Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — The Stupid Joke. [ARTICLE]

The Stupid Joke.

A napkin ring—Ring what?—Exchange. The above is the style of a joke that is making our beloved land the corral for a vast herd of idiots, who onght to be poisoned and thrown into the moaning sea. The class of facetious individuals who do not know enough to die of remorse is gradually inoreaSing. The country is cursed at present with a vast epidemic of this kind of mirth that makes perdition yawn. Most any kind of a criminal can be brained with a piano leg and thrown into the yielding bosom of a cranberry marsh, but how are you going to brain a man with a head like a peanut, and who don’t know a wedgewood joke from a moss-covered sarcophagus? How are yon going to brain a lardy-da man who ever knew what a brain was ? How can yon knock a poor worm of the dust senseless when he hasn’t been any other way since he was born? About the only way we see is to drain Lake Superior and then collect these gibbering idiots in the deepest place, spread about four acres of boiler iron over them, and then left the water back nto the lake.— Nye'ft Boomerang. He who tnrns against one who has done him personal favors and oft befriended him is worse than the one turned against, no matter how bad the latter may be. No patent required to catch the rheumatism. A cold and inattention to it, and yon have it—the rheumatism. We cure ours with St. Jacobs Qil«— Chicago Inter Ocean.