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Show Jumbo's owner, which, before be conld connect, landed him up side down In the ditch. Though thoroughly drenched his ardor was not the least dampeued, and he made a vicious attack upon Jumbo, catching him by the tail. He probably believed In the proverb "ueok ye after all things, hold fast that which la good," and from the way he held on to Jumbo's cauda( apendagehe evidently considered it good. .Jumbo made a heroic effort to get away and succeeded but in doing so left the hide of his laughing organ in Pug's month. This closed the round and the battle. Everybody Every-body thought Pug had won, bat the referee in giving hie decision announced it a draw, "because" he said ' Pug drawee! all the hide off Jumbo's tail." It is said that a considerable amount of hide and hair changed sides long before be-fore the result was announced. The' only difference between the canines and the average pugilists is that the latter do their growling and lighting in the newspapers anil the former did theirs in the ring or properly speaking the road. GRINNING GRIMSMS- Not Always Funny but Sometimes Original. SHOULDN'T FLIRT. His form was slight, His hair was light. His pants and coat were new; He looked and smiled, But she got riled, And broke poor Dave in two. Vie gathered np the fragaments, And Dave went on his way, Saying "I'll return to Mauti ' When that girl has flown away." It is said that eating onions will keep the lips from chaping. Most girls prefer pre-fer the chaps, especially if they have a nice and well trained mustache." Smart young man.' "Say kid, what is the largest room in Monnt ileasautV" Onr devil. "Room for improvement, of course." "Give ns.O give us, the man who sings at his work." says Carlyle. Oh yes; give him to ns; deliver him into oar hands He is the photographer who works next door and we can't get at him. "Young man," impressively said the minister, "even the hairs of our Jieads are numbered. "If that's so" answered the young man, glancing at the ministers bald pate, "yours must be all ciphers." "Well my little man," said 0. V. P-patting P-patting the head of a small boy whose parents he was visiting, "what is a Tuscarora?" "A Tust'ora" said the little feliow brightening and speaking as though he bad a sure thing, "a Tust'ora 's a i!ad Injnn." "Yes," said the religiously inciihed individual, "all our days are numbered, and a great many people spend the greater portion of their time in au effort ef-fort to recover the back numbers, which cannot be done because they are out of print, making It necessary for those who desire to enter the kingdom of God, to be 'born again.' " PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER. For some time past there has been a difference of opinion existing between "Jumbo" and "Pug" two local favorites as to w'ao was the better "man," They met Friday afternoon in the o2ice of the sporting editor of this paper, and after .considerable growling, common to all fighter?, decided to settle the dispute on the following afternoon. At 2 o'clock .sharp both were on "foot"" prepared for battle, each weighing 10, pounds at the "roadside." It might be in order to state before going any further that these two sports had a meeting previous to this at which Fug came off second best. Bnt as Pug had stopped drinking drink-ing Manti water and got himself in good condition by chasing cats in the back yards, and having gone two whole days without meals in order to enjoy the expected victory, he was looked upon as a winner. Jumbo was the firs- to enter the road, followed about 10 feet by ' . . Pug. T hey stood in their corners growling an swearing at each other in a mannar common to pugilists. It wai plain that there was bad blood between them, having dripped from the nose of a man from Mt. Pleasant, about ten minutes min-utes previous to the meeting, ('Tis said yon can't get blood from a stone or pumking, bnt this is evidence to the contrary.) con-trary.) and a very interesting encounter was expected. Time was to be called at 2:15, bnt the referee, like a cop when wanted, was not to be found, and the principles impatient at the delay decided de-cided to commence without waiting for time to be called. Pug was the aggressor, and led out o?en-monthed for Jumbo's neck, he connected all right but came in contact with a spiked collar which was not exactly ex-actly suited to his taste aid he spit it ont. Pug led again but failed to connect-and connect-and Jumbo countered on Pug's fore, paw. It was evident that Jumbo in tended to rush the fight by the way he j mshed around the ring with Pug after him for the remainder of the first ronnd . Round 2. Jumbo was a little winded, bnt Pug came up fresh, in fact, a little too fresh as events will show. Jnmbo made the first attack and made a good connection with the colled candal apendage of Pog, the latter f retaliated by srafping Jumbo in a similar manner, then tho fun commenced. com-menced. Each endeavored to release himself and still keep his hold on his antagonist and they went 'round and 'ronnn traveling almost as fast as slander, and came near winding up their career. By this time the referee arrived and ordered them to break away, they claimed, owing to some misunderstanding misunder-standing of the rules governing canine pugilism.they refused to obey. A couple of pokers were procured and their holds broken.Both were considerably theworse for wear, bnt Jnmbo had the best of the round. Pdg's ornamental tail was broken and hung between his legs like that of a frightened cur. Round 3 was about like this: . G-r.r-r-r. B-r-r-r-r Wow wow wow. Bow wow wow. Yow yow yonfc, and reminded one of a real prize fight. Round 4. After considerable fooling Pug lei bnt was followed by the foot of' |