New-York tribune., 1905-12-25

told that person he 7yes In pursuit of the bandit
yivillo. He asked TO stay to dinner. and nis
men were entertained in the kitchen. At the con-
cIusion of the meal the lieutenant" thanked his
host announced that he the bandit Vivillo. and
asked for the $4,000 which he knew Sehor Toscano
had brought from Seville the previous day Tos-
cano had alternative but to pay the money
He Must Have Been Irish:-she was well within
she inquired, in that innocent childish tone tnat
she had practised until 1t was as near per1ect,o 10
reaTig @s now captain? It Became question that
tain had been there before and knew all the ropes
and before she finished her last giTsn sqTse 1t n n
don't look it, really you don't."-(Manila Sun
Here is a little tale from Pennsylvania unac-
companied by photographs affidavits: twenty
two years ago Miss Anna H Miller Of Mil '4roVe'
near West Newton. being about TO mend some
stockings looked about for something TO serve as
a darning ball. Finding nothing better suited TO
her purpose she selected nice round potato
Afterward the potato put away and forgotten
The other day the potato was found During IT'S
more than two decades of darkness 1t had become
petrifed, and weighed nearly pound. 1t is bet
ter darnIng ball than it was in 1888
THE CANNY CROCODILE
There was once a crocodile. old and stout,
He was chiefly found IN the River Nile
This cumbersome, cumbersome crocodile
Sometimes all day the sand he'd lie.
Tie Then he d smile a SLOW inscrutable smile
This emotional, notional crocodile
If friend should come for a cosey chat.
His ~0ptI opponents HTigiis opinions he Would reve
This babblIng, scrabbling crocodile
Sometimes he would stand nd, up 20 on the the s., shore pre-.
Ard declaim IN voice S se -, 6hs erd ocean r TGaF
This wonderful, thunderful crocodile
You see by his crafty and subtle art.
He made people believe he was clever ia ana smart'
Inns "0'AD'e' 4u''''O'' E{Caroiyn Wells, in Life.
President Loubet presented a handsome typewrit-
ing machine fitted with the Persian alphabet to the
Persian Shah. That monarch feared 1t contained
an evil spirit and had 1t thoroughly boiled
VENT through the Russo-ja japanese war Said the
teacher to the CLASS Oh thoHght 1T u Way re an @I1
Statesman.
This from the Westmoreland (Kan) Recorder
sounds like old times: The Editor of The Recorder
has built a new corn crib and now has a place to
put any corn that people want to pay on account
Thirty ave cents busheI will be paid at the pres
ent time There is also bin for oats fitted up, and
oats will be taken on account also. Corn and oats
will be the same cash to US until we get our
crib and bin full which we hope Will not be long.
In Kansas!-Frederick Dumont Smith, editor
State Senator. lawyer. statesman and society man;
run the State and everything in it. while at the
same time wearing nqn0ce' I ss n u rn p'N M
against Observation-Disclosures Republican
A correspondent of THE Chicago Record Herald
contributes a few odd epitaphs from cemeteries in
various parts of this country. The following Is
found on tombstone in cemetery at Trenton,
n J. Although the fact is not stated in the in
scription it would appear that the subject was
scalemaker, or had something to Go with weighing
machines:
His ways were ways of pleasantness
In all lifes fitful dream
He struck balance with the world
And then he kicked the BEAM
In the cemetery at Copp's Hill. Mass, is found
the following epitaph:
Sacred TO the Memory of
Hannah,
Beloved wife of Rd Garlick;
She slipped her wind
After doing weeks baking