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Show THE MAN FROM OKtCACO. The last man brought to tbe Ceu-tr&l Ceu-tr&l before the reporter lelt last night waa rather a fine figure, jauntily dressed, and with tho swaggering air affected by those knowing fallows who aro themselves conscious of their superiority su-periority over tho herd, and don't care who knows it. Hi wholo manner, man-ner, both of action aud speech, was an ostenlatioua expretsion of contempt con-tempt Jbr everybody and everything p9rtainiug to Cievoland. Ho bad had Borne difficulty with a backman, and it was on a charge ol disturbance that the officer arrested bim. "What's your business?" askod the lieutenant "Do you mean me? I have no j busineso; I api a gentleman ol leisure." leis-ure." i ''Where ie your home ?" j "My home's ia Cuieago," "Oliicaeo? Ohicaco?" reneatpd IHr , lieutenant, reflectively," while a twinkle Bhone in tbe eye farthest from the prisoner. "Did you Eay Chicago?" "Yes, I did; I said Chicago; I a pose you've beard of ii?" "Is it in this country? What state is it in?" "Great heavens!" the man burst out; "you don't mean to tell me you're ' serious when you ask what state Chi- j oago's inl I refuse to answer." "Did ycu ever hear of such a placo, I Fred?" Baid the lieutenant, turning to tho turnkey. "Never beard of it in my life," said Fred. "Just look in the Gazalteer, please, and see if tbero is such a place." Fred turns the leaves of the Gazot-teer Gazot-teer till be comeB to Ctll, and then as be runs , his finger down the page mutters "Cbiana, Chiapa, Cbiara-monti, Cbiara-monti, Chiavenni, Chicacoli, Chicago here it is; it's all right; 'Chicago, a pootoflico ol Posey county, Indiana; noted chiefly for its trade in hoop poles and illiteracy of iib inhabitants.' It's all ricbt, but I never beard ol it before." Tho parly from Chicago, who had been sto.idily working himself into a white heat of passion during Fred's search, dancing around, throwing up his arms wildly and grasping his hair, and his face changing from white to red a ad from red to purple, gave a mania Bhriek and tumbled over in a fit aa Fred finished, and in that condition was carried to a cell, where he recovered only after a half hour's labor with restoratives and tbe assurance from the lieutenant that. come to think, ho had beard of Chicago Chi-cago before. But ho still lay there limp and spiritless; tbe heart of the man from Chicago wob broken. Cleveland Herald. |
