The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29
Yforyeffes.

Once while transacting some bus
mess in the government Office at j Ohan-
nesburg, Cecil Rhodes had to stand in
line, and he didn't like it.
"Please attend to me at once" he
said" 81 can't wait"
"When your turn comes, mister
numbled the clerk.
"Co found you, sir! Do you know
who L am? Pm Rhodes
ooh, yes, know that, but that does
not worry me-" was the unrufiled reply.
"lf you were in Cape Town I'd have
you discharged in minute" roared
DR.. Rhodes.
Eyes. | have heard that they dis
charged people in Cape Town for doing
their duty" answered the clerk, but
we amt in Cape Town; this is a repub-
lie.
a Scotch professor was advocating
the advantages of athletic exercise.
"The Roman youths used to swim
three times across the Tiber before
breakfast" he declared.
Observing the smile on the face of
one of the students, the professor de-
manded:
"Mr. McAlllster, why do you smile? ?
We shall all be glad to share your
amusement"
II was just thinking, sir" the student
replied, chat the Roman youths must
have left their cloths on the wrong
bank at the end of their SWIM"
One of the young lady witnesses in
a Housekeeping case at the High Court
in Glasgow caused considerable amuse-
ment by an answer she gave to ques-
tion by the counsel for the defence.
ais it not a common practice for a
stranger to walk up stair and inquire
for a certain persona" asked the advo-
cate.
at is"
'fThen how do you know that the
prisoners were not on such mission
in the case referred to? ?" continued the
lawyer.
Because it didn't require three men
and jimmey to 60 up a stair and ask
for strange person." replied the Ia
dy.
A Dallas paper is authority for the
statement that a rooster is tenderly
raising brood of chickens. If the
old fellow is actually doing this, it is
doubtless because the responsibility
has been thrust upon him by the alb
sence of the new hen at a female chick
en- convention, where she is cackling
herself hoarse over the right of her sex
to run for office and be relieved of the
burden of laying the eggs while males
do nothing but scratch worms and
strut about the yard and crow.
The Omaha Herald says Boston
girl, who recently witnessed an Indian
sham battle in the West, thought she
would try to talk to young Indian
brave sitting next to her and began in
patroniZing tone as follows:
Head much fight"
The Indian smiled stolcal smile,
drew his blanket more closely about
his stalwart form, and replied:
Eyes, this is indeed a great exhibition,
and we tlatter ourselves that our por-
ton Of it is by no means the least of
the attraction here. May l ask whom
it is l have the pleasure of address
ing?"
The Boston girl blushed and feed
one of the Carlisle Indian school grad.
mates.
a resident of the country tells me
the following story:
At the "deestrick skule" in ''his
edge of the woods" it has long been the
custom to have exercises every Friday
afternoon. On recent Friday, little
blue-eyed girl made her best bow to
the audience and began:
"The dawning shafts of light came
out to greet the lark's refrain, and ev-
cry gladdening poet sang out"
Here memory failed her and she
could proceed no further. A blue
shirted urchin on a back seat raised
his hand and excitedly snapped his
fingers.
"What is it, Bobby ?" asked the teach
er.
II know it shouted the youngster."