Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1876 — Forced To Be a Liar. [ARTICLE]

Forced To Be a Liar.

\ An agent for the sale of a now kerosene lamp-chimney called into ahouse on Chestnut street the other day to make a sale. He satisfied the woman drat If good tiling, and then she asked: “ How much kerosene will it save ? ’ “I think it will save some,” was his evasive answer. “What per cent, of fuel will it save?” she next demanded. “ Why—why—what has fuel to do with a kerosene lamp?” “All right, you can go,” she said. “ There was a man along here yesterday with a chimney which he warranted to save half the oil aud forty per cbnt. in fuel, and you can take your goods and go home I” He sold one of his chimneys in that house; but when he reached the street great beads of perspiration stood on his forehead, and he said f "She wanted to be lied to, and I lied, and now I’ve got to keep on lying add lose my soul for the sake of selling lamp chimneys!” — Detroit Free Press Gongs and cymbals, which have, up to within a few years past, been imported from China ana Turkey, are now mode at an establishment in Boston, the only one in the country, where from 800 to 400 gongs and 500 pairs cymbals per year are / produced. Cymbals of twelve and four teen inches diameter range in price firom $24 to $36, and gongs Bell at fifty cents per inch of diameter. Mbs. L. E. Cotton, of West Gorham, Me., reports, that last year she took 880 pounds of uoney from one blve, all in glass boxes, which she sold atthirty-three cents per pound. She fed the at cfc early. in spring to encourage early breeding, and kept it strong all through the season.