Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — He Tried to be “Sharp.” [ARTICLE]

He Tried to be “Sharp.”

The commercial traveler of a Philadelphia house while in Tennessee approached a stranger as the train was about to start, and said. “Are you going on this train?” “J am.” “Haye you any baggage?” “Well, my friend, you can do me a favor,and it won’t cost you anything You see, I’ve two rousing big trunks, and they al ways make me pay extra for one ot them. Ypu can get one check ed on your ticket, and weJJI eucherhem. See?’* “Yes, I see; but I haven’t anv ticket.” But I thought you said you were going on tnistrain ?” “So I am. I’m the conductor.” “Oh!” ' He paid extra, as usual. In the large village of Philadelphia the residents of one street excite surprise by trying to stop the “procession of pigs that meander through that thoroughfare at all hours of the dav and night.” * By the auction sale of seats for the Cincinnati grand oratorio Concert, $13,250 was realized in two days.