Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — Practical Information. [ARTICLE]

Practical Information.

“What is rack rent, dad?” inquired a young Comstocker who had been reading the news from Ireland. The patient parent laid down the stock list and replied: “Do you know how much I charge Mr. Boggarty for his room up-stairs?” •‘Yessir; sl2 a month.” “Well, now, suppose Mr. Boggarty should take it into his head to have, at his own expense, new paper put on the wall, the ceiling whitened, and all the furniture mended, the room would look a heap sight prettier, wouldn’t it ?” “Lor’l” murmured the intelligent boy. “Well, if the minute Boggarty had got all these improvements made I should go up, and look around, and smile, and jingle my money in my pocket, and remark, ‘ This is a pretty good sort of a layout for a single man, Boggarty, and you have altogether too soft a thing; your rent will be S2O a month hereafter,’ what would you think of it ?” The innocent child giggled and said, “That would be cheek, wouldn’t it, dad?” “Bet your money on it, my boy,” replied the father, beaming kindly upon his offspring. “That would be ravkrenting Mr. Boggarty, and if he kicked and claimed that all the improvement* had been made by him without costing me a cent, and I should fire him out, that would be eviction. I will now,” continued the parent, warming up, “ briefly review the history of Ireland for the past 700 years. When Brian Borhu— ” But his son had fled.— Virginia City Chronicle.