The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-10-27
WHAT THEY TAKE.

WHAT THEY TAKE.
Most of the excursionists from thein-
terror bring up in candy store, sooner
or later, after reaching the city, and the
variety of tastes manifested by their in
quirieS astonishes the confectionerS. A
girl with great many pink ribbons on
leaned over the counter the other day
and gently asked
'"Ave you hany big sticks hof candy
scented hup with hotter hof roses p
He hadn't and after expressing her
deep disappointment she bought licorice
and was made comparatively happy. A
young man, who had left his girl on the
corner, brusquely inquired:
''Got any hunks at cent hunk p
The confectioner didn't deal in hunks
and the customer continued
"Well, gimme suthin' that will stick
to the teeth and chew up slow. I'm
little short to-day, an I've got to chaw
straws while Mary chaws candy"
The third one was a woman about
forty, wearing beau-catchers and trying
to look like a girl of eighteen. She
smiled and smirked and whispered:
''Have you any Of these little long,
fiat pieces of candy with red printing on
them ?"
He had.
':And can | select out such as want
such as a young lady of the respecta-
blest character might venture to pass to
to the object of her affections p
She was given the opportunity, and the
confectioner turned to wait on an old
couple about sixty years old.
eve II take some peppermint candy,
observed the husband.
eYou mean we Il take some saSSyfras,
the wife protested.
81 know what we want, l guess, and |
say we'll take peppermint. "
"And / say sassyfras.
"And / say pep!'
"And l say sass !"
They went out without taking either,
and a block further down the street they
compromised on a California pear and
pint of peanuts. tS.-Detr0tf Free Press.
How HE STARTLED HER.-A whoop-
bang sort of boy, says the Detroit
Free Press, with feet as broad and fiat
as pie tin, trotted through the Central
Market till he reached stall kept by
single woman about 80 years old. Halt
ing there he yelled out:
"Say say Your little boy has been
run over and killed, up by the City
Hall ~
"Uh oh Heavens oh! OH"
she screamed as she made dive under
the counter, came up on the outside,
and started to follow the boy. After
going ten feet she halted, 4oeked-very
foolish all of sudden, and remarked:
"What goose l am (! Why, amt
even married !"
R0r"Is he good doctor?" asked
one gentleman of another, speaking ofan
acquaintance.
"Well, people call him so, replied
the other; "but as far as my experience
goes, if was patriotic man, and there
was going to be long war, l should like
him to have charge of the enemy's
wounded"
R9r"Far be it from us to doubt the
word of brother editor" says the
La Crosse Sun. "We believe all to be
truthful men but, when the Durand
Times says that the water is so low at
the mouth of the Chippewa river that
catfish have to employ mud turtles to tow
then over the bar, we feel as though the
editors must be away, and some local
minister filling his place.
Here lies John Shaw,
Attorney-at-law
And when he died
The devil cried,
"Give us your paw,
John Shaw, ar
Attorney-at-law"
b6g~A wit being told that an old ac-
quaintance was married, exclaimed, 81
am glad to hear it. But rejecting a
moment, he added, in a tone of COM
passion and forgiveness, "And yet 1
don't know why l should be; he never