Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Our Man About Town. [ARTICLE]

Our Man About Town.

i m Discusses I Sundry , and j Other ■ Matters.

It is said that 1900 cents |are now worth sl9. Have you that many about you ? • • * A man in this town has not worn a vest in thirty-five years. He hash’t owned one for thirty years till the other day. he said he bought one to wear to church. • « There are a good many people in this town who are said to subscribe for anything that they can subscribe for on time. Anything that is cash, they will not sign. * * * We heard a man say the other day that “Land is getting valuabier all the time.” But we didn’t say anything about the comparison of adjectives by adding “more” and “most.” It was not our put-in. *> We know a man in this town who won’t work as long as he has a cent. As quick as he is busted and hasn’t a penny, he will look for work and keep going till- he has a few dollars, then he quits til) it is all spent again, lie is a good workman, And can have work all the time if he wants it. He evidently cannot stand prosperity. *** “You can say just what you’ve a mind to,” we heard a man say the other day, “no poor man can afford to have beef steak every day when it’s worth fifteen cents a pound; you bet your life we cut it out at our house.” Then he took a big chew of tobacco “like a gentleman,” and planked down sixty cents to pay for the drinks for the crowd. * * * The brick in the gutters of the new streets are being torn up in places this week and relaid, in order to give the proper fall to t lie water. Rock is also being hauled on Van Rensselaer street to fill up- low plac<-s in the gutters that the water may run off. The council should ba in no hurry about accepting the biiek streets. Better wait until they are satisfied that the work is satisfactory. « * • There is a woman in this town who has several children, and like all children, they get mischievous upon oocasion. Regularly, at stated intervals, she takes the entire lot and licks them. Then she lets them run till next licking time, and then they catch it again, whether they need it or not. In this way slio keeps up a good balance and all get tlu-ir deserts, since she figures that all deserve punishment about so often. •* * * A man in an adjoining county gave his son-in law SB,OOO as a wedding gift. He was a stingy cuss, the son in-law was, but a poor manager. In about a year the man asked his sonin law what he had done w'th the money. He said: “I have bought property with it.” “Well,” said the man, “What did you bny?” “O, I bought a cow and—” “What else?” asked the old man. And the son inlaw couldn’t think of another thing, which mkde the old man mad, and everybody who heard about it concluded that an SB,OOO cow must have been a pretty fine one. * * • « One of the school boys in the second year is growing wise. The other day his mother gave him maternal correction for some mischief he had been into. She administered it in the only way that maternal correction can be given, and on the only spot. The kid yelled at every blow as if he were in death agonies. The tenner hearted mother was really somewhat distressed, and lay awake awhile that night forgiveness for her harshness. The next day she overheard him telling a neighbor kid that it didn’t hurt half as much as he let on, but it was a good trick to work on his for it stopped the licking. That night his mother slept like a log. Mr. C. F. Brown, with Percival B. Palmer & Co.’s full line of cloaks and walking skirts, will be at Murray’s Store Friday and Saturday, October 18th and 19tb, and will take orders for special garments.