Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — How Mr. Culver Saluted a Stranger. [ARTICLE]

How Mr. Culver Saluted a Stranger.

Mr. Culver, on Nelson street, got out his hose to sprinkle the road in front ot the house, Friday evening. He dragged the hose to the front and put the muzzle on the fence, and then hastened down to the cellar to turn the water on. Just as he disappeared in the door an elderly couple, accompanied by a young lady, appeared around the comer and approached the premises of Mr. Culver. The gentleman was swinging a gold-headed cane and discoursing on the beauty of the evening and the trimness of the cottages they were passing. “Now, that place,” observed the old gentleman, stopping exactly opposite the nozzle, which none of the party observed, and pointing at Mr. Culver’s pretty house, “is a place which just suits my eye. It is not too large nor too small. It has the requisite amount of room inside and outside. The yard is a model of—r-” And just at that unhappy instant the water was turned on by the unconscious Mr. Culver, and, the old gentleman’s beaming face being in exact range with the dreadful nozzle, the stream struck Mm with such blinding force as to knock him completely off the walk, and he went over backward into the street, bare-headed, swinging his cane in the air, and vehemently sputtering: “Ooh, Kawwish,boo, dosh, wicherwish, goo-woo, thunder and lightning I M-U-r-4-CT!’ '—Jkmbwry News.