The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-01

too. The Congressman stood still for mo-
ment, looked the colored man searchingly in
the face, surveyed him too from head to foot,
and then grasping him fraternally by the hand
said, 81 don't doubt it; and if you don't get an
appointment under this Government I'll know
the reason why"
The Congressman tells the story himself
sometimes The colored man was bright mu-
latto, fine, clean-cut, magnificent specimen of
a man. And now he has the job he was looking
for
II am proud" said a gentleman the other
day, ''to belong to profession which depends
upon talent and not upon character" Now
what profession did he belong to? Guess
Was he burglar? pickpocket? politician
a gambler? an actor? prize fighter? No.
He was newspaper reporter.
X
What is delivery? The average newsboy
seems to imagine that if he pitches your news
paper on the sidewalk in front of your house,
or even if he drops it at the corner of your
street, he has delivered it to you. The letter
carrier is not quite so far advanced, but he
comes very near it sometimes If you should
be sitting in your front parlor in your office
with the window open some warm summer day
and all of sudden something should give you
knock on the side of the head or whiz past
! your ear like cannon ball, don't be alarmed.
| 1t is nothing serious. You may have to carry
! your head in a sling for week or so, but you
must take your chances 1t is merely the boy s
! way delivering your newspaper or the post
mans way OF delivering your mail.
X X
At the beginning of every Congress the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds makes
solemn compact with some caterer to keep
the restaurant of the House of Representatives
during the session. One express condition of
the contract invariably has been that no intox-
icating liquors shall be sold, and one invariable g
practice of the caterer has been to sell all sorts
of Intoxicating liquors. Before getting the
contract the caterer has to furnish sample bills
of fare and specimens of his art; and among
other things, it is said he has invariably been
required TO furnish specimens OF his intoxi-
eating liquors. Speaker Reed returned from
his mothers funeral the other day, and signal
lied the event by ordering that no more liquor
traffic should be carried on in the House res
taurant; but that order, like the contract re
ferred to, is to be interpreted II a Pickwickian
sense. 1t simply means that hereafter gentle
men will be expected to sit down to theiI
drinks, instead of standing at the bar, and that
the former custom of serving the whisky In
teacups is to be revived.
4
A number of gentlemen were discussing
Speaker Reeds superhuites, apropos of the
fact that he was growing fatter and fatter
some thing that is superhuous about Reed,
said a Democrat who admires the Speaker
ability as legislative driver, sis his Repub
lican majority. Reed doesn't need any ma
jority."
1t is not generally known that Postmaste
General Wanamaker loves to make little bet
but he does. When confronted the other da.
with newspaper report in which his nam
figured prominently the first idea that occurred
to him was to bet that the report was wrong
and to prove it by the bet. There was no prob
ability of the reporters having $1,000 loos
about him, so the way the Postmaster Genera
, put it was that if the report could be substan