Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — A Sharp Shine-’Em-Up. [ARTICLE]

A Sharp Shine-’Em-Up.

When Sol Smith Russell, the actor, was last in Detroit he thought to {day a trick on the brush boy in a barber’s shop by offering the lad a S2O bill after the broom had done its work. The boy received the money with his usual “ thankee," and placed the money in his vest pocket. " What did I give yon t” asked Sol after a little time. * Twenty dollars, sah," was the oomplaeent answer. “ And was that too much? " “ Well, sah, when you handed me dat bill I s’posed - yon would be in for an extra brush long dis afternoon, and wanted to save makin’ change! In case you gwine to leab town this mawnin’ 11l get de bill busted up an’hand ober your sheer!" It cost Sol half a dollar to get his bill back, and there is one gallery-god in this city who will never applaud him again.