The Wingham Times, 1900-11-23, Page 71
Sante iiingllsh Saws
ai' you deposit money in a bank and
leave it there for over six years with-
out add+ • to it, (drawing on it or deal-
in;� with- 'in any way, it comes under
the Statnt,,,of limitations and is lost to
yea forever.
,Suppose you bought a gold shag and
without .paying auytliing about pay-
iuents or delivery you darned muni; to
e::aullue a clod: and a makpio flew in
and carried off the ring it would be
.your loss, Yea would have to pay the
jeweler, while he nee(1 not give you
another ring. If you bought a horse
and said you would call for him in the
,oventug and if the stables wore burned
and the horse. destroyed before you
-called, you would have to bear the con-
sequences. Brut if anything remllued
to be done to the property purchased
the seller would be responsible, Sup -
,pose he undertook. to put, a nail lu the
horse's shoe or suppose the jeweler
said be would polish up the ring, then
the loss would fall on ;him, not you.
if you wrote from London to a miller
in Bristol offering to sell him a cargo
of wheat at 30 shillings a quarter au(1
,he wrote a letter accepting your offer
anti posted it the same day, the can -
tract would be completed. Suppose,
+mows the letter got lost, you eoneluded
that he was not going to buy and you
sold the cargo to some one else, you.
'would be liable for damages to the 'first
'buyer. and the worst of it Is yotl could
get nothing out. of the postmaster gen-
•eral.—Londou Answers,
He Prayed 1lar&
An old man in Georgia named Jack
'Baldwin, leaving lost his chat in an ofd
dry well one day, hitched a rope to a
stump and let himself down. A wicked
wag named Neal came along just then
'and, quietly detaching a bell from
Baldwin's old blind horse, approached
,the well bell In hand and 'began to ting -
•a -ling.
Jack: thought the old horse was com-
ing and said: "hang the old; blind
ilhorsel He's coming this way sure, and
the ain't got no more sense than to fall
on 1110, Whoa, )3a111"
The sound came closer.
"Great Jerusalem, the old blind fool
'will be right on top of ale in a minit!
'Wina, Ball! Whoa, haw, Ball!"
Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack's
+head, and Tack began to pray:
"Oki, Lord, -have mercy oil—whoa,
. Balli—a poor sinner— I'm gone now;
'whoa. Ball. Our father who art in—
whoa. Bali! — hallowed be thy - gee,
Zell, gee! what'll I do?—name. Now I
Jay me down to sl—gee, Balla' Just
then in fell more dirt. "Oh, Lord, if
.you ever intend to do anything for me
Ball! wheal—thy kingdom
c—backco,
lne—gee, Ball! Oh, Lord, you know I
was baptized in Smith's mill dam --
whoa, Ball! leo! up! murder! whoit!"
Neal could hold in no longer and
:shouted a laugh which might have
been heard two miles, which was about
.as far as Jack 'chased him when he got
out.
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Bluffs In the Directory..
If you Vel; up that interesting annu-
al, the city directory, you will find it
filled with bluffs. Here is a man down
os a superintendent.. You know he is
nly the foreman of a labor gang. • An-
other is designated as a general mana-
ger. Three or four men are subject to
his "general" management, or, as his
5 -year -old -son, who inherited his pro-
pensity to bluff, put it, "he's the ;head
man of three other fellows." Over on
this page is another ,chap who is given
as the political editor of a newspaper
of some political importance. Don't
believe it. IIe's merely a reporter as-
signed to gather political news, and ev-
.erything,he writes is carefully "edited"
by another man with a title of much
less importance. This man down in
the book as a merchant sells shoe-
strings and collar buttons in a cubby
hole between two buildings made avail-
able when an alley fell into disuse.
"illme. Blanque, modiste," is merely
r1rs. Blank, dressmaker, making a
French bluff for which she collects aft-
er the cutting out and fitting are done.
But what is the use of picking them
out? The directory is filled with them.
—Pittsburg Press.
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l -b Dad ria
els.
Mrs Ids; t
'le Colored gentleman who eollects
paper scraps liar 11disabled "right."
Only the thumb is of much service
Asked how It happened be looked sail.
and replied, "Pat ar was a piece pl'
bad luck., boss; yes, sab, utl,ghty haul
luck:."
"How was that?"
"Ali Joan' like tui tell, but 'tavuz
Mighty bad luck(,"
Finally lie consented to explain;
"Two t'eilulis insulted me in a place
across the street heal+, an Ali stalhted
In tush frazzle (leen out, De second
fellub Ala tackled was.; stan'in 'tween
me au an iron pillulh dat shlppolited de
roof. Jus' as Ali wuz erbout tush Baud
hint a smash on de nose eat niggali
stepped one side au malt Band struck
de pillulh instead, Ilit done broke ebry
one of hall fintuhs, an (ley've been
stilt eber since. Yes, saki, dat wuz sub-
tiuly bad luck.,"
"But what about the first fellow
you went up against? You didn't say
what became of him,"
"Oir, dat felluli? • Yah,. yah; Boss,
Ab kin show yore dat niggab any time.
'I"i work jus' a block from heal, 'l±:
ain't got no nose an only filly piece one
ear"—
"Ilow'd be lose 'em?"
"how'd 'e lose. 'em? Boss,. 'e didn't
lose 'em, ..Dey wuz took from 'flu, an
Al's de man what done bit. Ah done
bit 'em bole off, Yes, sag, Ali bit 'em
off while we'se ronin round on de fro' "
WINGILig . TINES, NOYEMBE1 213
ttlautl'•e t atLoot,
trren 'lifter. tt t. a States Marshal
in Vials was satins hu his office ,..t Snit
Lake City idle day when a r: