Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — Our Man About Town. [ARTICLE]

Our Man About Town.

Discusses Sundry and Other Matters.

One of our citizens insists on drinking his coffee oat of a saucer, with a report like the wind blowing through a oraok in an old barn door. When the members of the family try to reason with him and get him to do in Rome as the Romans do, he says: "If saucers are not used to drink oat of, what are they for?” And so he continues to drink out of his saucer because that is what he says it was made for. V The barbers will tell you that there is hardly any hair oil used anymore. A few years ago, you could not go into a barber shop without the barber saying when he was done, ’’Have a little oil?” If they say that now is it a sign that you are green looking and the barber thinks you look as if you would use hair oil. *** We heard a new one the other day. It was about a man of whom it is said he takes a bath in a baking powder can lid. V A Front street man puts on a collar at the beginning of the week and never removes it till the following Sunday when he changes shirts. He never even takes if off to go to bed bat sleeps with his collar and necktie on. H|s wife says he does that so that in case of a fire he would not be suddenly called out too quiok to get his collar and necktie on. * *

One of our neighbors has a dog thatlooks so lazy that one wonld not expect him to fight fleas, but his owner says he is. a great fighter. He flghtß every dog that comes along. There is not a day that he is not in a fight with some of the neighbors’ dogs, and all that saves the owner of the dog 1b the fact that he invariably gets licked. A s long as the neighbors’ dogs whip his dog they do not object to the fighting. *** A man in this town says he does all his studying in bed. In the daytime he is so busy that he has no time to think, so after he goes to bed be does all bis real fine thinking and scheming of what he intends to do. It seems sometimes as if,-some people never went to bed. V A couple of mutual friends in this town have an arrangement whereby if one of them sees the other being talked to death by a certain old bore, the friend cajls him to one side as if on important business. If the case is reversed, the same thing is done. In that way they manage to save lots of time. When you are talking to a man and another calls your listener away, are you sure that he really has some business, or is be merely doing it to save your auditor from being bored to death? V We heard a man say the other day, "A man never gets too old to learn.” We were glad to hear that, since the old man who said it never has been able to learn much and we had about given np hope. * * «* A man came to town the ether day and tried to bay a pair of gloves. He went to every glove store in town and had to give it np. He could not find any gloves big enough. How wonld you like to give him a hand ont? V An old couple in this town who have lived together many years in apparent harmony, get along in a queer way. When the old lady gets a meal she' never calls her hnsband, but sits down to the table and eats and when the old man getsready he drops in and eats his meal. They are never seen together even at meal time. V One of our friends says when he wants a good sleep he always goes to a strange churoh Sunday and he doesn’t care which church it is. He feels when he is in somebody else’s church he is not responsible for what goes on, so he can sleep all he wants to, and he goes and enjoys himself.