Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — JOHNNIE CHAFFIE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHNNIE CHAFFIE.

H* Wrlt?« of tho Grip and of Scones Ist Now York.

,HE boy from Texas complains of the New York ozone —Col. Chaffie a sufferer from the grip Johnnie visits the menagerie in Central Park—The giraffe very much under the influence of the weather —Why the hinpopotamu s

smiled—Severe remarks about the New York police. Mistur Editur: par Has had the grip but he is okay now. o how he did kuss. He didn’t say hello a9if he waa working a telefone, but said it backwards with the o fust. He kust so that everybody said profanity was on the inkreas his noze felt as if it was stuft fuller putty in noo york winter has several back bones dammit says wish i was in Texas. April kame in like a lion with jimjams, a soar tale and feelin ugly. Par took me to see the manygeerie In sentral park bekos it is a free thing

even the animals was sufferin from the grip, and sum of them has jined the angel manygeerie abuv. Par almost had a flte with the keaper bekos par insisted that the sakred kow of india was a beest of pray henery, henery, says mar the keaper should no best. The keaper sed it kost 24 dollars a week to feed the bengal tiger in that case wat does the bord of a kat amount to, asked par. The keaper went oph in a pet says mar sum day says par He will go off in a pet sure enuff when the tame tiger swallers him. The giraf had the grip komplikated with roomytism and so had the rocky mounting goto, wich maid it full of kinks and warped its nek—i wisht i was a giraf when it kums to drinkin sody water and eating jam but i don’t like 3 yards of sore throte not match, then the giraf is in a bad phix- the reason the giraf looks so natural was

bekos it was alive it is a way it has says par. The elefants lookt flabby as if they had got hold of some of the red Backus lemonade wen they wus on the rode so did the lions and tigers—an ole fashoned hare trunk with a paint brush tale and a brass eye kood put them awl to flite. The only real nappy animile in sentral park was the bippypotamus bekos it had a chill, and the keaper gave him fore gallons of wiskey—mar says elefants like wiskey two witch explains wy pars breth smells of wiskey wen he has been to see the elefant par said lets tork about some uther wild animile— i would if i was u says mar. There are several wajs of seeing the mannygeerie eating mints pi is one —if i could be a animile i would not be a

elefant or a hippypotimuss altho they gets lots of oeenuts—ide be a wasp thats the kind of a kwadrooped ide be so i could sting my Sunday skool teacher. Speaking of feroshus animiles par says the New York perleece is the mo.st dangerus—it would be safer for the publick to put sum of the perleece behind the bars, and turn out the dekrepid ole lions and tigers with their decade teeth, sun kin eyes, slinkiDg tales wich is harmless kompaired with the perleece—i would like to see them feed. Your friend

JOHNNIE CHAFFIE.

—Texas Siftings. One Bull, a nephew of the dead chieftain, related an interesting incident that happened jnst the day before Sitting Bull was murdered. He said Sitting Bnll that day climbed to the top of bne of the highest neighboring buttes, where he fell asleep, and dreamed of the startling tragedy that would happen the next day. He came down, and told his people that their great medicine man would bo killed on the morrow. How true his words were was attested by developments the nex.l morning,