The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-20

the DooKle. Give me ~ worth, says I,
one that she wins and one for a place.
| gets my 50 worth and waits. Blamed
if that mare don't go out and take the
lead and is never headed to the wire
romping home. Before the race was
over 1 was $12 ahead of the game
promised that if ] won out after risk
ing my life climbing over freights, 1
would take th%next car home and the
next car do take home cutting out the
bookies for the day"
Postmaster ]. Evarts Greene received
notification several days ago, that a
force of painters would arrive in Wor-
cester soon, to go over the letter boxes
in the city The boxes will be paint
ed aluminum bronze and lettered with
red
Mr.. Greene has also received a num-
Der of time cards, for which he asked
some time ago. The cards are hard
ly what were desired, many of them
being 50 imperfect as to be useless. but
the department will put them up as
we'll as possible.
by the payment of 10 cents, no more,
no less. a person may become a mem
Der of the association which has for it's
object the preservation of the house
where the first American flag was
mada. Circulars have been sent all over
the country, seeking members for the
association. The old home of Betsey
Ross, at 239 Arch street, Philadelphia,
where the first flag was made and
SHOWN Gen. Washington, is to be pre-
served and known as the home of the
flag, f EFFORT can preserve it.
several circulars have been received
in the city. and Charles e. Squier. clerk
of the Board of Trade, has already Sc
cured number of members.
A young lady stenographer is having
a lot of fun with her friends, testing
their nerve. The young lady's Office is
IN the State Mutual building, and she
has considerable time to spare from
laboring over>the typewriter The nerve
tester consists of an Internal machine
called the kissing bug. Its mechanical
construction is very simple, but its re-
suits are astonishing. A circular piece
of cardboard is fastened at either end
to short rubber band, and both ends
OF the band are fastened to a sheet of
stout paper. The paper is folded up
and the victim is asked to unfold the
paper and read the funny story con-
tanned therein. The paper is loosened
by the unsuspecting friend, and a most
tremendous buzzing and fiuttering be-
gins inside of the paper that makes
one think that some enormous bug is
concealed within the folds, and nine
out of ten persons throw the paper
down on the floor with a regulation
feminine scream.
UP and down the long corridors of
the building this heartless young lady
pursued her reckless way yesterday.
The best fun of the afternoon was fur
nished by dignifled lawyer who sell
dom is moved from his stately walk or
serene dignity. The typewriter manip-
ulator looked coyly in his office and
said in irresistible accents: "Oh, won't
you please translate this note for me.
I can't make it out" The lawyer took
the paper, and after carefully looking
II over on the outside, began to unfold
the supposed screed. When the kissing
bug began to stir within, the counselor
uttered howl that would awaken
from sleep almost any jury, and dash
ing the offending paper on the floor, he
stamped his foot on the bug, he thought
was there, and be it truthfully said,
swore short expressive oath. "There.' .
exclaimed the excited disciple of Black
stone, y have spoiled your fun. That
bug will scare no more people in this
building. I think he is dead"
The girl picked up the paper and
showed the harmless machinery con-
cealed within. There followed a silence
painful in it's intensity. The young
lady is very pretty or else she might
have suffered violence. AS it is. she
will probably go on frightening people
with her nerve tester until the Joke has
lost its favor.