Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — Ha Was a Failure. [ARTICLE]

Ha Was a Failure.

Detroit Bree Press. ( :r ( A day or two since a traveler from the East walked into the Cass- House With bis grip-sack in one hand and the other pressed to his jaw, arid be wasn’t loag-in.paraakt.ing fifteen or twenty people to know that, he had been, inflicted with the toothache' every minute since 7 o'clock the previous evening. He couldn’t eat, drink nor stand atm, and when some ode asked him why he didn’t go to a he reI hd^en't' got the ; pluck! I Mere I am, a great big- sks-foptfer, able to kno.«k down : an ox,aiul yeti haven’t got the grit to stand One yank on'this tooth! Five-been down on the battleUue, ip free fights and put among the red skins, but I’m a coward ! M .. i Borne laughed and some encouraged him. and he finally said: 7 ’ "“Well, I bfldleve ’ I’ll" try it. but I know what I ami, and I want something tdpysh me. pn. I’ll bet this five' dollar biu against'ted cents that ITI have the tooth pulle/l.” , One„of the guests mad a/ the w agBJV and a small ct-owd went dioug to see the fun. The sti'angef walked up ua bold as a lion, took a seat in the dental chair, and evinced no' sign of crawfishing until the dentist picked up the forceps and : told 'hifh t 6 get a good grip on the chair. Then he grew white in an insbvut. slid out of tha chair and seized lJ? hat and saidi 7 “It’f-'justasi expected! I’m a great big calf-on wheels,and the Worst flufiker in America, botl can’t help it! I’ve los'-rbe fiv«.dollaw, and will probably have the toothache right 'along for ■ a - week, but. I’ll have to stand it and hope tq l# struck by lighting or mashed up qu the oars. 1 ’ — n| : , «, It has . became evident that a mistake, was made in locating the villae of , Niobraga inHebraska.gully, in tcad -of qnt a high plain near by * and! the bouses are all to he removed to exactly thesama relative positions op the beter ** h.CA * •«-: