Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-10
IN Irishnaan in the Telegraph Office


"An' is this Houses telegraph asked
a Hibernian, the other day, as he entered
the office in Boston On being informed
it was, a dialogue ensued, of which the
following is a verbatim report:
Pat-ls Misther House in!
| Clerk No. I attend to the business
here.
Pat-och, ye do! Well, can ye send
to my brother Mick, in New York?
Clerk-4es. Have you your message,
written:
Pat-O bother! Divil need of sivin'
Mick missage in writin', at all, at all
Just give him this five dollar bill, sire.
for to help pay the fine the blackguards
put upon him.
Clerk--But we can't send your money
by telegraph. Money must 90 bv mail.
Pat-Shure what nd go buy male
for: An isn't it three pecks of illisant
( male | have in the house already
Clcrk-No. You don't understand.
mean by post.
Pat-Post is it? In letthere An We
can't send it by the telegraph?
Clerk-No. All we can do is, if YOU
have message we can send that That
is, we can charge the wire with electricity.
ana make it write in New York whatever
you wish.
Pat-Make it write, is it. Well, now,
bedad, that's the thing entirely. Just
make it right with Mick, an here's the
five dollars, avick!
Clerk Slightly veScd)-We can do
nothing of the sort! mean we can write
print the words you want to say to your
brother in New York.
Pat Scratching his head with puzzled
air)-If We can do that jest be after dis
coorsin' wild him as soon as We like.
Clerk-But you must write the message
you wish to send, upon this bit of paper.
Pat-Och! bad luck toit haven't the
grit O writin' at all sure
(Here the clerk arranges his papers,
and prepares to write the message for Pat
himself)
Clerk-What's your brothers name2
Pat--Mlck.
Clerk--And what is his other name?
Pat-Same as me own. Sure we're
brothers,
Clerk knew that But what IS he
called.
Pat-What is he called? O. Well, in
| the ovid country they called him
Shilleah Mick" bekase of the mighty
| fine taste he had a swingin' that bit of
twing; and many's the sconce he cracked
like an ovid taypot, when
Clerk (eXasperated)-I don't care what
they call HIM in Ireland. Give me his
other name. 1t is mick what:
Pat-Och, botheration, no. Mick Watt
| is my cousin, as lives in the County
Kerry, and been dead these five years
heaven rest his sowl,
Clerk-Confouna it. Can't you tell me
your brothers other name He has one
besides Michael, hasn't he?
Pat-O yes Shure why didn't yc tell
me that's what we wanted before-for
faith, as sure's my name is Pat Finnegan,
We should have been towld the family
name of my ancestors, begorra.
Clerk-Ah! Finnegans the name
Pat-No, jewel-Mick Finnegan Div
il an R. Finnegan is there in the family,
savin' Rory. He has listed for soger.
Clerk proceeded to write message to
"Mick," as dictated by Pat after which
he counts the words in the dispatch,
and says: Here are eighteen words
The first ten will cost you forty cents, and
the others twenty -four, making sixty -four
in all'
Pat o brother the first tin words,--
shure Mick'll never miss em Send the
last.
Clerk We can't do that. You must
paw forty cents at any rate.
Pat -Sorra bit can do that. Shure
ye may tell Mick that the r'ason of his
gittin' no message from me, was OWN to
the occasion of the money it cost an ?
that'll explain the rason of his not hearin'
from me at all.
Exit Pat, matchmaking the ,'dhirty
wire machine Of telegraph and followed
by not over friendly ejaculation from
the clerk in attendance