Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Mad at the Editor. [ARTICLE]

Mad at the Editor.

A veteran editor tolls in tlie Boston Traveller how he lost two of his subscribers: No. J, a happy father of twins, wrote to inquire the best way to get tho:n safely over their teething, and No. 2 wanted to know how to protect his or chard from the myriads of grasshoppers. The editor framed his answers upon tho orthodox lines, but unfortunately transposed their two. names, with the result that No. 1, who was blessed with twins, road in reply to his query: “Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to them, and the little pests, after jumping about in tho flames a few minutes, will spoodily bo settled.” While No. 2, plagued with grasshoppers, was told to “Give a little castor oil, and rub their gums gently with a bone ring.”