New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-02
A PROPER GIRL

She was a maid so very shy!
The very modestest OF lass!esl
She would not gaze with naked eye
But over used sedate eye-Blasses
The straight and narrow path path, she s,, walked
Her soul was white as budding calais
About the "Pallid break OF Pallas
begged a kiss. She bads mo walt
Vile thus Intent she badc me linser-
TIL she could take her place sedate,
Beneath a spray OF miStle-nnger
tn. sb.rIock family are noted horse traders IN
Tennessee Mississippi Arkansas and Alabama
They intermarry and one OF the family character
lsiics Is tho largeness OF the men ana the olihu-
tive size Of the women. Whenever MEMBER OK
the band dies his body Is shipped to Nashville and
placed In a vault. Every year. in the month OF
May the family meets In that Cit. when the dead
are removed from tho vault and inferred with ap-
propriate services.
travelled In a Pennsylvania railroad cab the
other day from Broad-st TO somewhere. IL was
one OF fuchsn and the other an Alexandria orchid.
on either window. The orchid could on.y nave
temporary existence In such surroundings. ana
besides. was rather valuable plant. worth pro6a ,,
bly, $40 or s n sy to a 81 wHf he
nor was the aesthetic cabman surprised TO mo
that fare and he sa %"s on put os n owss but
that wasn't he reason he gaXe III have he said saa
her country place. had some flowers In the cab
aS sve nS sns $50 ride
always gives me 81: and about two weeks ago shs
Tro onY When vp nus SHE'S Coming Other days put
gsranium there. "-(Phlladelphia Times.
A Dresden paper tho "Wedmann.' which thinks
that there arc kangaroos (Beutelratte) in South
Africa says the Hottentots (Hottentoten) put them
In cages kottcr) provided with covers 0attengter)
to protect them from tho rain. The cages
therefore called Observation-Disclosures, and the
Imprisoned kangaroo Observation-Disclosures
telratta One day All assassin (Attentater) was
arrested who had killed Hottentot woman. Hot
tentoenmutter. tho mother Of two stupid and slut
tering children In Strattertrotel. This woman. In
the German language. is entitled Hottentotenstro-
tertrottcmutter. and her assassin takes the name
Hotten The murderer
was confined in a kangaroo's Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures few days later
escaped. but. fortunately. he was recaptured by
n Hottcntot, who presented himself at the Mayors
Office with beamng face.
II have captured the Beutelratte." said he.
(which onc?" said the Mayor: I'VE have sew
eral"
Tho AttentHterlatt IL terwetter terbeutel-
rate"
Which Attentater are you talking atoutT'
about the mutteratten.
thter."
."Then why don't you say at once the Hottcnto-
beutelratte?"
FosF-we hadn't gone far before found one Of Of
my wheels badly Debated but there happened 70
DO n shoe near by. and So OF course. was all
right.
Fcndsrson-I don't understand. old fellow.
Fogg-They always have pumps In shoe stores.
you know. .
henderson thinks he will try that Joke his
friend Brown.
henderson Foss got on good thing to-day He
stopped at shoe store. tie said, you know. they
always have boots In a shoe store. Ha hal BY
Jove though come to think OF II. that doesn't
sound right. But It struck me as awfully funny
when Fogg got 1t off. / suppose It's his way. don't
you know.-(Boston Transcript.