Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — No Fool Like, Etc. [ARTICLE]

No Fool Like, Etc.

“None, except those in costumes, cat enter,” said a masquerader to an old gentleman who was about to enter the ball-room. “Nonsense! I am too old to put or the fool’s cap and bells, ” exclaimed, the old man. “Isn’t that your wife, that young woman there in the light costume?” asked the first speaker. “Why, to be sure it is. * “Then you needn’t be afraid to pul on the cap and bells, for they will sis you admirably,” returned the'young man. —Texas Siftings. Here is a pebble which everybody ie flinging at everybody else: Some people give according to their means, qf& era according to their meanness.