Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — Inspiration Gone. [ARTICLE]

Inspiration Gone.

Friend—How are you succeeding at your joke writing, Somberlie? Sr mherlie (the humoi jet) V er j well, but lam afr ill slia’i ’t continue iUJJg so. “Why not?”. “Weil, you see, it’s just this way. I write my best jokes when I’m feeling Lluest, when my manuscripts are returned, for instance; but now the editors accept my jokes so readily that I don’t feel blue enough to write more.” —Yankee Blade. An Ohio clergyman surprised his congregation last Sunday by making the following announcement: “I would remind you, brethren, that the collection plate is not a nickol-iu-the-slQt machine, and that a few bills would come in very handy in the work of the church.” The man who is so busy that has ti> time to laugh a vacation.