American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
Difficulty in Making Change.

THE experience of a slightly inebriated
street car conductor in making change is
thus detailed in the New York Sun:
A German woman soon signaled the
car, and the conductor sprung the bell.
With gravity he walked up to the woman
hand for her fare. The German woman
gave him three-cent piece and two pen
mics. The conductor put the three-cent
piece in his vest pocket, and dropped the
pennies in side pocket of his overcoat
Then turning to the lady he said:
81 want another cent, madame"
al gave you five cents" she replied.
"Ever since the Fourth Avenue Rail
road has existed the fare on this line has
been six CENTS" replied the conductor,
proudly.
"Wcn," answered the woman, "I
haven't got another cent" After some
hesitation she added, "Have you any
change ?"
az can change anything, madame, from
twenty-five cents up to an eleven dollar
BILL" said the conductor.
Thereupon the German lady handed him
fifty-cent stamp. He took the stamp
between his teeth, and counted out a
handful of pennies into the woman's lap.
She counted them very carefully, and then
looked up into his face.
Haven't you made a mistake ?" she
asked.
"Just hand the pennies back here, them"
the conductor said, holding out his double
hands,
The German woman took up her dress
with one hand, and ladlcd out the pennies
with the other. The conductor then
counted them over, and threw them back
into her lap, saying:
That's all right-fOrty-four cents, and
six for your fare is fifty. What's the mat
ter with you?"
Eyes" replied the woman, ''but 1
want five cents more"
mo, you DON'T" he replied. "The
fare is six cents, and you've got forty-four
cents in your lap. That's all right"
swell, give me back the five cents that
1 gave you before, then" said the woman,
with touch of asperity
This APPARENTLY dumbfounded the con-
ductor. He remembered that the woman
had given him five cents, but the thing
had become so intricate, he seemed at a
loss to know how to straighten it out.
81 gave you three-cent piece and two
cents" the woman said
The conductor nodded, but rubbed his
head as though endeavoring to compre-
bend and unravel the whole monetary
mystery. His face bore a troubled ex
preston. Finally, he got it.
"Well," he said at ilast, give me back
those pennies"
The woman scooped them into his
hands, and he dropped them into his
pocket. He then fished up the fifty cent
stamp and passed it to her, with the
words, "There, madame, there's your
fifty cents" In another second he took a
three-cent piece from his vest pocket,
saying &C And there's your three-cent
piece" and in five seconds more" There's
your two pennies. I don't know whether
they're the two identical pennies you
gave me or not, but 1 guess they'll do"
BY this time the troubled expression had
left his countenance. Richard was him
self again.
Addressing the astonished woman with
great dignity, the conductor said "Now
well begin over again. Your fare,
madame, with his'hands on his hips.
The lady laughed, and again rendered
him the fifty-cent stamp. He pocketed
it. with the remark, 4" As counting specie
seems to bother you, madame, I'll give
you our change in stamps" which he