The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-08

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That's a sufficiently odd combina-
ton" said a man who knows him.
An odder thing is that he makes
both pay"
Fred G. Kelly, the humorist, visited
his old home in Ohio not long ago.
While there he chartered a hack and
drove around to see if the town had
changed. The driver was a negro
who had played with Mr.. Kelly when
both We're children.
And who lives there?" asked Mr..
Kelly, pointing to a small blue house.
''Dass where my sister and brother
in-law live. suh," said his driver.
"Yass. sub. Mandy she marry a
mighty tine man."
Mr.. Kelly thought he should exhibit
interest. ~-
Maybe 1 know him." said he.
whats his name?"
The driver. scratched his head.
Now" said he, "'pears like | heerd
that nisger's name somewhere"
Perhaps the word of a convict Is
not to pc unduly trusted. But they
tell of an unusual punishment m
times imposed at Auburn prison.
"Many's the man." they told the in
vestigators, who has been driven out
of his mind by square chalding."
The convict who is i'll is always sent
to his cell for examination. If it there
appears that he is in sec of treat
the examining physician makes
Il round mark With chalk upon the cell
door. If i'm the PHYSICIANS opinion
the convict's mind is no quite normal,
Il square chalk mark is made on the
cell door.
ssNE-Ll,- ~ -,,s,s. - .:o.I.A --o Oss -,
the convicts. But they square chalk
him and then he starts worrying.
Sooner or later he lands in the insect
hall"
But square chalking' is not in
tended as a punishment"
Sometimes it isn't, all rightfo
Sometimes it Isl. all right" say the
convicts. It's hell"
The freakiest institution on record
in New York is the help-yourself bar
Der shop. 1t is intended for men who
like to shave themselves and who for
some reason do not provide them
solves with the tools. The customer
pays a dime on entering. Then he is
furnished with a razor, soap, towels,
and all h rest of the regalia.
ITS been running for year." said
the discoverer. 1.-The only odder thing
/ know of is a golf school uptown. 1t
is or the second floor of a building I
pass on the elevated road-and every
day 1 see dozens of young men and
women practicing swings under the
eye Of the instructors. That strikes
me as the limit of. oddity.'
Most people know Diamond Jim"
Brady only by reputation, as the man
who hangs himself with gems until he
jingles-whereupon he goes to a show.
He never smokes or drinks, and yet
he is an ~inveterate supper host.
Brady doesn't like to sit down to
table after II o'clock unless there are
a dozen pretty women there to keep
him company" said a friend. "One
of the big jewelry manufacturers
turns him out jewelled souvenirs on
annual contract"
But the true reason why he is call
ed Diamond Jim" is not that he
shines with jewels like a drug store
window-though that is part of the
reason. Brady is in. the railway sup
ply business. u,
he used to carry a pocketful of loose
diamonds" said a man who knew
him. He couldn't be coarse with a
railway president who bought his
steel rails and car wheels. But he
could say to that president, in a mod
est. Eentlemanly way:
"'IIave a little diamond on me?'
And it's a shame to say it-but
the most of them had"