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Car Oldest Inhabitants?Two of
Them.
By Josh Bilunqs.
John ?iiRcoinb is now living iu Coon'
Hollow, Raccoon oo., State ov Iowa. .
Ho is.. 196 ytuM old. andean read
fine print- by moon light 33 feet oph.
He remembers Gen Washington fust
ruto, aud once lent him 1 > dollars tou
buy a pair ov kuff skin boots wi;h.
He fit in the rcVoIusliuti, also in the
war ov 1812, likewise iu the bvo melee,
aud bvz ho won't take suss now from
enny man living.
He is a hard shell baptiss by religion,
und sez ho will die for bis rcligiou.
He was konverted 150 years ago, and
thinks the hard-shell h the tuffest rc
ligiou thure is for every day wear. He
sez that one hard shall baptiss keu do
mor'3 hard work on the sume vittles dur
iug a hot Guy than ten episkopalitics.
He haz ulwnyB used plug tobuko from
u child, uud sez he lernt how to oheu
hi watching a cow cheu her cud.
* He haz never drunk enny iutoxi
kuting linker but whiskey, nnd sez that
no other licker is healthy. He thinks
3 horns a day is enuff lor health.
He 'haz ulwus voted the dimokratik
ticsot for the last 170 years, und
walked, last fall iu sloppy weather, 18
miles to vote for Jim Buchauun.
He huiut neve r seen a rule road yet,
nor a wimmin's right convenshun.
His greutcst desire, he tehs me, iz
teu see Gen. Jackson, and sett that he
shal go next year down teu TcnnesBC -
teu sec him.
He fatted a bog last year, with bis
own bauds, that weighed u'3G pouuds
after it was dn-st aud well dried out.
He is very cheerful, aud sez he won 7
dollars on the weight uy this bog, out
oY one ov the doakins ov the hard abell
church. He dcklures thin teu be one ov
the proudest ack.-idents ov his lift, lor
the deakou was kuowu fur uud near us
u tite kuss.
He leih? me that for 90 years he haz
went teu bed at just 17 minutes after 0,
and has arozcu at precisely 5 o'clock the
next day.
The fust thing ho does in the morn
ing iz teu take a short drink, about -
inches, and theu l'ur an hour bet?re
break last he reads the almatln'x. I J
tcill here sta e :ha' it iz "Josh Hilling J
Farmer? Alma na x" (hat he reads )
I asked him his opiuyuo ov giu aud
milk uz a fertilizer. He prononnscd it
bouus, u..d scd thut the good old hard
shell dritik, whiskey uuaddrued waz the
only speorits that never Went buk on a
man.
Hiz habits uro simple. For break -
lust he generally cte four slices ?v salt
pork, 3 Idled pertatote lopze and all, a
couple ov sussagis, 5 hot bisk its, u doscu
h id bmlcd cjrgs, 3 kups ol rbye coffee,
a small plutO OV slllpjiX, Mill) ptlCW
piekhs and cold cubbage und vinegar,
if tharo waz-enny left from vistcrday's
dinner.
His dinner waz a little one, and he
seldom et ennything but some biled
mm ton, sum fcorned beef sum kold ham,
and sum injun puddin teu hop oph with.
Hiz suppers were mero nothing, and
konsisted simply ov kold korned beef,
kold biled mutton nn^l in t*rr>at '
while, a phew slices ov kold ham, with
mustard und boss reddish.
1 examined hiz head und found that
he had all the usual bumps in a remark
able statu ov prcservushuu.
He haz a good eur for music, and
whisselled mo Yankee duodlo, with
variashuus.
Ho was horn o shoemaker, but hasn't
dun ennything at the tradu for the lust
1*25 years. lie enjoys ehe best ov
health, but just now he iz teething,
which he tells mo iz hiz 7th sett.
On tjie subjekt ov marriage hiz bed
seems to be on a ded lovcl. He scd
"that be had been married 15 times,
and proposed uguiu ten Hannah Camp
bell, a lady in the neighborhood, who
was 28 years old.
I nsked him what he thought hiz
chances wore for obtaining tlvo lady's
hand, nnd be sed "it lays- between him
und one Theodor Whitney, a traveling
korn doctor," aud added ; l*if Whitney
don't, look out i wilLonlargc his bead
for him."
Upon mi ticking him what be attri
buted his immense life and vigor to, h ?
scd, iu a clear and dis'iukt voioe :
'?To 3 small horns ov whiskey a day,
Deleaving in the bard obeli dooterin. and
voting unanimously the douiooratik
ticket."
