Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 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 in full very shortly, as you are my principal creditor, and the rest of my liabilities are scarcely worth mentioning,’ etc., etc. I want you to make thirty copies of this letter, and send them to the addresses given in this list.” Merchant (nextday) —“Well, did you attend to that little matter?” Clerk—“O, yes: but to save trouble I had the letters lithographed before sending them off.” — Humoristishe Blaetter. A few days ago, in the course of some excavations at the Acropolis, Athens, near the Erectheum, three statues of women, in an excellent state . of preservation, half as large again as life, with large heads, and completely colored, were discovered. They belong to the Eeriod before Phidias, are delicately nlshcd, and are of pn prelude art, aajnirably preserved,