Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

other, and by no means small, advantage is
that the fiery quality of the liquor thus sold
usually chokes the too confident customer
OF on the first swallow, so that the effort to
in dead loss. The bung-starter is reserved
for those copper-lined fire-proof customers
to whom alcohol, blue vitriol, kerosene and
whisky are practically the same.
Buffalo Bill in Miniature.
A CHUBBY, gentle looking little fellow,
about years of age, stood at a Broadway
corner selling evening papers Halfa dozen
other little chaps in the same line of
business were nagging him. And not little
professional jealousy was at the bottom of
it; for the boy was gotten up q la Buffalo
Bill, with long hair, cot straight across the
forehead in front and falling over his shoul-
ders behind, a broad -brimmed straw hat,
blue trousers with gold lace down the legs
and attached to a rather full waist that was
once white but now showed signs of several
recent rough-and- tumble encounters. In
this toggery the little fellow not only
attracted more attention but sold more
papers than all his rivals. He had warily
kept his back to the iron railing and his face
toward his tormentors.
'Wot ye doin' here, Billy? Ye aint no busi-
ness here. Stick to de av."
"Git onto dem stripes! Hully jee!'
"Wy don't yer ma cut yer hair, sonny?"
"Got der war cry?" .
The bedeviled boy stood this sort of chaff
like another Roderick Dhu, resolved to stick
to his ground as long as the iron fence held
out. He never said word until one of the
lads jOstled him. Then he let out in string
OF profane language that almost curdled the
blood OF benevolent old gentleman who
just invested a nickel in the outfit.
BLANK, blank ye! Don't yer put yer hands
on me! See? I'll lick der everlastin' stuffin'
out yer! I've done yer up before, Milky an
IN do it agin ef yer don't leve me alone,
now, sect"
They LET tho wild Indian soout from Hor
lem flats alone, too, I noticed after that.
But he has never attempted to work that
particular corner since.
A Pretty Girls Temper.
YOUNG and pretty girl tainted in the
street recently and when she recovered con-
seriousness she was in an ambulance being
whirled away to hospital. Being of a
highly nervous temperament she excitedly
demanded to be taken to her boarding
house, but the young surgeon in charge did
his best to quiet her. Having been ratified out
without call he felt in duty bound to bring
In somebody and he had her right here.
When they arrived at the hospital she was
not only excited, but as mad as the tradi-
tional wet hen. She had to be taken in by
force. In short time she fairly raved The
size rlsa sot to She qH'es knew R'r jass fns
where she was and just what she
was about. She refused to go to bed, and
made several attempts to escape, but the
sight of a straight jacket compelled her to
submit to detention. She was afraid to tell
them her name for fear it would get into the
papers, and wouldn't give her address for
the same reason and because it might have
compromised her with strange landlady.
So there she was.
Next morning the more she thought about
where she WAS and the general situation, the
madder she got, and by the time the doctor
got around she was subject for the insane
ward. This lasted for two or three days,
when she finally got her temper down to a
notch considered safe by the authorities and
she was allowed togo When she gets mad
now she says she goes up on the roof and has
it out where the ambulance man can't catch
her and run her into the hospital The am
bulance is a great thing, when it works.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.