SOCIAL CULTURE AT THE HUB

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2995, 20 September 1878, Page 2

SOCIAL CULTURE AT THE HUB

A rascally, villainous joke was played on a yonng man, a State street shipping clerk in Post-office Square, one day last week. The victim of this vil*'conspiracy was returning from dinner when he was met by an acquaintance, who invited him to ride, representing that he had hired a nice team and was going to drive round to the Public Garden. Having a half-hour "lay-off," the clerk gladly accepted the kind " invite,"' and, after furnishing the cigars, the two crossed the street and seated themselves in a nice open buggy. Then Billy forgot his Spring, overcoat, and told his friend to drive round the corner and he would meet him.' The confiding youth.had hardly started when a long man with a scowl on his face strode up to the buggy, and after muttering something about having his team stolen before, he took the unfortunate boy by his large eaffij lifted him out of the carriage and banged him down into the mud, and wiped his feet on him, and jjwore at him, and tried to break his back with the weight strap. When the clerk crawled out of the mud he lotted like an old doormat.—Boston Globe.

WAivED.rr*' He,.waived 1 his adieux," the country editor remarked of a subserver who had skipped out overnight, leaving his creditors in the lurch.— American Paper.