I thnukt him very much for the ia*
formation he had given me ov himself,
and i sked him if he had enuy objekshun
to mi putting it into print, and be
manifested a great desire that i should
do so, rW forgetting to make apeoial
meushun ov what ho had sed about
enlarging Whitney's head for him, for
he thought that would clear him out ov
the naborhood.
I left John Basoomb after a delight
ful visit oV four hours, and thought
over teu miself, if thare was enny two
rules for long life that bad been thus
far discovered that waz alike.
The more 1 thought ov this, the more
i wished i could cuin accost Metbuseler
for a feu minutts, and hear him tell bow
he marjisged.
ELIZABETH MEA?nEJL -
Lab Mcachcm (as she iz familiarly
called iu the towuship whure she resides)
iz one ov the rarest gems ov extenuated
mortality that it has ever beeu mi blessed
luk teu eukountcr.
' She !S not SO old as BuSC-miib ui about
two years, being about 194 years old.
Next to Lots wife she iz the best preser
ved woman tho world oootaius.
I reached her ph<ce ov residence early
in the morning tad in one mininltt after
i told her mi bizzincss, ber tongue had
u phull bed of steam ou, uud for three
hours it run like u stream of quicksilver
down uti iukliu-d plain.
1 asked hor a thousand qucstiou at
least, but not ouc of them did she nits
wer, but kept talking all tho time faster
than Puchaheutas kau pace dewn hill
teu Middle.
Az near as i could Gud out bbe had
lived 194 years simply because she
couldn't die without cutting short one ov
her storys.
I ?nsked bur teu sho uie sho tue hor
tongue. I wanted to see if that member
wat badly "vorn ; but she couldn't stop
it long cuufl' leu show it.
This woman haz reached her enor
mous age, without eny partikular
habits.
She haz* outlived every body she haz
come ukrostj so far by out-talking them.
The only subject, that I could lor a
moment kart the flood over her lunguago
with, Was the I ash ions ; hut this was a
subject upon which i unfortunately
wasn't mueb.
As a last hope ov drawing her out
upon sum fuku us teu her mode, ov life,
i tuehed upon tbnt nil-absorbing topick
teu both old and young-? I ruler now
teu matrimony.
Her fust husbunu it seemed, was a
karpenter, and teu use b<?r own words,
'?.\ a- too lazy teu lal- , or teu listen
while she talked, and so be died
Her seckoi'd bunbtn 1 was a pretty
good talker bur a poor listener, and,
tbarcforc be died.
Hor third husband was adefland
dum man, aud, az she remarked, "cither
he or she had got leu die, uud 'he m.iu
died."
Ihr fourth husband undertook teu
out talk her, and died early.
In this way *he went on deskribiug
her husbands j 11 m all.
Az i rose teu depart i scd teu her
sollemuly ;
"Alizabkth Meaoiibm, you have
beeu niutnh married
lukonsolute widder?at what time ov Ufa
do you think the married state ceases
leu be preferable V*
She replied :
"You must ask somebody older than
1 am "
A.\ Upsetting Sin.?Dr. M'Cosh,
Preideut of J'riucetou College, tells the
story of a negro who prayed earnestly
tliat he and bis colored brethren might
bo presetvd from what he ealled their
**?p?ettiu sins.
"Brudder," suid ouo of k>i? fviouds, at
tho close of the meeting, "you aiu'l got
de hang <n*' dat ur word: it's 'besettiu,"
not upscttiu.
"Brudder," replied the other, "if dat's
so, it's so. But 1 was a pruyin, do Lord
to sabo us from do sin of intoxication
und if dat ain't a upsetting, siu, 1 duuno
what am.
Say what you have a mind to n'bout
mules, they will have their own way when
they make up their mind to. In Louis
ville, tho other day, oue ol them kicked
up behind and after knocking a piut of
teeth out of the driver he laid down iu
the shafts uud wcut to sleep with a
smile on his face that was perfect ly child,
like and bland.
Tho Experience if "Uris" in a
Strict Tem_hTarJce Towni.
"Gris" writes ' fc tho Cineinnatti
Times-ChronicU
I stopped over m|ht iu x> little town
in Illinois recently \ftier^^erje^8|i l*r_o.
temperance reajorit>?atnoag the favored
sex, who sling tho illot, and tho conse
quence is they dispensed altogether with
the dramshops and jkrs.
