Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — Two Important Oversights. [ARTICLE]

Two Important Oversights.

Detroit Free Press. Ondfof the stall-keepers at the central market had a basket of vegetables to go <k> a house on Fort Street east, yesterday, and coming to a whitewasher whq was hanging around for a job, he said\to him: “Here, old man, take this basket to No. Fort street, and I* will give you a watermelon.” The colored brother closed the bargain at once, and upon his return, after a suspiciously brief absence, the man handed him the two halves of a green melon. “I promised you a melon, and here it is,”as he clapped the two halves together. “Bat dat mellyon hante ripe, boss.” ‘‘Can’t ~heio that. I -didn’t specify that I wouki give you a ripe one.” “Dat’sso boss, but I didn’t specify what timedis summer,l should tote dat basket up dar, either, an’ I kinder reckoned it was best to leave it in a lumber yard till I saw de size and color of de watermelyon • ’P<-*rs like I haint much behind in dis tifcde,” Q* had a ripe melon in his arms as he started off to finish, his errand.

The superstitious inhabitants of Garcard, Ky., stay in their houses at night for-fear of a naked old man with a white beard reaching to his knees. They believe him to be a ghostjodging by his mysterious appearance and disappearance, and the whole country is in excitement A few men. lees cowardly, go out every night to hant for [the strange being. These think he is I some lunatic who has for years hidden