| Show A negro wedding the bride and groom answering to the names of andrew and susy feie gele were vero field hands of unspeakably pure guinea blood and both had passed the first half century of life their dress however showed that they had not entirely eschewed the follies of their youth for though rude and cheap as became their condition it was nevertheless not unembellished with those bits of gewgaws and glaring finery of bright colored ribbon ribbons s and ties in which the negro delights with the most decorous gravity the preacher began andrew duz you lub dis yer woman 1 I duz so was the emphatic re ply 1 I will you promise to stick close to her broo til tir time e andi tarn ity rei L bouncing noun cing all oders an cleabon cle abin to her for eber an eber an amen 1 I will dat 11 1 1 will you lub honor an bey hold on dar ole jacki jack here interrupted the groom with no little show of indignation I taint no use to dis bout beying de cimmin cant promise to bey no cimmin folks eny enly capt ole silence dar you roared the wrathful preacher what fur you go fur spile the ceremony you done spilt split all de grabbitt grabb ity of de do casion caslon dis 5 ers erb ony matter of form an indispensable to de do 1 casion caslon now dont you go fur to open your black couf till the time for you to speak will you promise to lub honor an bes bey ybes andrew still shaking his head ominously at the obnoxious word idis dis yere susy fur nishia her with all tings needful for her comfort and happiness cherishian che ehe and her from all su erin flerin and sorrell borrer an makin the tiie path of all her pieced in days to come 1 I spose I 1 must say yes to dat 11 said andrew meekly den ven I 1 pronounce dese debeyer yer two couples to be man and wife wite an whom de lord had joined tow tog together oe ther let no man go for to put them asunder here an uproar arose among the blacks betokening a dilemma entirely unforeseen by old jack for inasmuch as he had forgotten to require the usual vows of husy susy they insisted that however firmly andrew might be bound by the bonds of matrimony susy was still single and the pair were bult but half married the matter was at last adjusted by the preacher eoin coin commencing the ceremony de novo by which means the couple was finally united to the satisfaction of all 0 0 minister bancroft at berlin and minister schenck at london have both had interviews with the persian monarch when his manners are mentioned they merely say oh shah A vermont schoolmistress school mistress fifteen years old who could nut not answer one question in her examination has a salary of iao lao per week which is scarcely an inducement to know anything more A cincinnati policeman was seen eating green apples the other I 1 day and the temes times congratulates the public on an improvement in the police force and suggests that the hucksters bring in more green apples pete harris ham thief was shot dead at canton mississippi on the ad by a spring gun in a smokehouse smoke house belonging to J C troutman the raising of a window pulled a string that fired the gun that killed the thief that broke in the house that troutman built that mules can count at least as far as five is supposed to bo be proved by the experience of a short line of omnibuses omni buses in new orleans in which each mule makes the journey five successive times before resting and though kee keeping hingst silent i lent at the end of the first four trips rips utters a neigh of delight at the en end of the fifth it is very doubtful if lf there is a single possible disease ni which the patient should not have cold water ad libi tum oh oai how babies often suffer for cold water A nursing baby is given no matter how thirsty nothing but milk the little lips are dry and cracked and the little tongue so parched it can scarcely nurse and yet it has nothing but milk to assuage its craving thirst try it yourself mother when you have a fever and we are sure that ever after when your darling is dying with thirst thirsty the teaspoon and tumbler of cold water I 1 will be in constant use deny it milk and give it let plenty of cold water and it has a chance of steady recovery very timid people have a habit of looking under the bed before they get into it mrs smith landlady of the stafford Staf lord rord hotel westbourne villas england heard head a scraping noise beneath her couch naturally she awoke mr smith wh who on lighting a candle and running making a search found below the couch alfred cracknell with a 4 loaded six revolver a dark lantern two li large knives and a pair of false whiskers rather tather a volcanic and miscellaneous assortment to sleep over mr cracknell was commit trial |