No license to sell any liquor is per.
mit ted to any one, jnnd a pretty sharp
watch is kept to tSfc that Uouo is given
awuy. This wo?'.c not.have troubled
me auy, and I prowtbly would not have
known it, exceptjfthat that laudlord
is I registered mot yied me mysteriously
into the hall. V
?Stranger," sai-nhe, as he closed the
door, keeping hiv^aud on tho knob,
"this is the worst/iiuiporancc town iu
America. Thoy-;i"M^t allow us to sell a
drop, taveru keepe?^ nor any one else.
Can't buy it at thcuBSg store 1 But I know
how it is with traveTliug men j they like
a drop of suth'.u' to tukc when thoy go
to a hotel. No| hefts ("putting his
hand in his coat-tali pocket and produ
cing a small flask) * some New Englan'
rum that i can ^tcotnmcnd. Take a
you good. Nobody
apitablo aud sympa
good horn ; it'll do
can sec you."
I thanked the h?
thetic landlord, wK) wanted to put a
bottle to my lips, W\\ '^declined.. "All
right," said he, after taking a s\yig him
self,* "whenever yhu feel like having a
small nip just lernt?; know."
I sought my roTW, and was making
ablutions, nhou tljero was n knock at
the door. j 1 "
"Come in !"
He came in, a g od humored looking
glow on the end of
man. with a buqs.j'
his note, who, wit'^a fnrtive glance nut
in the hall,"cIosea*4h"e donr and turned
the k?>y. Then'lie advanced mysterious
ly toward me on tiptoe, with one hand
to his mouth, us ho stated. "S h-h,"
while the other was reaching for his coat
tat) pocket. I was a little startled at
first, 1 must confess. Didn't know but
I was to be made n victim to emotional
insanity by au injured husband who had
mistaken me for another man. Hut my
fears were dispelled when he drew out a
willow flask. It is a sufficiently deadly
weapon in some hands, I know, but it
doesn't Bcare me as a loaded revolver
docs, somehow.
"Stranger," said my visitor as he eat
the flask dowu on the table, "our folks
here has got temporance on the brain.
Tec-total abstincucc has struck in. Thar
hain't bceu a bar opcu goiu' on two
years. S-good thing, uo doubt, for them
us can't govern their appetite for liker,
but it's kinder lough uu tho boys as
occasionally likes a drop. And it's
rougher on strangers as stops in the
town?gives em a bid idea of the pluco.
Is.e ye wheu^ye Cum iu, and I thought
ye looked dry, so 1 made bold to walk up
hole and oiler you a dram out'tl my par
ticular ilauk. It's good ; y ?U can 'pond
on't. Pare old Bourbon whiskey right
t'roio Cincinnati."
"My mysterious and unknown friend,"
said 1, "1 ihtiuk you lor your extremely
thoughtful kindness. An experience oi
govern! years in observing tho effects of
Ciociunati whiskey satisfies mo that von
have got a good article there, and one
that 1 could safely warrant. Hut 1
dou't feel the need of any just uow."
"All right, old Cap," said my caller,
taking a long pull at tho flask himself.
"All right, you dbu't have to. If you
got dry, though, oall on me."
It was a pleasant afternoon, and 1
sauntered down on the street For a walk.
The landlord was sitting on the front
step. With thaidcuro t J make it pleas*
ant for me which was so marked a fea
ture in our tim interview, ho introduced
me till around. If there is anything I
ISke hut b. r tjuni anothur it is being in
troduced all around to a party, say lt) or
30. You will know them nil the next time1
you .-co them, you know, aud call thuir
.lames so roudity. And it in so pleasant
tobe suddenly and unexpectedly called
upon to converse with twenty live or
thirty strangers, particularly when you
arc not iu a humor to converge with your
most uommou forms of Afoeriean in
troduction, and you know how it is your
self.
I at longht mentioned that I was going
to tukc u little walk, aud itumcdia'cly a
couple of my uew friends volunteered to
accompany me aud show mo tho t.iwn.
