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BIB-TICKLING TALES. -The Newest and Best Stories Told by Great Men. 'Good Contributed by Prwildent 1 Harrison, Vice President Morton, Grover Cleveland. Governor Kill and GcntTill PorUT. was nearly over one of the' lioi'lest of the yountfinpii nrose to toast Hrown.

The bitter stood up, all smiles, "but ho could not hoar a word that VIMS spokisn. fle only knew "it was about him tuaV tie toast was being- said. The young- scapegoat said: "Here is to you, you old raisor, Brown. You are no bettor than a mm or my mission, saying that my ancestors emigrated from about that spot a hundred years a and I was there tryhi" to look them up. Uo answered: 'Yc siiv your ancestors migrated from a hundred years a-o? Tliiu are ycz looking- for thiro BARREN PINE RIDGE.

1 The most novel symposium ever jointed is the following- collection of good stories told by famous Americans, stories that lose much in being read, instead of being lieard, but rib-ticklers nevertheless. The gentlemen who tell these stories, and convulse their hearers, iave many other stories that they tell first, and in case they do not cause the hilaiity expected, the speaker's reputation as a wit is staked on the stories an- -nexed. Each story, as told, is the best the gentleman's repertoire, as the saucy soubrette would put it, and they never fail to bring forth showers of laughter. HAP.KISOX TOLLS A I1OO STORY. President Harrison very seldom in- in a joke or story, unless he knows his hearers well.

One day, he his hearers by telling the fol- lowing story to illustrate a point: I There was a man who had a way of takin" his own advice and doing things to He was a hog-dealer and The Desolati. one season he drove a large number of hogs to Indianapolis, a distance of one hundred miles from his home, although ie was told he could get nearly as much for them at a town nearer. Arriving- at Indianapolis, he found that the price of had gone down. He kept them in the city nearly a month, and finally was offered a higher than he could get nearer home. He wanted a high pnoe, and declared he would drive the hogs "back home, which he did at a consider- able cost.

Then he sold them at home at a price very much less than that fered to. the city. One of his friends asked him why he had acted so unwisely- "I wanted to get even with them city log-buyers," he replied. "But did you get even?" "Well, they didn't get my hogs." "What, pray, did you get out of the -transaction?" A "Get! Why, bless your thick-skulled lead, l'got the society of the hogs back lome!" TICE PRESIDENT MORTON'S BULL STORY. Vice President Morton now and then perpetrates a joke or story by way of illustration upon bis listeners.

He knows it well by heart before he begins: Not far from where I live in the country there is a farmer noted for his fine, cattle. Durhams and Alderneys roam over his extensive lands, and people come from a long distance to view ids stock. But visitors have to be careful about walking around alone in the Clover fields on account of the number of ferocious bulls owned by the farmer. A certain major general, who was very Twoud of his title, visited a naighbor of the farmer, and one day he strolled -otrt and began to cut across the clover tramp and it is suspected that you make your money dishonestly. My wish is that you may get your just deserts yet and land in the penitentiary." The deaf Mr.

Brown smiled, raised his glass to his lips, and said: "The same to you." A GOOD OXE BY CLEVELAND. When Grover Cleveland was governor ho was fond of telling humorous stones to illustrate a point. It is said ne got off a good thing on a certain ex-assemblyman who dropped in to see him about the time newspapers were exposing the job in the contract for put- tin- in a new ceiling in the Albany capital. 'It appears that all during the davs of Boss Tweed this ex-assemblyman was in the lower house and fought against jobbery and against the "boss Mr. Cleveland was listening to the comments of the ex-assemblyman about the substitution of a papier- mache ceiling for an oaken one, when all at once, with a smile on his lace, he interrupted his visitor thusly: "What is the difference between the assembly now and when you were a member?" "We were ruled by a democratic boss and now by a republican boss," ventured the ex-member.

"Oh, no. When you were a member the fraud was on the floor; now it is in the ceiling," said Mr. Cleveland. GOV. HILL'S STORY OF TWO Gov.

Hill is a good story-teller. Two Englishmen who had been bosom Sy 1 fe 1 jttelds in order to save a little distance. be knew what was up, a big bull, and shaking his head, began to chase him. The general was a swift runner and he made good time in front of the pursuing animal. But the annual was swift, too, and every time the general would get near a fence the bull was too close for him to even attempt to climb over.

At last the general made a line for a gate near the farmer's house and reaching it in time shut off the bull from further pursuit. The farmer, it seems, was there and had witnessed the chase. sir, did you see your bull chasing me?" -y. Y-e-s," said the farmer, suppressing. that all you have to say? Do you kiow whom that bull was chasing: fe who I am, sir? I am Gen.

Blank." "Wall, why didn't you tell the bull that?" curtly retorted the farmer. IVAXAMAKEB'S REBUKE. Postmaster-General John Wanamaker given to illustrating his conversation pointed stories. Once ie rebutea ome of his Sunday-school boys for friends came to America. They met with poor success, drifted apart, and finally one took a position as waiter in a cheap restaurant.

He hadn't been there long before his friend appeared, at the dinner. The meeting was not over-joyful. "Why, old man, you down to a waiter, eh? Gracious, how you have fallen! And in a Bowery restaurant, too!" "Yes replied the waiter, turning on his friend, sarcastically, "hut I don't eat here, thank God!" SENATOR IXSALLS AND THE DKUJTKEN MAif. Senator Ingalls is prolific with apt anecdotes and stories. A man considerably intoxicated got into a street car and hung on to a strap.

