Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — KOMIK KUTTINGS. [ARTICLE]

KOMIK KUTTINGS.

Do our domestic poultry enjoy foul weather! ' Is it true that the cfane is so fond of . In which way does the elk generally a-moqee himself! . Where is game to beTotrad besides up- - ' WTftod that is part ridged » * When, hones are wounded in battle can t%y,be said to be horse de combat ! ' •Doe* the -polar hear at the menagerie ooasider his residence there an ice place! Some horses are said to resemble pigs* feet. Is this on account of their being trotters. '••••- • ’* Is it true that hares, in a domesticated state, ait down on chain, as well as “forms” f A Philadelphia girl who pads her Lathing suit says it is the safest and surest way to reform. Is it really the fact that tho-lynx can only be found along the chain of the Pyrenees ! A gang of commercial travelers, just arrived-, call themselves the > Corps. They beet the world,. f - : 4 It is a good thiog thaMhe collar of a/ stove pipe -don’t ne£d buttons, else the trouble would never end. « to call

he liked being driven, is it probable that snflwpw<tHM beUgH'W has a they are odher hansom for all that. o?tf pursued, stag- „ Tbis WHfiPlatt opmwtunitg for the BsHWUfefc k porter. ?dTto#Wtlod>faVitl#B4Nl much of an orator, but when he takes the stump and “An Indiana editor says: 'Coal oil rubbed dh me heel and head will cure hog cholera; we have tried it.* - Who can dispittejhstimmiy liro thatTJ’j •'*; Mi tftM b/ Ttfs 1 Mother to take a powder she had prepared for him—“powder, powder,” said he, putting on- a roguish smile, “mother 1 ain’t a gun.” ' v . ■ A Nebraska Indian contrived to swallow a lot of dynamite, and now he can stand, around the corner tod call a white man anything he choees without being kicked for his insolence. .They are shy of jarring hhh;e4wi;* “Not mueh. but every little helps;” says the Philadelphia newspaper man. who has been left $700,000, That amount of money would look large to almost everybody except newspaper men who make as much every w'eek of their liv^i; ‘I have left all of my fortune <0 my wife,”says the philosophic spouse: of a Xantippe, “on condition that she shall marry again-’’.” “What is that for!” “I wish to be sure that some one will regret my death when I am gone,”. Somebody says the “devil only came into the the world after woman Was placed here.” To which Susan B. ! “Anthony replies : “If there had been men in the world the devil would never have came into the crowd. He could have found better company at Toddiekins is a very small man indeed, byt k* MuHw *rver. pjiuded,ijt at *U, until his three; boys grew up'to be tall, straplHn£ young fMlo*s, aind bis' Wd began -to out down their old clothes and cut them over, to fit bun. , Andthenhe, said «ekmad. n . v tEbma gentlemen were remarklngban the entire absence of respmbjcnce between two brothers: “I consider them strikingly alike,” said Aneot thepprty. “AIUmT* exclaimed the astonished etoup;“\Viiiwhat likeness can you possibly see between them!” “Well they’re both* confounded jTools,” was the reply. Clubitc A. was telling A story. U> the club. Clubile 8., when it was finished, said: “Well, that reminds me et another anecdote,” and hg related it. , A-.thereup-on remarked: “I don’t see how what you have told us was recalled "by toy story “It was” replied 8., “because mme-uras on the same page of Joe Millcr aayjmrs.” He was lying in front of fopstpcm door when the Galveston merdhaht came out, and utirriug him up witH thb'foe of his Wot, he said: f’Are you, ,<kuak You bet f” “Then yoft move off fftmT& ere .” “Are you drunks* queried the inebriate “No; I am sober,” was* tiro .indignant response. “Theuyou Can move off from here a, blamed sight easier Huut.lcan.”

Spinster landlay: ?Thsn jrqn. andiiyour mamma want th&Afune rooms you had with.ms, hat my ried-aince last-year.” Spinster landlady sW4»«ii!a«pjsa be flfcd; you rihVer difi trie any bar*; poor dear!” ".Imhl I >■ '<>-.• e —■ J? * axi * ana'camro onore the triMnar Of correcpoUso., “Yog; khpw,hfawgqjread fortunesf r said,a man of treat wit, but rather fond olfc’ydkk for 4'muglMrate. “I do, sir" said -the scorer. “In this case,” HfThst wilh happen <0 yout” flloth“There 1a no dnnTJt about it.” “Why!” “Because*4»r. if U has been yonr attention jliso-»hSurt sk fussed toJii# brother idiges, and the sorcerer was discharged.