The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-20


but he was frightfully mad. The con-
ductor took his name in the usual way,
brushed him off, and then went back
to the car. When he had rung the bell
to go ahead he asked for the names OF
few witnesses of the occurrence, as
conductors have orders to do. But the
men on the platform shook their heads.
They were not looking, or the motor
man may have been to blame, or they
didn't want to get mixed up in it. The
conductor looked discouraged.
Just then the man in the grey suit
reached across and tapped him on the
shoulder.
81 saw the affair."" he said, "you may
call upon me if necessary"
The conductor looked relieved as he
poised his pencil in the air.
"What is your name?" he asked.
The man in the grey suit hesitated
slightly.
"Rockefeller," he replied, u. d."
The conductor shut his book with a
snap that suggested he had all the wit
nesses he wanted and the car bowled
along.
The Bookman tells this story, illus
tratlng the humors of school exam
nation:
at appears that at an elementary
examination in English, which was
lately held IN a school near New York,
two sentences were given out to be cor
rected by the younger scholars. The
first sentence was to be corrected as to
its subject matter, and the second SEN
tence as to its syntax These were the
sentences:
The hen has three legs.
who done it?
When the papers were handed in it
was found that one of the examines
had apparently regarded the sentence
as subtly connected in thought, for his
answer was as follows:
THE hen didn't done it, God done it"
A lawyer, says an exchange, trying
to serve his client by throwing suspic-
ion witness in the case, in the course
of his cross examination said:
"You have admitted that you were
at the prisoners house every evening
during all this time ?"
eyes sir" replied the witness.
"Were you and he interested in any
business together?"
eyes sir" answered the man hesitat-
ingly.
"Ah! now will you be good enough
to tell us how and to what extent and
what the nature of this business was
in which you and he were interested?"
swell, I've got no objection to telling.
l was counting his daughter.
land Plaindealer.
A stray frog once wandered into an
artists studio. Hopping about the
room, he landed before fine painting
in oil, which represented a CLASSY pud-
die beneath the shade of burdock
leaf. The frog was SO delighted with
this shady retreat and the prospect of
a cool bath, that he gave great leap
toward the inviting pool. To his great
modification, he found himself on the
fiat of his back with his nose out of
joint and his false teeth on the back of
his neck.
Moral: Just because you take in all
the hops, don't think you are in the
swim.
1t it stated that an English judge
was, not long ago, heard to address a
frequently. convicted prisoner in these
terms:
Are you aware that for these repeat
ed breaches of the law it is in my pow
er to sentence you to term of years
AoI III CACCoo VI yOuI udCuIdl IllC AIlU
what is more, 1 feel much inclined to
do it,"
O&O
The Youths Companion says that it
takes clever man to find good word
to say on every occasion. 1t is said of
Thomas Bailey Aldrich that he once re-
ceived letter from his friend, Prof.
Edward S. Morse; and found the hand
wholly illegible. Mr.. Aldrich was not