Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Smart Scientist. [ARTICLE]

Smart Scientist.

The scientist had given a very scientific lecture, and at the end he said, beaming down on his audience condescendingly 2 “Now, if there is any scientific question that any of my friends would like to ask, I beg them not to hesitate. I shall be only too happy to answer any inquiry in my power.” An old lady in spectacles that gave her a severe, stern look, rose and said: “Why do wet tea leaves kill cockroaches?” The scientist did not know that wet tea leaves did anything of the kind, much less the cause of the phenomenon; but, never at a loss, he replied: “Because, madam, when a cockroach comes across a wet tea leaf, he says: ‘Hello, here’s a blanket,’ and wraps himself up in It, catches cold, and dies.” —Tit Bits.