People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — He Raised Prunes. [ARTICLE]

He Raised Prunes.

The man who owned a fruit ranch In California was stopping for several days at the boarding house and the landlady was excruciatingly polite to him. “Hugh!” sniffed the lady boarder with banged hair, "I guess she must be making love to him.” "Naw, she ain’t,” retorted the man boarder, with the red whiskers. "Why not? Just look at her. He can’t express a wish that she doesn’t fairly break her neck to gratify.” “That’s no sign of a duck’s neat,” Insisted the red whiskers. “I’d like to know what you call a sign, then?” and the lady boarder swished herself around in a pet. "You wouldn’t know if I told you,” grinned the red whiskers. “There’s a bond of sympathy you ain’t on to. He raises prunes for the eastern market.” —New York Recorder. Napoleon*! Would-Be AaMaaln. A tablet in memory of Felice Orsini, wfho tried to Wow up Napoleon in. with a bomb, has been placed on the house near Piacenza, in which he lay concealed from the police just before he made hie way to France.