Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-13
A coM1cAL ERROR.

A night session of the House in Jure
gave rise to an amusing incident. James
O'Donnell, of Jackson, Mich, is genial
Congressman and n good Republican.
He was compelled to remain In the House
until adjournment. About 10 o'clock he
telephoned to the Hotel Hamilton to
send a coupe up to the Capitol, as he did
not expect to get away before midnight.
Fifteen minutes afterward page
brought him n message received by the
telephone. 1t came from the Hamilton
Hotel. 1t said:
"Thc coupe has run away near tho
| White House."
AT midnight tho House adjourned
O'Donnell made sigh. search for
coupe, found none, and walked mile
and half to the hotel He arrived
there, dripping with pcrspiration. .Ap--
preaching the clerk he said.
SIS there only one coupe about this
establishment"
"What do you mean2" the clerk re-
piled. "The man is up there waiting
for you now"
"Why, you telephoncd me that the
coupe had run away near the White
House."
IL did no such thing" the clerk re-
sponded. tclephoncd you:
''The coupe is on the way with
white horse. "-Neto YORK. Sun.
AN UNAPPREcIATED PIILANTHRoPIsr.
81 will detain you only moment,
ma'am," said greasy-looking tramp to
the lady who came to the door of house
in suburb the other day, in answer to
his ring. s'I nm the inventor of u pro-
cess for the dcodorizatioa of boiled cab
bage."
ga process for what?" she inquired
''For deodorizing the nutritious, but
not ambrosial cabbage. The invention,
madam, has cost me much mental labor,
and have expended hundreds of dollars
in perfecting it. nm not mistaken, I
think" he continued shifting the air in q
dispassionate, judicial kind of way, sin
surmising that you arc cooking cabbage
in your kitchen ut this moment2"
"You are not"
t'I am seldom mistaken in the odor
of cabbage. Now, MS vas about to say,
although this process of mine for the re-
moval, or rather the prevention of tho
peculiar fragrance given forth by the
cabbage in the process of cooking, has
cost me heavily, yet am not monopo-
list. have no wish to deprive mankind
of the benefit of the discovery. For
mere plateful of that cabbage, ma'am,"
he said, wiping his mouth softly with
the back of his hand, az will impart to
you the secret whereby you can boil this
justly celebrated vegetable all day, with
out filling your house with the odor."
81 think not. 1 don't want your
secret"
POSSIBLY, ma'am," he said, suggcs-
lively, "you enjoy the fragrance"
81 do"
"Ah-uml" he unused, "some persons
do. 1t will surprise you, doubtless, to
learn that / am passionately fond of it
myself. My experiments on deodoriza-
ton have not been pursued from selfish
motive" he added with dignity, "but
with the idea of bcnefting others. Per-
us to put this matter on the basis of a
business transaction, you may see your
way clear to permitting me to test that
cabbage to the extent of half plateful
anyhowp
81 do not"
''Then have you any objections to my
remaining here few moments and en-
joying the smell of that cabbage?"
~ have. If you don't go away I'll
set the dog on you"
The tough-looking caller put his greasy
hat on ono side of his head and strobe
down the steps with an air of insulted
majesty.
"When you see me again, madam"
he said, sin oil probability shall be at
the head of gigantic cabbage trust. y.
P,tts1urg Dispatch.