Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-31
TEL geRApHlo eLuNoERs.
Funnv Mistakes Made by Absent-Minded
knights of the Key.


Knights of the Key.
II isn't meant to be charged that the
majority of kilograms or specials have
mistakes in them. The percentage OF
errors is enthusiastically small, but the
errors that are made are funny and soon
get talked around among the boys
'rCog at once, Big Bill tonight" was
a message delivered to lady visiting In
Kansas from her husband in neigh Dor
ing city Of the same State. The awful
suspicion flashed upon her mind that
the Liquor law was being hagrantly
violated in the immediate vicinity OF
her husband. But who was big Bill?
Was he some border outlaw? What was
the significance of cog" any way? AS
the last question occurred to her sh'
sought and consulted the pocket edition
of a dictionary. The definition of cog
was a terrible revelation. 1t read:
Cog. The tooth of wheel; a trick;
to wheedle; to cheat.
She nearly tainted with fright Her
husband was undoubtedly in the tolls
in the very teeth of this villain, Big
Bill" Her nervous prostratlon was SO
complete that she could barely COM
municate the particulars to male rela-
tives, who were started on the first train
to the rescue OF her husband. 'Remem-
Der the clew," she said when they de-
parted. IF there has been foul play
remember Big Bill" The relatives re-
turned next day with the husband and
the lucid explanation that the original
message written by him read: Come at
once. Big ball tonight"
Agentleman who was not long since
stopping at one of the principal hotels
in this city, dividing his time between
attending to the business which neces-
STATED his pres once in ST. Louis and
bewailing the cruel fate which had tenn
porarily separated him from his young
wife of two months standing, recalls
the hours of anguish and uncertainty
Mich ensued upon the receipt OF q
message from his wife, reading:
II have twins. Written you but re-
ceived no reply. What is the matter?"
Since he has ascertained thai she had
twice written" etc, he will regard
every yellow envelope with suspicion.
just imagine, if you can, the feelings
Of a rather highhown newspaper corre-
spondent who, after telegraphing to his
newspaper a description of condemned
wife-murderer's last night on earth,
read in the paper when he received it
that
"He tossed restlessly about, and from
his mutterings it was apparent to all
that the shirt Of his wife hung over
him"
This came from the telegraph office
and passed in some incomprehensibl
way; perhaps "spirits" were at fault
With the telegraph editor, compositor
and proof-reader successfully. But 1t
IS not likely any one has been more
1isgusted with the uncertainties of dots
and dashes than a young ST. Louis tele-
yrapher who had never visited Chicago,
who, after reading the name OF the
famous hosiery of that city conducted
by Potter Palmer as the Pat Moore
House" has since been known by his
Geographic acquaintances as Pat" to
She utter exclusion of his more euphoni-
1us patronymic, Eugene.
At small office in the interior of this
State the whole available force of mes
iengers hunted half a day for a man
named E. c. Lipse before it dawned
lpon the brilliant mind of the operat tor
hat it was intended for the Eclipse
newspaper office. In q like manner
sale Mills was omitted from the postal
guide, but Salem. ILL.,, was there, and at
that place was also an Infatuated man
Waiting for long-delayed answer TO
lis telegram. San Francisco Examiner.