GOOD STORY OF A PAIR OF SOCKS.

Evening Post, Volume VIII, Issue 112, 13 June 1872, Page 2

GOOD STORY OF A PAIR OF SOCKS.

Quite a good story is going the I rounds of Sacramento on the subject jof socks. There are quite a number I of eccentric statesmen in Sacramento, i and among other eccentricities, it was firmly believed that one of these scorned. the idea of wearing clean socks. Ta elucidate ithis momentous | question was the desire of several fellow statesmen. So two grave and i reverend seignors came together and discussed the i question. The first, whom for brevity sake we will call Smith, affirmed that Jones (the statesman) did not - wear socks, while Brown declared that, having slept with Jones, he knew that he Avore socks. The xipshot was that a 20dol. piece was put up by Brown and Smith respectively, and deposited in the hands of one of the sergeants-at-arms. Now, Brown was in. doubt on the proposition, so he went to Jones and stated the issue. ** By George," replied Jones, " you're a goner. I don't wear socks." This caused the confident Brown to go down in his boots ; but quickly rallying, he said — "Well, now, I can't afford to lose that 20dol. Tell you what I'll do — I'll go in with you, and we'll divide the coin." Jones agreed, and the pair went up . on top of the dome, where - Brown threw off one boot and pulled off one sock. Jones pulled off a boot and encased his horny foot in the' sock, and both descended to the lower regions. Jones quietly went to Ms" desk, .and in an iustant was immersed in the interests of his constituents. Brown went to Smith and suggested that after adjournment Jones be interviewed on the'soek question. '- Smith agreed, and the sergeant-at-arms was chosen as z-efer-ee. After adjournment, the party Mcd themselves off to a committee room, and, innocent-like, Brown informed Jones of the terms of the wager, and Jones was requested to show a foot. Suddenly he cast an anxious look toward the smiling Brown and turned pale. He had forgotten*upon wMch>foot he had placed the sock I With, a well-feigned groan of anguish, lie trusted to luck, and presented the rigliti boot, which the sergeant-at-arms quickly pulled off, and, lo and behold ! there was nary sock upon it ! "The wrong foot, oy George," exclaimed the owner of the boot. Brown retired discomfited.

A Mosquito Story. — Captain Jon.es, of Stonington, is responsible for -the following : — On his passage from New; York, a few years ago, he observed one summer afternoon, a heavy cloud arise from the land, and, to hrs^greafc surprise, approach the yesseL Suddenly it broke near him, and* covered the decks* wibh millions of mosquitos, . -while part of the' flock went through the mainsail, leaving riotliing but the bolt-ropes hanging idly "to the spars. Corroborative evidence to this.,astonishing tale was found in the person of- a " do wn^east skipper," who heard the story, and who, on comparing dates with the narrator, declared that two days afterwards he was boarded by the same flock of mosquitos, and they ail wore cawc'cm breecftes. ~/\ A party hearing of a dog* after Hiandseer, wanted to know what he was after him for.