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Show ERRORS OVCR THE 'PHONE. Same Are Anuslng, Others Humorous Oqe of the Latter. If. soma enterprising? gentleman should fcet to work to write a treatise entitled "Erroi's Over tho Telephone." he could find a suiflcloiicy or them in 'an) single community, sajs the Boston Bos-ton Herald Some of these are ralh-er ralh-er nnuojins; some cause .considerable Inllniitui. ns any person who-resoits to tho 'phono frequently can testify: and some, again, are so, funny In tlw.'r rrsula as (0 take away the ennovaiu-e tamed by tho blundering. One of the latter happened onrt evening last Week. The hour 1 ad ar-rlvcd ar-rlvcd when two men, professional as-BwldfoR as-BwldfoR and occupying the ami room In a prominent building, derided that they should' dine! To avoid llav. lug to wait for their meal when they reached the establishment Hipv Intend. ed to patronlc, Ihey dpclded'to order i It over the telephone. A couple of Mae steaks, with the i usual trimmings, we:e agiced upon, and the order therefoi -was made In duo form. Soon afterward v.llh good , appetites they entered their restaurant, res-taurant, t erythlng was ready, and the couiteous waiter cscoripd them to their table. The steaks wine already there two fine, large raw. sirloin "teaks- h , U i , Of course there, wasi a surprise. . -Hows this?" said ono'of the gentlemen. gentle-men. "What do you mean by setting beforo ii3 this raw meat? We're not In training for an arctic r-tp-vlltlon " "Beg paidnn, sir," said William the waiter: "that's nhat you outer? 1 oy-.-r tin 'plion?.' Both. of tha patrons understood a once. They had o-dered lare steaftB, and the.ordei as. the ch6p houss people peo-ple got It from the telephone was raw11 steak . The mistake was not sri serious se-rious as to put either of the gentlemen gentle-men In a ba I humor. The waiter was the only one who felt- put out about It. and he ismarked sub rosa (ft "himself "him-self as he can led the stea'is bar' to be broiled: "Blast them telephones, anyhow." ' , |