Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Not the Same Genesis. [ARTICLE]

Not the Same Genesis.

A German Hebrew professor had five daughters, whom the students called Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. One day the professor began his lecture by saying ■ “Gentlemen, I wish to speak to you to-day about the age of Genesis,” which remark was greeted with a burst of feet scuffing and a general smile on the part of the class. The professor, thinking that his subject was being appreciated, continued, with a still firmer note in his voice “Genesis is not so old as some of you suppose.” This was greeted with such a burst of merriment that the professor had plenty of time, before it quieted down, to think what should be his next remark. And this, after all, was not so wide of the matter. “I may not be thinking of the same Genesis that you are.”

The postmaster’s boy and the professor’s boy were playing together. A question of precedence arose, and the professor’s boy exclaimed: “You ought to let me go first! My father’s an A. M.” “Huh!” replied his companion. “That’s nothing. My father’s aP. M.” —Harper’s Young People.