Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — Table of the Smart Man. [ARTICLE]

Table of the Smart Man.

There was once a very smart man, and he met a man who was not smart, and said to him: “See here, I’m an awful smart man; I know everything and can do anything, yet my pocket, my purse and my stomach are a trinity of emptiness, three in one, and I’m the one; while you, who are not smart, go clothed in purple and fine linen and have your ribs regularly adiposed. Now, tell me why is this?” • And the man who was not smart answered and said that he did not know, but he supposed it must be because the market was overstocked with smart men. Moral.—There is none. When a dancing master dies the proper thing to say: “Peace to his chassez;” when a boarding-house keeper: “Peace to his hashes;*’ when a young man of the period: “Peace to his mashes.”— Wit and Wisdom. And when a printer dies: “Peace to his dashes.” New York News. And when a barkeeper dies: “Peace to his smashes;” when a house-builder dies its “PeaoS to Ms sashes.” The Virginia apple crop was unusually large this season. ,