Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — On Even Terms. [ARTICLE]

On Even Terms.

Haussmann, the celebrated French administrator, who may almost be said to have mide Paris a new city, used to relate the following anecdote by way of illustrating the feeling of many country gentlemen towara the prefects: One of these gentry entered the prefect’s office, having some c molaint to make, and proceeded to state his errand in a pretty lofty tone, and without taking off his hat. The officer was e jual to the occasion. “Wait a moment,” he said, and he rang a bell. A servant answered the summons. “Bring me my hat,"said the prefect. The hat wa < bi-ought, the officer put it on, and turned to his caller. “Now,” said he,will hear you.” The hygienic congress at Buda-Pesth brought out the fact that there are four times as many men who stammer as there are women so afflicted. Massachusetts is raid to be the great shce producing commonwealth of the world.