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Show CUT RATE FOR AN AMERICAN i Judge Donnelly's Amusing Experience With the Sharp Irish Cab Driver In Dublin. Chief Justice Joseph O. Donnelly of ' the civil court. In Illustrating an Irishman's Irish-man's Idea of wit, toid a story of an udventure with an Irish hack driver In Dublin, relates the Milwaukee Wlscon-, Wlscon-, sin. "I asked him how much be would take to drive me to Hotel ," he said. "The driver looked at me and said: 'You are from the states, aren't you?' 1 answered yes. "'Well,' be said, 'since you are from the states, and I've driven nothing but . Englishmen all day, I'll drive you to ' the hotel for three shillings.' "As I thought that was reasonable, I got into the hack. We drove on and on for hours, over hills and across streams, until we finally got to the hotel. While driving, I wondered at the dlffermie between this back driver and those In America, and wondered won-dered what an American hack driver would aay if I were to hand him three shillings for such a long ride. "I went to bed and slept sound that night. When I woke up early In the morning, I went down and out on tbe front steps. I almost fainted, for directly di-rectly In front of the hotel was the self same depot that I arrived at on the train. I suppose the hack driver ' thought be was having a pile of fun L while driving me around the city and teMMtfjaatfjitMfc sy'fc .iitr-,-pJ,rt...i . |