Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — Not Contagious. [ARTICLE]

Not Contagious.

“What were you laughing at so loudly this evening?” asked Mrs. Brown, when her husband came up stairs to bed. “I was telling that old schoolmate of mine a very funny story.” “But I didn’t hear him laugh.” “No,” growled the old man, “that fellow is an ass.”— New York Sun.