People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Queer. [ARTICLE]

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Mm C.—Doctor, you were aft the last illness of my eldest boy? Doctor—Yes. Mm o.—You also tended professionally my first husband, who died? Doctor—Yes. Mm C.—Well, my second husband is ill, and I would like you to see Him. —London Fun. Amateurs who undertake to lay a floor should remember that one-fifth more siding and flooring is needed than the number of square feet of surfaoe to be covered because of the lap in the siding. • ‘ The Erie canal, in Hew York, was the first artificial waterway begun in this country. Ground was. broken for this enterprise Jnly 4, 1817.