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Show Vanity In tht Animal World. According lu a story told by former flovernor Htokrs of New Jersey, at a rwnl banquet, vunlly Is not confined etclualvcly to the frmnlit st-I of the bunian aperies. In a small town over In Jersey, Mr, Rtnkcs aald. there la a corner grocery where you may buy anything from a twenty font ladder to a pearl nerklare. Adhesive plaster, snner kraut and toilet toil-et articles are also sold, and In cane of neceaalty you may net a haircut or a horse shod In the Intra yard. Boms time since a farmer stopped In the store to get some home liniment lini-ment to rub the rheumatism out of a alrk cow, and two or three dnya later be came bark with a life sited kirk. "Look here, Abner," he complnln-Iniily complnln-Iniily remarked, "I wlah ye would be a lit I lo more keerful how ye throw yersclf bark o' thet counter. T'other day yo live mo cologne Instead o' boss liniment, and gnsh dust It I didn't put It on thet alrk sow afore 1 found out what It was." "It didn't hurt her any, did It?" broke In the itrocerymnn. "Can't any thet II did," answered the fnrmer, "but ever aence she has bad thet sweet smellln' stuff on her, she hain't done a darned thing but es look at her reflection In ther durk pond an' sigh." Philadelphia Telegraph. |
