Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-18
OVERHEARD.!
BY
4 PAPER-HANGER.

Yes. Mary, cried my eyes almost out whom
everything was burned up and poor Bob had 20
lose 80 much You know we we're not insured.
Bob says he viii mover pat anything OF again,
and al my wedding presents are Ia ashe- On,
yes, We are fixed right nicely now. Dear, good
Bob has done everything 10 make me comfort
able and forget my losses. Yes. that lamp is
pretty, and It only cost two dollars and seventy
five cents-douDle burner-and This II an extin-
guisher. Handsome shade, indeed. | saw an
other lamp an going % get for two dollars and
nineteen cents, and then the cutesE little night
lamp for twenty-five cents you ever saw. Come.
Mary, and see what handsome silyerWaro BOD
brought me--much pretlier than what had
given for wedding presents, and they are oil
iriple-plate and 50 cheap and pretty, How DO
you Ike this castOrf elegant, aimt III Ony one
dollar aud ninety-lye cents. on course, you
look astonishef. Oh, yes, N Will wear, anu lts
guaranteed. Why, they had them for one dollar
aud thlrty-nine cents. Bob says after bit ne
viii get mo tho one at SIX nifty with cut-glass
cruetts, Qusdruple plate. Yes, that plckle-cas-
tor Is odd, that's Why | liked 10 30. J think II
cost one city. No, don't mean Two NIFTY 70
member, now, tho salesman said the pickle
castor aud the sugar-bowl would DO throe dol
lars, cheap and good. toe. Bob says he knows
tho make and iis "a good "a Tho best or course
We could get "a larger butter-dlsh, but this Just
struck my fancy; feel the W0ight--ntcely carved,
don't you think triple-plate on white metal.
Yes thought 10 would be about i've dollars.
just enc half Is oil we paid. Like thoeo tea
Tho table-fOrks, spoons, and knives are elegant
one dollar and thirty-nye cents see oi six each.
And DO you know, Mary, tho knives will not got
duh, as they arc plated on steel; hear them
ring, the forks. too No, they are not kogers's.
Bob says the sterling plato IS just a5 good and
will wear as long. Oh, yes, they had hoger5s
knives and forks az TWO twelve per set Of six.
thought you would Ike that buuer-knilo end SUI
gsr-spoOn-seventy-ay cents for tho tWo-and,
VOL should say they are Handsomely carved.
Thomi on they arc salt and pepper-shakers-
that's Bobs pair, and these are mine-thirty-hYe
cents a pair. That cake-dish was two dollars
and q quarter, nice pattern. SO you IKE my
eilyorware? When We had our bill made OUT
Bob said no had saved enough from what be ex-
pected 20 pay that he could afford % buy sold
gold watch with some kind OF movement 90,
that's Il, Waltham. Oh, rs pretty. Don't say
anything 70 anybody, no only paid tWenty-si1
dollars and nfty cents for u, and 70 looks Just
ike his eixty-aye dollar ono that WAS burned az
the lre. And. Mary, think Bob IS going 70 buy
mo q little beauty OF watch We we're looking at
for nineteen dollars. Bob no wlnked az tho
salesman, and when turned around 20 look -
the pretty things heard Bob soy yes, VIII De
IN, lay Il aside Won't it 30 nice Christmas
prosont7 I am GLAD you are so delighted WIN
my purchases. Do they keep ringsf should
think they dii. largest lot OF rings ever saw
OF course they have solid gold ones. 1oa can
eaye money Mary, and got the newest things az