The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-18
TOWN TALES.

A good story is told of a Chinese
I laundryman not far from Lincoln
square. A gentleman called for his
washing, and said that he had lost his
ticket. Must have tickle" said John.
Il have lost it," added the customer.
/ "Oh, all lightee" quoth John, IN ask
my clusin."
The celestial turned to the gentle
man who needed clean linen very badly,
and said; My clusin say washee not
here. You takee some other China
man"
Now see here, you give it up or I'll
| have you pinched!" said the very angry
man; you know that it is here!"
! After two or three minutes, the Chi
naman informed his customer that he
get out. The indignant man had a
pull" He soon appeared with a
large policeman and demanded his
laundry, giving minute description of
the bundle The willy Chinaman sur
veyed the guardian of the peace, and
after chattering a while in that I'M
known of all unknown languages, pro-
duced the goods, and explained to the
irate customer in this way, MY clusn,
/ he make mistakee'
There were on the west side a few
days ago, lot of small children play
ing on high dirt pile thrown up from
the sewer. All of the little boys in
the party wore overalls. The boys
| had imprOVised a block house and some
of them had to play Spaniards, and
as they all had decided preference for
| belonging on the side of the American
troops, there were not enough Span
lards, so the little girls had to be
! brought into the service. "Oh, gee!"
said a diminutive defender of the block
house, tits bad enough to be Spaniards
without having a whole lot of girls
hanging on" The block house was
captured without defense.
1t is gratifying to observe the very
kindly spirit of the commercial travel
ers hereabouts toward the Rev DR..
Gunnison. No better evidence of it
can be found than in the proposed ban
tQuet which they are to tender him
within few weeks. When man be-
comes popular enough to secure that
sort Of compliment from that class of
men, he must be pretty thoroughly APP
preciated, and that is exactly the case
| with DR.. Gunnison. 1 met one of the
| travellers a few days ago, and in speak
| ing of the genial pastor, he said: He
| mas OGGu chaplain OI our ASSOCIATION
for long time, and is universally liked
| for his genial manners and ever ready
| Willingness to assist in any undertake
| ing that goes to make up the benefit
| OF our institution. We intend to give
! him as good banquet as he has ever
/ had in all his life, and there may be
some pleasant and surprising features
| in connection with it,"
| ffNNbat oIatro, go
ed in these days to the famous one
of history said somebody or other,
when commanded to retract a state
ment. q called a man a liar, it is
true, and 1 am sorry for it, He pune
| tuated it later for the benefit Of his
friends posterity Il called the man
a liar. It is true, and 1 am sorry for
it. This story is going around among
! the lawyers about one of the legal fra
ternity who objected to the judges de-
! cision on the point of law. "Retract
that remark at once or consider your
self in contempt of court II per-
ceive tEat you were in the right, and
was in the wrong, as you always are, +"
was the quick response to the judge,
and he had to let it go at that.
An irate woman on a well-crewded
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o'clock yesterday afternoon made the
cold shivers creep up and down the
| spines of fellow passengers, and had it
not been for the timely intervention of
a passenger on the rear platform there
might have been a job for some local
| undertaken. The woman was comedy,
middle aged and wore gray dress and
jaunty bonnet which hobbed up and
down merrily as she shook her pretty
head with Indignation when she found
that she was safe on terra firma. The
car was speeding down Main street,
| and when near Jackson street the lady
with the gray dress and jaunty bonnet
indicated to the conductor that she
wished to alight from the car The
conductor telegraphed the wishes of
| the woman to the motorman with a
vigorous pull of the rope.
A more willing motorman than the
one on this particular car would be
hard to find. He squared himself and
wound up the break chain with a speed
which would surprise the ordinary man
at the brakes. There was quantity
of dead leaves on the track however,
and the car began to coast down Main
street. The smoke came out from be-
meath the car in volumes, and added
somewhat to the excitement. In the
meantime the irate woman shot glances
in the direction of the conductor, which
savored of warm things. Suddenly she
bolted for the door of the car thence
to the platform and squared herself
for Jump The car was still going at
fiVe-mile clip, and as the woman at
tempted to jump from the car she was
stopped and held firmly until the car
came to full stop. The joke came
when the woman with the gray dress
stepped on the curbing, got her bear
ings and then found she had to travel
several hundred feet in the same d.
rection in which the car was going.
Then the coductor smiled a smile of
satisfaction, pulled the cord and the in
cident closed
Conductor Mckenzie wore a happy
smile yesterday afternoon. He was
'dead-heading" on the rear platform
of a south bound Main street car. When
opposite The Spy office some one on the
car remarked that the Columbia had
again won. This placed Mckenzie in
communicative mood He said, with
an air of a man who had thought he
had lost and suddenly came TO a real
ization of the fact that he had won,
I'm in FIVE" Mckenzie explained that
several weeks ago he had wagered
FLYER that the Columbia would win. He
said that he had totally forgotten the
wager until Monday evening, when the
stakeholder of week ago walked up
to him and after a brief and wholly
satisfactory explanation of the cause
| of his visit, deposited a new flyer in the
willing fist of the smiling Mckenzie.
Since the departure of l. L. CurriCr
to New York, every now and theii there
comes out a new story of some one Who
"swapped jack-knives'' with that astute
financie" and clever real estate agent