The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-05

An amusing incident happened last
evening at the meeting of the Baptist
Superintendents' Union. The members
had all assembled and were preparing to
sit down to supper when the door opened
and an expressman brought in keg OF
beer and put it down in an ante room.
The grave faced superintendents gazed at
the keg with CONSERVATION when TO their
horror another keg OF the same liquid was
brought in and placed beside its mate.
Each member solemnly gazed at the beer
and then went into the other room. Their
relief can we'll be imagined when it was
found that the beer had been brought to
the wrong party, for the expressman came
back again and took the Kegs out. The
members drank coffee.
Hotel life isn't all that it is cracked up
TO be. A friend of mine has a room in one
of the leading hostelries in town. 1t over
looks the main thoroughfare, is light and
airy, and the bed Is one that invites re-
pose. A few nights ago, he tells me, he
retired early, with the expectation of OBJ
tanning long and sound sleep. The
noises from the rooms on either side were
indstinct when before he threw down
the bed coverings, but after he had
stretched himself out and closed his eyes
they became painfully loud. From one
side was heard the irregular clicking
with the monotonous calling out of
uSy' %s shsas sns% Safas nv fHagsr
and then a quarrelsome dispute about
whose age it was Hardly had the
dispute ended when from the room on the
opposite side and came wailing infants
cry and a woman's voice with the exclama-
tion "Oh, dear, he's awake again. Now
Howard do be quiet" |" and series of noises
that found the woman had taken the child
in her arms and was trying to lull it to
sleep with the unmelodious tune that ac-
companies the words of Comrades" The
tune didn't lull my friend into slumber
for the poker party again became bolster
Gus, Il heard clock strike two before |
finally went off into the land OF Dreams"
he said TO me the following morning and
then thought all through the night that
the baby was holding full hands and royal
hushes and that the card players were
throwing away number of comerades were
attempting to kill me by feeding me with
poker chips"
have been struck with the window dis
plays our big merchants are making for
the Christmas season. Both I.add's and
the Boston Store are making liberal use
of animals-quite appropos in December.
They give people a realistic idea of what
kind of raw material all these beautiful
fur goods come from. The Ladd Com
pany this week have their corner window
filled with a magnificent show Of fur bear
ing animals, together with the manufac-
tured product of their skins and the dis
play is very handsome and not little
instructive, as the crowds of interested
spectators testify. Quite in contrast and
also very beautiful is display of Christ
mas fancy work in the other window.
What funny ideas some people have of
the telegraph system. l was in the tele-
graph Office the other evening when two
1aborers came in and one Of them asked
me to assist him with message. / con-
sented and his first instruction to me was
to write alright"
"Who is this going to ?" asked.
That's none of your business " was the
reply got.
But, said 1, "you must have the ad-
dress on here"
Its none of your business who this is
going to. They'll know where to sent it,
finally convinced him that an address
was necessary, and he said "all right,
then, put Mrs. Campbell" Where does
she liver" / suggested You're alto
gether too fresh. What does it matter to
you where she lives" was his answer
He was finally made to see that this was
continues "No. 766 Saratoga" | labored
with him in vain as to the street but he
couldn't be made to see that that was
necessary and finally took the pen and at
tempted it himself He and his friend
worked over it for over half an hour and
when it was finally completed to their sat
isfaction the clerk couldn't make it out
nor would they let him write it for them
and went away disgusted with the ignor-