Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1890 — An Experiment That Failed. [ARTICLE]

An Experiment That Failed.

A few years ago two well-known wi iters in the neighborhood of Harvard College endeavored to evince a practical turn. They lived near each, other—so near that when the water in the supply pipes in the house of one was frozen they conceived the idea of introducing the much-needed fluid before the plumber arrived by conveying it from the house of the other in an ordinary rubber hose. The weather was of the zero> kind, and the same cold that froze the water in the leaden pipes within the house froze the water in the rubber hose which lay upon the snow without. It is hardly necessary to add that a mass of icy snow and a broken hose were the only results of this novel aqueduct.— San Francisco Argonaut. Bloomer : Which do you prefer, beer or champagne? Blossom: It all depends. Bloomer: On what? Blossom? Who pays for it.