The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-15
On Ice.

"Why, bless me, my friend, - said the
proprietor Of an ice cream restaurant,
IL don't know which to be the most
thankful for-the cold weather, which
makes ice, or the warm weather, which
makes people eat il. In the uucomfort-
able feeling DAYS Of winter button up
my oyercoat with the philosophical
thought that this atmosphere is LAYING
up my summer stock in trade. And to-
DAY cast aside my collar and vest with
the grateful feeling that nature again is
working in my behalf, 50 that the hotter
ii is the better like it, aud the colder
it is in the proper season why, then,
the better like that.
Say, mister. gimme me 4 cents
worth Of ice will ycr?N and n barefoot
ed, coatIess urchin peered anXiously
into the face of the stalwart iceman.
what do you want Of a cents worth
Of ice, my little mau?'
"Wcll, doncher see, mister, nanny
she's gone away, an me an Tim an
another girl, we're left to home, an we
want ter make some ice cream an frozen
pudden, yer know; but yer don't want
ter give il away, now. -
well, well, said the iceman, laugh
ing, I'm afraid one cent worth of ice
wouldn't be enough for all that, would
it?"
II dunno, sir; but we hain't got no
more n one cent-'nlesS you trust us fer
'nuthcr.'
"I'll see to that. There, how will
that do you?' said the iceman, as he
Clipped off several small pieces and put
them into the eager bands Of the young
customer and his interested compan-
ions.
The most curious use has been in
vented by Frenchmau who publishes
receipt for cooking ice. No one has
ever declared how nice an article of food
it makes, but certain it is that the feat
of frying it in flour batter can be done
successfully, the operation being per-
formed 50 quickly that the ice has no
time to melt.
"Oil tell We phat it is, me jewel, said
the bartender, "oice is an indispensable
luxury to sufferin' humanity. 1t is
a luxury phat mankoind can't get along
widout IT, Mond yez, its not the
whusky the paple wants in summertime,
but jooSt q shmell at the dice, bedad.
The dice comboined wild de beautiful hot
wither indooces the public at large to
come to my illigant quartersfor refrish-
mint, an therefore, says OF, OF bliss that
man thot first invintal oice ~
"lce!' exclaimed the man who draws
soda for the thirsty multitude which
traverSes an important thoroughfare of
our city; II don't know what you fell
lows would do if it wasn't for the trick
water has of getting solid in cold wealth
er. This living in hot city in summer
would sort of lose its point if it wasn't
for ice. It's queer to think of it, Here
at noon time there is such q crowd
about this counter that YOU can't see
across the place, and the higher the the
mOmcter runs the lower runs the soda
tank; and it's all owing to the simple
fact that nature allows us to bottle up n
little of her cold weather and save it
over to bring down the temperature q
little in the hot months. That may
sound little philosophical for a soda
water man, but that's what I've been
thinking of as I've stood here, washing
out glasses for the next lot How much
of II business do the firm do? Oh, there's
one soda fountain in town which it takes
100 pounds of ice every day to feed
during the hottest weather. - Boston
GlObC