Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — Dyed for Love. [ARTICLE]

Dyed for Love.

As the evening train on one of our roads arrived :ast evening, an excited individual, evidently aboring under several potations of the ardent, was seen to emerge from one of the curs and afte l landing on terra firms commenced a search for a barber shop. After searching fc so > e time and finding no striped pole or other sign to guide him to the domain of atcDoorial pro'e.-sor he was reduced to the necessity of enq iringf rone. A railroader wh m ha acosted seeing from the dress end general appearance of the enquirer tha' he h.d just shaken the duet o* the old farm from his feet to investigate the hau> Is of the elephant in the star city, inf mediately offered to do all in his power for him and escorted him to the telegraph office in the depot. The stranger informed the operators that he wan ed bis mustache dyed. The aforesaid mastiche was a regular cricket eleven on a side, an t looked like the fuzz on the back of a caterpillar. The operator told him that it did not need dyeing, as it would soon die of itsself. Country failed to see the point, aud too green to discover his mistake, ordered them to color his lip ornament. The wags finally mixed up some oil and ink, and in a short time the imbecile hair factory was as gorgeously colored iu funeral-black as his heart cou d wish, lie rose from the chair a new man, and even the charge of two dollars made b,* the waggish operators did not anger him in the least, but, paying his bill he depnrte i,a smile beaming over his cou itenance like the summer sun’s firstrays on the vugin m rn. Vie pr - sume the capillary or aitnent on the top of’ his hash elevator is still in mourning.— Lafayette Courier.