Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — Careful Mr. Striker. [ARTICLE]

Careful Mr. Striker.

In case you want to send a box or parcel to the. house the twenty-five cent express wagons are very handy things, but your directions may not always be understood. Mr. Striker had had his parcelcarted all over town, then left at a police station, and once when he sent a wagon after a stove needing repairs the man brought back a two-inch auger and a set of harness. W hen he sent him back with them the driver missed the house entirely and left the articles .at a school-house. Therefore. when Mr. Striker wanted to send up a parcel yesterday forenoon, he approached an expressman, and began; “ Sir, my name is Striker?” “Yes, sir.” “I spell itS—t —r-—i—k—e—r.” “ Yes, so do I.” “I live at 49681ank street.” “Yes, I know.” “My house is a brick, three trees in the front yard, iron fence, bay window, stone dog in the yard, and name on the door-plate.” “ Yes, sir, I can go right there, sir.” “1 want this bundle taken up,” said Mr. Striker. 1 “ Yes, sir.” “Remember the place, 496 Blank street,” cautioned Mr. Striker. “Ah! but couldn’t 1 drive right to the house in the darkest night of the year?” was the indignant answer, as the man drove off. After driving one block he turned around and put the whip to his horse until he overtook Mr. Striker, when lie called out: Was it- 820 you told me, ’cause I was thinking of my sick wife, and the number flew out of my mind?” “496, you idiot!” yelled Striker, as he wheeled around. “Here i| is on this card.” . “Yes, sir, and I can find it like'a book.” In about an hour the man appeared at the door, and inquired for Mr. Stroker, and Mr. Striker indignantly demanded if tlut parcel had been delivered. “Ah! you are the man I was looking for! I couldn’t find your house, Mr. Stroker.” “Stroker! you human hyena—my name’s Striker!” . “Is it? Then I made a mistake. Striker—Striker—l’ll remember it if it kills me. Excuse me, sir, but I never got confused before, and- I’m all right now.” . The man rattled away at a furious pace, and Mr. Striker saw no more of him until reaching home. The chap was waiting for him three doors below, and at once began: “Mr. Stooks, they say you don t live here, and they won’t take the parcel.” “Stooks! Why, I’ll kill you! My name is Striker!” “Is it? Well, that beats me.” —Tryjp3^n v tmy'house,ofconTse.My house is 496. Didn’t 1 give you the number on a card?” “Why, yes, of course. Dear me, but how confused I am! No wonder I thought your name.was Slpcum instead Sirwil"—Detroit Free Press. - It ft unfair to. make sport of the weakness of the other gex—i. e-. the tongue. The last quotation in the way of abuse is from Tennyson: “Men may come and men may go, but she runs on forever.”— N. K Herald. During 1877, 5,877 persons eifiigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and. nearly all camejo the United States.