There was enough room for him to sit down, but one gentleman had spread himself so as to occupy two seats. The man holding the strap said to him: my fren 1 would move." "You are drunk," answered the party on the seat, who refused to make room. "Iknow was the reply, get over it. hog, and'll over it." A TBiifP STOKT BY POBTER. Gen.

Horace Porter is a noted after- dinner speaker, and has a fund of anecdotes and humorous incidents. Here is one of his stories: "Lady to Boston now you want something to eat? "Boston lady, you are religiously correct in your surmise. you saw that wood? "Boston don't say that, lady, but put it in this way: 'Did you see'that Gen. Porter tells a good story about his going to Europe for the first time. "As soon as I landed in Ireland I attempted to look for traces of some oi or make sport of affliction.

I of a deaf man once who was dis- to be parsimonious. He was fond and a confirmed bache or. ban Brown, men the banauet my ancestors wncj came from the extreme north of Ireland. Meeting an intelligent-looking Irishman I informed vie of the Sioux Indians Diilcota. The Tine Ridge Reservation, the home and center of the recent Indian troubles, lies in an immense rolling of nearly four million acres in extent.

The surrounding country is smooth and undulating- as the sea, with nothing to arrest the eye but endless bare and barren moors. No fence, no tree, no house, no hill, no stream, nor any living thing except, sometimes, far off upon the plain, a herd -of Indian ponies, looking up with pointed ears and tossing mane, and wondering with indignation and dismay at the panting iron horse which, belching fire and smoke, traverses their primeval wastes. These ponies find a meager sustenance aloncr the dried-up river beds, or clip the blenched brown grass on the plains, where it. grew perhaps an-o in some rainy season. This un- mown hay is called "buffalo grass," and is said to have fine fattening quali- In some low-lying prairies the ground is almost swampy, and the grass long, sour, thin, hard like wire and void of nutrition.

In these bottoms there is a constant moisture, but no clear water. Among the tufts of reeds and knolls of wiry grass, droves of cattle may be sometimes seen searching for a palatable mouthful. On these boundless prairies around the reservation any horse, a man, a be seen in the clear air miles and miles away, like a ship far off at sea. The loneliness of these unfrequented plains exceeds the loneliness of the lone sea. I know nothing which impresses one so deeply with the vast and limitless extent of this mighty country like traveling over these interminable solitudes, or driving, reins in hand, as is often done, with the aid of a compass, sixty or seventy miles a day.

It must have been a savage instinct that led the Sioux to accept or choose, these arid plains for their retreat and final camping-grounds. The buffalo, elk and antelope have vanished from the scene, but settlers and passing trains might be robbed with ease, without any hope of timely aid. Within the reservation there are frequent deep and sudden gulches and dry river beds, sometimes with scrubby bushes of wild plum and cherry trees about the banks. Geologically. Dakota is considered the newest land' in North America, and, while it was still unformed, the great waves have gone rolling on and on, sometimes breaking into long, white, circular sandy ridges, with uneven, zigzag crests.

To-day, strange as it may seem, it is only on the sides of these low sandy ridges that any trees are to be seen. It is supposed these lands were once all overgrown with forests, but the prairie fires devoured all the trees on the plains, whilst the bare, broken sand on the ridges arrested the fires and preserved trees on the slopes. The dark, lonely pines, clinging to the heights, with' the white sunlight dancing all around, look very somber, like sentinels of the night, or the shadows of a former age. It is these straggling pines on the ridges that give the name to this reservation. The Bad Lands lie to the northwest of the Pine Ridge Reservation and extend about one hundred miles in length and fifty miles in breadth.

If there is a region on this earth given over to the fiends for their orgies and demoniac, ghostly dances, it is these notorious Bad Lands. Imagine here five thousand square miles of broken wilderness, black, barren, bare, devoid of any living thing, studded with innumerable weather-beaten crags, irregular, conical hillocks and rugged plateaus, abrupt edges of crumbling lava, precipitous canyons, steep gulches of slippery, springy clay, treacherous quagmires, weird and darksome glens, hollows, holes, chasms, dens where robber-bands could hide, defying attack, or, if spied, could turn a ridge, shoot unseen, scamper off and lie in wait again; no road, no path, no visible trail, hardly a green blade or level acre through all this twisting, ziz-zag, endless, labyrinthine maze. The biting winds drift the snows in winter into the ravines and hollows, gorging them full and leaving bare only the tops of the hillocks and pinnacles of crumbling clay, like desert islands, frozen in a sea of snow. Much of the soil of South Dakota is a peculiar, composition, called gumbo; it is a lead-colored compound of slue cla.y and sand. The name gumbo might be suitably derived from gum, for when moistened this soil, is as sticky and cohesive as gum, and clings to the wheels and horses' feet till every thing is clogged up and the wheels lonk as big as the wagon.

When dry the soil is hard and tough as hickory wood. A certain quantity of rain, but neither raore nor- less, at a certain time in spring and summer, but not sooner and not later, would perhaps produce the requisite amount of moisture to insure good crops. But the course of clouds and rain is seldom affected by the' exact requirements of the farmers of South Dakota, and the requisite quantity of -rain, at the proper period of the year, does not choose to fall more than once in every five or ten years. In the East we are accustomed to ascribe the origin of many, of our thunderstorms to Dakota and the Northwest, and rightly so. Almost every night out there it lightens all round the horizon, and the people Jive in perpetual hopes of rain and plenteous har But these Dak-At.

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