Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-27
THE TOPICAL TALKER.


A Fair shopper Procures a ForEery-Prince-
ton and Harvnrd-An Ideal Football
CnptaIn-Tales Of Two Tots.
TT was in a Fifth avenue drygoods store on
New Years Eve that the following dia.
logue took place between lady. who was buy.
ing presents for her masculine friends. and q
polite young salesman behind the counter:
Polite Young Salesman-Can show you
anything elses
Fair Shopper-No. think not-but-but il
there o price mark on that silk tie, the blue
and black one?
Ply. 6.-Yes. MN; Tn rub 1t of if you wish.
He tries, but the letters viii not disappear.
Then bright idea strikes him.
p. Y. ST. can add letter TO the mark and
change it to a dollar seventy-fve.
Fair shopper-That's delightful-thank you
SO much
The man who got blue and-black tie among
his Christmas presents knows now that Ara
minta spent rs cents, instead of dollar sew
entY-1ve ON him.
PRMcEToN men feel very bitterly towards
Harvard, and they have good reason to.
The explanations and apologies made for Har-
wards extraordinary back down in the matter
of the inter-university football matches in the
future cannot alter the fact that Harvard has
done the same thing before, when Columbia
College beat her on the water. for instance, and
she graYely announced that she should notplay
with any one but Yale thereafter. 1t looks
awfully like a clear case of funk, and to judge
from the tone of the Princetonians at home
here for the holidays, Harvard is not likely to
be allowed to forget it for many day.
A Princeton man tells me by the way that
the football championship will attract about
hundred more men than usual to the college
next term. The college is already overcrowded,
and more than 200 men have to find lodgings
about the town. DR.. Patton's administration
is very popular, and the outlook for the old in
stitutiOn in New Jersey is very bright.
NATURALLY one is curious to know what
manner of man the captain of Princeton's
invincible football team is, and the more SO be-
cause he bears the historic name OF Edgar
Allen Poe. He is nephew of the poet and his
family is one of the most highly respected in
Baltimore,
The young football leader was described to
me the other day as beng thick-ser, muscu-
lar fellow, rather below than above the aver
age athletic student; smooth shaven, save a
slight moustache, and of gentle, pleasant man.
ners He is not one of your rip snorting
swashbucklers, but student of quiet ways
and religious tendency. Everybody likes him.
ard the general opinion among MS couege COM
panions is that he will make his mark in the
world. If he were to grow beard his re-
semblance in face to his poet uncle would be
remarkable, they say.
a CHnD's reasoning is sometimes far more
strict than grown-up persons.
The other day little girl, who lives on the
Hill, said to her mother: Cant that man see
out Of his eyesf'
The child referred to Colonel Brown, the col
ored man who has long asked aims outside the
Pittsburg Bank, on Fourth avenue. She had
seen him from window Of her mothers house,
making his way every evening to his home up
an alley. This prompted her to ask her moth
er: Cant that man see out of his eyesf
"No, the poor man is blind" her mother re-
piled.
"Why does he have winners (windows) in his
house, them" insisted the stern logician.
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7 THINK Mr.. and Mrs Santa Claus must have
blue eyes. said 4-year-old Margaret as she
hugged Partisan doll almost as big as herself.
why, Madger'
''Cause this year Santa Claus gave me Eva 1.-THE
doll), an she's blue eyes. an last year he gave
me Nelly and she'd blue eyes-all their chillen's
eyes are blue, guessr'