Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — FACT AND FANCY. [ARTICLE]

FACT AND FANCY.

A bee can ouflty a pigeon. Tact is good taste in action. A horse has no eyebrows. Whisky takes out fruit stains. Cartridges pass as money in Abyssinia. All tenors are lunatics, except about money. The oysters you eat are on an average 12 years old. ’K Everything comes to those who work while they wait. Besides gathering no moss, a rolling stone goes down hill. The hand that finds the boodle is the hand that runs the show. Youth hops one inch sideways and thinks It has leapt a mile ahead. If love levels all things, why are there so few level-headed lovers? The man who marries happily may be said to be transported for life. It is a breach of etiquette for a Chinaman to wear spectacles in society. Locomotives are called “she” on account of the horrible noise they make when they try to whistle.