Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Queer German Habit. [ARTICLE]

Queer German Habit.

The men of Berlin have an old habit of brushing and combing their hair and whiskers In puhllc. In the restaurants and cases men pull out their implements and “spruce up" while waiting for their orders to be filled. They do not take the trouble to leave the table, either. /“By the way, did old Blggers tell you about my telling him some unpalatable truths?’ “He didn’t put it that way* He said you told him things that were pretty hard to swallow.”—lndianapolis Journal. It hr lucky for some people that aU collector* are not as troublesome with their bills as mosquitoes are.