The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-12-03

Is q mad wag, but very regular-tbat is, he rotres
about and gets up about II. lie viii borrow nve
doars from You with mpunty and he secs all that
going on about town. lie is generally short and
terrideS the maiden lady daily with some horrible
story OF outrage. Atone time, when ho heard she was
worth sixty thousand and know she had bad cough,
he was very sweet on the widow, but ho gradually
broke on whom her cough won't away, and he learned
she had three or four thousand only Hc rs generally
thirty or forty dollars In debt to the kind young man.
and he gets up touching letters TO the loud young
fellow mlserly daddy at the loud young fellow re-
quest Informing him that his son Is In serious trouble
which can only be rlghtcd with thirty forty dollars
and when the remittance comes, they have '' good
tlme.N lio keeps the old bachelor Ia hot water all
the while by often telling him that very extensive re-
ductons are to he made In his ONCE in tho course Of
month on two, as he learned In confidential interview
with the head OF his Department lilo sat up one night
to nurse the medicinc-tater when he had bad turn
and gave him twelve OUNCES Of castor oil instead of a
tablespoonful, rs the physician directed and then
went to Baltimore to stay until the crisis was over
He once gave two ncc little boys, on Fourth OF
july nickel and pack OF nrc-crackers and advised
them not to touch them of under physicians horse
standing at the curbstono and after the animal had
run mile and crippled two or three citizens, and
distributed the carriage three four blocks and
the police came around to inquire into It, he borrowed
avalisc packed it In great haste ard went out tho
back gate, up Into Montgomery County, to visit his
aunt who had been taken suddenly ill., lie goes to
Alexandria every and then, aud writes very gush-
Ing notes, In feminine hand, TO tho bachelor signs
them MARY and sends them unsealed through the
post ofllcc, aud the widow and the maiden lady read
them by stealth, and all this much gossip In the
house. Aud one Sunday when everybody happened
to be out of the house but himself he went into the
cellar and took big crock OF eggs some five or six
dozen, aud boiled them hard brick bats then he
replaced them carefully. and when In the course of
day or two our landlady found her eggs all cooked
she went down to the store and had a little
circus with the grocer, which ended with great deal
OF bad feeling all round Why, he once very slyly
put brown soap In the medcine- taker's sandwiches
but he ate them at his once at nOon concluded ho was
bilious, as he had bad tastes hone took forty
grains OF blue-mass, went to bed, and was sick for
week. At another time when the maiden lady re-
quesed the use Of the pnrlor the evening" Us some
friends were coming to spend three four hours and
she had bought cream-puTs and quite little set -out
to treat them, this scamp turned the damper In the
Latrobe. hed the parlor with coal-gas aud emptled
the room In about three minutes
But. take 1t for all In all. boarding house Is as
comfortable as they generally are and the people are
as pleasant as so many people under roof can well
be. soutn