Show our coutryman Coutry men bayard taylor characterizes the new ena eng t land tourist as grave respectable lookin looking c slightly petulant about his accommodations accommodation is thin face and lips no beard precise in in language and gold spectacles under this solid information fair capacity to enjoy himself positive opinion opinions Q and general appreciation of nature not the worst fellows to travel with the new yorker is more flexible and less precise dresses well but affects care careless es ness ile he makes acquaintances and forgets them with equal ease and shifts his opinions like his clothes if he finds better the phi is almost as prim as the eh ile he never talks fifteen minutes without mentioning philadelphia his bis voice is thin and sharp and he snubs all the short vowels yet he is warm hospitable hospi tabe and accessible the southerner is either rarely refined a lit little tie tle exacting perhaps or bold swagger swaggering lq and profane his accent always shows that he played with young darkies when he was a boy he says whay whar and ana and maus muus or maier for master but ot 0 either class he is frank and comp aniable and will fight and be reconciled ten times while a new englander is working 0 up a lifelong life long enmity the western man is described if you know his latitude and reproduces new england new york pennsylvania virginia and kentucky as the case may be ile he is restless addicted to adjectives and says so he thinks every place slow but his own particular place ilace liace is easily satisfied jovial and like the southerner lout herner chews tobacco and drinks bourbon A FISH fisa in the state board of agri cultures rooms in the state house is a large glass box or vessel wherein ar are e kept several live specimens of fish among others a sunfish about six inches in length the secretary recently caught a common horseleech horse leech and placed it in the water with the fish A contest immediately began between the sunfish and the leech involving life or death to the worm which was watched with much interest and curiosity the sunfish attempted to swallow the leech head bead foremost but the latter fastened himself to the under jaws of the fish and obstinately refused to be swallowed the next thing was for the fish to get gt the leech out of its mouth month and to this end various in ingenious enious maneuvers were resorted to without eifert effect at last the fish raising his mouth above the surface of the bloodsucker from his position again the fish attempted to swallow the leech this time tail first b nt the wily worm fastened himself outside his mouth and had to be dislodged by a repetition of the blowing dodge the struggle lasted for more than a week and at last the fish succeeded in getting the leech down whereat be he hanif manifest manifested est pd d his gratification by a series of inexplicable curvets curvers cur vets but alas aias the exultation of 0 the finny victor was brief for the next morning found air ain sunfish floating sideways upon the surf surface ace ade of the water vater dead beadi the bloodsucker hadari even in death and left b oe Cg columbia lumbia statesman I 1 |