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Show Advice to the Lecturer. Pittsburg Times.) j A jovial looking man on a Jersey City to Pittsburg train drank frequently and deeply from a quart bottle, which he courteously cour-teously offered before each swig to his fellow passengers, one of whom, an ascetic as-cetic looking man, refused the bottle with scorn, and eventually delivered a lecture on temperance, ending with: "You take awful chances in clouding your brain with alcohol. When you again come into .possession of your normal nor-mal -senses, you may be in the gutter, you may be in prison, you may be in eternal punishment!"' - After the berths had been made up for the night, the jovial one staggered down the aisle, pulled aside the flap of that occupied by the lecturer, and asked: "Where; yoush goin', ol fel'r?" "Pittsburg" this severely. "Yoush didn't tip p-p-porter." "T never do. It's a bad practice." "Yo" take awful chances, ol' fel'r. in losin' your wits not tippin' porter. When you wake up, yoush may be in Pittsburg, yoush may be in Fort Wayne, yoush may be in Chi-Shicago:" |