Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — The Retort Erudite. [ARTICLE]

The Retort Erudite.

A famous scholar, whose hobby was the derivation of words, had occasion ’to store his furniture while proceeding to the continent in quest of the origin of the term “juggins. During his researches in Berlin he received from the warehouse company the following letter: "Sir—We have the lonor to inform you that the mattrass you sent to our store had the moth In it. Since the epidemic would expose the goods of other clients to injury, we have caused your mattrass to be destroyed.” The scholar replied: "Dear Sir— My mattress may, as you say, have had moth in it, but I am confident that it had an ‘e’ in it also.”—London King.