The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-24

barb is looking very robust this spring.
Cowslip green's are plenty and good. Why
should We enter into direct competition
with foreign market by the removal of
our tariff when cowslip green's are so abun-
dant and the pokeberry season is almost
upon US as 1 write?
Last week we stopped at the Cobb
house. L call it the Cobb house because I
am wary about giving the correct name.
A friend of mine once wrote up an ac-
count of this same house, giving the cor
rect name of the hotel and the proprietor.
The latter ran the house then as he does
now, purely by brute force and main
strength.
He ran the elevator then as he does now,
by means of the surplus energy of his but
ter. If he could get a storage system for
his butter power he could move buildings
at slight expense.
My friend wrote up this hotel. as I say,
and told the truth about it. Then in the
rush and hurry of business he forgot
about it till two years later, when some
thing brought it up in his mind. Some
thing gave his memory slight Jolt, he
says. Memory is not located where he
thought il was.
He says he had to poultice his memory
all that summer He thinks now that he
was reminded of the article by the land
lord.
That is the reason why speak of it as
the Cobb house. Some commercial men
who have tried it call it the Pest house
That is a good name for it.
The ham one gets there always seems to
be what was left over from some other
mans breakfast. You have no doubt
eaten that kind of ham. | do not know
who uses his tablecloth when it is clean.
know that he does not.
One day / asked visitor who called at
my room what he would like, and he said
ha haii ha IA Ea bran
sarsaparilla. Brandy with a small bottle
of sarsaparilla, he said, is an excellent
spring tonic, and the sarsaparilla COM
pletely DISCUSSES the taste of the brandy.
| rang and told the waiter to bring up a
settler lemonade for me and brandy and
sarsaparilla for my friend. He was gone
quite long time We thought he had
gone out to the baseball game and we al
most gave him up. BY and by he came
painting to the room with brandy and a
bottle of Dudes sarsapariiia. He had
tried three drug stores it seems before he
could get the sarsaparilla at all. That's
twice have had the same experience.
Once Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley, Mr..
Amos Jelyfe, Walker and DIR. Franklin
Worthngton HAYS, of Indianapolis, with
two or three other friends, sat visiting in
a room at the Dennison House. Possibly
it was my room. Anyway, during the
evening one of the party offered TO extend
pushed the electric rosette on the wall,
and when the boy came we saw at once
that he was new boy. He had recently
come to the city from small town in In
diana called Alick. that being nickname
for Alexandria. The boy was just trying
to be bei-boy for the first time. He was
more familiar with the ethics of scalding
hogs.
Everybody gave his order. Mr.. Walker
said he would take ian Apollinaris." The
boy was gone quite a while Some
thought he had gone home to Alexandria
to get something. By and by he came
back and brought everything except Mr..
Walkers beverage. He could not get that.
The chemist down stairs did not have it.
What did you ask for?" queried Mr..
Walker.
'tWhy. asked for what you told me to
ask tor" said the boy, as he fell over
4 china euspidor, aud then scratched his
back against welcome wardrobe. Il told
MIN you wanted pound OF arus."
Possibly if you had asked for half
pound" said Mr Walker, you would
have got it. almost wish now that had
said half pound. 1t would have been
enough"
So the boy went back 10 see if he could
get half pound of arus.
We notice in our travels recently the
decline of the buffalo oyercoat IN the
Northwest. 1t was at one time as much