Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — The Colonel’s Resolution. [ARTICLE]

The Colonel’s Resolution.

Col. Kaintuck—“l want you to makeme a wine-glass of peculiar pattern. It must be shaped like an hour-glass, only I want it closed in the middle and open at both ends. ” Manufacturer—“ All right, sir. Any hurry for it?” Col. Kaintuck—“l must have it by next Thursday. lam going to a banquet on that day, and 1 resolved last-New-Year’s that hereafter when the wine came round to turn my glassdown.”—New York Weekly.