Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Popular Delusion. [ARTICLE]

Popular Delusion.

Boatoo Transcript. That milk is a compound of water, chalk and sheep’s stomach. Milk always conies from tlie cow—a great way from the cow. That bi ass band music is unpleasant to the ear. We know of a man who has lived for years next door to a band room and has never uttered one complaint in that time. He is a deaf mute. That railroads are intended for tlie penefit of corporations. They are intended, for the benefit of the people—the people who hold the majority of stock. Tliat a small boy bates an overcoat. He loves it so well that he dislikes to wear it out. That druggists^are extortionate in their prices. They pay such high salaries to their clerks that they are forced to sel| their goods at one thousand per cent above cost in order to make any money for themselves. That the market is overburdened with springpoe' ry. The waste basket captures so much of It that very little of it comes on the market. Than any fool can write poetry. It Is only a fool here and there that can do it. That a boy thinks lie knows more than ills father. He only prides him self on iris superior intelligence. That woman go tn church to see other women’s bonnets. They merely go to show their own. That a widow wears Vteeds to catch a husband. She would rathar catch a man who is not a husband. That the self-conceited man think everybody is a fool. He does not include one person in that category, himself.

That Bob Ingeisoll talks against Christianity for the sake of his bread and butter. Bob never stoops to plain bread and butter. His lectures pay too well for that. That the average married man dislikes marriage. He is all the time yearning for another opportunity* to enter the saere.l state. That parents love their children because the little ones are so much like themselves. That is just what they punish them for. That people hate to be laughed at. Look at the comedian, for instance.