The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-07-30
ASSORTED ICE CREAM.
Quaint Questions That Agstatoo
Various Dainty Customers.
from the Detroit Free Press.l

| tETOIu tue OctIOit AiOO AANO'i
He slipped into an ice cream saloon
very softly, and when the girl asked
him what he wanted. he replied:
" Com beef, flied potatoes, pickles,
and mlnce pie.
This is not restaurant; this is an
ice cream purlor," she said.
Then why did yon ask me what
l wanted?" Why didn't you bring on
your ice cream" She went after 1t,
and as she returned he coutinued:
You see my dear glrl, you must In
| fer--you must reason. 1t isn't liRey
that would come into an Ice ere. 10
parlor to buy IA grindstone Is II! lou
didn't think l came here to ask you II
you had any baled buy did your
She looked ut HIM III great SURF rise
as he went on.
If owned hardware store and
you came in, l would infer that you
wanted something in my line. L
wouldn't step out aud ask yon II you
wanted to buy mule, would II
She went away highly indignant.
An old lady was devourlng n dish OF
cream at the next table. and the stran-
ger, after watching her moment called
oL:
4" My dear woman, have you found
any hairs or buttons In your dlshF
" Mercy! no." she exclaimed as she
wheeled around and dropped her spoon.
Well, I'm glad of he continued.
Ii you find any, just let me
know"
She looked at him for half a minute.
picked up her spoon, laid 1t down
again, and then rose up and LETT the
| room She must have said something
to the proprietor, for he came running
in, and exclaimed:
" Did you tell that woman that there
were hairs and buttons in my ice
| cream?"
- No sir -
Z" You didnt?"
{" No sir, did not; merely request
ed her, in case she found any such III
gradients, to inform me!'
Well that was a mean trick.
NV dear SIR" said the stranger,
smiling softly, " did you expect NE
to ask the woman if she had found "a
crow bar or sledge hammer in her
cream? 1t is impossible, sir, for such
articles to be hidden away III such small
dishes"
The proprietor went away, growing,
and az the stranger quietly slipped away
at his cream, two young ladies came III,
sat down uear him, and ordered cream
and cakes. He waited until they had
eaten little. and then remarked:
BEG pardon, ladies, but do you OBJ
serve anything peculiar in the taste of
this cream"
They tasted, smacked their lips, and
were not certai0.
Does it taste to you as if plug of
tobacco had fallen into the freezer?"
he asked.
"Ah! kah~ they exclaimed, drop
ping their spoons and trying to spit ont
what they had eaten. Both rushed out,
and it wasn't long before the proprie-
tor rushed in.
"See here, what in blazes are yon
talking about?" he demanded. What
do yon mean by plug tobacco in the
freeZer?'
my kind friend, asked the ladies
if this cream tasted Of plug tobacco. |
don't taste any such taste, aud l don't
believe you used bit OF tobacco in itr'
Well, You don't want To talk that
way around here!" continued the pro-
prietor. MY ice cream il pure, and
the man who says it isn't tells "A bold
lier'
He went away again and woman
with a long neck and sad face sat
down aud said to the girl that she would
take small dish of lemon ice.
1t was brought. and she had taken
about two moutbfulls when the stran-
ger inqnilel |:
Excuse me. madam, but do You
know how this cream was made
Have you an idea that they grated tur-
nip and chalk in with the cream 2"
She didn't reply. She slowly rose
mp, wheeled around. and made for the
door. The stranger followed after, and
by great good luck his coat tails clear
I'd the door an instant too soon 10 be
struck by a fve-pound box of figs,
hurled with great force by the indig-
nant proprietor. As he reached the
curbstone he halted. looked ut the
door of the parlor, and soliloquized
There are times when people
should infer. and there are times when
they shouldn't. suppose if I had
asked that woman if she thought they
hasbed up sawmill in the cream, she
would have felt circular saw going
down her throat.