Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — Wanted Information. [ARTICLE]

Wanted Information.

At eleven o'clock the other night a policeman on Beaubien street came upon a man pounding vigorously on the door of a dwelling-house, and he asked what he wanted there. The pounder was pretty well set up. He descended the steps, went close np to the officer, and softly whispered in his ear: “It’s my—my own abode, and I w-want to get in.” “ But why don’t you call out?” asked the blue coat. “B-b3cause Idon’t want to g*give myself away. I want to get into the house b-before the jawing commences. I want my wife to think it’s s-somebody eke.” “Well, go ahead; but don’t arouse the neighbors-” The officer sauntered on; but in about ten minutes he encountered the tipsy citizen on the other side of the block. The man was thoroughly drenched with cold water, and had met his bat. . “Hello! didn't you get in?” “N-not quite.” * “Couldn't awaken your wife, eh?” “ The t-trouble was,” whispered the man, as a bte shiver galloped over him, “ the t-trouble wae that she was awake all the t-time!” “ And she delnged you from a secondstory window?” ’ ' “ l-Tm not ’zactly dear as to whether it util a thunder-shower or only a pitcher of w-water, and I thought I’d n- hunt you up and ask you if th*thunder showers ever come in the night, and if lightning ever knocks a p-peffect gentleman off his own door steps?”— 1 Detroit free trm.