Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Quits. [ARTICLE]

Quits.

Bernal Osborne, the English M. P., recently deceased, was as quick at retaliation as in retort. Some years ago he went down to Oxford with the Persignys and the Marquis d’Azeglio to spend the day with Norman MoDonald at one of the colleges. On the return journey the Countess and Bernal Osborno discussed a topic so warmly that the lady seized the latter’s'hat and threw it out the window! Thereupon Bernal Osborne giabbed tho lady’s muff and sent it after his chapeau, saying, "Now we are quits!” w

As ant man may be compelled to eat his words, he should never indulge in bitter speeches.