Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Cut Up the Wrong Hat. [ARTICLE]

Cut Up the Wrong Hat.

A Scotch university professor, Irritated* to find that his students had go<t) into the habit of placing tiheir bats and; canes on his desk, instead of in the 1 cloakroom, announced that the next ar-i tide of the kind placed there would bo destroyed. Some days later the professor was called for a moment from the classroom. A student slipped into his private room and emerged with the, professor’s hat, which he placed con-i spicuously on the desk, while his fellows grinned and trembled. The professor, on returning, saw the hat, thought some rashly obstinate student had been delivered into his hands, and, taking out his knife, he cut the offending article to pieces, while vainly attempting to conceal the smile of triumph that played about his countenance. He was in a very bad temper the next day.—Pittsburg News.