Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — Logic in a Printing Office. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Logic in a Printing Office.

Devil clearing up "pi”—jour, trying to adjust a stickiul of “squabbled matter.” D vil remarks that a printer ought to have more than two hands, since their duties are ’so unlimited. Jour, having received his •bro ghten up” under the ‘old dispensation" : sees no necessity of an addition to the number of his ‘’lioukets,” and fiercely quotes the i incontrovertible maxim that “No cat has I two tails.” I Devil— “ Granted. But you will admit th.it a cat has one tail more than no cat.” Jour.—“Certainly.” ; Devil—“ Then a cat must have three tails.” i J >ur. —“How so!” \ Devil—‘Becans, if ‘no cat has two tails ’ and a cat has one more tail than no cat, then it must have three tails ” Jour, “caves.” ♦ k Re kuH nun's” I'artr. “What party do you belong to now, Bill!” ; said Joe, the other day. “I belong to the. Know, no— ! he American, no—the Dime , ho—the—hanged es I haint forgot, Jec. What sort of a varmint was it you ketched t’other nite Btealin’ your chickens!” “An Oppossum.” “That’s it, Joe, that's it! Op-op—wbat did you cali it!” “Opp issutn.” “It was som’thin’like Op. ossum.” ‘ Opposit : >,” said Joe. “I know.! it were s imetbin’er other. My party changes so often, diirn my buttons es : I ken keep up. It’s thesarne party that Mr. I Jennies Bokannan belongs to.”

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1839.