Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — May Be Heard From Some Day. [ARTICLE]

May Be Heard From Some Day.

That necessity is the mother of invention was brought home to the writer during the recept construction of the cable road in Broadway. One of the workmen had occasion to wash his hands, and, as thbre was no water around except some in, a bucket for drinking purposes, the man found himself in a quandary. 1 After a moment’s thought he 'tilled the dipper, and, putting the end of the handle in his mouth, nodded his head up and down until the water fell in a little stream upon his hands, which he continued rubbing together until they were clean. Of course it was only a trifling circumstance,' but still how many men would have thought of such a way out of the difficulty unless they had previously seen it done.