Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — A Foolometer. [ARTICLE]

A Foolometer.

Some visitors who were being shown over a pauper lunatic asylum inquired of their guide what method was employed to discover when the Inmates were sufficiently recovered to leuve. “Well,” replied he, “you see, it’s this way. We have a big trough of water and we turn on the tap. We leave It running and tell ’em to bail out the water with pails until they’ve emptied the trough.” “How does that prove It?” asked one of the visitors. “Well,” said the guide, "them as ain’t idiots turns off the tap.”—Boston Transcript.