Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — Chinaman's Books. [ARTICLE]

Chinaman's Books.

A Chinaman merchant in a California town, not knowing his customers by name, used the following system for keeping his accounts: Red shirt man $27 00 Man comes 1ate..... 10 00 Fat Frenchman 30 02 Whiskers man 0 25 Whiskers man's friend (5 25 Lame leg man 40 00 Fat man 9 25 Old workman 8 (X) Red whiskers 7 50 Steamboat man 10 00 (let tight man 7 00 In the InstMustnuce the quaint storekeeper lias used n hit of American slaug, which Is, nevertheless, expressive. The word druukenness had evidently not been tulded to ids vocabulary at that time.