The evening times., 1895-08-29
Gossip of the Dau.

The excursionists on board one of the
river boats have been highly amused and
entertained of late by the efforts of q
young man who persists in singing every
thing in the musical vocabulary from
'.Sweet Vioiets" to Sweet Marie. -
This man seems TO confine his attempts
to the excursion bbats, and carly in the
!, evening takes position on the deck and
begins TO sing. His musical education, II
seems, however, has been sadly neglected
for he Is totally incapable of turning a
note, and sings everything in the same
key. This is the feature that makes the
performance SO attractive, for the crowd
always gives him an encore, to which he
responds quite willingly. No une seems To
know who the musical freak is, but II
would be well for the management of the
excursion boat tD make a contra ct with him
for nightly performance, as nothing seems
to afford 81 much pleasure to the passen.
gers as his musical attempts.
A lady uDaccustonied to riding no other
than the anti-rapid transit horse cars the
other evening boarded one OF the new Ninth
street electric cars near s street and pro-
was far spent and the motoman was
tempted to give his unseen steed the rcins.
AS the gentle Zephyrs began to develop
into youthful gales, she gasped in consign-
nlents of fresh air and looked pleased. The
man at the motor increased the speed. A
look OF fright spraDg into the lady's eyes,
aDd young man in the rear OF the car
cried out that the thing was running way.
The lady turned TO ward him, and in shrill
voice that hid the motors hum, exclaimed: !:
as it, young man; is it? Well, don't jump;
don't jump. When horse runs away don't
jump from the carriage. Ilea rDed that years
ago in the country" and she clung to the
pusl ut lie Side oil her seat like the ivy to
the oak.
1t does not always do to give an order in
which a servants intellect is to be al
lowed any scope. This Is especially the
case when that servant happens to be a
small black boy. There is a woman in the
west end who is realizing the truth OF
this assertion. where final decisions or
nice points of distinction are to he made.
The west end woman who engaged his
SERVES in her household, not caring to call
the youth by the name given him by his
parents. and feeling that circumstances
restrained her from clubbing him Isabella,
renamed him Columbus. little dreaming
at the time that the name would have spe-
cial relevance.
Though by no means naturally quick
witted. Columbus, like his namesake of
old, was continually making discoveries.
One was the discovery of fine young
peach tree in the back yard laden with
fruit The next in due order was the dis
coyery of long pole, which, the results
prove, has not been allowed to have over
many idle moments since that time.
The crowning stroke OF the discoveries
of this modern Columbus was in regard la
an order given relative TO a basket in
which he was to bring home some trifiing
ma rketing. The instructions were that
he should GO upstairs TO storeroom and
bring down the largest basket he could
find suitable for the purpose.
After considerable delay AMI noise on
the back stairs as though colt was be-
ing broken. Columbus clattered irto the
hallway. hot and triumphant, bearing the
huge clothes basket. filled to the bulging
cover with the family's weekly quota of
soiled linen.