Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE [ARTICLE]

NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE

Foolish I* the Humorist Who Would Insist That This "Has Never Been Sprung Before.” [a reader of the Docketrin New York city .cut' out the item relating to the dlsolution of partnership, in which one partner makes the statement that "those who owe the firm will settle with him, and those that the firm owes will settle with Mose,” and sends it back to us with this notation: “This was an old chestnut when I lived in To this charge we enter a plea of confession and avoidance. We contend that the.courts will take judicial notice of the fact that there is nothing new under tlje sun, and in our judgment the jokesmith is well within his rights in resurrecting a joke which was old in 1855. The incident brings to mind the following story: “The editor of a Minnesota newspaper back in the 'Bos concocted the following: 'Yon Yonson put four sticks of dynamite in the *tove last Sunday to thaw them out. The bandies were nickel plated and only cost |lo.”' A professor of English literature in an eastern university wrote a .very interesting article on this joke, claljnlng that it represented a distinctly American brand of humor, and that it could not have happened in any other country or at any other time. But alas for the professor of English literature —for there is nothing new under the sun. Reference to II Chronicles, Chapter 15, Verses 12 and 13, produces the following! 12. And Asa In the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. 13. And Asa slept with his fathers. —West’s Docket.