Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24
Re Qbeyed Orders.

possible servants because they work
like machines. never forgetting an or
der and doing exactly as they are told.
without presuming to think for them
selves. But once in awhile this literal
adherence to duty produces some aWE'
ward results. An American woman
living in India. with native servants,
once told her butler to see that there
was always napkin at the bottom OF
the fruit dish, cake basket, ETC., wheD
these were brought to the table. The
napkin was thereafter always seen In
it's place. But one day a tureen OF
vegetable soup was served. and the
hostess began to WELD the long. old
fashioned silver ladle about in it.
Something very like fringed rag
made it's appearance in the first plate
full. The butler was summoned to re-
move the dish. 1T cannot be that the
mem sahib fou:H, no napkin at the
bottom" he hazarded, much distressed
because of this unexplained disap
prevail. "for l myself placed there the
largest one I could find"
The White Shark.
The shark Of sharks, the real "man
eater" and the one most dreaded. Is
the white shark. This variety reaches
a length Of thirty-five feet and a
weight of 1000 pounds. Its head is
long and fiat and the snout far over
hangs the mouth. Its six rows of teeth
are sharp as lancets and nOtched like
saws. Its mouth is very large. so that
one has been known to cut mans
body completely in two ut a single
snap Of its cruel jaws and another t.
swallow one ut gulp. Near Calcutta
one Of these sharks was seen to sWai-
low a bullock's head. horns and ali.
From the stomach Of another bulls
hide was taken entire. and the sailor
who made the discovery insisted that
the bull had been swallowed whole
and all except the hide had been d.
gested. From the stomach Of another
was taken lady's workbox filled with
the usual contents. scissors and all. 1t
Is commonly the white shark which
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and week after week.
Tale Of Two Fish.
A story is related Of Manchester
fisherman who once tried to lure the
dainty trout from some Of the nearby
brooks. The fisherman did not get Il
bite in the brooks. He drove back to
Manchester rather disheartened and
went to a restaurant to get something
to eat. He asked the restaurant keep
er if he had any trout and received an
affirmative reply. He ordered some of
the trout for his supper and then told
the proprietor that he might put two
or three of the uncooked fish in his
fish basket out at the door, as he
didn't care to 60 home and receive the
raillery of his friends. The proprietor
of the restaurant told one Of the clerks
to carry out the order, and it was sup
posed to have been done faithfully.
But the clerk was not very alert.
and when the FISHERMAN got home
and opened up the fish basket to his
astonished wife there reposed two fine
salt mackerel, and the hSherman mas
not got through explaining yet.-Aan-
chester Union.
K His Earthly Task.
do you think the deacon will be
entirely happy in the hereafter?'
"Why notT'
II fear the good man will feel lonely
with no church mortgage to nft"-
Louisville Courier-Journal
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The Change.
"You didn't use to object to your hus
hand playing poker"
mo, but that was before learned
30 play bridge. 1t is lovely game
but I cannot afford to play it unless be
stops playing poker."-Houston Post.