Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — Rum-Filled Walking-Sticks. [ARTICLE]

Rum-Filled Walking-Sticks.

“There is a cane,” said a well known dealer in gentlemen’s furnishing goods, “that I have Just patented. It was suggested to me by the habit very young men have of wearing the heads of their sticks in their mouths. It is of bamboo, and lined with a thick covering of porcelain. ’The head may be of whatever shape the purchaser des res. A crab’s claw, a dog’s head, or simply a straight ivory handle, but running through it is a fine tube, guarded at its outer end by a spring valve. You see at once the immediate advantage of such a cane." “It would be very light,” observed his customer.

“My dear sir,” returned the haberdasher, “it can be filled with any liquid. If the young man who carries it is very young he can carry a supply of milk with him, and'as he strolls along Fith avenue refresh himself with cooling draughts of that harmless fluid. Think,” he continued, enthusiastically, “of being able to carry with you to the theater a dozen whisky cocktails or a few brandy smashes. As you sit gazing abstraetedly into the eyes of your fair companion, you can imbibe inspiration from here and rum from the cane at the same time. Besides, my patent does away with those intensely harrassing excuses about ‘going out to see a man,’ or such statements as ‘the gas makes me faint, I must get a breath of fresh air.” “It’s a wonderful idea,” observed the customer, as 0 he grasped the possibilities of the invention. “Make me one big enough to hold a quart of ice-cream, 'm awfully fond of a girl and she’s awfully fond of cream, but she prefers it melted. - When I next walk out with her I won’t have to dodge around the corner from ’Freezem, the confectioner,’ but I can had her my stick and tell her to help herself.” “That’s a use for it that had not suggested itself to me,” concluded the patentee, “but J assure you that I have already received sufficent orders from local option towns to insure my fortune. ”—JT. F 7 Jtfbmtng Journal.