The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-02-11
VARIOUS COMICALlTIES.
BRILLIANT FLASHES OF WIT
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Wies Alexander Discovers Why
reginald Marston Could Sec In
Her all the Graces Peculiar
TO Mountaineering
SQulbs.
Why She WIItad.

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with Miss Alexander for at least two
hours on the piazza, where Fred
Wheelington had presented him to the
helress. All his best powers had been
exerted toplease her, and 1t was quite
evident that he was more than sue
cessful. AS Wheelington came out at
IL o'clock into the fragrant summer
air of the night, Marston arose to go.
"Not yet, I hope" said Miss Alex
ander detainingly. .
eyes, [ have stayed too long al
ready" Marston almost whispered, as
he took her hand.
With short good night to both, he
LETT Miss Alexander and Wheelington
on the piazza.
Wheelington took the chair Marston
had vacated and with the familiarity
OF an old friend drew it nearer that Of
the young woman
what have you been saying OF me
to MIR. MarstonT' she began impulsive-
ly.
"Not a great deal of a. compliment
tary character - he replied banter
lngly. '"Ihere isn't much to say,
don't you know"
"Oh, OF course not" she laughed;
"but you must have said something"
she insisted, 'for never saw a man
so earnest, SO honest SO persistent in
finding in one all the graces of woman
kind. He did it so gracefully ana so
charmingly, too, that really 1 have
quite fallen in love with him.
Washington coughed significantly
and laughed.
."1ndeed?" he said briefly.
"Tell me-" she urged, "now that's a
real nice big brother" and she took
his hand caressingly in hers. "That
49," ne said after a moment, mot
much"
"Oh, but 1t must have been a, great
DEAL"
mo, it was only word or two"
"Pshaw," she exclaimed, snatchinc
her hand from his, ''you couldn't tell
him anything about me in a. word or
two which could possibly have had
any influence upon him."
"lt seems, however, my dear Miss
Alexander, that I did," he said exas-
peratingly.
She jumped up from her chair and
walked across the piazza, where she
stood against the rail pulling a honey
suckle to pieces.
"How perfectly idiotic," she ex-
claimed, throwing the flower to the
floor. "What was it?''
II told him you were very rich"
She crushed the flower under her
foot and went into the house.-De-
trOit Free Press. t-a..-
What He Really Is.
"See him! See him!" he said excit-
eddy.
eyes. What of it,"
"He's one of the regulators or some
thing of that sort down south.'
"Indeed!"
eyes. They say when he gets at the
head OF a crowd with mask on his
face he looks simply terrible.''
"Been in lynchings, suppose"
'"That's what refer to. He hasn' t
missed one in the ten years he has
Oeen IN Cne parish.
dead coward, eh?"
"What! Coward! Why, man, didn't
I tell you that he took part in all
those rouoles down there? He's been
at the head of five or six negro lynch
ings to my knowledge, and that's out
side OF the whites.'
"And the man lynched never had a
| show"
| 30, we'll, of course, they weren't 60
ing to take any chances"
"And he wore q mask"
certainly. It wouldn't do to be
recognized you know
II understand. Afraid to give the
man they were going to kill even a
! chance for his life against big odds on
,, the one hand and afraid to face the
Government on the other What was
that I said? Coward? Well, let it
| 60 at that. "-Chicago Tribune.
| A "Reminiscences of the Late Census
Census-taker, to the queen of a
certain kitchen on Maryland Avenue,
Baltimore-'"What is your name?"
Queen OF the Kitchen-"My names
May LIZA Jones'"
Census-taker- "Where were YOU
born?"
May 'Liza-"I wuz born in
Glou'ster Cote House, Faginia.''
Census-taker- tHow old are your"
May 'Liza-"I reckon Use bout
twenty-three years ole.'
Census-taker, examining the elderly
black countenance before him with a
puzzled Representatives, you born
before the war, or since the war;"
May Liza, indignantly-'sI. wus
born TO de wa}1. I amt no sence de
wah niger. Desc here sence de wah
niggers amt no count. rs a 10 de
wah niger
Census-tal1er-" care you married."
May 'Liza-'I reckon l is. got q
married daughter wherego one chile"
Census-taker-s'How long have you
been married."
May Liza--"I speck Ibeen married
bout twenty years. I got seven
chillen, an all DENIS grown"
Census-taker, reading aloud-"M MARY
Eliza Jones. Born before the war