The Arizona sentinel., 1891-03-21
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r6s Professor Popped the Question Just a Eeyz- Minnfes Inn Late.

F6s Professor Popped the Question Just Few Minutes Too Late. It appears, says the New York Tribs
 q 1e, that there is young lady living in'
 Detroit who for some time has been the
 >eipient of the attentions of two young
 en, one professor in the State Uni
 ysrsity at Ann Arbor and tho other a travelling salesman for a New York wholesale hardware house, whose route extends through Michigan and parts of C'neda. One day last week the New ! orker arrived in Detroit late in the s ternoon, and, of course, immediately 8 lrted making the rounds of the retail h .rdware dealers, with the laudable p'rpose of selling each good stock for to winter before the representative o1 6 ? rival house should put in an appear .: ce. He had hoped to call on the ob- jc,t of his affections in the evening, b1 business was good, and eight o'clock io1nd him busy trying to induce a Woodward avenue dealer to take six dIzen axes, four dozen grindstones and half carload of wooden pails. At this si lgs of the proceedings younger brother of the young lady dropped in to buy a new jack-knife, and mentioned casually that the Ann Arbor professor wTss up at the house. It instantly oc- cured to the enterprising hardware and cutlery salesman that the professor had come for no other purpose than to lay his heart at the feet of the young lady he himself adored. For moment there was struggle in his breast, but Ee speedily got control of himself and decided that he could not possibly leave the store, as the dealer was just on the point of deciding to take the pails. But the thought of giving up the lady who had been for months constantly in his mind, waking and sleeping, was un- bearable. Light suddenly dawned on him. Handing the dealer circular ex- rlaining the merits of his new double hladed chopping-knives, he requested the use of the merchants telephone for five minutes, stepped to it and rang up the central office.
 A moment later the telephone-bell at the residence of the young lady rang tharp and decisive. The professor had been there for an hour talking pleasant ly of the grand educational work they were doing in the department of fossil ology at Ann Arbor. When the bell rang, the lady's father being absent Che w3s physician), she excused herself and went into the adjoining room to an swer it. The professor heard her step to the telephone and say "Yes," make short pause and say "Yes" again. Then there was short pause and he heard her say: "Why-why-really, this is sudden" Then there was still longer pause and he heard her say "Yes," soft ly, then Goodbye" and she hung up tho receiver and came back into the room. The professor moved closer to tho Are and remarked that it was chil- ly evening, and he thought it was going to snow, and then resumed his talk about the great work at the university. Fifteen minutes later there was 6 ring at the front door-bell. The lady an- swered it and district messenger boy hand cd her plain gold ring, which she slipped on her finger and returned to the parlor. "Miss -" said the pF0- lessor, five minutes later, 'I want to ask you an important question this evening. Ex,use me for putting it bluntly, but will you be my wife7" But we need go no further with this. Two minutes lat.r the professor went down the front steps, shook his fist at the telephone wire and took the s:45 train for Ann Arbor. s625es.- .sS