Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — There Was An Exception. [ARTICLE]

There Was An Exception.

A man who was much interested in the subject of evolution, and who has stubbornly contended with his wife that the remote ancestors of men were anthropoid apes, was greatly shocked by the reply winch she made at a dinner party to the remork of a gentleman guest. “I am no believer,” he said, "in special creations, yet it is very humiliating to think that all men are descended from monkeys.” "But there are exceptions to the general rule,” she rejoined, “my husband could only have been descended from a mule.”— Brooklyn Eagle.. Nancy Lee is 107 years old and lives in Lexington, Ky. She is not the famous “sailor’s wife,” but a negress who lived on the site of Lexington before the town was ever thought of. The reasons that (esthetes so admire the stork is that he can stand for hours on one leg, and look as though he didn’t know anything and didn’t want to. - • The only way to convince the inventor of a patent car-coupler that he won’t make a million dollars out of it is to send him to a railroad man. A man made application for Insurance on a building situated in a village where there was no fire-engine. He was asked, “What are the means in yourvillage for extinguishing fires?” “Well, it rains sometimes, "he replied. The Howe Scales have all the latest improvements. It is true economy to buy the best Borden, Bedeck & Co., Agents, Chicago, 111. ' Mensman’b Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains bloodmaking, force-generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, ana all forms of general debility ; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-work, or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. Bold by druggists. Both eends ob life is shrouded in mystery. A man don’t know when he’s born or when he dies. Dar’s room enough, boweber, between dese two acks ter get in a mighty heap of debilment— Arkansaw Traveler. Could I but see Carboline made, And view the process o’er, No bald-head pate would make afraid, Nor gray hairs fright me more. As now improved aud perfected, No oil was ere so sure, All skin disease, of limb or head, It never fails to cure. Plating foot-ball. by electrio light nas been tried in London without success. The players throw themselves by kicking at the shadows of other players’ heads. Free to All Ministers of Churches. I will send one bottle of White Wine of Tar Syrup, gratis, to anyjninister that will recommend it to his friends after giving it a fair test, and it proves satisfactory for coughs, colds, throat or lung diseases. Db. C. D. Wabneb. Reading, Mich. A miner fell in love with a girl at first sight, she was easily smitten with him, and the entire courtship was, “My pet?” “You bet!”