Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — Appropriate Inscription. [ARTICLE]

Appropriate Inscription.

A Massachusette book agent, who was wearing a small, circular piece of court plaster on his face, removed it while shaving and replaced it when his toilet was complete. Contrary to his usual experience as he went about his business during the rest of the day, he was everywhere received with smiles, which grew broader and broader, until at last somebody laughed in his face.

Led by this to look in the glass, he was somewhat taken back to discover that, instead of the court plaster, he had affixed to his face a little round printed label, which had fallen from the back of a new mantle elock purchased the day before, and which bore the appropriate inscription, “Warranted solid brass.”