Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — She Took Him at His Word. [ARTICLE]

She Took Him at His Word.

He (11:15 p. m.) —Why, I’d do anything in the world for you! She (yawning)—You will ? Then for heaven’s sake sneak home. I’m sleepy. —Texas Siftings. Sleeping, or taking tobacco on the “Lord’s Day in the time of the public exercises,” in 1662, was punished by the authorities of Portsmouth, N. H., with imprisonment in a cage. Exhobtek—“Brother, do vou want to be saved?” Young Broker (absentmindedly)—"Anything in it ?” Speaking of hydropathic cures, it strikes us that well water ought to be good for nek people,