Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — The Man with a Conundrum. [ARTICLE]

The Man with a Conundrum.

“Why is my head like a match?” asked the customer of the barber who was shampooing him. “Is it because it feels light when it’s rubbed?" queried the slinger of the sude. “Just so,” said the patron. “And now,” he added, “why is my head like a brass door-knob ?” “Because it hasn’t much hair on it,” ventured the tonsorial artist. “No,” said the citizen, shaking liia head. A minute elapsed, when the hairbutcher absent-mindedly inquired: “Did you say head or cheek. Col*onel?” ,“I said head, you idiot!” shouted the conundrum victim, sitting upright, “and I meant that it got brighter the more it was rubbed, and I don’t want any insinuations.” The barber gontly apologized as he Baid: -“Look out, Colonel; I don’t want to feel that you are liable to lose your head, thus making it like an umbrella.” —New Yoi'k Commercial Advertiser .