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Show A Fresh Brmkemcn. Sax Francisco, July 88. On one of the I railroads to this city is a specimen of the Impudent trainman. Such specimens are ' to be found on almost all railroads, but ! this particular man, as a gentlemanly trainman informed ma, is such a con-! summato fool that he does not know he is I a fool. Ho imagines himsolf au irresistible masner, and never faila to render himself obnoxious to female passengers if he has half a chance. One of his recent ad-Ventures ad-Ventures is worth the telling. A bridal couple sat in the coach. The man had fallen asleep. The trainman admired ad-mired the comely bride and took a vacant seat near her. A cinder lodged in the lady's eye. She turned her face toward the waiting masher, unconscious alike of his presence or his purpose, and vigorously winked the cinder filled eye. The masher returned the wink, ' but she did not observe him. She winked ! again, and he wiuked back. He now felt j sure of his ground, and said, "Hello, sister; ! where you going?" The woman for the ; first time discovered that her winking in ! her effort to dislodge the cinder had been j mistaken by the trainman as a bid for a j flirtation. When the situation fully dawned upon her she let fly her long right arm and ! landed a stinging blow full in the face of the impudent trainman. ' The passengers, who had been watching the transaction, were convulsed with laughter, laugh-ter, and one Shakespearian student shouted, shout-ed, "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be he who first cries 'Hold, enoughl' " . . JC-K... |