The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

A Newark IN. j. landlady under
took to detain the trunk of one of her
boarders until bill of four dollars for
wear and tear of sofa during three
months courtship should be paid, but a
local Justice of the peace suppressed her
effort.
The hardness of hairpin in the
hands of woman has long been no secret
or mystery. From buttoniHg boot to
mending an umbrella it is useful in al
most any emergency, but a New York
woman has capped the climax by utiliz-
ing the ever-present hairpin for stabbing
policeman.
Attention has lately been called to
the fact that there are to-day in Massa-
chusetts more than one hundred towns
which have no public libraries. In many
of them there is no library whatsoever
except in connection with the Sunday
schools An effort is being made to sup
ply this need.
Visitor to Editorial Sanctum-"Here
is an article 1 have prepared on the
political situation" Editor Really,
on hand that" Visitor-''I know it,
Half the jackasses of the country are
writing on the subject, and I thought
it was time for me to say something.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Several remarkable pictures have
recently been discovered on a rock on
the Rio Grande, in Texas. They were
painted by the Indians and represent a
series of battles between two tribes.
The paintings are eight in number, and
the work shows evidence of a skilful
hand. The stone was nearly covered
with sand, but the paint, bright red,
was apparently as fresh as when first
put on.
"A Woman's Directory is to be pub
lished in Chicago giving the names and
addresses of 80, 900 Chicago women who
belong to various religious, benevolent
and political organizations. The book
was compiled for the purpose of estimat-
ing the number of women in Chicago
who were interested in work not purely
personal, and to encourage them to a
greater unity of effort.
"A Mexican letter says: If you
chance to be visitor at a Mexican
''balle," quietly sitting on bench, do
not be surprised if some bewitching
senorita with raven hair and roguish
eyes, trips lightly up to where you are
sitting and unceremoniOusly smashes an
egg over your head. This curious action
is merely to show her preference for
you, and means an invitation for you to
get up and dance with her.
"A puddler went to get his child
christened. What name," asked the
parson, ''shall l call the child?" ''Thoo
can caal the kid owt thoo likes" says the
father WELL" says the parson, 81
think Benjamin is very nice name"
''Varry weel," says the father, ''caal
him Benjamin" The puddler came out
of the church with his wife and child,
highly delighted with the name, when
q thought struck him. Rushing back to
the church, and overtaking the parson
walking down the aisle, he exclaimed,
''Hey, Mister, the young squeaker's a
lass" The parSOn was at loss what to
do under the circumstances. However,
he put in an "a" at the end of the name,
and they called the child Benjamin..
Leeds Mercury.
"A ST. Louis police Judge one day
had a gambler on trial before him. The
prisoner denied having played for
money, but said chips were used. The
Judge fined him ten dollars, however,
saying that ''chips'' were money. After
the docket had been disposed of, the
Judge was approached by the poker
player, who wanted to know if the Judge
still thought that chips were money.
On receiving an answer in the affirma-
tive, he said: ''Well, 1 suppose I will
have to pay my fine" Coolly counting
out ten chips, he laid them on the mag
istrate's desk and disappeared. The
fine Wa afterward RENTED by the
judge, the ''chips" are still in his
possession as a reminder of his ruling
that ''chips" were money.