The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-03

| Dan" Shea says he has Peter f. Sui
Ivan beaten to a standstill. He claims
further that neither Mr.. Sullivan nor
his sponsor, Hon. John r. Thayer, dare
meet him in defense of Mr.. Sullivan S
/ record in the Massachusetts House of
! Representatives Congressman Thayer
says it would be unfair at this stage
| of the campaign to take Mr.. Shea s
time, but 1t is probable he will invite
| Mr. Shea to visit him in Washington,
this winter, and the matter may be
argued at the national capital.
1 saw something, last night, that
struck me as being a little peculiar.
1 was in one of the Main Street lunch
rooms, where the highest priced dish
| is 10 cents-because 1t was late in the
: Week-When 1 saw the proprietor of one
| of the SWEETEST eating houses in the
| city enter and put his front up against
! the lunch counter. He ordered fried
| egg sandwich and a cup of coffee and
ate them with evident relish while l
was putting away doughnuts and cot-
fee. l thought of his swell dining room
with it's real silver and china equip
ment, and wondered if he had to go
out to get something fit to- eat, and
in a 10-cent house at that.
They were discussing Benjamin
Franklin and giving "reminiscences of
his life. One of the number present
had faint idea of famous saying
of the more famous American. He
could not remember the exact words
and appepaled to all his friends. Even
Senator Hoar, who prides himself on
his memory of such things, was asked
to furnish the quotation but in vain.
The quotation was finally furnished by
bright young newspaper woman.
Here it Isl
Franklin at the close of the Revolu-
ton, in company with the English am
bassador, was dining with the French
minister, Vergennes. A toast from
each was called for. The British min
lister began with, George Ill, who, like
the sun in it's meridian, spreads lustre
throughout and enlightens the world"
The French ambassador followed with
Louis XVI, who, like the moon, sheds
it's mild and benignant rays on and illu-
mines the world" Our American
Franklin then gave, George Washlng-
ton, commander of the American arm
les, who, like Joshua of old, command
ed the sun and moon to stand still and
they obeyed him."
At a rummage sale recently, the
chairman of the committee in charge
said: I'VE will give three cheers for
the success of the sale before we open
the door" AS she stood ready to give
the signal the women in the rear of
the room screamed, and she, thinking
they were cheering, opened the door
and let in the people. Everything in
the rear was in confusion and none of
the women would stay there, and, on
going to find out what was the mat
ter, the chairman found dead mouse
under one of the counters, and now the
other women are wondering why she
smiles every time she meets them.
A young man not many miles away
has been paying marked attention of
late to one of twin sisters. Which one
he may know, but other people find it
very hard to tell RumOr has it, in
deed, that the girls whom we will call
Smith, are such exact counterparts of
each other, that they have succeeded
in putting up several jokes on the
young man in question His small
nephew solved the problem readily the
other day, however, when he announc-
ed to some neighbors that his Uncle
John was going to get married. His
listeners naturally asked at once, to
whom, only to receive the contemptu-
Gus reply, why, the Smith girls, of
Counsel"