Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1881 — Vassar Bread. [ARTICLE]

Vassar Bread.

A beautiful wrestler with chewing gum and mathematics at Yassar College sent to the President a loaf of bread of her own baking. When it reached the White House and was unpacked from the dainty tissue paper which surrounded it, the physician in attendance did not know what it was, and sent it to the Smithsonian Institute for examination and analysis. There the learned professor clawed over a whole library of geological works, not one of which threw any light upon the wonderful specimen. The School of Science at Paris was cabled, and for two days cablegrams flew thick and fast from one side of the great dampness to the other, and it was about decided that the specimen was a rock Heretofore unknown to geological science, when the delayed letter arrived from the fair baker announcing the forwarding of the adamantine delicacy. It was sawed into pieces, wWph are now used in the

various Governmental departments as unique paper weights.— Detroit Free Press.