Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-04-19
FUN, FAST AND FURIOUS.
LATEST PRODUCTIONS OF THE
FUNNY MEN.

LATEST PRODUCTIONS OF THE
FUNNY MEN.
Grace Thought 1t Was Wrons--
The Trainman's Gentle Way--
Heroes In Kansas
TIE Florida
Oracle Thought It Was Wrong.
"Gracie, you-you don't think 4
come here too often, do your Wasthes
anxious inquiry oftheingenious, open
faced young man who stood leaning
against the piano.
Certainly not, Frank" said the
young lady sitting on the piano stool.
Lum- THU S1-titum-tum-tum. R-r-r-
r-r-r-r-r-tum-tum Which the saga
cious reader will interpret to be an in
terlude on the part Of the piano.
II didn't know" pursued the young
man, refectively, .'but I had been
OVERRIDING it,
Rr-r-r,r-r-r-rum-tun. Lum-ti-tunn-
ti-tum-tum. R-r-r-r-rum tum.
what made you think SO, Franki"
"Why, it was the stipulation, you
know, when you gave mo the-cold
shake, that I should come to see you
occasionally as a friend. SO as not to
break off too sudden and get people
to talking. Wasn't itf'
Lum-ti-tum-tum. Pilli- willi-willi- twill
li-Willi-willi. Ker-chug. Ker-chug. r
r-r-rnm tum.
Eyes, I believe that was the under
standing
THAT'S what I've been doing, you
know Oracle. I've been coming occar
sionally. Once or twice week is oc-
casionally, isn't it?''
Yes, suppose you could call il
So"
''But when fellow gets to coming
three or four times week, yc,l know
it looks as if he were gettiL,- off the
occasional basis and trying to make
q new DEAL That's what is worrying
me-
II uldn-t-r-r-r-rum-tum Ker,shuns
LET such a little thing as that-lum-
ti-tum tum-worry me.
cts all right, OF course, to 20 on
being friends, Grace, but it's going to
take a long time to break it to'em
gently if this occasional business gets
any more h'm-occasional than il
now. And it'll be pretty tough on me
to make it any less occasional
Lum-ti-tum-tum. Rum-tuh.
"some day, OF course, I'll have to
quit. 1t has been a pretty long time
now since have bored you, Oracle,
with word of love"
"a long time!" exclaimed Oracle,
pensively. Its been an eternity,
Frank!P'
YdmI Yuml yum-yuml Yum.
yum!
Which the sagacious reader will UNI
derstand to be an interlude with which
the piano had nothing whatever to
do.
And Frank is to 60 to see Miss Ora
Gle one day next week with regular
~ ordained minister, a new black suit,
and marriage l;cense.--Chicago Tri.
bune,
The Tra.nnl an'a Gentle Way.
He came rushing UP the stairs to
the elevated station, bought ticket,
dropped it in the box as he ran and
pulled himself up with jerk at the
car platform.
''This train go to Franklin square?"
he a.lzed, painting.
Mop" answered the trainmen,
slamming the gate
Then the man iii q hurry walked up
and down the platform nervously and
impatiently until the next train came
along. He got on the front car, but
at the door he turned to make sure
that he was right.
"Franklin square train?" he asked.
Mop" said the trainmen. Four
teenth next" and he threw the gate
after the fleeing heels OF the passenger
who had hastily left the car.
There was another promenadsI
another train pulled in, and again the
traveller asked:
"Does this train go to Franklin
Square?"
''Nop," said the trainman, looking
sweetly at the young woman in red
jacket.
There was desperation in the man
ner of the stranger after the third
train had gone. He looked around
him carefully, walked quickly back
and forth, turning sharply and taking
short savage steps. Before the fourth
train reached the station he went up
to the ticket chopper" and said very
respectfully:
Does the next train stop at Frank
lin Square?"
Mop" said the chopper, prying in
the glass box with wire and then
chopping viciously.
''Does the next train after the ont
coming stop at Franklin Square2"
sNop," answered the official, put
ting on his gloves, which he had taken
off to handle the wire, and carefully
examining little RIP In one Of the
fingers.
''The next one after thatf'
mop"
VII you hllluly Coll HE, sdAu ire
passenger meekly, when Franklin
Square train will Gomez"
There amt no Franklin Square
trains on this side.
"None at al?
mop"
'But thought
mop This is the Sixth avenue line.
You want to walk over to Third ave-
nue..
Couldn't you have told me that
before?" asked the stranger, with =
faint smile of wonder.
mop
"Why not?" mildly.
Cause you didn't ask NO." and
the stranger went down the stairs
very softly as if he were afraid OF dis
turbing sleeping lion. New York
Tribune.