Rusticus At The Hotei.
A dusty, sun-browned stranger
stalked into one of our principal
hotels early one evening, laid a
big black valise, which had per
haps made quite a smart appear
ance in its youth, carefully besid e
him, and, with a hand unaccus"
torned to public writing, scrawled
with great exertion the name of
Lorenzo Smith upon the register.
“Will you have some supper,
Mr. Smith ?” asked the clerk. .
“Wall, no, I guesa not,” re
turned the rustic gentleman.—
“The folks at home put up a
good bit of grub, and thar’s
enough left in this yere carpet
bag for a supper. 1 reckon.”
The clerk smiled, and the coun
tryman ami his corpulent carpet-
bag were shown to their room.—
Country was somewhat dazed at
its magnificence, but he was hun
gry, ail( U placing the satchel on
the centre-table, he drew forth
a large chunk of boiled ham, nu
merous pieces of cold chicken,
several enormous doughnuts, and
half-a-dozen hard-boiled eggs.-—-
He was about to absorb the
meager repast into his starving
system, whem his eyes caught
sight of the “rules for guests”
tacked upon the door, tie got
up and read them aloud. Me
came to the last one, and read,
‘‘Meals in room charge extra.”
He read it again, this time slowly.
“Wall, I be danged,” he ejacula
ted, and, turning to the table, in
an instant he had removed the
ham, doughnuts, eggs, and all
into the omnivorous carpet-sack
and in another instant he was
down in the office, where he ac
costed the clerk -with, “I see,
stranger, yer sign up thar in mv
room says meals in rooms charged
extra.”
An Unexpected Answer.—The
St. Louis Democrat relates the
following:
“During the progress of the
trial of the case of Widow Mat
thews against the Elevator Com
pany. in the Circuit Court a few
days ago, Col. Slayback, counsel
for defendant, conceived the idea
that one Murphy, a witness for
the plaintiff, was a suitor for the
hand of the widow, and on the
eve of leading her to the altar.
Getting Murphy on the stand,
the lawyer endeavored to bring
this fact before the jury, and this
was the upshot of the examina
tion:
“Mr. Murphy, are you any re
lation of the plaintiff?”
“No, sir, I am not.”
“Don’t you expect to be ?”
“Such a thing might happen.”
“Now, are you not going to
marry her ?”
“Dm afraid ^ot.”
“You are afraid you won’t eh ?
Well now, don’t you expect to
marry her ?”
“If my wife should die, and the
widow remain single till then,
such a thing might happen.”
The jurors and spectators burst
into a roar of laughter, and Mur
phy chuckled at the cunning
manner in which he had drawn
the lawyer on. The Colonel had
nothing more to say on the mat
rimonial question.
«- o- a ^ ^—————«
Going Back on It.-—A short
time ago, a colored man entered
the office of the clerk of a county
court out in the West, and ad
vancing to the tabic where the
deputy clerk was busily engaged,
produced a marriage licenes, for
j which he had paid the legal fee a
I few days before. “Boss,” said
j he, “de lady declines dis docu
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