A Misunderstanding

Texas Siltings. Why it was dono we cannot say, but puite .a nuraber of the streets of Austin havo been named after females. Such namcs as Emma, Laura, Isabella, stare at yon in large letters, from almost every corner. The Austin people, or soine of them, at least, havo bocomo tolerably familiar with Maria Jane, Susan, and tho rest, but strangers are Hable to become bowilderod by this singular nonieclature. A gentleman from Dallas, who had only a few hours to spend in our city, vvished to tako a look at the new capítol, and nol knowing where it was, he made inquiry of tho flrstman hemet. "Can yon teil me how I can find the new capítol P" "That's easy c..o.,„h. Yon know where Kmma strect is ? ' "I do not. I have no aequaintance with any lady of that name. There is a family by that name in Dallas, but I ara not aequaintod with them. Does Emma Street live near the new capítol?" The Austin man stared at the stranger lor a moment, and then pointing down Magnolia Avenue, he said : "You see where Maria comes into the Avenue ?" , , The Dallas man looked in the direction pointed out, perceiving a fat oíd negro woman with a big basket on hor arm, nodded his head in assent. "Well. you must take Maria until you get to the corner of Elizabeth, and until l'eggy and Sarah come together, and then you will bc all right." 'Look here, my friend, if 30U think I am that kind of a man becauso I come from Dallas, you are most confoumledly off. Iwant you to understand that Í am a gentleman.'" "You god-gasted idiot !" retorted the Austin man, "if I was as bad off for brains as you are, I would bore a hole in my empty skull and hire a nigger to pour in ten cent's worth of cheap oleomargarine." The Dallas man shook his fist at the native, and said : "I've always heard that the State Lunatic Asylum was too small lo accommodate all the lunática, but now I knowit," and he moved oíT towards Esmeralda, while the otlier party leaned up against the corner of Ann and Matilda, and glared after him as he disappeared in the direclion of Martha.'