The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-20
SOME CABINET STORIES.
Simple Yarns Illustrating Lilo in q
Groat City.
a CHICAGO MAN WHO STARTED
Ont TO Give u Humorous Turn TO
Things IN Gcncrnl...Tlic Am crican
Gar Who Cast II Gloom Over the
Labor Qucstlon...A Countrymnn's
lIorrcr Mt the High Price Of IN.
draped Statuary.
Chicdgo Times

Chicago Times.
A West Chicago man q fow evenings
ngo read m article in n news paper set.
forth tho iuct that 1t Is the duty OF
every person TO make 1t lively@nd pleas.
unit for those about him. The following
morning hc decided to do what lac could
during tho day to make everybody live
ly and cheerful. Ito heard the hired
girl coming downstairs, and no thought
lie would hide behind tho kitchen door
and give her q pleasant IittIo surprise.
The girl was hardly awake, and failed
to sce tho pleasantly OF tho joke until
after her strong right hand had planted
n FLAP on his cheek that almost loosoned
his teeth.
lilo was quite suro his wife was not
yet awake, but instead OF gruiIly calling
hor, us he sometimes did, he decided
that her awakening from happy dreams
TO stern realities should DO rendered MS
pleasant rs possible. When he reached
her room she was sleeping sorndly.
lie thought it would he fun to take q
hairbrush that was lying OH tho dresser
md tickle her cheek till she awokc.
When she opened hor eyes she did it
with q suddcnncss that surprised him.
At the same instant she threw her arms
up with such force that the brush was
driven through the mirror OF the
dresser. Still hc reasoned TINT these
were only accidents that were likely to
occur 10 anyone. After breakfast he
went to the station 10 catch q train for
the city. 1t was raining. lie saw Jones
stand his dripping umbrella in a corner
while he tied his shoe that Ind come
unfestened. 1t would be 4 good joke to
take his umbrella Just for 4 minute.
When tho man, who turned out to DO
not Jones but q stranger resembling
him, had tied his shoe he reached for
his umbrella. but it was not there. He
had just located it in the gcntleman's
hand when the latter said:
~ beg your pardon. l really mistook
you for another man. It's I'LL q mis-.
take, i assure you"
"Oh, l understand" said the stranger
f, as he recovered his property. "Mis-
takes concerning the identity OF UNI
brcllas occur frequently on a rainy
day" And everybody felt sorry for a
man who was caught stealing an UNI
brella.
Throughout the day the man who de-
sired to mske it pleasant for everybody
met with several minor ,repulses, but
he did not despair. On his way home
in the evening when the shadows we're
gathering, he saw his neighbor walking
just in advance OF him. 1t occurred t o
HIM thar he would slip up behind his
neighbor, and putting his hands over
his eyes, make him guess who it was
That very morning his neighbor had
read about someone being held up md
robbed the night before at that very
same place. 6
The joke proved to be a deplorable
failure. The joker no sooner attempted
TO put his hands over the neighbours
eyes than he was knocked down by the
latter, who held his face hard against
tho pavemen. while he called for the
police. Later OH matters were ex-
planned and the joker returned home
with q ~disfigured face and n determine.
ton to let this sorry old world amuse
itself.