Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1879 — Not “ Slippered ” Ease. [ARTICLE]

Not “ Slippered ” Ease.

One of our printers, returning home the other evening after a hard day’s work, concluded he would have a quiet smoke, and proceeded to incase his feet in a pair of slippers. He slipped off his shoes and put one foot in, but that foot hadn’t been in the slipper but a half second when it was jerked out with such force as to knock the table over and demolish five chairs; at the same- time he let out a howl of anguish of such intensity that several gentlemen rushed in, expecting to find some one in the clutches of a foul murderer, but instead found the printer dancing one of Strauss’ select waltzes on one foot, while his arms were going round like a windmill. They advanced on him to investigate the phenomenon, when a wasp took one of the gentlemen behind the ear, completely routed the relief committee, and settled the question then and there. There was a whole family of wasps in that slipper, fortified for winter. —Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf.