Judge — November 28, 1885 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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J THE UDGE. AT CHURCH. Reverberating throuzh the To every corner stea The mi Sends forth its sombre pealing. And slowly up the lon nisle, The varied thr Old peop comes streaming, nod, and maidens smile On lover's faces beaming. But why this stir gst the crowd, This sudden, strange ¢ And who is that with And haughty regal motion? mmotion? ep so proud, jewels that would start om iceless art, merch: sion; Rich purple robe of And that of latest fashion The stranger turned unto his friend, With eager intonation * Who is this nymph with queen-like bend, Creating such sensation? “Is she not daughter to a sire Of most exalted stat A senator or sometht Who towers above the nation? | | **Is she not of an ancient line, With many a gi Or is her father in Of silver an investor?” ut ancestor? mine | ed an infant smile; ‘The friend repre: , fe haly Said he Who moves in such stupendor Her name is Miss O'Grady! style, “Her parent his awful wealth, Or most of or she, this girl F L ger-brewer's dau Two Kisses. | “ The sweetest kiss I ever had in my| life,” observed the Colonel, as he gazed re- flectivel the end of his cigar, ‘* was re- ceived a picnic, It was thirty long sears ago, when I was standing just upon the verge of manhood, and life was at its bright- est and best with m A_ fair voung girl with great brown eves and slender, lissome form had wandered away with me far from the ceaseless noise and chatter of the la ingcrowd, and we were strolling little woodland brook that bubbled way past cool, moss-covered rocks sides clusters of dainty wild flowers, fully, the young girl sprang across the brook at sone loving jest of mine, and then, lean- ing towards me, rested her little white | hands upon my shoulder, and with all her | soul looking out through the beautiful eyes, let her velvet lips just brush my own,” “The kiss [remember most distinctly ly, ** also occured at picnic and caused the entire party to loo! at me with all their souls in their eyes. I do not recollect the exact date, but it was many years ago, because on that day Thad on the first pair of light pants I had ever owned, I had climbed up into a tree under which the provisions were being unpacked, and was fastening a rope for a swing at the request of a young lady Sunday-school teacher, when a large, trascible hornet stepped hurridly out of # nest as large as Cincinnati ham that hung over my head and in its and be- Play- sighed the Judge | than | been opened jd kissed me just under the right ear, 1 had never received a kiss before that went through my entire being so. simultaneously and immediately at it wer raisin egular blonde blotch in | the ¢ untenance, and it sur- | prised me considerably and made me feel | depressed and lonesome. | * Lemitted a yell that seemed to contain more intensified ‘melancholy in its caden nything of the sort that h on the grounds before plunged wildly down into that stock ¢ nic provisions amid the speechle f the bystanders. The re be red ription, I know it did, because that is what the gentleman informed me who led me to the farther end of the reservation and thonghtfully scraped the cranberry sauce outofmy left car. Last week my wi found an old pair of light pants that [had tucked away under the closet’ shelf in the midst of ut wave of grief and sorrow | long year and a them up to the light and invited iny attention to the singular shaped spot that ‘marred a portion of their old-time splender, it brought back the painful memory of that golden’ summer day when a kiss caitsel me to forget’ my usual timid reserve and I came down out of that tree and took a seat in the lap of the picnic eustard pie with as much nonchalance | and perfect abandon as though I had been | on terms of intimate familiarity with it for years.” MH. Bb. STITT. Ii lity in land are going into the millinery business . besides e and pie- clammy 1s SAID that ladies of ¢ for the double object of making money and promoti r for their countrywomen than the continental styles. | becoming dr It dees not seem to have occurred to them that the cause of the hideous dress may | the lack of style in English women instead | of in French millinery. What bonnet contd make a beefy British dowager look well dressed? Political Philosophy. There is not more consolation to a beaten party in saying that the majority against it is small, than to a girl under certain cireum- f » plead “it is such a littl In fact, New York Republicans took more com- fort in Cleveland's 200, ty for gov- ernor than in’ his thouss jority for president. ‘The greater the shock the easier ar, sometimes, | one.” A START IN OFF THE BENCH. WECAN’T PERSUADE OURSELVES, but that a good many who are using hot water in- it ex- ap embrocation, medicine had better use tead, with s ternally as ternally in ‘THAT A SHEEP Was suecessfully cremated inthe new Hunter's Point crematory, was aa item of news, but the papers take no note of the lambs that are regularly roasted in Wall street need ladies. Fasuion rarers tellin They know how to cut adress and if the not ‘Tow waste to cut a 80 much space dre too the wearer of it too, latter are stly and pretty. c A Page From History. “Who was Benjamin Franklin?” tinned the teacher. “The man who invented lig plied the prompt student, Well, not lightning exactly g-rods, you mean; don’t you? “Oh, yes, sir.” ‘And so he is directly responsible for the lightening-rod agent; is he not?” * Yes, sir.” actly. about him? He w con- tning,” re- but light- Well, what else do you know sa printer.” Just so—one of the first in the country; and so he paved the way for the ubiquitous book-agent, eh?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, w He invented 0, he didn’t invent tablished them on this continent, and so opened up that great avenue for the sale of patent medicines, Can you. think of any- thing else he did?” “T dunno.” “Why he discovered positiv electricity, and so may be runner of the liver-pad—eh?” * Yes, sir.” “Just so; andin the light of all reverence his memory?” else did b them, but he es- nd negative the fore- led this * Oh, well, take the next three to-morrow.” K MOKGAN, comicbooks.com