The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30
Sforyeftes.


school stopped and watched the per-
Torrance of the minister. swell, my
little man." said the minister, seeing
the BOYS fixed attention, "wOuld you
like to be joiner?" "No," replied the
boy. "Then what are you waiting for"
81 was Just waiting" returned the
urchin. "tO hear what minister says
when he mashes his thumb with d
hammer"
o X
GLOW di0 it happen that Miss Single
ton refused tn marry the young clergy
man :"
"Why, when he proposed to her She
being little deaf, thought he was ask
ing her to subscribe to the organ fund,
So she told him she had promised her
money to some other mission - Har-
per's Bazaar
More uncomfortable even than "a
cat in strange garrett" must be cat
in "CrystaI Maze" - series of mir
rOrs so arranged that, once in, it is hard
to find ones way out. A strange cat
strayed into the Maze at Jacksonville.
Says the Times Union:
Walking around between the mir
rors, she saw her own reflection on all
sides. She was not pleased. Her tail
started to swell, and she rushed at the
nearest cat, which advanced 20 meet her
at the same rate of speed. With a
shrek of defiance they met, and the
i'll tempered feline fell back from
fearful bump against mirror.
Up she jumped and looked around.
only to see an array of abused cats
staring at her. When she moved, one
hundred and twenty-five others moved
also. With mighty howl of disgust
she turned and fled.
Groups of cats greeted her everywhere
as she dashed into mirrors and tried to
climb the slippery surface of the glass.
In the course of a few minutes the AMI
NAL ran through the exit of the Crystal
Mae as If shot from catapult. With
two jumps she rushed to the street and
disappeared in one of the adjacent
houses. very badly "rattled" cat.
1t may have been observed that
school children sometimes receive ad.
vice which is excellent in spirit, but
difficult to follow literally
AT public reception at Napier, at
which the Governor of New Zealand
was present, the school children of the
town, after being duly cOmpimented
by his excellency on the hearty manner
in which they had rendered the national
anthem, were urged to "put their
shoulders to the Wheel" and assured
them that in that way only would they
be "sure to reach the top of the tree"
AT this point one of his excellency's
hearers, quick -witted Irishman, was
heard to say:
Sure, it's an axletree he means,
bedad"
Weary Waggles-"Ye s, mum, me and
my brother were twins. We loved each
other, and we always went together,
and one day he went swimming instead
of going to school, and had to 60
along, was so attached to him. But,
alas, mum, my brother was drowned,
and | was left alone. Invent home and
my mother took me for my brother and
called: well, james, where is Harry?
And when my father saw me he cried:
Harry, where is James2' l did not
know what to do l was in fix. Now
/ would have to do James work for my
mother, and Harry's work for my
father. And then to think of the
wrangling between mother and father;
that was too much for me. / left home,
and so | have tramped and tramped,
and here | am" He received dinner
Ariel.
Here is a story from Brooklyn. A
pretty girl arrived at one of the pro-
minent hotels one afternoon last week
a sweet, ingenious creature with corn
flower blue eyes and hair just golden
enough to be real.
She was assigned to room, and soon
an order came to the desk for Man
haitian cocktail. Despite his knowledge
of the deceptiveness that sometimes
turks behind eyes of cOrnflower blue,
the clerk was ratified. He sent up
very mild one.
A few minutes later another order
came down from No. % for another of
the insidous connections. He sent it
up, and his heart sank within him. A
poem had been singing in his heart