| Show to drinkers pale const consternation erla erin atlon was seated on the face of every brooklyn Bro otlyn politician yesterday the saloons were deserted and he the barkee pera employed themselves in chasing flies from froin the counter and bootblacks from the doors everything looked melancholy A report reporter tr heard a gentleman invite an alderman a supe supervisor a commbs commes commissioner ioner loner and a prominent heeler to take suy sul euthin su thin they all refused except the heeler beeler who said now deres kotbin in dem bottles got de seal on case yer canil cant git bothin in after the wax is put on the others however persisted in their refusal unable to account for this strange phenomenon which the reporter saw three different times during the afternoon he interviewed a barke barkeeper bar ke keeper e ber per 1 I dont know der matter said the barkeeper bar keeper some bloke is jurin injuring in business now as far as lse ilse concerned att ail our liquors are are genuine and have been in the house long before that dam vessel came to port outside of gaspa rily and sichie taken any liquors in since last Wed wednesday nesda and der boat only come in friday night at this point a couple of str strangers angers angera entered and interrupted the tallia talkative tive tivo barkeeper br bar keeper koeper they called for whisky As aa they drank it the barkeeper bar keeper whispered this thid is the first glass glaas of hard bard stuff ive sold today to day and I 1 hensold that if these fellers countrymen still mystified the reporter made further inquiry and leh ieh learned arned that last friday a vessel arrived from cuba or r some of the islands contiguous thereto oa oci saturday eight large casks were removed from her hold each of those casks contained a dead body and the liquor which preserved them on the voyage was wab sold to is a wholesale dealer aulby him it is said distributed distribute dall dali all ali over the city all attempts to discover what particular kind of liquor it was that filled those eight casks proved unsuccessful bucce ajtal astal tho the few who are aware of the fact are sedulously endeavoring 0 O to keep the matter secret 0 one lle lie 0 of f thi the 3 politicians said suid if they would tell us whether it was rum or giu gins why we could shake that particular drauk until we knew know the d dahuff d was all consumed but as els we dont know anything arout it why wily we have got to sheer clear olear of every think thing until we are worn ut 1 jacw york sun duh june S Di discontent coNTExT some people are never contented with their lot let what will w 11 happen clouds and darkness are over their heads alle alie when it rains or shines to them e every v ery incident is an accident or a calana calara calamity ity even when they have their own way they like it no better than your way and indeed consider the most voluntary acts as matters of soft compulsion we saw a ing illustration the other day of the infirmity we of in the conduct of a child about three years old oid he was crying because his mother had shut the horlor parlor door poor thing said a neigh neighbor r compasio compassionately bately you u have shut ut the child out its all the same to him f eald eaid bald eald the we mother he would C ery cry ry if I 1 F called him in and shut thedoor the door I 1 it t s a peculiarity of that boy and if he is left rather suddenly on either side of a door doof lie he considers himself shub shut out and rebels reuels accordingly 11 there ara creolder older bh ildren children who take the same view of things new york world |
