Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — Wanted to Know. [ARTICLE]

Wanted to Know.

A crusty-lookiug old gentleman, accompanied by the regulation well-fed consort and a couple of well-favored daughters, entered the dining room of the Del Monte, and, as he tncked his napkiu beneath his generous chin, turned round and fixed a fierce glance upon the waiter belling his chair : “Look here, my man,” said the old party sharply, “before I give my order I want to ask you a question. Are you an Italian Count in disguise ? ” “Divil a bit,” replied the surprised coffee splasher. “ Nor an English nobleman, the unaccountable delay of whose remittances has temporarily compelled ? etc. ” “Naw, zur.” “ Nor a graduate of Harvard, and estranged from your father, a rich Boston banker, whose haughty pride is as unyielding as your own? etc.” “ Oi am not.” “All right, here’s a dollar, and you can bring in the grub. Now that I know you are not the regular thing in waiters now-a-days—that you are not going to run off with one of my daughters, or pick my pocket, I can eat in peace.”— San Francisco Post.