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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1981, 11 May 1875, Page 4

Aching poe a How.—-One day, as a policeman was leaning against the walls of the Detroit and Milwaukee depdt,.he was approached by a man about 30 years old, whose red face was a good match for Ms hair. He was a little •♦ sprung," and he felt like a steer turned into a cloverfield. " Mister," says he, speaking very confidentially to the officer, " I dcn't want to get locked up, and have my name in the papers and be fined; but I'm in from lowa on a little blow-out, and I'll give a 10-dollar note to have a little scrimmage with somebody." " You mean you want to fight?" asked the officer. "That's what I' mean. I'm just aching for a row. I want to stand before about three good fellows, and have someone give me jp^the word go in." The officer asked if he, was hei^.pn tb^fight, and. ho answered, « Heavy" 1.1- fihouWv say.-JSwm i -, W.hy, I'm terrible I-' They call me the \Rfisaian; Bear at home; and the hull town stand up, or sit down, just as I say 1" The officer said that it was his duty to discourage disorderly conduct, but in a case like that, ■where a man had come 120 miles to get up a row, he felt it his duty to extend indirect aid. He told' the Russian Bear to go to the corner of Beaubien-street, enlerlsomel saloon, talk iiva very loud voice, and he'd soon have his hands full. " That's me; much obliged," exclaimed the man, and he walked off. • In about 10 minutes a boy came running down, and said that a man with a chewed ear, two black eyes and a broken cose, was "up thertu" in the ditch. Tho officer went back with the boy, and he soon came upon the Eussian Bear, who was lying in the gutter, one leg doubled back, blood all over him, and his coat ripped in every seam. "That's you, is it?" asked the officer, as ho pulled at the man's arm. . «Well, did you find . that row P" "Policeman," replied the man, as he 1 gained his feet, and looked at himself, and felt for his ear, "Policeman, don't it seem to you as if I did ?"—Detroit What the Civil Seevice Wants.— Less of Playfair and more of fair play. • A builder, when returning thanks to those who drank his health, modestly observed that he was -" more fitted for the scaffold than public speaking." Con. —What is the difference between fixed stara and shooting stars ?—The first are ". suni/' the second " darters."