A Misunderstanding

Why it was done we cannot say, but puite a number of the streets of Austin nave been named after females. Such names as Emma, Laura, Isabella, stare at you in large letters, from almost every corner. The Austin people, or sorne of them, at least, have become tolerably familiar with Maria Jane, Susan, and the rest, but strangers are liable to become bewildered by this singular nomeclature. A gentleman from Dallas, who had only a few hours to spend in our city, wished to take a look at the new capitol, and not knowing where it was, he made ínquiry oí the nrst man ne met. "Can yon teil me how I can tínd the new temporary capítol?" "That's easy enough. You know where Emma street is ?" "I do not. I have no acquaintanee with any lady of that name. There is a family by that name in Dallas, but I am not acquainted with them. Does Emma Street live near the new capitol?" The Austin man stared at the stranger for a moment, and then pointing down Magnolia Avenue, he said : "Ion see where Maria comes into the avenue ?" The Dallas man looked in the direction pointed out, perceiving a fat old negro woman with a big basket on her arm, nodded his heaclin assent. "Well, you must take Maria until you get to the corner of Elizabeth, and unli. Peggy and Sarah come together, and then you will be all right." '■Look here, my friend, if you thinkl am that kind of a man because I come from Dallas, you are most confoundedly off. Iwant you to undcrstand that I am a gentleman." "You god-gasted idiot !" retorted the Austin man, "if 1 was as bad off for my empty skull and hiro a nigger to pour in ten oent's worth of cheap oleomargarine." The Dallas man shook his fist at the native, and said : "Fve always heard that the State Lunatic Asylum was too small to accommodate all the lunatics, but now I knowit," and he moved off towards Esmeralda, while the other party leaned up against the corner of Ann and Matilda, and glared after him as he disappeared in the direction of Mart ha. , - , - _.