Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — She Was Chasing the Cow. [ARTICLE]

She Was Chasing the Cow.

Among the women who would scoru being called “the new woman,” there are fine specimens of most advanced and energetic ability. A family not ten miles from the Louisville postoffice owus a very valuable and highly* cherished cow. She spends her days in a choice country pasture lot provided by the friends who love her, and her nights in a luxurious barn attached to the city residence. The other evening the news was brought that Beauty was missing; she had escaped from her bluegrass boudoir aud had gone for a stroll. The family was perturbed, scouts were sent in all directlons*to fiud the stray pet Beauty, but with no results. The next night came, and still no cow had been found. After the family had retired the lady of the house was aroused from troubled slumbers by the mooing of Beauty echoing on the mooulit, midnight, summer air. She feared by the time she awakened her husband the cow would have flown again, so she jumped iuto her slippers, threw a petticoat over her nightdresp, aud scampered noiselessly down to the barn, just in time to see the discouraged animal turning out of the alley to go down the street. There was no time for delicate reluctance to be felt. The lady lu white flew out the back gate, sped a square after the flying cow, caught her and led her back to the barn in triumphant joy. As the dame once more climbed Into her bed, the husband awoke to exclaim: “Mary, where on earth have you been V” , And Mary blithely replied: “Chasing the cow down on Blank street.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. One of the cleverest Inventions ever passed by the patent office is the machine for sticking cdtumon plus in the papers In which they are sold. The contrivance brings up the pins in rows, draws the paper in position, crimps it In two lines, then at a single push passes the pins through the paper and sets them in position.