The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-02-07
.or QUITE CRUSHED.

When one hears himself abused "behind
his back, by strangers in the same CON-
pany, ii is quite as well not to reveal himself
The takers may be of the kind too thick
skinned to feel embarrased--in which case
the original subject gets the worst of it, after
all: A Chicago paper relates this anecdote
of the late Senator Chandler:
Ons day in 1864, Senator Zach Chandler
was passenger on the train from 0wosso
TO Lansing, and strangely enough, no one
in the car had any idea of his identity. Two
men had the scat behind him, and from
talking of war, they drifted into politics
md naturally enough Chambers narle be-
came mixed up. Both men were dead
against him, and directly one of them oh
served, =
IT'S wonder to me that some one
doesn't shoot the old blood letter"
Oh, he'll get his dose yet aud don't yoa
forget t!o replied the other.
The Senator turned slowly around, took
good look at both. and then said,
Gentlemen, please speak little lower
avn Senator Chandler myself"
lie thought he had them frozen solid, but
ae was mistaken He had scarcely turned
his head when one of them leane7 forward
and replied
"That's all right, pard, if you can beat
the conductor with it but don't try to stuff
us. We met the old chap back in 0wosse
not an hour ago, waiting to go east, and ii
cost me twenty-five dollars in cash and .
silver watch to stop fuss with him You'll
have to try something new
AN OLb SroRY WITH NEW FAoE.--Mt
fsaacs and Mr. Blumenthal, We nre told
kept rival clothing sores on the Bowery,
within n few doors of each other. NJ.
Isaacs was always TO Be found with his head
out of the door, solici ing custom from the
verdant passer-by. Mr. Blumenthal oh
jected to this shoddy way Of doing business,
having found that the watchful Isaacs had
captured several of his customers, and one
day he went up to Isaaes and said. "Look
here Mr.. Isaacs, w don't yon keep your
ugly face inside? You might peter get n
jack to stand Ply de door. He would be
pig improvement "Vy,n said Isaacs, ~
lid try dot vonce, and all dc people as dey
pass Ply say TO him: Good day, Mr..
Blumenthal I sec you've moved Jer.
seq City journal.
CuA,IoUs SoRT OF MULE The other
day two divisions of circus train on III
Louisville and Nashville Road collided ana
smashed several cages. A camel finding
himself free, ran away Search for the ami.
NAL was made after the tigers were secured,
and after going about ten miles, the cireus
man found farmer trying to work the
camel to the plow 81 thought he was
curious sort Of mule, said the farmer,
"and noticed that the back band wonldu':
stay in the right place, but logged if
knowed he was a show camel ~ AfkanSan
Iraoeler.
CoMMoS COMPARISON. "A man tells YOU
that he has been working all day like dog,
when you know and he knows that n dog
doesn't work at all. He tells you that the
sky last evening was black as ink, leaving
your mind in state of uncertainty whether
The sky was blue Or red, either Of which il
might have been according to his simie.
Then he tells you that So.and-so is as mad
as halter as though matters were more
prone to anger than the average human =
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iiILt SYf Was Nor To BLAME William
Ne remerks 10 an inqniring subscriber
: We were not Publishing the boomerang
during the Mexican war. We would have
done SO II we had been born, but wo were
not This was no fault of ours II was an
unavoidable delay for which we are not re.
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