Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — RUNS ALL NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

RUNS ALL NIGHT.

Chicagoan Refused to Be Impressed byNiagara’s Great Cataract. Among tfie practical jokers of Chicago is one who deserves to be classed with the “doctor” In Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad.” The “doctor’s” conversation with the guide about the mummy is hardly more amusing than this man’s conversalon with the guide about Niagara Falls, as related by the Brooklyn Eagle. The man recently made his first trip to the falls, and a gdrue he hired was trying to Impress him \vlth magnitude. “Grand!” suggested tW guide. “Great!" acquiesced the stolidly. “Magnificent!” persisted the guide disappointed at the lack of enthusi asm.

“Finer than the bear-trap dam In the drainage canal,” admitted the Chicagoan. The guide looked to see if ho were joking, but there was never a smile. The Chicago man seemed to be interested, but not at all impressed. “Millions of gallons a minute,” explained the guide. “How many a day?” asked the Chicagoan. “Oh, billions and billions!” said the guide. The Chicagoan looked across and down and up, as If gaging the flow, and then turned away. “Runs all night, too, I suppose," he remarked, disinterestedly. The guide was so dazed that he had not recovered when the Chicagoan left