Life — December 19, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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PAT SENSORS AT NVLLYS A Wispuam county, Connecticut, man, who rounded out | seventy-five years of his life without ever going more than | twenty miles from his birthplace, was one day answering the questions of a distinguished Western visitor who had come on to the old town from far beyond the Mississippi valley to | learn of the childhood of his father and mother, who were | born in Windham county. The old native gave the West- erner just the details the latter was seeking. “And I suppose you have always lived around here,” | the man from beyond the Mississippi “Oh, no,” replied the native, ‘I was born two miles said “Dip [tell you the latest bright thing my little boy got off?” asked McBride, as he joined a group of friends at the club. “Yes, you did,” | unanimity. “That's where I've caught you,” retorted McBride, “for it only happened last evening, and I haven't seen a soul of | you fellows since. Besides, this was really a good one.” “Then you haven't told it to us," replied Kilduff, speak- ing for the crowd. “Go on.” “Yes, tell us quickly,” added Skidmore, * and let us have } the agony over.” Thus encouraged, McBride began: ‘You know, boys, | little people have sharp ears, and they are not at all back- replied all, in concert, with discouraging to spelling words when their young children are present. Of course that sort of thing is of no avail alter the youngsters learn to spell. Well, Mrs, McBride and I are in the spelling stage now, and little Freddy is often very much mystified by our remarks to each other. Last night we had our new minister to dinner, and Freddy watched the good man helping himself very liberally to biscuits. He thought ita good opportunity to put into use the family verbal cipher, feeling perfectly certain that the minister would find it unintelligible. So he called out, Mamma !’ “What is it, Freddy ?” asked my wife. +* Mamma, isn’t the m-i-n-i-s-t-e-r a p-i-g ?? spelled out Freddy, triumphantly."—/thaca Democrat. A MAN was on trial in Lake County recently on a charge of grand larceny. He was accused of stealing a hog. An old rancher whose interest in the case was due to the fact that he owned a big drove of hogs, listened attentively to the impanelling of the jury and then left the courtroom with undisguised disgust. “What's the matter, Sam ?” inquired an attorney. “The jury's goin’ to disagree,” he declared emphatically. “What makes you think so?” “Think? I don’t think nothing about it. “Well, thea, how do you know it?” “Why, they've got six hog men that raise hogs and four men that I knows has stole hogs on that jury, an’ nobody I know it.” | ward about telling any little scraps of information they pick ‘This peculiarity has led a good many parents to resort ever know a hog case." a hog raiser an’ a hog thief as would agree on San Francisco Chronicle. May-October, 1895. Volume L. ‘icholas. November, 1894-October, 1895. volumes. MACMILLAN AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. New Orleans: The Place and the People. By Grace King. Mlustrations by Francis E. Jones. Types of American Character, By Gamaliel Brad- ford, Jr A Pitiless Passion. The Brown Ambassador, Pride and Prejudice. Charles E. Brock. HARPER AND BROTHERS, NEW YORK. *Cension, By Maude Mason Austin, The Journal of a Spy in Paris, By Raoul Hesdin J.B, LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, A Secial Highwayman, By Elizabeth Phipps Train. The Sorrows of Satan. By Marie Correlli. D. 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