Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — He Saved the Pieces. [ARTICLE]

He Saved the Pieces.

_ A Pittsburg darky was struck a terrific blow upon the head with a whole briok. The stricken one didn’t say a word until he had gathered into his hat every fragment of the unfortunate brick, when he calmly remarked to his assailant: “Dese yer fragments is each wuf & day fur you in de workhouse; You can’t ’suit my feelin’s wid infumity, I can tell yer, boss.” —Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegrap h. It costs $3,000,000 a year to support the ohnrches in New York City.