The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-23
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People.

I saw an Official. yesterday poring
over large volume. and as he did SO
i heard him soliloquize thusly: I've
seen Il spelled croupier. and crupper;
for all / know IL ought 10 be Group
pier Blank IL. l can't find IL here.
I asked him what he was looking for.
lie replied the way 10 spell the rear
end of a harness. "Oh," said l. you
mean crupper; but let me give you
pointer, Better look IL up I'm diction-
airy. What you have now Is the pro-
nouncing gazateer' Fact!
Some time ago newspaper friend
OF mine was thumbing over the Bible.
He didn't appear to find what he
wanted and / volunteered TO assist
him. WAIT u Bit" said he. II can
find the gospels OF st. Matthew, 81.
Mark. St Luke and ST. John: but
where in time is St. Peterr sand yet
he used 20 go TO church and Sunday
school when he was boy.
The Cheerful Idiot was on Brook
street car. last evening, and reports
overhearing three young men discuss
the Shamrock disaster From that sub
ject they passed 10 the consideration
OF crowned heads. One Of them, who
had that I-know -it-all air. broke In by
asking. ''if that there French queen,
Hygienie was still living I'm England
hear that q little four-year-oid boy
who was recently asked by his teach
er what animals he had seen on his
way 10 school. lie replied that he had
seen bee IN flower. And what
do you suppose he was In the flower
for?' asked the teacher. II INK he
was after a grass hopper" was the
answer,
Yesterday.I met ex-Mayor William G.
Baker. who has recently returned 10
the city from prolonged sojourn in
Florida. MIR. Baker is looking remark
ably well, and has evidently profted
by the rest which he needed when
he went out OF office.
The would-be shirt waist man can
now go right head and wear the
much abused, but comfortable gar
ment The weather is propitious and
he may rest assured that he will not
be alone for very long.
According to information ] have re-
ceiyed. there Is a young man who
lives I'm q neighboring town who evil
IDENTIFY believes more I'm materialism
than he does I'm love. He was en-
gagged to n girl of refinement. but as
she was poor, his parents objected to
the match. His father offered him
500 to break the engagement. and he
closed with the offer Immediately
the youn.s man wrote 10 the girl de-
mandIng the ring which he had given
as a pledge OF his vows. He suggest
ed that unless she returned II with
I'm a hours he should feel obliged TO
tell her employers that she had been
many times I'm his company without
a chaperone. He made her believe
this would ruin her opportunities. so
she hastily sent him the ring Per-
haps. II is just as we'll for the young
man that the girl has no father or
brother 10 defend her.
Today is the hottest day so far this
year and vet We who have been wear
ing winter garments did not mind Ii
n bit Later, however, when the gen
ial warmth has become a common
thing. we will, with the customary In
consistency, begin 20 kick for cold
weather. 'i'I
d,q rr
MY Hiend. Mulcachey. who Hves on
Federal hiil, sara 10 III" ihiS hoih-
ing: well, well, / guess the next
time Albert Edward goes sailing or
a British cup challenger he Will stay
at home i'm London" This Is some
thing I'm the nature of a bull, but Null
cachey often makes them. and ] sus
pect more by the way OF Joke, thar
| through ignorance.
\
NV attention was called TO the TN
swept condition OF one Of the Brool
| street vestibule cars, which was on iti
first trip towards Olneyville, thi'
morning. In conversation with th'
conductor, i'm regard TO the matter, h
! quantity remarked: well, | guess
the man whose duty II is to sweeI
out the cars before they leave th'
barn, just shook his broom at thi
one"