Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — Ho Did Not Advertise. [ARTICLE]

Ho Did Not Advertise.

A nervous-looking man went into a store the other day and sat down for half an houi or go, when a clerk asked if there was anything she could do for him. He said no: he didn’t want anything, She went away, and he sat there half an hour longer, when the proprietor went to him and asked if he wanted to be shown anything. ”No,” said the nervous man; “I just wanted to sit around. My physician has recommended perfect quiet for me, and says, above all things 1 must avoid being in crowds. Noticing that you did not advertise in the newspapers, I thought this would be as quiet a place as I could find, so I just dropped iu for a few hours of complete isolation.” The merchant picked up a bolt of paper cambric to brain him. but tne man went out ” He said all he wanted was a quiet life. Lots of Ladies’Dre»s Goods. Cash, meres, etc., handsome m style, extra in quality, and lower in pi ice than any «ver heretofore offered in this market. Call and see, at Ralph Fendig’s. A poor Irishman applied foi relief, and upon some doubts ed as to whether he was a proffer Object for relief, he enforced his suit with much earnestness. “Och.Jyer Honor,” said he, “I’d been starved long since but for me cat.” “But for what?” asked the astonished magistrate. “Me cat,” replied the Irishman. “Your cat? How so?” “Oc-h. yet Honor. I sowld her eleven times for a quarter a time, and she was always at home before I could get t here meself.”