Judge — June 16, 1883 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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“INTERCEPTED LETTERS. PROM MRS. PLANSIGAN TO MISS MOLLE MAGETIEE, HLACKHOCK, TRELAND, Cireaco, Jenn 2 Ix answer to. your question my dear Mollie, axing me how 1 come to be such a herring entirely, in respect of what I done in the lire, FI] just write you the whole stor and here it is, “Twas late at night, but how late I don’t rightly know, for was asleep. Fire! Fi led some one. “Fire, is it?” says Eo and up I being in a responsible situation, secing was the Mrs. of the house and in bed at the was broad daylight, on the beautiful- twice | ostrich | with the” 1 position in so- «la good education and all ints and French idiots, through x years in America; but never have to quit it and again, which [love in my , and hope to do yet before T die. <1 I dressed” myself and went olf, prose table appearar the fire eseapes and other engines [was gone to summo a lone woman, having I my family through famines and for which T have at cause to be F gh great trials. fire-house said, anding on the stey vs he, seeing me **vou're not on fi “Not “Well,” in’ haste, > to put it We “by the electricity. Step i nm he, “if you please.” With ‘that he brings me and into a plice like horses tied ‘all round, escapes in the middle out, Into the stab house, with nes and yup there,” top of al wut and not w a rope similar abi nd A used to climbing, and pulling to a bell, only stouter Before [had time to speak, four men dropped on the en, ne beside me, and four were tackled to it. and off we set in less than half a second. There's powerful electricity for you, of the men, rubbing Wieoyes (eihieh tn’t be str h no tea would Half a second age asleep, and he driven out manner, bathing in wonderful.) + Twas sound Tam waked and dressed and 1 by electricity, which, in like harnessed the horses, and has now todo but. put ont the fire, which he, * we'll do before we know oped on > horses may be dreaming euri- s do before men all began just as I wrote n Leame home, and the copy Only humor the tune and the here’s the s THE Tn old times, Up FIREMAN’S SONG. Tn he But in thi Knew f electricity says | | sumed on the road, THE JUDGE. was wasted then, sepy oft a when they put th Much precious tin The nm wer ness on horses scarce could go. But in those days, dear Mrs. we Knew nought of electricity Now all is changed ; One touch And thro our watchman gives electric bell, we firemen fall, ow we fell ar Mrs ely knowi For in these days, ¢ Work all by Six seconds is the time we need To tackle 4 start away dy at a eal: here both night and day. lear Mrs, we Work all by electricity Which I fortur fire after all, am sure was a very fine song: it was that the house was not on for the electric horses ran away out to the country, owing to the electric reins breaking, and the electric driver fall- ing asleep, and it was past eight o'clock in the morning when I got home, with one hundred dollars to r electricity con- which should bea eau- tion to every one to beware of fire, not to keep a dairy or a keros the town of Chicago, which once caused the city to be burned, owi care i light of a her milk cans, which caus printed in the pdt pap Finger, “Ch Nilson bought a few cows to keep in C hie ang ror Henen. here’s the caution, which the head of every house should remember: Christine! Christine, thy milking do, The morn and eve between, And not by thy Of the titfal k For the cow may kick And the fire tend ride th And shirick Tn the And that’s all at pr mmand, Jamp explode, «knell of the burning town, slow of the molten pail sent from your friend RIDDY PLANNIGAN, KLYN paper from — the wants to see the publishes a view of Brooklyn side. bridgé from the ¥ Nobody will pause to gaze of view, They will cross to at's what the bridge was A raMIny in Allentown, Pa., were nearly soned by This is a good sea- n for young men to cut thet item out and te it in their hats, It will be an admira- . you know, A pesprrapo in Te while ing. Ninety per suicides escape while ( ing to be shot as_ was recently shot That's noth- our would-be rently) endeayor- LuMrNous mateh s: are very handy, but a luminous keyho! would *beat the Dateh.”” A phasten of gold mn nds many a broken heart. comicbooks.com