The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-07

Tom PARROTS brother JiggS has signed
with the Chicago Association team for next
season at salary Of $1,000. Good Tor Jiggs.
This will give the young man chance to
see some of the world and the wonders il
contains. besides learning something Of the
habits of the people who inhabit it.
Jiggs was born in Portland, and San
Francisco is the farthest he has ever
strayed from the paternal roof, but he is
Keeping his eyes and ears open and rapidly
acquiring wisdom. Jiggs is not mnch of a
story-teller, but lie has way of asking
questions that encourages those who do
talk.
While the Portland team was at Monterey
number If the boys were one evening dis
cussing' the peculiarities of wealthy mean
man IN that vicinity. Jiggs was listening
Shaves are 25 cents in Monterey, and when
ever this mean man got his face manicured
he made the barber rub little of every
thing in the shop on his head in order to get
even on what he considered an outrageous
and the grease spots removed from his
clothes all for the same price. Jiggs was
listening.
The mean man lived exclusively on sink
ers and coffee, and what lie could not eat of
the siDkerS he would put in his pocket and
carry home.
At one time he was a policeman, and
when attending church he would expose his
star to the man who passed the plate around,
thereby sgnifying that he was entitled to
seat without paying for 1t. 1t was also said
OF him that lie would often stand in the rain
for an hour waiting for a newsboy to return
with the change for dime.
Jggs listened carefully tn the recital of
this mean mans manifold virtues. Then he
pondered deeply for awhile aud finally
asked, with great earnestness:
Is he a liberal man?"
The boys then went out and practiced a
little Tor the championship series.
Jiggs' Brother Tom.
Jiggs PARROTS brother, Tom, is in the
city visiting Jiggs. He gives the true in
wardness of tnat asphyxiatiun affair in
which he and Catcher McHale were mixed
up at San Jose few weeks ago. Accord
ing 10 the dispatches sent out at the time
McHale was in bed asleep when Tom came
in, blew out the gas and went to bed. Later
he got up, lit a match, and was blown
through partition by the explosion which
followed. McHale was nearly suffocatvd
and had doctors working on him.
Tom says there is nota word Of truth in
the above and that the reporters got it all
wrong. He was in bed when McHale blew
into the room with twelve Napa sOdas he
had absorbed during the evening. That is,
McHalc said he had been drinking soda.
After McHale turned in Tom said he
where it came from. He at last decided
that the odor must come from McHale, so
he struck match and started on tour OF
inspection.
Tom says he doesn't remember exactly
how it happened, but he thinks row that
he held the burning match too close to Nc
Hale'S face. At any rate an explosion took
place that broke the skylight and knocked
Jiggs PARROTS brother Tom on the fiat Of
his back.
He says that hereafter when he goes
prospecting for coal oil in the neighDOrhood
of a sleeping ball-payer he will use
safety lamp with wire gauze over the flame.
Tom Parrot has Travelled more than his
brother Jiggs, and therefore knows a thing
or two.