Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-17
The Young Man With the wrinscr

One day about a week ago q slim-wasted
young man with clothes wringer under his
arm attempted to open the gate of a yard on
Cass avenue. He had made up his mind that he
could sell the people wringer, and he might
have accomplished his object but for q dog
about as big as a tobacco hogshead, which
chance to tackle some leg weary agent.
''I1l call again." whispered the agent as he
turned TO go, and he meant just what he said.
The presence OF one dog did not discourage him
except for the moment. He passed up street
and In an hour returned to try again. There
was no dog there as he opened the gate, but In
ten seconds after the latch clicked bundle OF
house and the agent shot across the road.
"Now you mark my words!' he said as he
UT Was a the a9 IN there
He meant 1t again, and in the afternoon he
returned. He surveyed the yard from every
point, had l reasons to conclude that the dog was
opened the gate. School children who were
watching say that the dog overshot the mark
by trying to swallow the agent and wringer at
such close shave that the young man went
around the corner minus his hat and one coat
tall He did not retn no to oss, t, na,aaHe
meat over the fence that night, and perhaps it
was soine young man who wanted to fall In
love with the good, looking GIL I IN the house.
meat, but there are proofs to the contrary. The
agent was on hand about nine O'Clock the next
%ong ana to his great Joy the
had done its work and he was free to announce
the merits Of bis wringer to the waiting family.
A boy sat on the fence saw the dogs eyes open
a little as the agent passed through the gate.
He saw the dog softly get upon his feet after
something like grin cross that CANNES face
as he got bis legs well under him, and then the
lad fell of his roost, and only scrambled up in
time to see shadow cross vacant lot, jump
ing clear over the tops Of old thistles and never
there TIL the dog had swallowed everything be-
forging to the wringer except one cog-wheel,
and that he buried alongside the fence to "keep'
Tor some future meal.-(Detroit Free Press.
GRRRLRY's FosTHUMoUs SoN-IN-LAw. - Mr..
Smith says that Queen Victoria said that he
was the handsomest American she had ever
seen. Mr.. Smith Is undoubtedly handsome
raap, and one cannot help being impressed at
first glance; more careful study of his face
betrays his weakness and detracts from his
beauty. He wears long hair, which looks as
though it had been made gray with pc WIDER,
and his face Is closely shaver. His dress is an
uque In cut; tight trousers, short-waisted,
pin-tail coat, fine plated shirt and old style
collar make him very picturesque In appear
apce. Your first thought on seeing him is that
he Is q ytolinist; this may be on account Of the
hear that he spent some ten minutes before the
glass In the gentlemen's dressing room to bring
about this disarrangement, you are glad that
musical art is relieved OF this burden. watched
him for q long time out In the lobby, where he
stood surrounded by bevy of admiring ladies'
| but he did not look at them, for his eyes never
left the mirrors that rejected his posings:
| and hope never to again. A friend OF mine
said to a gentleman to whom Mr.: Smith was a
perfect stranger, Don't you think that is q
him for some time; then he said, eyes, he is
handsome; but pity his wife, il he has one"-
Brunswick in Boston Saturday Gazette.
THE FAIR SEX In Gurnsey is not to be trifled