Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — A Reporter’s Luck. [ARTICLE]

A Reporter’s Luck.

During an excursion from this city to Niagara falls, and while at Cleveland, an incident occurred which will never be forgotten by those who heard of it. The Kennard House, in that city, was crowded with guests, when an eccentrio and witty druggist of Smithfield street appeared late at night at the hotel office and demanded a bed. The clerks replied that there were only two vacant beds in the house—one wherein was quartered a Pittsburgh morning-newspaper man, and the other room wherein was a Pittsburgh evening-newspaper man, who were with tho excursion. ’“To tell the truth, they are both pretty drunk; so you may take your choice as to which room you will sleep in.” The druggist BSkl liis c Gances with the evening-news-paper journalist, as he would doubtless be so drunk that he would liedormantly quiet all night. He went to bed ancl was soon sound asleep. The journalist, however, awakened about 32 o’clock, and, thinking it a long time between drinks, dressed himself unconsciously in the druggist’s clothes, and sallied out to make a night of it. Ever and anon he muttered, as he treated all present, “Funniest thing I ever heard of! When I went to bed last night I only had 25 cents to my name, and now I’ve got over SIOO (showing a corpulent roll of bills); and I’m bound to spend every cent of it before morning.” Ho did.— Pittsburgh paper.