Life — September 24, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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A QUESTION. Now whisper, Autumn Girl, and tell A secret which the world would know ; Will you retain a gentle spell Whose witchery we love so well, As on your wheel you come and go ? Will you wear sleeves to whose expanse ‘The breeze fond salutation flings, Till he who stands to sigh and glance Sees, in these billowy folds that dance The fluttering of an angel's wings ? —Washington Star. A NorTHERN man traveling through Missouri on horseback arrived at the bank of ariver. There was no way to cross it except by swimming; so dismounting, he tied his clothes to the horse, and drove him into the river, swimming after him. Reaching the other-side, he dressed and continued on his way. Before ‘foing twenty feet, however, he came to the forks of the road, and looked around for a sign. There was none; bat just across the river, near the spot he had entered to swim across, he saw a board nailed on a tree. There was nothing to do but to get in and swim across again, and read that sign. He swam across, and, after climb- ing up the bank, he read the following notice: ** Five dollars fine for crossing this bridge faster than a walk.” Argonaut, A RURAL “The Atlanta Georgia preacher, says Constitution,” finding the weather too warm, pulled off his coat and preached in his shirt sleeves. After the sermon a good brother, thinking an editor who was present would make a sensation of the incident, said to the parson : “I don’t suppose you knew, when you pulled of your coat to-day that one of them newspaper fellows was in meetin’ “Yes, I did,” replied the preacher.‘ But I had my eye on it all the time !"—W. ¥, Tribune, ““ Wuar this country needs to develop its business is confidence,” said the local politician in the grocery store. ‘Mr. Briggs, will you trust me for a fortnight for a barrel of flour?” “No,” said the grocer, “my terms are spot cash." “There you have it, gentlemen,” exclaimed the local politician. ‘Mr. Briggs has not the confidence and I have not the flour. 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