The Press., 1889-06-20
Brander Matthews tells a story: A

Brander Matthews tells a story: A young Bostonian, reared beneath the brow of Beacon Hill and educated at Harvard, went to Texas and turned cowboy. He rapidly caught the spirit of the country and as rapidly shook off the outward sem blance of tenderfooted eastern habit Rough bearded, leather-clad, sombrero as wide as the widest, 42 caliber Colts on his hips, he was wild as the widest. Yet within his bosom still burned the flame of Boston culture and refinement.
 One day he was riding with stranger across the prairie. Turning his head sud. denly Che was slightly ahead) he saw his companion make suspicious motion to- ward his hip pocket. Without hesitation he drew his revolver and shot him. The stranger dropped like log. The cowboy dismounted aud looked at the body of his victim.
 'I wonder if he was really going to shoot me,'' he soliloquized. "I'll see" Turning the body over, he discovered a flask protruding from the pocket.
 "Poor fellow" he said, in tone of re- gret. "I've made mistake. I've killed an innocent man; and a gentleman at that. He wasn't going to shoot me; he was going to ask me to have a drink.
 Well," he sighed, drawing his sleeve across his mouth, 'the last wishes of the deceased shall be respected. .'
 TRANSMISSION IN GEESE. A correspond
 ent of the Revue Scientifque vouches for
 the following story: For about twenty
 years he was in the habit of visiting two
 or three times each year farm where was
 kept @ flock of geese, numbering from
 thirty to thirty five in the early part of the
 winter, and in the spring four or five, left
 for breeding purposes these also general. ly being killed few months later, after
 the new broods had attained their growth
 In the month of July, 1862, on feas
 day, the farmer and his men being absent the geese were forgotten, and were attack ed by dogs, which killed the most of them The next evening at twilight the farmer thought they must have been attacked second time. He found them flying abou , in their pen, much frightened, but thu
 dogs were nowhere to be seen. The nex day this terror reappeared at the same hour as it did on the following day, ant
 from that time on. The correspondent o , the Revue had forgotten this fact, when ten years later, he chanced to be on tn :, farm one evening, and heard the cackIin, a of the apparently frightened geese. Whe he asked for an explanation, he was tol : that this had been kept up from the tim they had been attacked by the dogs, tha there had been no repetition of the attack o and that the flock had been renewed z the meantime at least three times. If thi - story is well authenticated, we have cas Y, of the transmission of terror to the thir { generation in family of geese.
 g The N Y. Tribune gives Chicago CO o respondent space to make the followin
 vindication of "style" in the lake city e "A late item in your newspaper is slal Il der upon the elite of this city. Gentleme l. do not sit down to their meals in the shirts. To remove ones vest before goin e to the table is everywhere understood o be bad form. We are just as polished o1 a here as you are in New York" Signt J. Amos Ketchup, No. 121 Lake-st., Chicag