Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-25

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 it was.
He says he had to poultice his memory
all that summer. He thinks now that
be was reminded of the article bv the
landlord.
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 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 he believed he would take brandy
and sarsaparilla. Brandy with a small
bottle of sarsaparilla, he said, is an ex-
cellent spring tonic, and the sarsaparilla
completely DISCUSSES the taste of the
brandy.
rang and told the waiter to bring up
a seltzer 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 almost gave him up. BY and by he
came painting to the room with brandy
and bottle of Dudes sarsaparilla He
had tried three drug stores, it seems, be-
fore he could get the sarsaparilla at all.
That's twice | have had the same ex-
perience.
Once Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley. Mr..
Amos Jelyffe Walker and DIR. Franklin
Worthington Hays, of Indianapolis,
with two or three other friends, sat visit
ing IN room at the Dennison House
Possibly 1t was my room. Anyway, dur
ing the evening one of the party offered
to extend to me the Inequalities of my
room, and so 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 Indiana called Alick, that
being a nickname for Alexandria The
boy was Just trying to be bell 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 Apolli-
harris" The boy was gone quite awhile.
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
Why / asked for what you told me
to ask for, said the boy, as he fell over
a china cuspidor and then scratched his
back against a welcome wardrobe i
told him You wanted pound of arUs."
Possibly if you had asked for half a
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 to see if he could
get half a pound of arus.
We notice in our travels recently the
decline of the buffalo overcoat in the
northwest. 1t was at one time as much
a characteristic of the northwest as the
sunbonnet Is of the south Below Ma
son-Dixon's justly celebrated line the
sunbonnet is remarkably prevalent.
Quite generally it is made of black ma
terial. The black sunbonnet is one of
the saddest things know of. Especially
is this true if it has lost its vertebra.
One can stand the vertebrated sunbonnet,
but not the other kind. In fact it can
not stand itself.
The tiipfap sunbonnet. made of Grape
or black calico and belonging to the
radiata or mollusk family, would cast a
gloom over a hanging and take away all
its cheerful aspect. The enervated sun
bonnet made of a large black pancake
that soured before it could raise" is
sad sight. While 1 have been tempted
in my youth TO sneak up into the fra
grant recesses of a freshly starched
white sunbonnet and linger there for an
instant, Go not think could have done
so if it had been one of the black and
nervously Frustrated variety. 1t seems
so now at least.
The buffalo overcoat. however. is pass
ing away. Two years ago l noticed in
St. Paul and Minneapolis only seven or
eight of them, and they were almost en-