Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Sneezing. [ARTICLE]

Sneezing.

According to a Rabbinical legend, sneezing, as a habit, is only referable to the time of Jacob. Before patriarchal days no one sneezed more than once; for the sufficient reason that the shock was invariably fatal. At Jacob’s intercession this law was abrogated, but only on condition that all races of men should thenceforth employ fit words of congratulation for the sneezer’s happy deliverance.

A PHiuANTHKoric farmer of Mt Carmel, Conn., offered some time ago to “deliver free of expense during the month of October fifty bushels of apples to deserving poor families providing the members of families do not use intoxicating liquor or tobacco or keep a dog." Nine got their apples.