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Show Wrnder What They'll do Next? Tin- negro inii:st:el. Tiulcher. the other inning, told a ludicrous story to a big dudiciK-o at i grind opera house here, and put a catch phrase into the mouth ul ImlUnupoliUny thai has kept them laughing ever since. It is all about two sailors and a poll-parrot, and the expression of the pairot will illustrate perfectly tho ( fleet of the Florida decision by the election commission upon the demo era la. Two sailors who had a parrot with thorn went into a magicians' show, in an upper room, in some foreign city. The three constituted tho entire audience. After each lent of the magician?, one of iho railora would remark, "Thai's pretty good; wonder what they'll do next." Finally one ol the Bailors asked i-ermission to smoke, which tho magicians granted, forgetting thai in the room beneath was stored an immense quantity of gunpowder. The Jack tars and the parrot continued to enjoy the show, one sailor adding tho pleasure ol his pipe and the other remarking re-marking after each trick, "Thai's pretty good; wonder what they'll do next." A spark from the einoker's pipe chanced to drop through a cnick in the floor into Lie puvuL-r uud tume-tliing tume-tliing suddenly occurred. Saiturn and I magicians, parrot aud ul!, "ro-sc above parly prejudice," and were all blown to kingdom come in a million fragments. frag-ments. All except ti c poll parrot. He landed in a he.in of bruised flush and burnt feathers on u pjUlu patch three miles away. He was terribly demoralized. It took him some moments to collect himself, and when he had partially done eo he hopoed limpiugly upon a fence rail ani remarked: re-marked: "That's preity good;wouder what they'll do next." Cincinnati Commercial. |