Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1897 — The Deal Was Off. [ARTICLE]

The Deal Was Off.

“Yes,” said the lawyer to a woman, “I can get you a divorce, the ground that your husband’s whiskers don’t match the pug being quite sufficient; but it is my duty to state that under the present law you cannot marry again for a year.” The woman thought an Instant. “You need not, trouble about the divorce,” she remarked. “Perhaps I can get my husband to dye his whiskers.”—San Francisco Examiner. A St. Bernard was sold for ?2,“b0 at the Birmingham,- England, dog show. This Is said to be the highest price ever paid for a St. Bernard at auction.