The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-07
AS I WAS SAYING.

NEWS suburban reporter-"Hello, -"
Morning"
"The fireman's fair went pretty we'll
last night, didn't it."
"Um.'
Did you see Jack about the prizes'"
NO." shortly"
what the = is the matter with you,
anyhow
eyes, there is spit it out, old man"
"Well, see here, I've found it don't suit
my employers to have you and me seen
together much"
"Great Scott Did they tell you that,
and are you that afraid Of themp"
"There isn't any afraid about it; they
simply don't want it, and don't want to
lose my job; seer"
Some years ago there lived in a thriving
Massachusetts, city police justice who
after years of labor laid by quite store of
worldly goods, but in n time of financial
embarrassment failed and his creditors
received the magnificent sum OF four cents
on the dollar While this was fresh in
the minds of the people son of Erin was
brought before the Justice and was charged
with drunkenness. He was fined the usual
50 and costs, when he suddenly brought
dcwn the house by saying: "Shure, judge,
an will ye take de four cents on de dol
lar?"
1t is wonderful how some people come
out Of an affair without a scratch, where
others would lose their lives. i was
going down Plainheld street, in Johnston,
a day or two ago, when / saw ahead of me
in the middle of the street little child
between and years of age. He was as
indifferent about his surroundings as IL
he were in the neighborhood of his
mothers last jam jar, instead of being in
the midst of the traffic of busy street Mt
a busy TIME Approaching in the ,oppo-
site direction was a horse, driven
at lively speed. The child stood still; the
driver unaware of his presence drove on,
and not till he was so close upon the little
one as to be unable to turn out did he real
ize the peril. The man jerked the animal
up, and as he arose on his launches the
child was Immediately under his hoofs.
An old man who happened to he nearby
rescued the child at the last moment.
Another instance of the same character.
A young man was waiting for car on
Westminster street a short time ago. He
was standing on the curbing looking
down the street. The car came
along. He stepped off the sidewalk.
A team was passing down the street just
as he did so, and the horse struck the
young man, who apparently did not real
ize his luck in getting off so well, but
coolly stepped up on the walk again. He
looked after the receding car, with an ex-
preston on his face which meant II
don't care so much whether got killed or
not, but didn't want to miss that car"
The death of negro named Fale Col
lege, and in Boston curiously enough, has
set people upon recollecting queer names.
Shadrach and his fellows in the fiery fur
mace are not so uncommon. i have known
woman named Keren-Happuch-,
called Carrie for short. and a family
which ran Salem Town, Boston Town,
Chelsea Town and so on, without much
regard to sex.
The most striking of the tremendous
power of advertising in my knowledge
was at "Rawson's l." sort of place, n
backwoods railroad junction, with post
Office and about three houses, an enter
prising genius rugged up cheap frame
shanty of considerable size and opened in
il a general store. He advertised enor-
mously in all the county papers and in
those of the one small city near and there
came down upon him an avalanche of
women, so TO speak, from all the villages
on either one of the three railroad lines
and from the one city, making all day
Journeys to the new Mecca and eating
lunch on the plank steps.
Did il last? i don't know. / saw the
row of women on the steps from car
window and heard the story aboard.