The Portieres Broke Their Hearts

1895

An old couple took a son home to live with them and deeded to him the property. The young man's wife brought from Massachusetts a head full of notions as to style in house decoration and had the inner doors taken off all through the house and turkey red portieres hung all over the premises. The old folks looked on in wonder at first, and then the change in their home surroundings amazed them so they began to weep. After about three months of this crying the young man concluded that his wife's decorative ideas would kill the old folks, so he deeded back the farm and went his way. The portieres did it, for I could never learn of any other cause for complaint. — Lewiston Journal.


Not Disinterested

"Won't you have another piece of pie, Mr. Claverly?" asked Tommy.
"Thank you, Tommy," replied Mr. Claverly, "it's very kind of you."
y "Oh, that's all right!" returned Tommy, with energy. "I'm a-lookin out for myself too. Ma said if it was necessary to cut another pie I could have two pieces." — Harlem Life.


Trivia

Osawatomie, the name of a Kansas town, is said to be compounded of the names of two rivers, the Osago and Pottawatomie.

A hippopotamus, brought from the Nile to Rome, by order of Titus, to celebrate the close of the Jewish war, cost $4,000.