Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — Anomalous. [ARTICLE]

Anomalous.

In Bostonl encountered a parrot one <*ay. “Polly wants a cracker!” I observed, thinking nothing. “Your language Is extremely anomalous!” replied the bird, severely. “Polly is colonial, while cracker, in the sense of biscuit, la distinctly postbellum. Moreover, I am not conscious of wanting a cracker. I wouldn't mind a plate of pork-and, however!” } The fowl’s scholarly dignity was ,what Impressed me particularly.—Detroit Journal.