The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-04-03

ed. All our trunks had to be opened
by the custom house inspectors to
see Il we had amy cologne q cigars
In 'em. don't Gee why they call
them custom house officers though.
Their costumes weren't anything won
derful. 1t took pop half an hour
70 set his trunks all through because
6e said the inspector didn't know the
language. Pop says he asked him
what nation he belonged to and the
man said ne was Hinglish and pop
told him he'd never heard Of any such
people. where did they live. In Hing
land, the man said. Where's TINT
asked pop. and the man nearly tainted
and hten pop gave him q half crown
and then pop gave him half o crown
ceedn't open any more trunks, be-
cause q man rs ignorant Us he was
wouldn't have sense enough to try to
smuggle anything in, anywhere.
After the trunks were oil passed
pop asked q man where the baggage
car was and that n,an couldn't speak
English either. He asked pop what,
and pop says again where's the bag
gage car, and just then an American
that had been over before says to the
man he means the luggage van, and
the man said oh wy didn't ee 81 so.
Pop says he thinks that's Welsh, which
Is q language he never liked anyhow.
The only Welsh thing he ever liked
was q rabbit, he said. Wots your
name asked the baggage man. Drake,
says pop. Well your van is the seventh
car up. It's marked with a ID. Do
you know a d when you see it? Pop
said he guessed so. He'd seen one
once and he had an idea that it looked
IKE a + without pedestal or q 3
cut In two. That's it, said the man.
Well you put your luggage in the van
marked with p without pedestal
and when you get to London You can
go and claim 1t. But suppose some
body else claims 1t said pop. That's
his affair and yours not mine says the
found out that they don't give checks
reason was that they preferred cash.
Harper's Round Table.
Juvenile Genius:
Handel had produced an opera be-
fore he was Is.
Corneille had planned tragedy be-
fore he was 10.
stage before he was IA.
Pitt was chancellor Of the exclleuu..r
before he was %.
Schiller was widely known as poet
before the age Of 20.
first artistic genius in Germany.
Kant h0O0r hiS vnI1i1noovo1,fnol
metaphysical speculations before. tue
age of IL.
Goethe had produced a considerable.
before he was 20.
Raphael showed his artistic abilities
at the early age of II when he was
widely known as an artist in oil.
Michael Angelo Mt the age of l6 on
tered an artistic competition with tue
best known artists of his time.
Ben Jonson wrote "Every Man in
His Humor," considered by competent
critics to be his best play, at o.
Coleridge is said to have begun 'ork
on the "Ancient Mariner" when lie
was about Ia years of age. 1t was
printed and given to the world when
he was II.
Prince Eugene exhibited military sal
ent mt the age Of Ii. For hours lie
would sit porting over a map, and WHEN
asked what he was doing the 'hild
answered that he was planning CAIN
paign. *.
Mozart was composer Of sonata
before he was 6; at o he produced his
first mass; and before he was 20 he
was known all over Europe as COM
poser of church and operate music,
and of Quartete and symphonies.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.