After seeing tho town, which didn't re
quire much time, ac it waeu't verry larg*,
they wer? Ve*y?Brm^ eee
their5 rfowrantfteaeic.L.iB niifg" ?di
f i ,Of M>.oainrmiy:yididiOgotfftur?(aj the0
track.was^hen^I.>ft.), I..poinipli9dJ *T
praised their track, aa they seemed "id
expect I should. I eulogised their bei
trance gSt^aoSrilrbd^ thclP *gaU. yojj.
knoW-?ex tailed thef ticket office,"- jand,|
lavished w'ordsror?oouiiuciidution on 'the
judge's staJxL,;, That s^ud, CL,tol^ .til ^in
could stand anything ao&I^^y^rj ?>tt0V:
ccntly inquired .iT, it could not stund
/ railed 9W .?ooaavna ioq
treat.
Then they insistod'bh "iJkHBg m6'\tpoyq I
the judge's standfthl t: ctouily rejist'eil
that though I finally compromised by
lookiug into* little? aaoia -beneath the
stand called the jnflgn's rdoftn; Once in
there they abut the door, and-?you may i
uot believe it, bat- It is so?*each>of. tbqaej
young men drew a flask 6dt of hT
ct and offered me a.drink.
? I will not tepeat to you the iudigna'ntM
uud scathing rebuke I administered
those youug men, and it is hardly
necessary for me to say 1 emptied" thqir(
flasks?both their flasks?right where J
stood, as a salutary 'naming io luem
against trifling with the temperance
regulations of their native town or at
tempting to lead an innocent traveller
astray. hb lliup do!
I positively never had so many snares
laid for me and temj'tdtions.iaid. beforo
me as I bud iu that temnqrange, town,
where they didu't soli a drqp^ They
were a most generous and hospitable
people, though,' ilnd did hate to seo a
stranger suffer. Ufrey ? didu't seem to
|.carc for themselves, but likod to have a
little within reach whou a traveller
came along.
Wearied with resisting those claudes:
tiuc invitations to "take sutbiu'," I at
lust announced my desird'to go to bed
A colored man showed me up to my
room, and .asked it there whs anything
I wanted.7 *I told him no' lie IrWita:'
ted, walked to the stove and poked the
tire ; tbeu turned bis attention to the
lamp to sec if that was properly trimmed
and burning, got as far as the door, and
hesitated again. "Well, what do you
want, George?" said I. I always call a
colored man Gcorgo, because more than
half of the time that is bis name, uud
when it isn t he likes to bo called
Gc?rge; because the father of his adop
ted country was.
1 suppose 1 know a dozen colored men
whoso ua?ies were originally Peter, or
Julius Ctcsnr, or l'jpbrumiuodas, who
have gone and got their names changed
to George because they liked to hear me
call them George so well.
"What do yoti want George ?"
"Oh Duthin', aar," said George, turn
ing bis old soft hat on his thumb, aud
leaning ugaiust the door-easing; "but I
thought"?here his head dropped iu an
embarrassed way.
"Well, wh it did )ou think, George,
said I, encouragingly, supposing ho
wanted a little strip to scud to the
missionaries iu Africa.
Tf you will 'souse nie,'! replied
George, at length, givisg up scratching
his shin nnd scratching bis hotd, "I
thought, bcin't? you's a stranger, heah?"
"Well, George, go on."
"And the license laws a little clus?7
" Ves, jes' so."
"You might want a little urink 'fore
you j.uLG iu ucu, a%o?, iu my packet i
jest got?"
Ho got no further in his speech, but
bo jes' "got" out of the door aud dowu
tho stairs in ab-;St two jutups, for he
?aw by tho excited way in which I was
pawing around the stove that I was
lookiug for the poker.
CatOIUNO.?"Johnny where is your
paV"
?Genie fishing, sir."
Ho was fishing yesterday, was be
not?"
Yes, sir."
What did he catch?"
"One catfish,the rheumatism, two eels,
the todchache and somo iitifeurns. Ma
says he'll catch-to night; just wait
till he gets home?"
An old bachelor, who had become
melancholy and poetical, wrote some
verses for the village paper, in whicb ho
expressed the hopo that the tinio would
como when be should?
"Rest cnlmiy iu a shroud,
With a weeping willow by my sido"
Put to his inexpressible horror it cam*
out io print:
"When I shall rest claroly in a shawl,
With a whopping widow by my cid?.
TV
^'^ur'awiy^co^o^^ us
?wTiae tfrey fcrWloctl tfreWfleaP^^fStj an
enterpflslng' :g^r?d?- is '; A nbe* Areqdel
county has" invented fur; hi? .paper a
string Q/f^oj^v^g.i^w.n-;^Bj :?4
patented, wo nave as good a right to
them 'hi anybody else. We taakb'V
not
use
torn
for th* rollbwttg*?' I el ?j
] 'A-Jgtyialr? lo^g Im? *eyt?, a to on:
\ MtqW'. b J? boioxoq at ^elftenO ti j|
"Sa^T lo^"' :' : 1 :j ' -: :' **d
?: M?ch m-Jdholo.
