Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — WHAT I KNOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHAT I KNOW.

I kno yu Normel fellers an fellerses air kep purty bisy studyin spelin, reden, ritin, gografy an sich, but there never wus a man or woman so btezy thet tha couldn’t find time tu see ißum gerl or feller llhet him or bur hiked better’n enny body else; and wen a pusson gits in sich a fix the’r no humjn es they don’t hev a desire , tu mak tbe obgeo itiv (her chois hap-

pee by given etn somthin nise wen the holierdays cum. Now I calculate tbe most indurin presint yu kiu make is a year’s subscriptin tu the Rensselaer Rrpublikin. Fiioaoficly speekin It Is the best noospapir ever printed in this town. Politikaly an morally it is korrect.an it hes a hankerin arter the biznis *f our kounty, an give us' the kream off the local noos. It’s dirt cheep at fl 50 per annim.