YANKEE NOTIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 43, 23 February 1894, Page 11

YANKEE NOTIONS .

It was at the baggage-rooms in the Fort street depot, says the Detroit Free Fress, The woman had lost the check for ber trunk, and as is usual in such cases where no suspicion is entertained she was asked to identify her baggage. " Oh, I can pick that trunk out of a thousand. It was a zinccovered trunk with a strap around it, and it bad a big W for White on each end. It was a trunk my sister bought in Cincinnati and paid sir dollars for, and after she got crippled up with rheumatism and couldn't get out any more she sold it to me for two dollars. Thare it is now 1 I'd swear to t'lat trunk in Africa ! " " But about the contents, ma'am. You have tbe key ? "' "Of course I have. I bad this key made in Buffalo lait week. I lost the other key about a year a^o, and always believed that Mrs Robinson's baby swallowed it while I was there visiting. Tbe poor thing had crampß for three months after I left, and sbe wrote me the other day that she never expected it would be a healthy child again." " Describe the contents," said the officer, as he palled the tronk down. "Well, let me Bee. We'll begin with the till first, There's my bonnet in the bonnet-box ; I paid seven dollars for it in Buffalo last year, and had over two dollars worth of trimmings put on last week. I don't know as I shall want to wear it once while here, bat I thought I'd better bring it along. 1 was never quite satisfied with that bon* net, but I suppose " " What else ? " interrupted the man . " There's a black fan which cost me ninety-nine cents. I got it at a sale, and everybody says it was a bargain. My sister Emily was with me the day I bought it, and she could awear to it if necessary. She advised me to get a white fan, but I prefer " " I don't care about the particulars, ma'am,*' "Oh I yon don't ? Well, there's a black shawl in there which used to belong to my Aunt Eunice. She had it for ten years before she died, and then it fell to my mother. Let's see. That shawl most have been in oar family for — for " " Go on, ma'am." " Then there's my black Bilk dress. I paid $1,50 a yard for it in Buffalo, but I got cheated. I hadn't worn it but twice when the silk cracked and creased all up. I went back and told the clerk of it, but he wouldn't do anything about it. Next time I buy a silk dress I propose " " Never mind about the dress." " The waist was beaded.' " I don't care about that " " Well, let's see. Oh yes I on the bottom of the trunk are foor sheets I was bringing to my sister. I made and bleached 'em myself. She's got four boyp, and the way tbey do kick the sheets out is some* thing awful. I don't suppose I could have brought her anything the would—-" " What else 1 " " There's a pair of gray pants on top the sheets — an old pair belonging to my husband. They are worn a little tbin on the knees, but they will do to cat over for one of the boys. I've brought up three boys myself and I know bow awful they are on pants. Sometimes it wouldn't be four weeks before " "You can bave tbe trunk I " blunly replied tbe baggageman. " But there's a lot more things to mention yet. There's three pairs of new "Take it away I " " And 1 forgot to tell you that there are " " If you want your trunk, here it is ! " " Well, I'll have a mau take it away. I lost my check and I wanted to satisfy you that it was my trunk. If you'd give me time I'd tell you about the black coat with a fur collar, and tbe two pairs of suspenders for the boys, and " The bageagemaster walked off, and after waiting around two or three minutes with a disappointed and dejected look, she sorrowfully told the expressman to carry the trunk to his wagon.

First Yalesian — Did you break the news to poor Jack's father and mother gently 1 Second Yaleeian— Yea ; gent 'em two telegrams, you know. Fir#t read : •' Jack killed in game " ; and second : •' Princeton wins." — Life

Our Catholic contemporary, the Oennania, s»a»es tbst the Gtiman Emperor, recently addressing recruits, said, " I want Christian soldiers who Ray their Lord's Prayer. The soldier has not to have a will of his own. You must have but one will, and that my will ; one law, aod that my law," A London correspondent says a rumour has b<>en circulated " from a Roman Catholic source" to the effect that Mr Tom Maon, having decided not to join the Church of England, contemplates becoming a priest of the Church of Roma. The source was evidently not very reliable. Mr Mana must become a Catholic before b* beoomei a candidate foe the Catholic priesthood.,