They W1H 8 Do 8ft Agate.
rMargaret VandergHft fa The Century.
The marten, aunt, in her straight-backed
chair,
With a flush oa her pale and wrinkled
cheek.
And a horrified, mortified, mystified air,
Was just about to spjak.
And the maiden niece, a nice little maid
Stood meekly twirling: her thumbs
about,
With a half -triumphant, half-afraid,
And wholly be witching pout
gaid the maiden aunt: "Will you pleas
ezp'ain
What "your heads were doing so close to
gethsrf
You oonld easily, I assure you, Jane,
Save knocked me down with a feather!
Wbea I think of your bringing up my
care,
Hy scrupulous care and it s come to
th.! You
Appeared to bJ sitting calmly there, ,
And let'.ing a young man KiSSyon!
"Ifow tell me at once just what he said,
And what vou replied. .Tan is q lite
trial;
go do aou ts Mai there an i hang your head,
Or attempt the least denial!
If 1 catch you once more ii such a fix.
Though you are 18, I can tell you, Jane,
I ghall treat you just as if you were 6,
And eenl you to school again !
Ar vou going to tell me what he said.
And what' you said? I'll not stand this
trifling;
go look at ma, Jane! Lift up your head !
Don't go as if you were stifling!"
War voice was shaken of course, with fear:
"He said ne saia: vtiu you nave me.
And I said I would. But. indeed, aunt, dear.
Weii never uo su again:
Overheard at the Hone Show
IMfa
DATT,Y WARLQTTE OBSERVER: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1885
"" Bay and the
i Boston Horn Joanii.i
He
. 7 " vjl a y ouvn
log With no aneestrv to hnf - K. w.
atP1, 11 in one of our city
mm aawecnua s way arm lovingly
twined about his naiv thick nardr. .ti .
sweat, cooing Toioa aayiog in his ear. 'T
ve you little doggie," he was as proud ae
any nrize setter In t.he land mud.. " -
dog little boy?' asked a policeman, as he
passed the happy couple. "No, be doesn't
belong to
nun," answesfti the affecSonate friend af
ne iicue cramp dog.
Why the Camp Meeting Held Over.
CWcago Living Charch J
Aorracher at a mmn mutiny farm-n
said, when a proposition was made to shut
b-uoes oa cunaay: "JtH'sturea, there are
souls that will bed Amrtay4 if irrvr A rvrJ f Iiat14
- -ninwa j vu uvu w u-e.u
over Sunday. They are almost persuaded
oy foaturday. Sunday will bring their con
viction to a r.risaV Oh ImSiIm lie. ...
save them! Thousands, too, will come then
that; will come at no otoer time." The
Curistian Advocate makes the report, and
ito buikt aaas tnat oy personal investiga
tion he found that the urgent speaker
owned the refreshment stand.
The First Blcyele in RemoiTllle.
iBe -engraved from The Century.
"Well, what of it I have as much right
to be here as your old horsa. '
'You may not think I am a Shetland
oon v. but I am: only I have beta to the
barber's."
"This h-irdle jumping may be fun for the
spectators, tu it is serious business for us.'
ha Would Make Good Wife.
Co!umbiis D -.patch, i
They sat in the librarr alcove,
And they gazed at the hundreds of books;
And she gave, in exchange for his sighiags.
The sweetest and suyest of looks.
"Here are volumes of very great va' us,
And vou," bere-narkel, "are well versed;
Now. supposing a fire should oreak out here.
Which book would you try to save flrstf"
"I would seise" an 1 sha grew quite
cited,
And then she grew terriiiy eilm
"I would seize papa's pocketbQok first, sir;
Thatf s the kind of a bookworm I ami M
" My kingl ef dar ain't de berry ole Sataw
hisself, tail an' aJl, a-gwine about de kenwy
a-s.raidlin' of a buggy wheel "
The Lesser of Two Bvlla.
Detroit Free Press
The municipal census taker was around
taking names and pulled ths bell at Bliff
stick's, and Bliff came to the door. He was
put through the usual formula, and
Anally the censuser asked the age of his
wife.
"Can't tell," responded the husband.
"Cun't tellf ' echoed the questioner.
,4Whv? Don't you knowf '
"0 course I do."
"Then you must tell me. Ths law
you mut."
"T.elaw? Whatlawr
"The law of the state."
"What will they do with
tellf
"tut you in jatt for contemnt."
"All right ;v put me in jaiL"
"Why. man," exclaimed the astonished
ofneia!, 'you won't go to jail and suffer
ratUer than tall your wife's age, will
vcuf '
""Wall, yes,
sever been in
me if I deaf t
he said resignedly; ''Ire
jail, and oa one occasion 1
did tell my wife's age." J
Final.