Immense ankle oropi
City spreading.
Alleys Odoriferous. ( t r I j
i rYT \ i*t?n 7 tesajfoj . , , - ulj od:
Handsome.-^?John Smith s cow shed.
v 1T rtfPu't'chlld ^fi^eti!tue'f/#aW'sicKl
? HBiH Slam^h^8',a!'Oelt^(^^!e'' \
' When rogues mil out the mice will
?Pf?* MO lo ?yy.ui: ?<;::< neu tijdl '
. Euterprising citizen, , Jonathan
tVhoopcuhizcr has erected a fine hen
?0 .0 ?.:: T-fl:. . . -JflU V>n! ,
coop.
"Hope deferreu*gathers no moss:'1
Clever' neighbor; Jaico Stebbins, has
enlarged hjs ash piloij .
f,nJA bird iu the haad,:dreads the firo. ...
, That philantrophio gentleman, Manu
e.Wtc nc'utter, extracted a rat from his
trap by inserting his fihger between its'
teeth, and immediatel y liberated the
gentle sufferer. A merciful, man ismer
ciful to his beast, ?rod') ? /r.
A suspicious stranger wants to buy
rags. Beware I Supposed to be ridi
culing the apparol of the community.
An ux,chaugo; boasts tbat-.iW*>ffiee is
at last lighted with gas. Spontaneous
combustion^ probably.
November follows'7'Obtfober and pre
cedes' Ecc'&rfbeV. Ttfmtfs1 m^
r/ne^tittye^-U-^^ffatsiHu4&***h;; i
tili day aftor to-m?rxow. Seiah 1
This year Christmas fullaou December
25th. Last year the 25th of Dccembor
f. 11 on Christmas. Singular coincidence,
the whereof may not happen more thau
j once in a year.
If day before yesterday had been day
after to-morrow. Saturday would have
been kicked iuto the middle of nest
week.
The difference between Niagara and
our last serenade is rather in favor of
the serenade. The former is a cataract,
the latter a cattyracket.? Caveat filed
herewith.
The riso in the river has produced
many good results. Among others, we
note that the resumption of navigation
having enabled the exhausted supply of
vermifuge to be replenished,-our worthy
cotemporary of!,_the Roaring Rustabout
has recovered his formor sweetness of
temper.
Small boys aro saving their coat
sleeves by wearing aud using pocket
haukcrchici.
Encased in Ice and Ykt Auw,
?Ou Saturday morning, as Mr. Joseph
Motters, an up town ice dealer, sawed,
out a piece ot ice about two feet by twen
ty inches, a bug ros?s*mbling a June bug
exceptiug that its wiugs aud body were
of a huff color, rolled out upon the side
walk. It had not remained them man?
uiiuutes netore it evinced signs of life,
and in a few minuets the effect of the
sun wae so marked, that tho liberated
prisoner started to find now quarters.
The block of ice from which this piece
was sawed was very heavy* and cauio
from the far North. How the bug could
have lived iu this miiss- of ice, is a quc*s
tiou tho ice dealer could.not auswer. It
must, however, have been encased iu \*>
ice prisout for several mouths.
An editor out West who thought thu
wa .os demanded by compositors was
imposition, discharged his hands and
intends doing his own type-setting in
future. lie .says: "OWING To the
?W-I'.?r.inj WaGKa unmi^deff bY
pjinjcrRs WE h.v.ve ConCliide(t To do
ouR ow vj tvpo sEitiod IN Tho iuTaRef
; nufl ai.Tif)UGU w;? neACr (KaftQEQ
Tho ^usiuoss' ?bo d? floj Soa way gRetj?
ru.CsTeRy in Llle allj.
