A DISPUTE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2986, 20 January 1881, Page 4

A DISPUTE.

One of the sanitary police was tbe other day, wondering over a boxful of rubbish in an alley off Seventh-street, when he heard oaths and yells and the sound of conflict in a house near by. As he entered the yard, a man and woman burst open the side door and rolled down the steps in a heap, kicking and clawing with a right good will. " What is the trouble here?" asked the officer, as he pulled them apart. " There, I'm glad you happened along," exclaimed the man, as he jumped up. " The old woman and me have had a dispute for the last ten or fifteen years as to when Christopher Columbus discovered America. Maybe you know ?" ': It was in 1492," replied the officer. " Just what I said —just the date I had P" cried the husband, as he danced around. " Now then, old woman, will you give up ?" "Never!"

"You wont?"

" I said 1490, and I had your neck across the edge of the step ! We agreed not to bite nor scratch, and I prefer to renew the conflict rather than take a stranger's figures! Tome in the house !"

The officer waited at the gate until he heard two chairs smashed down and a dozen yells, and he resumed his rounds with a growing conviction that Columbus would ultimately be two years ahead in that house. —Detroit Freo Press.