The Red Cloud chief., 1893-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

line wise individual VINO said AN
n of action is worth a pound of
talk" evidently weighed his words.
Did your son take gymnastics in
his college course?'' Eyes. yes: but he
never speaks any Of those foreign Ian
guages here at home.''
Mrs. Snipp-"Young man. will this
ticket take me to Chicago? Ticket
Agent-''No. ma'am; but that train
outside Embellishments Monthly.
1T is said hat oIeomargine can be
detected by boiling u tablespoonful Of
it. Boiling butter will foam without
much noise, while the sham butter
sputters and Kisses like lard. but does
not foam as decidedly rs genuine butter.
II don't see how the washing or
ironing could be improved" He
"Confound II all, that's not the trou-
BILE: it's because she brings home the
very same collars and cuffs until I'm
tired of hem."--IntcrO Ocean. IN r''
Some men who were digging a well
at Live Oak, Fla, found about ten
feet below the surface of the ground a
tree that was pctritied only on the out
side. The trunk was split open and
the inside was found to be filled with
honey, which had been shut up in the
tree for many years.
Out OF Sight.-Judge-"What did
you arrest this man for, Mr.. Onicer?''
Oficcr-'For guying me-" Judge
"Why, the a is blind" Ohicer-"I
know 1t, your honor. lie had some
lead pencils for sale, and I asked him
how business was, and he replied tina,
IL was out of Observation-Disclosures Far.
mer.
Col. Goodfello-"Well, Nose. how
are you getting along in the place |
got for you?' Nose Yallcrby-"Nice.
ly, Kunnel, thank zee. Is de foreman
now Col. Goodfcllo-"Foreman?''
Nose Yallerby-"Yassir; no one kin
come in till | fust open up, an dust
things!'-Truth.
1t has been suggested to the police
commissioners of Superior, Wis. that
the police should be equipped with hi
cycles. and in this way ont policeman
could a much larger beat and
with greater ease. which would permit
of a curtailment of the force. The plan
is a good one and will probably b,
adopted.
There are occasionally bargains 70
be had of even the street fakirs. An
honest halter of an eastern town hav.
ing vainly tried to please a customer
with a straw hat of moderate price, as
such go in the shops. said at length:
"Why don't you buy of a street fakir?
A large hat concern down east has Just
failed. and its hats are selling on the
street at fifty cents apiece, the very
same hat for which | get two dollars"
AT Pleasure Bay, on the Shrews-
bury river, New York, the other day.
said "a umner tourist. ~ saw a water.
ing cart of a style that l had never seen
before and which was filed in "a way
that also was new To me. The cart had
four wheels and its tank was "a fiat,
| square box. in shape something like the
case of a square piano. This tank was
suspended under the axles, and when
IL was desired to fill it the driver sim
ply drove into the river until the tank
was submerged"
AT Il fancy-work sale n book cover
held a quantity of blank leaves in.
tended for notes for a jaunt. This
said the glib young saleswoman. "is
especially designed to give to your
brother, lover or husband, as he starts
on u fishing trip When the cover
was examined II was found To have
painted on its black surface in brilliant
red II bottomless well, whose intima-
accentuated by the legend across the
! top in glowing script, I'VE Lie Book
Where are the croakers who say
that everything was all right in 1.-The
good old days?' Here comes along a
diary written by a lady Of fashion some
fifty years ago. and among other com
| plants. which are like echoes of those
we hear every day, are these: Our
streets are not wide enough for the car
riages, nor the week long enough for
ones engagements. There isn't enough
money. nor enough time to spend it in.
! In short, such a ness!' Also. the wri-
ter of the diary. Lady Georgina de Ros,
says: mo wonder girls are delicate il
they eat mutton chops before dinner
81 saw to-day" said a New York
citizen. "a man sitting on n hydrant
selling lemonade from n pail standing
in front Of him on the sidewalk. 1t wa
good lemonade, know. for ! tried it
but | couldn't help feeling that il was
n mistake from Il business point of view
to sit on the hydrant. OF course he
couldn't get into it, we knew that wei
enough. but it sort of looked as though
he had the whole Croton river back ot
him. Suppose you should see II milk
man sitting On n pump and offering
milk from IA can in front of him? II
might be the sweetest. purest milk In
' the world and the pump might he dry
and without a handle, but who woul,
buy the milk"
-Gertrudc Petan, OF Bull Creek
Oak, is Il genuine female cowboy. Sh,
is only IS years old, but she takes carr
of all the cattle OF her fathers ranch
This sometimes takes her thirty ol
forty miles from home. When the cat
tie become mired in the mud she mus
rescue them from their perilous posi-
ton. This she doe in r cowboy