The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
AS L WAS SAYING.

The boy in the cigar stand at one of our
leading hotels is something of wag.
Yesterday he approached group of gem
tlemen in the hall and, looking up from
the account book which he was studiously
coming and addressing one of the stout
est men IN the group, said Excuse me,
Mr. -, but would you mind telling me
your initials / didn't know them, so
have just put you down as Fatty -, and
roar P'Cer Of ang5ter ynd the Inere
likely to stick.
new conner TO the city said TO me the
other day Providence is a splendid city
: and has big future before il, but il does
not seem to me that il would get along
faster If its leading men would all pull
together IN the matter Of public improve
ments. I've heard folks say since came
here that the city would never boom as it
ought till there were several first-class
funerals"
How is that?
A party of jewellers went whooping and
yelling by the News Office, and the melan-
choly and poetic countenance of the tall
makeup man" frightened visibly.
THAT reminds me of Texas, he remarked,
"only it would seem a little more natural
If they were firing off pistols through the
windows" The printer is the great
cosmopolitan.
Samuel was in reminiscent and confid-
ing mood as he leaned upon the back of
my chair the other night. Yes" he said
people are mighty ditf'u bout de way
dey eats. Dey's one man heah allus leaves
his green Gavin 10 de las Eats up bread
an cake an pie frs an den des leans back
an goes for de cawn. Dey's anudder
fellah drinks wattah; nuttin' t all 'cept
wattah an fo' de Lawd he drinks mos a
gallon every meal. An one man orders
eberything on de bill of fayah, and des
picks little bite of one or two kin's
liz Sf(i hs e Yes, Yes de diant." aT %%' '''''n
In Gov. Ladd's oflicS in the big store on
Westminster street there is "A very inter-
esting corner in which a row of shelves
contains boxes with labels showing that n
carefully kept collection of newspaper
statistics has been presered. The boxes
are numbered and an alphabetical index
is kept. One box contains articles ON the
subject of railroad terminal facilities both
edstorial and local and the others have
clippings relative to local and national
matters for years back.
When the articles become antiquated
they are sorted over and the most valuable
are pasted in scrap books, of which there
are n large collection. One box contains
political comments and the full election
statistics of the State for some years
The latest addition is one which contains
begging letters " and this one is not
numbered but has u picture Of hat in
an outstrectched hand on the the front OF
it.
The governors private secretary has had
CHI. { OF the collection for long time.
saw a good tl ag done tae 81, ~ de-.
A man i'm a hotel wasl making himself
quite agreeable to everybody. lie handed
a cigar, about half-smoked, TO a young
man and asked him to knock the ashes off
in spittoon beyond him. The young
man was playing whist and didn't notice
what was said but took the cigar and
kindly deposited it in the cuspidore, and
the laugh was on the other one.
"Did you ever write any book reviews p"
the literary critic asked the lean man who
was smoking n black cigar.
Yes, one"
"Was it a good one ?" persisted the
bookish one.
II don't know. The author died soon
after" innocently replied the lean man
with the cigar.