People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — GEMS OF WIT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF WIT.

If self-conceit were taxable there wouldn’t be standing room for all the humility. , A brass band can put more life into an old nag in a minute than a ten-acre oat field in a week of Sundays. The man who depends upon the spur of the moment often discovers that particular moment hasn’t any spur. “How about the new cook? Does she make your favorite dishes now?” Mrs. Newed—“No, but she breaks a lot of them.”