In former days, whon the cook-book
was included to the educational course
for young ladie", they were taught iu
this rule: ' First catch your hare, then
dress it." In the enlightened preoeut
the cook-book docs not shiao, but this
rule, with slight alterations, is: First
buy your hair, then dress it youeg
ladies."
pleasanThaWoF FespHTg a tarn? tiger
ft is known, possessio* Tor some tue? ft
savago wolf as Pfrvorit e companion ?I
NBwitfkt a^>?i;r>?
iiihdb ?f lass ?iidwmlawihJ??
engro, head- ?$pjfj^ of English birth
having any very particular predilection
for snakes. A gentleman "of urbane man
ors'^4 gres^ Ubesasi^ n?d
i?)HWlOSWby?W#? ^nt'tfHWawSS,
fc^forfc^
tastes, Ho collected about hjs office the
11*. itin a>Pisf ooBuntoajL. fruLtp kim .
most venomous snatrea to Tw Toana in
that region. W'please^irn^ftuVriaed
visitor to this sfugbia* efcaiWsw* ?aaould
see "one snake 9asile*n ?A :1 Htlwg$"i*:
another on tbetabls^
with acoidents, however* anS?l?iiiover
dr snakes Wt aVlgft wltWd'^AKoas
^ooe^ ft# haa^i frsssliwMiahsjfr bat
iitwlyiRacier snake, aad[*4lhDu4*#?ring
it any time to get; accustomed to, Its'
changed quarters, he put it in his .bat,
and his hat on bis heacf, with Ine result
that be was soon'bitten1," aW'aleoV the
next morning.' Remarkable to relate,
his widow, instead of keeping Wrasakes ?
to remember the dear docaasad at
once bad them, alji kiljejft a|n nfL
judge;ba-ft1ife Hw oflfoe'tso ?elos*l%o a
certaj u ? idoctqns4*if* i.idi?t tbsjr. *iWere
separated oujjtljy.a plank ffa^tiggfwith
a door in it. . The judge W* at^ tale
busy with his* griefs and mils, in chan
eery, the doctor*was wfrftfctf? letter,
autfpauWo^^^
called ou?tJ ? "Ja4gre,tse?tf S^tabths way
to spell oquiooralcal?''H?m I tl?i?k it
is, said the judge; hutTgslfster's
Dictionary-I cau-souu. tell. He .open
ed the book, ana turned over too leaves
repeating alo?d. <to-qUinomical--e-qui -
nomical, "Finding the propper place,
be ran his eye and finger up and down
the column two or throe times Until he
was throughly satisfied that tbe Word
in question was not there. dloUng tho
book with a slam, the jddgi? fifla his
specs on tho table and rising slowly,
broke forth1 Well, sir, I hkve** shrsys
beea a Daoiel Webster mad, and voted
for him for President; but.aoy ntjuj that
will write as big a dictionary as this and
not put as common a word as equino
uiical io it can't get my vote for anything
hereafter.
?' " >Min mt'i r ri^jj^awasu,
Tbc San Franoisco Chroni'de obtoniol
ca tbe death and funeral of a young
spiritualist medium named Henry Chase,
iu which there is a rather ludicrous il
lustration of the strength of the ruling
passion after death. The? young man's
mother preached his fUriera! sarujou, in
which she said thatsince: his 4*e4k lbs
had had several interviews w^th^im- la
life be was a jolly and frolicsome youth
and while his corpse was being prepared
for burial, he entered the rbotil and gave
his mother to Understand that f 'he did
uot think he would make sdoh an ugly*
looking corpse." During the whole pro?
cess of dreeing him after death be was
present iu the room, cutting up antics,
jumping about, standing on als head,
and doing other funny things.' So little
? t! aw-'ctwa oouy,- mat one
may perform ail these aarobatkS feats
even when deprived of it/
A CLEVEa old lady, apparently just
arrived on a train from the country f
entered bne of the refreshments rooms
at tho Springfield dopot, the otbar day
aud gazed eagerly about the apartment
as though searching for something. At
last a waiter inquired what sho was
looking for, and sho replied that she
left ber parasol on tbe setter, tt?4 Was
trying to find it A' genersl searoh com
menced, and lasted for same time. Fi
nally ouc of the waiters asked the old daxso
when she left it, to which she answered
after counting up on her" finge?, "Well,
it Was just three years ago last 4th of
July." The** was a gsMMT^ roar,
much to tho astonishment of theoldfr^y
who wont away with a very puzelad look
upou her countenance,.
? 111? Mdh .
At a recent examination of ifn? of the
schools in Washington, ihjx question was
put to a class of smell boys; Why is the
Connecticut river so o*Ued V when a
bright littlo follow held x$p hi\ hand.
"Do yoa know, dames f" "Yei, sna'nra;
because it coo recta Vernront and* New
Hampshire, and oats through Massa
chusetts," Was the triumphant re