The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-26
AS L WAS SAYING.

"Did you ever know -, who has
been a conductor on the road so long? ?"
asked High street Union Railroad con-
ductor.
mo! Well he is pretty rough old fel,
low, but he got good one on kicker
the other day. The man got on the car
and said to the conductor, You are one
minute fast sir"
"Oh, am ~" replied the conductor.
Presently the man said, "Why doesn't
the car start ?"
"I am waiting until the minute is up so
as not to be ahead of time," was the reply.
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American tin plate is common enough
nowadays, but / had the satisfaction the
other night of seeing two very neat bits of
work in aluminium, the one a watch
owned by George l.. Shepley, the other a
folding footrqle which which, Judge Carpenter
surprising lack of weight and the peculiar
white color so peculiar to aluminium were
very apparent.
Small grocers in this city have n way of
tempting customers eyes and palates by
heaping up bushels of Gran nberries in their
store windows. Yesterday one of these
establishments presented an added specta-
Gle not contemplated by the proprietor. A
halfgrown cat had climbed upon the heap
of glowing red berries and had pushed her
way into a snug little nest among them,
where she lay purring away contentedly in
the sight Of hundreds OF passers-by. Prob
ably the owner was at church. He would
have had very irreligious thoughts IL he
had seen that cat.
have seen many gradations of animal
feeling from the utmost happiness to alb
ject misery, but never saw dog happier
than one which was being hauled through
w.xysl H.
hitched behind an open wagon. The
stump of the dogs tail was wagging so
hard that the motion ran through his
spinal column TO his head and kept that
member wagging too almost as fast.
And, speaking of animals, the NEWS
office has now an office cat, and is there
fore fully fiedged newspaper, inoculated
against the ills of infancy.
The time was Saturday morning: the
place was just under the lee of one of the
big stone columns on the Westminster
street side of the Arcade. The wintry
winds wbistled through the whiskers of
the representative of the bucolc districts
who fingered near. The central attraction
was young lady who leaned against one
of the columns and shiyered as she fur
lively glanced up and down the street.
Somebody was being anxiously waited
for Presently there came trottine up
gentleman whose arms were filed with
bundles. Spying the, young lady he ex-
claimed, There, / knew I'd forgotten
something; how long have you been wait
ing for me ?" The young lady looked
daggers: but as her absent-minded friend
friend hooked arms with her and hustled
her away, the reply she gave could not be
heard.
Mrs. l.. was all smiles. There were in
her voice those gentle tones which gave
warning that some request was about to
be made which involved finances "My
dear" she finally said, cit is fall and
about time that exchanged my chip hat
for one of felt"
Eyes ?" queried the head of the house.
"My dear, nothing will be easier"
A smile spread over the wife's counte-
nance as she waited to hear how much
money she could have.
"Just go into the par lor, take your chip
hat in your right hand and Immediately
1t will be felt"
And frigid silence has pervaded the
house ever since.