Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-20
THE TOPICAL TALKER.

He Knew He Had sOuI Because il licked
An Argument for Eating With Knife
Speak-Ensies in the Drama and Town
Tales of Lost Treasures In tho South.
AT the Sunday school Of all East End church
very recently. the teacher in the infant class
asked a remarkably bright boy if he knew he
had SOUL
"Golly, Yes I have" replied the youngster
clapping his hand to his heart "you should
hear it tick"
A LITTLE Aneghenian, one of those boys
who delight in being downright boys has a
habit of eating with his knife in fashion his
parents naturally and properly abhor His
| father tried several arguments with the young
hopeful and finally sought to frighten him out
of the practice by telling him that there was
danger of cutting himself with the knife il he
persisted in eating with it.
"WeI," said the boy, 'if it's dangerous to eat
with a knife it's three times dang'rouser to eat
with fork. A knife only cuts one way and a
fork has three points"
Not bad logic for philosopher in kits.
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IT is astonishing what hilarity and applause
| any allusion to a "speak-easy" evokes in our
little Annie Myers indulge in gag in "Clover'
which brings the house down.
'Are you a rounderP" Hopper asks his sweet
heart, disguised as drummer boy. The drum
mer boy mods his head and the lofty camp
follower says at once; "rhen come along and
I'll show you speak-easy."
1.-THE 'speak-easy is going to add to the COM
plications of local politics" said politician to
me yesterday.
How so ?''
"Why, you see the saloon keepers are not
feeling any too well toward the Republican
party as the parent of the Brooks law" he re-.
piled. "and now that the Republican county
and city officials are letting the 'speak-easies'
almost altogether alone, and thus cutting into
the receipts of the licensed saloons, the hostile
feeling of the saloon keepers toward the Re-
publicans is intensified"
Still, the fact that nearly every saloon keeper
who has a license is making comfortable for
tune in spite of the 'speak-easy' competition
must also be taken into consideration.
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A SMALL girl holding an empty 'groWler,"
OF, to speak more politely. tin can, in one
hand and rubbing the dirty corner of a Dinatore
| into her right eye with the other. formed fa-
miliar picture of juvenile misery on Federal
street at dusk yesterday. The child, between
her sobs, managed to inform lady who bent
over her with sympathetic ear, that she had
been sent out to get some milk and had dropped
the nickel in the mud and water flowing into
the culvert beyond the curb on which she
stood. 1t was easy enough to stay the tears
and break up the picture of woe with nickel
and some cents for candies as bonus.
Then the Lady Benevolent turned to me and
said: 81 think that tiny tot told the truth. She
had really lost the cents. But had my faith
shaken in that kind of story when was in
Florida a few years ago. am sure that every
colored child in st. Augustine is trained from
the time it leaves the cradle to spin romsnces
about losing money in the sand You cannot
send black plckaninny on an errand for a
spool of thread, but the little monkey is likely
to return with the corners of his or her mouth
drawn down and eyes all whites, and a story
about dropping the money in the sand. If all
the stories of losing money In this way which
were told to me were true, it would be worth
while to start a silver mining company to work
on the sandy streets of st. Augustine"