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Show She Didn't Guess. Like many other things, an ahum clock is a good thing when confined to its own sphere. But a young man who lives in Tioga had an experience with, one the other day which, to say the least, was embarrassing. Being a heavy sleepor, it was not uncommon for him to miss his train to the city in the morning, so ho resolved to invest in an alarm clock. One experience with it wai enough, and that occurred while he was taking his purchase home. Walking through the train, he chanced to see a certain young lady sitting in a seat, the other half of which was unoccupied. The young man knew the young lady in fact, he is said to have had entertained enter-tained serious hopes before the alarm got in its little work. He Bat down beside be-side her, with his package in his lap, and smiled his sweetest. She asked him what he was taking home, and he playfully play-fully bid her guess. "Candy? Cigars? Neckties?" No, it was none of these. Just as she was about to venture a fourth guess there was a muffled sound from the interior of the pacakge and then a loud clang that resounded weirdly weird-ly through the car. The young man blushed, the young lady giggled, and the passengers roared. It seemed a though the thkg would never stop, and it didn't until the disgusted youth hnr d it to the nthrr end nf tha nar.-" |
