Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — A Chummy Elevator. [ARTICLE]

A Chummy Elevator.

“Is this clevdlbr safe?” asked the curious passenger. “Oh, yes,” said the elevator boy, “she’s all hunky if you treat her right, but an el’vator's got feelin’ and won’t stifcfP no foolin’ ’round. This one never slips a cog 'less she's mad." * “But you're joking, ain't you, about an elevator having feelings?” suggested the curious passenger. “1 know it/s so,” said the boy, “ ’cause she sulks and goes by fits and starts if I don’tihumor her. I’m awful good to my el’vator, ’cause you see, we’re chums. I don't jerk her around, and pifM her up sharp any more, but I used to, and Lord, bow she did act! Why, occe she run to the roof and stuck there and wouldn’t budgoian inch. The engineer couldn’t d# a thing with her, and I reckonecbbhe was going to keep me up there all might, but when I laid my head agfn her and asked her pardon, she just slid down like a lady. I ain’t fbdlin’, honest Injun, I ain’t.” Mi- “ What make'vis your elevator?” asked the curioWs passenger, who had become much ibterested. “Dunno,” said the boy, as he reached the groiind floor, “but there's only another onftiin town like this,” he continued, lying cheerfully from the force of habit.—Detroit Free Press. I t-

It is very important to understand the meaning of words when dealing with some peemje. An oil dealer sold Some winpir oil that was warranted to stand, the severest cold. Shortly afterward it froze stiff. The purchaser went, “tfo the vender with loud stand the coldMf, weather,”said he; “I didn’t tell you it would run.” This reminds Us’ of the farmer who did not care to 1 tell his inquisitive neighbor where he was riding so early in the morning, and when the question was put, he replied, “After my horse,” and drove off. Mr. Inquisitive saw the point of the joke after his neighbor was out of sight “Leaves ha Ve, their time to fall.” but the fool has ho time to come off. —Galveston News.

A Natural ltrldgo of Chalcedony. A mining export sent to investigate somo Arizona properties for Denver capitalists recently returned and reports the finding ol a most remarkable natural bridge formed by u tree of agatizod wood, apannlng a canyon for-ty-five feet in width. The tree had at some remote timo fallen, when it l>ecame imbedded in the silt of soino great inland sea or mighty water overhow. The silt became in time sandstone, and the wood gradually passod through the stages of mineralization, until it is now a wonderful tree of solid agate. In after years wator washed and ate away tno sandstone until a canyon forty-five feet in width has been formed, the flinty-like substance of the agatized wood having resisted the erosion of the wator flow. Upward of fifty feet of tho tree rests on one side and can be traced, but how far its other end lies buried in tho sandstone cannot bo determined without blasting away tho rock. The trunk visiblo above the cunyon varies in size from four feet to three in diameter. Where the bark lias been brokon and torn away the characteristic colors of jasper and agate are seen. To tho naked eye the wood is beautiful. Under a microsc opo or miner's magnifying glass tho brilliancy of the coloring is clearly brought out in its wondrous beauty.