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Gave The Wrong Accent

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
March
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following good story is told by a gentleman who vouches for its truth. A breezy chap drifted into town some weeks ago trom .the far west, and for a ime held forth to a number of astonished " tenderfeet " who had gathered on an up-town street corner to hear extolled the wonderful, " wild and wooly west." As one came within sound of his voice ie was struck with the fact that the felow's early educational advantages had )een somewhat lirnited. It was soon ascertained, however, that he had a pile of " dust," and education don't count when "dust," in sufficient quantity, of he auriferous kind, prevails. It was soon gathered from his high lown language that he had " struck it ich " in the Cripple Creek country, and now had in view a project to connect his possessions by an electric car ine that was to revolutionize the mode of travel in that district. Our volatile hero had come back east o see his old home and at the same time o purchase the outfit for his road. After setting forth the brilliant prospecta his scheme possessed, in rhetoric that would put to blush a Chesterfield, and cause the author of Gov. Luce's Arbor Day proclamations to turn green with envy. He was firm in the belief that he was just the man to eoudnct such an enterprise. " Gentlemen," he said, as he threw back his big wolf-skin overcoat from his breast, and raised his sombrero, " I want to teil you that I have got a inon'o-po'-ly (with the accent on the first and penultimate syllables, as indicated), I have got a mon'-o-po'-ly of the huil line, and what's more, l've got the cap'-i-city' to run it - now you hear me !" That was enough. The one who tells this story says he turned away thinking about the girl who lost her lover and said that she weptco-pi'-ously. One of the popular candidates for state treasurer is ex-senator George A. Steele of St. Jotas. He is not only well fitted for the place by his business training but is fortúnate In Imiltng from a portion of thO state Which has been but little representeil among state officers. The election of saie republicana to the common councll this spring means a considerable help towards the election next fall, by ite eflect. In every ward let there te carefnl cholee oí honest men who have no axes to grind, and who will help beep down the taséis. Don't take up a man slmply because he -wants to run.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier