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Show 1 I SISTER BROWS GRiTlFlE IltR I CCRIOSITV. Te supp:-se everyb-i-cy who lives 12 a city has sjmetinies woLaTrci w'rat th ose curio "as ly pain ltd images re tidc of. that stand by certain sbp d.crs. with a bunch of cigars in one h3ni. I while they invite the customers to enter en-ter with the other. Sjme of them arc as hideotis as they are dUctiiang. ad we o!ten wonder why fuch leering. tuI-gar tuI-gar images are used to attract customers. custom-ers. Sister Brown was one of the primcst and most correct maiden laiies. but she was very curious and prone to --ratify her inquiring ruind to the utmost, and that was why we were clad when she met with the following vjntrt temps: She was going home from an evening even-ing lecture rather late at night for a single lady to be upon the s-reet alone, when it occurred to her that it would be a favorable opportunity for her to examine the new Indian image that had been set up oa the street, and which had puzzled her a good deal. She had often asked of what was it made, but had received no satisfactory answer! aud had determined, when an opportunity did present itself, to examine ex-amine the curious figure. The opportune moment had arrived. Sister Brown looked in every direction, and feeling certain she was not ob served, advanced toward what she supposed sup-posed to be the image standing in the shadow of a d?ep recess, but it unfortunately unfor-tunately was a policeman. Sister Brown gave him a punch, pinched him, then gave him auother punch, all of which the policeman bore in silence. Then she attempted to take his hand to feel for the cigars, when, to her horror, he returned tier pressure with right good will. The astoni-h-ment of the maiden lady can be imagined imag-ined but not described, when a grum voice cried out ''Sister Brown, what do you want of me I" The policeman said he had seen a good many folks travel, but he never saw a woman measure the ground as Sister B. did when she went lound the corner. She was cured of her investigating spirit, greatly to the relief of the neighborhood neigh-borhood where she resided, for the policeman po-liceman described her examination of his portly person in a manner that turned the poor woman to great ridicule. ridi-cule. Sister 15. says when she looks at shop windows now, that if there is anything she hates its Injins and the perlice. 'uutis C'jtitjianivit. |