Lowell Courier
It is very true, as you oit will find,
Thatawomsn's "No" is not her mind;
Bat rrk.n you bear, as your plead ias
end
"IshaL always priz y u as a friend.
Shall value your .rieaJhip,1' and sucb as
that,
The answer is final, vou can take yoar hat.
Brevitie.
Bingbampton Re pu olic : n She loved.
las, she loved m I s-je loved me ere 1
wemed," gushes some aiaay of a versifier.
W think if she bad wai e 1 until after he
was weened before loving him, and that
process were deferred until after bis exit
from ealihood, the poet would die ualoved.
Exchange: Professor of Chemistry
Suppow you ware called to a patient who
tad swallowed a heavy dose of oxalic aoid,
what wculd you administer? Jones (who
preparing for the pulpit, and who only
takss chemistry bs cam it is obligatory)
wouia aammiSCer toe sacramsnt.
JNew York World : Mr. John Meecbam,
merchant of Memp-iis, objected to cpan
inS the new stoeic exchange m that city
with prayer, although he was in formed that
the itsti uaoa would specially deal with
futures, and he irreverently remirked that
would a? soon taink of openmg a jaca
pot with prayer.
Txas gif tings: The Servians are ad
vsnciug cautiouJy into Turkey territory,
las more oaucious toe Servians are tiie
tutter for them, otherwise they may dupli
cate the exnerhmoA nf th varvnirimcr man
who thruat few hand into a harm's month to
bow may teeth he had. Tae horse
-loseo his mouth to gee how many fingers
man had.
Exchange: "Oh, George, how eeprrla
ly still, ekar and beautiful is the
light:'1 she whiscifirad. laaaiu- hmr finl r
Tind Uutfde against his coat collar; ,how
uatag, new res d ul 1" zee, he replied,
hC with her chashmut enreele hair,
what a nigh to shoot cast.' '
awlir1 i-iong tvooj, j-ia., re-
axehssaged a weekly paper far a
This trade was met so inappr oariate
j weald seem at first blush Thev are
seevaaeai at the human raea.
.Man BuUttaa: "eod gracena," amid
hea when she discovered the porcelain
An Intangible Oeaira.
Harper's Bazar.j
Young minister You seem unusually
thoughtful, Miss Clara?
Mi ss Clara (in a Sunday evening frame ef
mmd)-i leel somewhat oppressed to-night,
Mr, wnitecnoter; nuea, as it were, with a
vague longing for something i know net
what a desire for. some intangible been
whose possession would satisfy my soulaad
quiet this -restless longing.
Bobby (putting his bead in the door)
JS&n 1 speak to you a minuta, Clara?
Mis4 Clara Certainly, Bobby. What is
, dear?
Bobby Ma says tbafc I can have half ef
Seat cold mackerel you ve got locked up i
cupboard.
Shocking;.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A. famous dinner giver in Richmond, Va.,
giving a particularly swell ainner te a
party of distinguished people, and, being
short of a diaing-roeui servant, hired
note 1 head wai tar to officiate. When the
bam was placed on the side table to he
carved, the head waiter, full of the ass
portance of his position, sang out:
"Hftw. gents, waiea one or you
hamf
The aosr, speecniesw witn august, rase,
and, seising the astonished darkay by the
scuff of the neek, shot him out of the roam,
and then, with an ui banity that was im
mease, resumed his duties as the most ad
mirable of hosts.
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Yonlr"s Gazette.
"Thou st never loia me. precious cava
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"I'll say tbou art me summum bonui
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'Ye gods! Caef uosuvrei How my soul
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"And r 'se her. too. that I hant hnara1
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toothsome speech 1 11 dip me in a trance of
Paradise.' 1
Peril of the Theological Student.
One of the religious papars, The Chicago
Inter-or, thinks that the girls ptay the mis
chief wich the theological students. "The
young brother, as soon as 'Rav.' is duly
fastened on before his given name, makes a
bee line for bis girL and she meets aim half
-way down the lane, and they kiss each
other a few times and walk lovingly to
gether to some old preacher, whe ought to
know better, and he puts his hands on their
heads and tells them to be good and so
spoils a missionary." s
The Wodihed Letion.
Weekly Evangelist
''Now, you young scamp," said Blinks,
Sr., as he Jed his young eat out into the
woodshed, end prepared to give him a dress
ing down, Tli teach you what i3 what"
"No, pa,'' replied the incorrigible, "yonll
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B ardent admirer of Wagner, bublet ate
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'Madam On the 2Mb of last May a boy ehlld
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