Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-07-30
PASTE AND SCISSORS.


Toledo News: What does the phrase
! He isn't in it" come fromy asks a sub
scriber. According to the best author
/ ity 1t Is attributed 10 Noah, who used
the remark derisively in referring tt
some profane person who had criticised
the building OF the ark.
One OF the largest nuggets OF virgin
gold ever found In America is in the
possession OF Mr.. Alfred Berke, Of ST
Louis. came from an Arizona mine,
and weighs trihe over thirty-seven
ounces. There is very little alloy in
the nugget and it is valued at 5000
A contributor to London Spare Mo.
ments says that as he was getting into a
railway carriage the other day he tecog'
nized ''in the compartment we'll
known detective. Presently a minister
got IN, and with the three OF us locked
in BY the guard, the train started. The
detective was in pursuit of criminal
who had gone by previous train. lie
began to study the photograph Of the
fugitive, and OF course was soon absorbed
lit This attracted the attention of
| the minister, who presently observed
You have, pelchance, lost 4 dear friend.
Dear? Yes, very dear, indeed, answered
the detective. Take comfort, brother,
he has but gone before, continued the
minister, who was not little shocked
when he got for reply: Yes. hang him,
and got three hours start Of me. But
I'll follow him, II il 5 to jerusalem
Says a writer in the Christian Union
II had slipped into back seat Of very
large African church at Columbia, $.
c., one Sunday evening and was watch
ing the kind OF otfertory. when one of
the deacons, with that tact which be-
longs ia almost all the colored race.
came and politely offered to carry up
for me any contribution | cared TO make
handed aim twenty-five cent piece.
and with inimhablc pomposity he
marched down the long aisle carving
the beggerly coin so that everybody
could see II. Suddenly ha turned on
his heel and came back more RAPIDLY
hundreds Of white spots flashing in the
stratum OF the shade, like fireflies
against weedy fence, as the curious
eyes OF the crowd we're turned to follow
him. Arrived within speaking distance
the good man called out in a whisper
audible TO half the congregation; DO
you want any nhangey"
One night recently at Ocean Shore
Park, Virginia Beach, Mrs. Hutzler. Of
Richmond;says the Norfolk Landmark.
was unable TO sleep in her room on ac-
count OF the heat and mosquitoes, and.
putting on some light wraps, went
down on the beach. She fell asleep
after short while and her nap came
near costing her her life. The tide
was low when she went down, and be-
gan to rise after she fell asleep. She
was awakened by being carried out to
sea and screamed for help. Her cries
were heard by the members Of the hotel
orchestra, and they went TO her assis-
tance. She had been carried quite q
distance out when the members OF tic
orchestra got to her, but was rescued
without further hurt than a thorough
wetting. It is said that she had been
rolled out into the ocean and back on
the shore again By three successive
waves before awakening.
Boston Herald: as this seat en-.
gagedyn Every one who travels up
and down the suburban railway lines IS
familiar with this senseless phrase
asked, in all probability. a thousand
times a day. When a person who has
paid his or her fare sees a vacant pIae5
IN the. he or she has as much rioht -
occupy it as chair at home There is
no need to ask the other person If the
seat is engaged. sor it is not aad cannot
be. though bundles aud wraps are piled
mountain high on it. People who be-
lieve they are showing a certain cour-
tesy by this question are singulariv at
fault. Even custom does not sanction
and IL Is foolish to BE- -'po-
lite" in the wrong place and at the
wrong time. II the seat Is sengagedr
and the temr orary owner Is absent.
there Is not Il E least doubt but you will
be informed br the other occupant
take what seats you happen
10 fancy ia a public conveyance aud
SAX no silly. ''Is this engagedgn