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house, where 1t was thought she could not
see her lover on the street below or throw
a note to him. he simply got UP on the
venient hiding place, where they had each
other in range, they jabbered away on
their fingers at each other for hours at a
time. She had signal to warn him II
any one came into the room looking his
way, and when he got 1t he lodged out of
sight until the danger was past. Well.
they kept their heads at work as well as
their fingers. and in the course Of ten days
they had their plans fixed to suit them.
and one afternoon they were both missing.
Next morning telegram came from Phlla-
delphia announcing their marriage, and
then the old folks had nothing else to do
but to forward their blessing and tell them
to come home and behave themselves
like grown people They explained after
ward that the girl had slipped down the
fire escape to the floor below her, which
was vacant, and from there had walked
down the back stairs and out to the street,
where the young man met her. Inc rest
of IT was easy enough, and. mind you, the
whole business had been arranged up TO
that time without word being spoken by
either Of the parties at interest
X X X
She was a New York Irish girl IN court
as the prosec uting witness against a pris-
oner arrested for disorderly conduct, and
the court was getting at the true state Of
entirely relevant questions:
What did the prisoner do? he inquired.
after the preliminaries had been settled.
He COON alahng by the area where
was sthandin' an begin to address re-
mairrks to me-" replied the witness.
What did he say?'
He said good ave'nin'.''
There was nothing very bad in that, was
there?'
But sorr, there was no introduction
pravious."
"Oh, yes, forgot that"
$50 did he. sor."
did you speak to him when he spoke to
you?'
"Yis. sor, I towld him to gwahn about his
business
did he do SOP"
mo. sor. He sthood there tockin to me. ;"
did you talk to him.
mo, sor not wild poiteness, sor.'
What did he do them
He Sthood over closer, Sor, an takin,
my chin in his hand wild his t'umb in wahn
cheek and his fingers in tn other. he held
my face up. sor, an thried to kiss me-.
"Oh, he did,
"Yis, sor, he did"
"And what did you do them"
"Oi jerked me hid away, sor, an towld
him Oh wud have him arrested fer person
athin' a policeman, sor.
Ten dollars and costs interrupted the
Judge while everybody laughed, except the
witness and the policeman.
X X X
The saying when the cows come home
means something to an Illinois 1
know" said a citizen of that state to the
writer the other day. at requires the
coming home Of 100000 cows to supply the
milk with which he makes his annual out
put Of butter. He made and sold IA. 0o0. 900
pounds of that produce last year and re-
he
stand and agi ate the churn dasher that
thrashed all tslat butter out; but the en-
ployes Of the go creameries that he owns
and controls managed to churn 1t. He Is
the largest butter producer in the world,
and thirteen years ago he started business
with only one small creamery At the
present time it requires twenty car loads,
more than 600 tons, Of salt to salt the
butter that he turns out every year and
5000 farms to support or feed the cows
that furnish the milk. He is only hay
seed citizen. but he is doing quite we'll"
See that coon?'' said a South Washington
citizen. pointing to a notwithstanding col
ored man with halting gait, but who had
a gOod-natured smile on his dusky face.
We'll. he is about the top-heaviest ter
giversator in the District He is as much
at home on the water he is on dry land,
whether 1t be in a skiff or a schooner or
as an amphibian himself. Several years ago
some brass fittings and other valuable
metal work We're taken from the navy
yard, and 1t was found that the darky had
disposed of them. He didn't deny having
sold the articles. but he declared he hadn't
stolen them. When asked where he got
them he solemnly announced that he had
picked them up 'fioatin' in de Eastern
branch! On another occasion a South
Washington man missed a young pig and
learned that the coon had been seen with
ii under his arm, going toward his home.
The owner of the animal got couple of
friends and went at once to the heros
abode. and were invited to search the prem
ises. The investigators proceeded to do so
and were about, to open a door, when that
darby told them his sick wife was inside
the room with a sick baby. The door was
opened however. despite this statement.
and there was the woman in bed.
:" Where's the baby? asked one Of the
, searchers.
Under de kver hyar.' responded the
invalid, putting her hand lump under
the sheet. The lump being thus touched
kicked and squealed and developed In short
order the kind of an infant 1t was. Yes. sir
that darby had put that pig in bed with
his sick wife. Oh he's the top-liner, sure;
no doubt about that"