Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — Too Clever by Half. [ARTICLE]

Too Clever by Half.

Merchant (to clerk)— “Here, I have just written out the following letter: •Dear Sir: As respects the amount for which I am indebted to you, I beg to state that I intend to pay :n full very shortly, as you are my principal creditor, and the rest of my liabilities are scarcely worth mentioning,’ etc., etc. 1 want you to make thirty copies of this letter, and send them to the addresses given in this list.” Merchant (next day) —“Well, did you attend to that little matter?” Clerk—“O, yes: but to save trouble 1 bad the letters lithographed before sending them off.”—lJumoristishe HlaetUr.

1 umiay morniiig, about half past seven o’clock, ns Mr. Emmet Kaniial was driving his herd of six valuable cows to a pasture lot north of town, and was just crossing the railroad near M. L. Spitler’s residence, the belated morning express train from the south came along at a fearful rate of speed, and before Mr. Kannal could hurry all the cows across, the engine caught two of them. One was jammed head first into the ditch on ihe left and the oihei was canied nearly a hundred feet, and then Hung clear to the fence beside the track, to the right. Strange to say neither cow avus killed out-right nor were any bones of either broken, but both are badly bruised and beaten, and perhaps will die of internal injuries. At the great National Stock Show just closed in New York City, the Caton stock farm, Joliet, 111. herd of horses, headed by Don Cossack, carried away more prize money than any other exhibit made, and the great 2 year old oolt J\ ih(j Cossaik, full bn ther to Royal Cossack, owned in-trar town, carried off the most valuable single premium offered, consisting of three hundred dollars cash and a veiy valuable piece ol plate worth three hundred dollars, offer d for the best 2 year old of the show. King Cossack has won every first premium for which he has contended, amongst them being thefirst at Chicago, St. Louis and New York for y< ars 1885 and 1886