Year: 1873

ltrom tne DanDury NeWs.J


New apples are one dollar and ten
cents quart. Ten cents for the apples
and dollar for the doctor.


When you see man who is hasten
ing across a street to avoid team, step
on piece of mud, and lose his bal
ance, and come to the earth, and tear
the skin from both his wrists, and
smash his head against a post, you want
more haste the less speed" Then you
want to pick up your feet, and get out
of that neighborhood like lightning.


An exchange tells an interesting
story about a little boy who applied to a
city store for work, and while searching
his valise for letter of introduction let
fall copy of the Bible, and the city
merchant asked him what he did with
that, and he said he read it, flashing his
eye in gritty way at the time. Then
the city merchant took him in, and
made him his clerk, and by and by his
confdant, and eventually his partner.
We have no doubt of this. It is
probable story, and anybody who is in
terested in it can find the concluding
chapters in the te1egraphic columns of
the daily press.


"A stranger who is visiting Danbury
proposed to one of our citizens, Satur-
day, that he would get barouche if the
citizen would furnish ladies, and take
drive out of town in the evening. The
citizen agreed, and went home to get
ready. His wife noticed the particular
toilet, and asked him what was up. He
didn't appear to know that anything was
up, and she said no more. Shortly after
he left, she went to his place of bust
lQoT hot hn frN foIr
drive. The carriage was out in front of
the hotel the party was to start from,
and near it the curious woman found
her husbands partner in the scheme.
She asked him if the carriage was going
to R, and he believing her to be one
of the invited, replied in the affirmative,
and helped her in. She was no more
than comfortably settled in the back
seat, when her husband came down the
hotel steps with the couple he had
engaged, and reaching the carriage, pro-
ceeded to bow them in, when his smile
was petrified into ghastliness by the
vision of his affectionate wife, pleas
antly located on the back seat, and
going through brief rehearsal with
her fingers. One instant he gazed
frantically at her, and then giving ex-
preston to his pent-up feelings with the
simple exclamation, ''By hokey ~ he
turned and fled.


"A Nelson street dry goods man, who
is well known for his politeness, has a
father who is an excellent citizen, but
not very smooth talker. They were
SO busy at the store Saturday afternoon
that the old gentleman was called in to
help. Among the customers was q
young lady who appeared to be waiting
to trade with him whose elderly appear
ance invited her confidence. Soon an
the counter as an invitation for him. to
do the same, she whispered her order.
He bent closer to her, and said, ''What's
that ?" in a voice that started the per-
spiration to her forehead. Again she
whispered. 60, elastic p said he in a
tone that could be heard on the walk,
and looking much pleased with his sue
cess. &c What kind of elastic p he
added, bending his head closer to the
burning face of the perspiring maiden.
Opce more she tremblingly whispered.
t" For garters, hey ?" he repeated, even
louder than before, without noticing the
horror-struck expression of the almost
fainting young lady, Som sthing
fancy, I suppose" he went on to say,
in happy oblivion of the store full Of
people young people nowadays
want things nice. Ny old woman uses
shoe string, and sails around without
noticing the difference" Then he goi
down with the box, and turned around
to show it, but the customer was gone
He stood around with the elastic some
five minutes in waiting, but she did not
return, and it is likely he has forgotten
all about the circumstance now.