The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-15
Chat 4bout
People.

please, sir, do you won't to buy a
nice kitten?' said little girl 10 me
yesterday afternoon, All one OF the
East Side streets. / told her that /
had no use for a kitten, when she
said: We'll, If j don't get rid of IL
before dark, it's got 70 be drowned,
for mamma says she can't keep any
more cats"
learn. through an exchange. that
the Baltimore fruit packers have been
restrained from using the word Cali
fornia' on labels on eastern-grown
fruit. just fancy such thing. II
the people along the Maine coast do
not look after their interests pretty
sharp, they'll wake up some fine morn
ing and find that they have been ''re-
strained from packing any more IN
ported French sardines. Truly, It IS
a hard world for the man who Is try
ing 70 make living.
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The practical Joker IL always abroad
I'm the land | saw him in his full
glory "A few nights ago at a dinner I'm
one of the hotels. lie began. IN the
midst OF the speechmsking, TO throw
napkins upon the head of the man
sitting In front OF him. The victim
was a good looking man, apparently
well disposed toward all his fellows,
and not looking for trouble; the joker
had the appearance of yahoo wear
ing civilized clothes. After some Is
napkins had been thrown an apple
came from the rear and struck the
.raIx fil.a f.f m
head. II was forcible, 81 not polite
hint, and the napkin throwing stopped.
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well, / am glad to see that some
thing is going TO he done toward
widening South Main street" said
passenger or a Brook street car this
morning. ''The street. as jt is now,
between Pioneer Lane and Transit
street is n disgrace. and it cannot be
improved too soon"
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A good story is being told about a
certain individual I'm "a nearby town
who is making preparations for o
concert. The other day he went into
one of the local newspaper offices and
asked their advertising rates FOR read
ing notices. The publisher, OF the
paper informed him that 10 cents
line was the regular price fv a notice
OF an entertainment. Imagine the
astonishment OF the publisher when
ne was handed n onc-line advertise
ment with ten cents and requested 10
give the advertiser a complimentary
notice.
Now here IS an excellent chance for
people who are interested i'm cryptic
grams 10 puzzle their Brains over the
following, which was published under
the head OF personal adyertisemcnts'
I'm q New York paper. 'PT-Mergo
fourteenth have faithfully adhered
bargain cynomyla atrium bimonthly
articulo. London. May delabor fun"
I hear that Prof. Alonzo Williams
OF Brown University Is IN a critical
condition. owing to "a complication ~
diseases. 1 am told that his friends
claim that he worked too hard In the
last presidential campaign when ne
went on a stumping tour for President
Mckinley.
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Many OF the emergency calls re-
ceived at thc Rhode Island hospital
for the ambulance service have lu-
dicious finales. Too often highly sen-
sitive and intensely humane citizens
diagnose a. dangerous attacks Of III
ness tho period OF inscnsibllity which
concludes a good stln drunk. one day
this week tcamster fell from his
wagon and was sent 10 tho hospital
With a supposed fatal fracture OF the
skull. After his probable fate bad
been told In the last editions OF the
afternoon papers the patient recover
cd. the process OF return TO things
mundane being preceded by what old
time physicians described as a "puke."
II was not fracture OF the skull that
allied that man. but fracture Of his
digestion.
Jhs Gossio.