[From the Tuttle, N. D., Star.]
At the burning of a barn in Steele recently, our superintendent
displayed some nerve and pluck. Miss Sherman did not wait for the men to
get there but hastened to the barn without stopping to dress, and in
bare feet untied the horses before they had become unmanageable thus
saving them with little trouble. There is not a man, we venture to say,
in all Steele but would have stopped to put on his pants before
venturing out into the crisp air, but she did not, her whole thought
being of the dumb animals imperiled, and it was, indeed, a nervy and
cool-headed performance.
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_RHYMED DEVOTION._
[Robert Louis Stevenson to his wife.]
_When my wife is far from me
The undersigned feels all at sea._
_R. L. S._
_I was as good as deaf
When separate from F._
_I am far from gay
When separate from A._
_I loathe the ways of men
When separate from N._
_Life is a murky den
When separate from N._
_My sorrow rages high
When separate from Y._
_And all things seem uncanny
When separate from Fanny._
* * *
Lacking the equipment of the monk in Daudet's tale, an amateur distiller
is gauging his output with an instrument used for testing the fluid in
his motor car's radiator. "Yesterday," reports P. D. P., "he confided to
me that he had some thirty below zero stuff."
* * *
Fish talk to each other, Dr. Bell tells the Geographic society; a
statement which no one will doubt who has ever seen a pair of goldfish
in earnest conversation.
* * *
According to Dr. Eliot, Americans are more and more becoming subject to
herd impulses, gregarious impulses, common emotions, and he is
considerably annoyed. Heaven be praised if what he says be true! He
would have individuality released; which is precisely what we do not
want. Americans are not individuals, and they are not free; but they
think they are. Therefore is America, in these troublous times, an
island in chaos, where civilization, like Custer, will make its last
stand.
* * *
Doctors disagree as to whether 70 degrees is the proper temperature for
an apartment. This will intrigue a friend of ours who, preferring 60
degrees himself, is obliged to maintain a temperature of almost 80
because of his mother-in-law.
* * *
"Women," says Dr. Ethel Smyth, of London (perhaps you know Ethel),
"women have undoubtedly invaluable work to do as composers." Quite so.
And any time they are ready to begin we'll sit up and take notice.
* * *
Sh-h-h! On Main street in Buffalo, near the Hotel Iroquois, you can have
"Tattooing Done Privately Inside."
* * *
Shall we not revise Shakespeare:
The chariest maid is prodigal enough
If she unmask her beauty on the Boul.
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