Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1889 — A Bright Youth! [ARTICLE]

A Bright Youth!

A young man named George, of Exeter, Pa., was sent on an errand across the river several days ago, and the bridge being so far off lie went to the riverside and found a boat. It had no oars, however, so he decided to swim, leaving his clothes in the boat. On getting across he realized that he Avas not properly attired to go shopping, and he was too exhausted to swim back. He therefore lay in the shrubbery to rest. Five hours later he was found there fast asleep by a searching party, who had found his clothes and startled the town with a report that he was drowned. A seedt individual being told that his coat “looked as if it hadn’t had a nap in a dozen years,” replied: “I beg your pardon, but this coat has been lying in my wardrope two and twenty years till to-day, and that’s time enough to have had a good long nap.” The doctors are doing their best to convince the public that ice-water is dangerous. Perhaps it is, but then so are whisky and toy pistols and matrimony, and lots of things.—Washington Critic.