Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-30

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tsTneoa Clerk Harvey was absorbed ID
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. little drledrup man entered, and Win
An cir Of assumed importance, asked:
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reply fskislx up . piece OF paper ne
carefully INTO bottle OF ink and drew
upoa the pager . series Of characters
thai read. ssNT. Harvey: This = good
for twenty-five cents next saturday,
10 which Was subscribed The
What was intended to be due
bill. Clerk Harvey smiled large,
round smile and told the man ne had
got into the wrong once, he WAS look
ing, innocsntly enough, for the super
intendents' OF the poor once.
A little while later another man
hurriedly entered and presented GER
titezte emitting him to 80 large, red
cents for staying sparrows. lie WAS
directed to the proper ONCE, where his
funds would be forthcoming, and ~ he
left the ofiiee, there WAS something 90
mildly suggestive about his remark on
sulphur in connection with red tape.
that no one unfamiliar with that kind
of language would mistake hum for .
church deacon.
Under Sheriff Walsh Was called upon
to explain to gentleman that the
sheriff's Office was not the end OF the
mill from which divorce DEGREES and
warrants are issued. "But what in
are you fellows paid for" Indignantly
exclaimed the outraged applicant for a
warrant. The good-natured face of the
under sheriff expanded into q broad
beam of pleasure As he calmly re-
piled: "For serving delinquent tax
subpoenas," and the man passed out and
into lawyers Office, foaming with
anger.
"Where do get pay for my wood?"
exclaimed q man In the corridor. "ln
tho trcasurer's Office" replied a by
stander, who knew but little about
the usual procedure. The first
speaker had package of orders,
ranging from SIC. to $3.50 for wood
supplied to the county poor. He went
into the superintendent Office. Here
the bits of paper were examined with
extreme care and finally he was handed
proper voucher. "Queer," he solllo-
quized, "but q man must earn his
money almost, going around to differ
ent Offices"
"It would surprise you" volunteered
Supt. Mitchell, 1.-The amount Of work
we do to meet the demands Of the poor.
We are obliged to visit every one of
these persons applying for aid or wood,
or fuel, and ascertain If their applica-
tons are meritorious. Then we must
determine how much relief to grant;
an order is granted and the dealer al
lows it. We audit the bills and then
the supervisors get In a crack at them
and finally before accounts are COM
pletely out of the way We have spent
two or three days time on them.
"Whats this about the new county
physician taking patients from Jail and
sending them to the u. B. A.? asked a
man in the court house corridor.
Dunno" was the terse reply. "Why,
/ understand he just ordered them
transferred without ever consulting the
court" "Rather strange proceeding"
was the rejoinder. "Well, should say
it was" came the response. "lf he can
transfer business without an order from
the committing magistrate, how on
earth is the magistrate of any impor-
lance In committing" 'sDunno," was
the second lsconic reply.
Charles r. Whitcomb has been to the
asylum for the insane two or three
times. He seems to think that his
mental condition is superior to that OF
his wife, and when she questions the
truth OF such belief. he treats her to
Sullivanic argument. He rather i'm
AGNES, too, that the proper court for
the trial of his case has not as yet been
formed, and he wants to have a special
tribunal instituted in which he may APP
pear as complainant, defendant, judge
and jury. lie would be harmless if ne
was less belligerent, and it is probable
that today, at . p. M, jury in the
probate court will listen to his tale of
woe and then adjudge him of his base.
But Charles ideas are nearly as rational
as those of many who apply for relief
from imaginary wrongs, the recital OF
which here would be taken as exagger-