The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06
Dtneo from the Dtno
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JAMES BARTON ADAMS
LITTLE JACk TELLStT.

/ o sight
Pa won it in rsfe At the church fair tother night
An Jest want to tell you. honest injun. that its
| great
To Wind II up an tech 1t OF an see it hit its gait,
/ Pa says It's nearly human in intelligence an ma
Allows ths, irs the strangess thing = body ever
An half . dozen times . day that house Of
our Is chock
PUN full o nsizhbors tha, come 70 hear it sins
an talk.
It sings them funny coon songs I'LL you'd think
sure your born
There WAS a niger In the box singing through
the horn,
An plays the banio.an guitar good As its done BY
hand
An noonerous selections from John Philip
snooser's band
An then I'll make a funny speech In Niger talk
that's just.
50 KILN that 1t makes US laugh until we pearIy
bust.
An gives limitations o the birds. an cats as
night,
An crows just Ike = rooster when he has won
a fight
Pa prayed in ii the other night--the prayer 1
have heard
since ever kin reccolec,-an' honest word for
word
1, prayed that prayer back agin in Just the
solemn tone
That pa has got when Off rim his petition to the
throne.
An then pa said that every night At wuship time
he'd read
The usual chapter from the Word. an let the
talker leac
In prayer. jus as he would do but said
plump an fiat
Il would be wicked doin'. and she wouldn'i stand
for that.
An then they had it nip an tuck pa argyur,
ruther tart
The words WAS his JUS they came :out of his
Chistian heart
The voice that went aiOft in strickly natral /
tone,
An while twas prayin he could n his thoughts
upon the throne.
Blu, she never budged a inch, an finally won
the day
By pa aggrein no, to shirkhis duties ths,-away,
the row
He mus be tired o hearin that oil prayer ali how.
A French scientist predict, that the
world will die OF thirst in the course of a
few centuries. Milwaukee and St. Louis
papers please copy.
A Cleveland politician is accused of
voting Al times at a recent election.
That jumps Colorado dowL to second
pace.
The cigar that has been named after
Secretary Taft IS of corpulent build and
wears belly band.
A baby with two heads was born re-
Gently at Globersville, NY. Unfor,un
nately it did not live to practically
demonstrate the truth of the old saying
that two heads are better than one.
Sarah Bernhardt, having been shut out
Of the syndicate houses, will tour in
Texas in a circus tent. The pink lemo.
aud peanut privilege should be valuable
with that show.
In some of them you must admit.
Frnstsnce, one like this one; Her
Vouschlopenhausenmitge
A Washington editor says: Give US
the woman who can talk. Did that
editor ever see q woman outside the
deaf mute ranks who couldn't or
wouldn't talk
Billy Sunday netted $1,000 in FIVE
weeks at Burlington, Iowa, while preach
ing salvation is free
Boston preacher AYERS that he
breaches to about four bushels of baked
beans every Sunday morning. 1t might
be interesting for some Chicago minis
ter to give US an estimate of about how
many pounds Of pork sausage he preach
es to.
A Kansas man sent a shirt to the
laundry and by mistake woman's
nightie was returned to him. He looked
her up, mingled his blushes with hers
while exchanging the goods, and later
married her. How's that for romantic
shirt tale9
Scientists now declare that carrots
will beautify the complexion, but those
eastern society women will shudder at
the thought of such food. Belgian hares
eat carrots, you know.
Newspaper fellow" said Bess,
Cares lot for the gentle carress
But b eager to show,
When the light IL turned low