affection that feel for"
Just then Bobby burst noisily into the room
and interrupted her sweet meditations.
''Get out Of here, you little brat7 che shout
ed, and Selling him by the arm, she shot him
through the door.
"Ah, no" she sighed as she resumed her in
terrupted train of thought, my love for George
is not sisters love. 1t is something sweeter,
purer, higher and holier."
Smart Woman. "a
Texas siftings. an
An insurance agent applied to woman in Aus
tin to induce her to get her husbands life in
sured
Twill be sure to get the money if he dies
right OFF,
Certainly, madam"
but will you give me any assurance that he
will die right off"
.'No, madam, we cannot do that"
We'll, then, what good will it be to me to get
his life insured, if he doesn't die9 knew there
was some catch about this insurance business
We, Us and Company.
1t is always best to be careful and precise in
giving directions to servants. Colonel Yerger
told his coored servant Sam:
go and get us couple Of tickets for the per-
Torrance to- night"
Sam came back and only brought one ticket
where is the other ticket?"
II has done disposed OBJ hit"
what do you meanW
BOSS, you tole me go and get us two tickets.
Oars your ticket, and l guv my ticket to
cullud lady met on de street She will be dar
boss. You bet she will be dar. Oars no danger
oh de ticket bein' los or wasted"
Seeking a Fortune in the West.
New York Sun.
my dear" said father to his daughter, show
long ago was it that George Jackson went West
to seek his fortune!"
Just year." the girl replied, with a blush
''Was there anything between you and Georgel
II %h0.xrr &c
HE was papa" and the girl hid her face on
the old mans shoulder. II promised George
when he went away that would wait for him
for years if necessary"
81 have letter from him."
'Oh papa!' she exclaimed. "Does he-er-
has he-oh tell me, what does he say?"
HE wants $40 to get home with"
So Near and Yet So Far.
st. Paul Herald.
They slowly approached the house. he with
sad, detected air. and she with proud, scornful
look upon her fair young face that BODIED no
good to the wedding bells and orange flowers.
II cannot imagine, my DEAR" he said mourn
fully as they gained the front door, what has
come over you so suddenly / should at least
know my offense. 1 simply asked you if you
were romantic, when" A startled look came
over the girls face. lyon asked me whatln she
demanded II asked you if you were romantic,
and Forgive me, George" she exclaimed
about his neck 81 thought you asked me if l
was rheumatic"
An Incident of Camp Life.
Report in New York Tribune.
member of Company B has been slightly in
disposed to-day. and the members of the COM
pany say
A cucumber grew by the garden wall,
Grew round and yellow;
Smthy it, that is all
Poor little fellow.
Royal Comfort.
New York Life.
SAKE Coburg comfort and not England's well
fare is what the English people are taxed for
So long as John Browns grave is kept green and
the wages of royalty are paid. nothing can
disturb the serenity of the queenly mind-a
mind so delicately organized as to recognize a
soft fhinc when 1t sees IL hnwavar wanting in