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Show BORROWING A MATCH. A Few Incidents That Attended a Not Infrequent llcqnent. You might think that borrowing a match upon the street is a simple thing. Rut any man who has ever tried it will assure you that it is not, and will be prepared to swear to the truth of my experience of the other evening. I was standing on the corner of the street with a cigar that I wanted to light. I had no match. I waited till a decent, ordinary-looking man came along. Then I said: "Excuse me, sir, but could you oblige me with the loan of a match?" The man stopped short at once. I "A match?" he said; "why, certain- colors or pnotcgrapn, placed together in threcp, and so daintily surrounded by a border of triune Gothic arching, gilt or silver, that the effect closely resembles resem-bles the paneling of a church window, and seems most apposite to- the subject. sub-ject. This Is usually the favorite Saint Cecilia, one of many Madonnas, or n cathedral interior. N. Y. Test. Some corsage fronts in black or white moussclinc do soie I have seen trimmed with insertion or spangled braid, laid on flat among the tulle or muslin, as the ease may be. The same thing can be done with black lace and spangled braid, collar and waistband of some bright colored moire, which can be tied behind in a baby K jeng ends, edged with a .very tiiij ruche of black mousselinc do soie. They are also made with ribbons. I have seen a black tulle blouse, with coarse meshes, on which are sewn two rows of cream guipure insertion of a very pretty pattern. The upper part, trimmed with small barrette of braid, is embroidered with black spangles nnd turquoises. The sleeves are of black tulle, without lining, showing the arm through. This blouse can be worn over black or any color desired. Chicago Tribune. Near Brunswick, Md., a cow which I last summer dropped twin, calves hasj done the same thing again. i It took half an hour for a mother at Bristol, Tenn., to recover a watch wheel which her small boy had swallowed. swal-lowed. Only the would-be saloon keeper and one nonresident signed a petition ! for the establishment of a saloon at Monroe, Neb. What is known as the young mar- j ried set of Carthage (Mo.) society en- j tertains itself in hot times with wading parties in the Spring river. His financial system leads a Missouri Mis-souri man to inclose a half-dollar piece or a quarter in each sack of flour sold from his mill. He docs it to attract custom. cus-tom. .v i :U ot ate. agent in Ncwburg. N Y., engaged a painter to paint a house, inside ard out. ITe gave him the wron? number, r.r.d the wrong house was completely com-pletely painted! before the blunder war discovered. An extraordinary railroad trip was recent !v made over the Chicago, Tiur-lingtvi Tiur-lingtvi S- nit icy. from Chicago to Denver. Den-ver. The d)-tance is 1,025 miles, and the trip v :- rr.ade in 1.0G9 minutes' aetur.l rurr-' ly." Then he unbuttoned his overcoat and put his hand in the pocket oC his waist-coast." "1 know I hac oue," he went on, "and I'd almost swear it's in the bottom pocktt or, hold on, though, I guess it may be in the top just wait till I put these parcels down on the sidewalk." ",Oh, don't trouble," I said; "it's really cf no consequence." "Oh, it's no trouble. I'll have it in a minute; I know there must be one in here somewhere;" he was digging his fingers into his pockets as he spoke "but you see this isn't the waistcoat I generally ." I saw that the man wa3 getting excited ex-cited about it. "Well, never mk.d," I protested; "if that isn't the waistcoat that you generally why, it doesn't matter." "Hold on, now; hold on!" the man said, "I've got one of the cursed things in here somewhere. I guess it must be in with my watch. No, it's not there, either. Wait till I try in my coat. If that confounded tailor only knew enough to make a pocket so that a man could get at it!" lie was getting pretty well worked up nov. He had thrown down his walking stick a.-.d was plunging at his pockets with his teeth set. "it's that cursed young boy of mine," he hissed; 'this comes of his fooling in my pockets. pock-ets. By Gad! perhaps I won't warm him up when I get home. Say, I'll bet that it's in my hip pocket. You just hold up the tail of my overcoat a second till I" "No, no," I protested again; "please don't take all this trouble, it really doesn't matter. I'm sure you needn't take off your overcoat, and, oh, pray don't throw away your letters and things in the snow like that, and tear out your pockets by the roots! Please, please don't trample over your overcoat and put your feet through the parcels. 1 do so hate to hear you swearing at your little boy, with that peculiar whine in your voice. Don't please don't tear your clothes so savagely." Suddenly the man gave a grunt of exultation ex-ultation and drew his hand up from inside the lining of his coat. "I've got it," he cried. "Here you are!" Then he brought It out under the light. It was a toothpick. Yielding to the impulse of the moment, mo-ment, I pushed him under the wheels of a trolley car, and ran. Truth. J. I. Taylor, living near Cottage Grove, Ore., touched a match to scum over a stagnant pool on his place, and the whole surface of the pool ignited and blazed as a kerosene pond might blaze. While a business man of Newport News and his family were sitting at ; table wondering why the cook was so j long in getting breakfast, a tramp, who had come along just as it was to be served, sat in the kitchen eating what he wanted of it and keeping the cook quiet with a revolver. The ever active desire of newspapers newspa-pers to give- the public more than the worth of the public's money had a manifestation man-ifestation lately in the casu of a paper at Juniata, Neb., which put in so mod-j mod-j est a bill for county printing that the ! supervisors voluntarity increased the j amount of it and paid it. j By the tomb of Henry Itidgely, who I died in 1099 in Anne Arundel county, j Md., Isaac C. Anderson, of the Second district of that county, recently found a coin of the date 1695, marked on the obverse "VIII. Skilling Danske." The reverse, which is well worn, bears a ; capital C, over which is the figure 5. i Scorn must be felt hy New York gripmen and Brooklyn motormen for , the motormen of Meckanicsville, Tenn. According to local newspaper plaints these actually stop in one part of the town because children are so thick ) upon the track. "The cars have to bo i stopped," one paper says, "to avoid an I accident!" I On the spur of the moment Charles I J. Kaufman, of Newport News, offered ' to bet with Mirs Zella M. Ilendrick, of Fairville, Mo., that she would not marry t him while they were in Norfolk on a j visit with her cousin. She took him up and surprised him by not backing out during his quest for a license and a clergyman. |