The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-14

t-r sAun NAElE ttcf lAE uullIe4 matched oxen, red. white. ring stricken and speekled. belonging to the neigh boring towns. came dragging carts with the hay riggs covered with evergreens iand filled with red-cheeked girls way ing their town banners, Woodbridge one year being the banner town. having in line lS2 pairs of oxen. Never did the green look finer than when under the tree arches around the entire square came this panoramic frame of gaily dressed animal life. Nothing equal to it at the Mardi Gras.
 Did Trafalgar square ever see a black and white governor inaugurated between the sun up and sun down of two suns-the white governor at the statehouse. the black governor at the liberty pole. It happened that it was pouring rain when the last of black governor (Johnson) began his inaugu- ral address with all the old-tine polite ness and courtesy so peculiar to his race:
 "Gem'mun and Ladies: Your 'spect- ed governor is shame ob dis weather, so disgusting to my feelin' and powerful honory." His favorite place for receiv- ing was on the corner of Chapel and Church street. his back against the cor ner of the Glebe building. His guber- material dress was top hat with red TO- seates blue coat, red westcoat, with large brass buttons. He was very tall at times and very short at others. hav- ling one very short leg. so when he rest a f1T bic ebo lac 4as hot oes like it was on boys head, but when he saw any one coming who he knew would salute his office he would rise up on his long leg like Jack out of box, and now with all the grace and suavity of a Chesterfield. Our governors and judges never failed to salute Governor Johnson. emphasizing his title, all though when not on state duty he white washed and nursed the verb and posy gardens of h.s white neighbors. 4 lady passing the governors stand ssluted him with his official title: He came hopping after her saying: Don't you 'spect to have your kitchen wall licked over 'fo' de hot weather set in?" Yes. but you are governor now.'
 "Ise governor for sure, but has to keep de eye in bread and butter busi- ness all de same. boss lady,
 It was true universal suffrage with the colored folks, for de gem'mun and ladies both voted for de gub.
 Did Trafalgar square ever have a flock of black birds (Arnstad negroes) from Aries sunny fountains" who would every morning roll down their black faces and putting their foreheads upon the ground, pat the grass with their hands, repeating what seemed like Hoo-li, Hoo-lo; maybe it was short for Happy Hooligan. One thing is sure; they were delighted to roll about on the grass and lick the dew.
 One was called the Cannibal. and he looked as if he might be a man-eaters for his big head seemed to grow on to his shoulder blades, and his upper ca hines protruded from his wide mouth, very much like boars tusk. He told 1 his interpreter that when his teeth were growing his mother would pull and bend them with pinchers to make them grow long and crooked, so as to make lhim look as frightful as possible She was in hopes her little Honey would ~row up good and useful man. as he was intended for missionary and a medicine man.
 It seemed the. negroes thought the missionaries scared out the devil with prayer when people were sick and prayed in religion, so the boys dear mother made him as ugly as she could, | that he might scare out the devil and scare in religion. Like the Russian sailor who wore a sheepskin cap all summer, when asked why, answered, "He keeps out cold; he keeps out hot | Why does the missionary attempt to pray the devil out of the klll-roast and eat lands ten thousand miles away, when some prayer might do some good at the kill-roast at the stake land near I CT home.
 "The farther from home the father the plum.
 The best cherries are at the end of the limb Many years ago the writer saw a cargo Of slaves landed on the
 Isla De Los Pinos The negroes all
 knelt upon the shore, their foreheads upon the ground and patted the sand
 with their hands saying repeatedly,
 "Hoo-lo, Hool-lo."
 1 Could this invoice have been of the same tribe with sCinque" and "Canni- bal Tushy'' of the Amistad?
 One of the funniest exhibits of mus cle versus science was enacted upon the green. The devil, who turks under ev-
 cry boys jacket, instigated some of the lSons os Eli to stand upon the suction hose of the Fair Haven Fire Co.
 This company was known as the Gi- lantieus Clam Butchercus, on account of I the great size and strength of it's men.
 From their boyhood they had stood in their dugouts and tongued the unwilling bivalves from the vasty deep. Laying over their entire frame of iron, muscles like the cordage of ship, Saxy and
 spectators to know why the water did not flow freely to the engine, returned
 answer that some soap-locks were heal ling the hose and were full of sass (Eli's boys wore long hair, soaped to hake it long, smooth and curl under)
 The captain of the engine, who was by nature true gentleman, says, My
 men, what shall we do with such boys?
 "Jug them, Captain; jug them, shouted one.
 "All right but do no striking, for this is a frolic day, you know
 Six red shirts, each a colossus weigh ling from two hundred to three hundred