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Show A Scene at the Telephone. The Disi'.vrcH can take a joke, and and we w:ii occasionally smile at a chestnut; but that perpetrated on us last night was no joke it w as tiown-l tiown-l ight enieliy. Some wag at the Union I'acific depot rang our telephone unmercifully. un-mercifully. On getting the receiver to his ear one of our editorial stair heard 1 hose remarks : "Hello, is that Tiik Dispatch office?" "Yes," was ti. answer. "Well, hurry up. get your sh.erhand man. I have an important item for oii." Imagining some horrible wreck and "nine hundreds of lives lost made all preparations for receiving a startling item. "Are you r adyV" ""lcs, go Hheaii." (eagerly.; "Well, tli- Eniji'irer savs, (here the reporter's interest began to fail him.) "We have several copies left of Joseph fniith's views on poli " "Bang! went tlo' receiver to his place. Yes, we admit the language used in this oillce at that moment was scarcely tit. for publication, even in the Kn-jiiirer. Kn-jiiirer. Who could blame us? |