Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — It Had Its Effect. [ARTICLE]

It Had Its Effect.

“You are much taller than you were a year ago,” said a gentleman to a friend. “Yes, I have reformed; that makes me taller.” “And how is that ?” “Well, as I have reformed, I have become, necesearilv, more upright.”— Carl Pretzel’s Weekly.

An eminent scientific man lately paid a visit to an old college chum, a minister in Perthshire. The minister being asked about the visit, said: “He came to see me here some time ago and stayed a day or two. He is terribly unsound.” “ You had a tough argument, I dare say. ” “ ’Deed had we; he is awful clever, and we sat up half the night debating. He is awful unsound.” “But you felt that you had the best of the argument, didn’t you?” “Weel, I am not verra sure that I made much impression—he is awful clever ; but I was upsides in the mornin’.” “How?” “I pat him in til my prayer.”