Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — What Newsboys Say. [ARTICLE]

What Newsboys Say.

Texas Siftings. The boys who sell papers near Brooklyn bridge on the streets, when not engaged in puffing the insiduou* cigar or cigarette stump, are kcer and bright, as their communing? show. v " “Wot yev going to boiler ter day, Jamsey?” said one of the leaders ol the squad one afternoon. “I’m going ter sing out: ‘Here’* your Central Persifik train robbers. They make a fyasko an’ skip.’” “What’s a fyasko, Jamsey?” "I dunno.edzactly, Patsy; but it’s a heap of money, you can bet your life on that.” “Well,” said Patsy, “I’m going to hollow: ‘Desperate fight on the Bowery. Jones’s gallant defense.’” “What’s a gallant defense?” “Hittin’ a woman wid a club.” This took Jimmy back a little, bnt he soon recovered* from tbe temporary shock: “If I don’t hit’em hard with tbe ex fyasko, I’ll holler ‘Latest bullitine from Washington; dangerous condition of President Cleveland’ That’ll knock ’em sure.”