Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Able Liars. [ARTICLE]

Able Liars.

The Sazarae Lying Club meetings arc reported in the Austin (Nev.) Reveille. The members are very able liars, according to what we read about them. One of them stood up in a recent meeting and said: “The telegraph company are now using the quadruplex system over the Virginia and Salt Lake circuit, by means of which four messages can be sent simultaneously over a single wire. The increased strain on the wire is not visible here in Austin, but I was out at Dry creek yesterday, and in that vicinity the wire was just humping itself, and groaning and straining, and dropping words off in chunks. I examined the wire and found a knot in it, and came to the conclusion that a quadruplex message had struck the knot and got tangled up at that point. I tried to straighten the wire out, but a section of an account of a battle between the Turks and Russians struck me on the ear . and knocked me down, and I concluded that it was not advisable to fool with the thing. ”