THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 82, 6 April 1880, Page 4

THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH.

He slipped into an ice-cream saloon Very softly, and when the girl BBked j him what he wanted, he replied: " Corned beef, fried potatoes, pickles, and mince pies." "This is not a restaurant; this is an ice-cream parlour," she said. " Then why did you. ask me what I '- wanted ? Why don't you bring an ice- j cream ?" She went after if, and as she returned, he continued: " You see, my dear girl, you musn'i infer, you must reason. It isn't likely that I would come into an ice-oream parlour to buy a grindstone, is it ? You didn't think that I came. in here to ask if you had any baled hay, did you ?" She went away highly indignant. An old lady was devouring a dish of cream at the next table, and the

Btranger, after watching her for ft few . moments, called bat : "My dear woman, have you found ; any hairs or buttons in your dish ?" "Mercy no !" she. exclaimed, as she \ wheeled round and dropped her spoon, i " Well, I'm glad of it," he continued. "If you fiod any, just let me know." ■ She looked at him for. half a minute, picked tip the spoon, laid it down again, and then rose and left the room. She musj have said something to the pro-: prietor, for he came running, and ex- '. claimed: , " Did you tell that woman that there were bairs or buttons in my ice-, cream ?" "No sir." " You didn't ?" \ "No. sir, I did not; I merely re-; quested her, in case she found eny BuebJ ingredients, to inform me." The proprietor neent away growling, and aa the stranger quietly sipped away at his cream two young ladies came in, sat down near him, and ordered some ; cream and cake. He waited until they : had eaten ft little, and then re- \ marked, "Beg pardon, ladies, but do you not; observe anything peculiar in the taste of this ice-cream ?' ! They tasted, smacked their lips, and; wt c not oertain. ' " Does it taste to you as if a plug of tobacco hafr fallen into the freezer?" he asked. "Ah ! kah ! " they exclaimed, and; ■ tried to spit oat what they bad eaten.: Both rushed one, and the stranger; followed after. By great luck his coat; tails cleared the door an instant too; goon to be struck by a five pound, box of figs, hurled with great force by the indignant proprietor. As he reacbed the kerb stone, he halted, looked at the door of the parlour and soliloquised; *• There are times when people should infer, and there are times when they shouldn't. I suppose if I had asked those girls if they thought the proprietor hashed up a saw-mill in the cream they'd have felt a circular saw going down their throats.".

over a piece of smoked glass to which a ; uniform motion could be imparted, and the electric connections were such that ; on the first wire being broken the point ' of the corrseponding lever descended on the glass ; but when the bullet broke , the second wire it immediately rose again by the action of a spring. The result of this was that the point connected with this lever scraped a very,-, short line on the smoked glass. The other ■ point, being kept down during the : swing of a second pendulum, scraped a longer space. After firing, the third glass was withdrawn, and a magnified image of the lines thrown on a screen. The relative lengths of these lines were then ascertained, the longer being found HOin, the shorter sin, making the duration of flight of the ball 5-1 10 th of 1 -22 nd of a second. Hence it rate of motion was 33x22 — equal to 726 ft Hi a second. . Now, saya the Tribune, let the sweet! young things who yearn to have stiinga of pearls about their white necks, eat raw oysters and cough. On Wednesday of last; week a young woman in West Baltimore,: after suffering from severe pain in the region of the heart, coughed violently and released from her left lung an oyster pc: *1 as big as a pea. The just .published report of an liiah benevolent society says, "Notwithstanding the large amount paid for medicine and medical attendance, very few deaths occurred during the year."