Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Not a Successful Venture. [ARTICLE]

Not a Successful Venture.

i HT-w ' A romantic, but .designing, young IWto .on West Lake street proposed not long ago to a young woman on Congress street and was refused. He called again on Saturday aight, resolved to bring things to a focus, and haying once more proposed and being refused with the remark that “this sort of thing was placed,” drew a small vial from his pocket, struck an attitude, and crying, “pfjuel girl, thi* is your work!” 'swallowed its contents, hydrocyanate of* cold tea. Bis giri—or rather some one-, elsb’a girl—*was, however, by no means.'bf a K«uhntic ckkraclive for lief sake, ahd saying that she was a miserable wonian, and so urn,* as she would hare done in a play, she just caught him by the neck and ian him into the kitchen, yelling, “Maw,’maW, fhis blamed fool’S pizened himself; get atehe mustard and water ready for him as Soon as I can ‘ run kim up to the jjak so’s he won’t spoil the carpet.” Then she went back aid Smelled the bottle aid found that the cnriXrts were cold tea, and before that young man had been more than half filled with lukewarm mustard punch he and his hat and his overcoat were all cleaving the atmosphere together, and it isn't known to a certainty which, first hit the tree-tar before ths front doo*. He says he will never marry until he can find a woman with more heart and less muscle.— Chicago Tribute* i< i .>\ , \Uk L» n> .‘-b *«C