People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Electric Humor. [ARTICLE]

Electric Humor.

One ol the Columbian guards on the Wooded Island, whose business it was to drive intruders off the fiower-beds and keep them from eating dinner on the grass, tolls of a women who accosted him about noon with the interrogatory: “Can you tell me where to get an electric lunch?” I The guard at once surmised I that she meant an electric launch, i and began to explain to her that these launches rail on the lagoons and were propelled by eiectricty; but she declared she had read all about them, and knew a gondola when she saw one. What she wanted to find j was the place where they cooked ! things by electricity and gave | them away, and she believed it I was in the electrical building. I The guard finally directed her to the gallery of the Electricity Building. There was exhibited in the Electricity Building an “electrocution chair” for executing criminals by electricity, similar to those used in New York. In some way or other the impression got out among the countrypeople that this was “General Washington’s chair;” and a man who had an exhibit in this building states that scarcely a day passed that several countrymen did not sit down in it so that they could go home and say they had satin “Washington's chair.” —Prom “Undercurrents of Humor from the Fair,” in Demorest’s Family Magazine for January. If you have to bite at every bait you see, you had better have a guardian appointed.