Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1882 — A Snake for Soap Grease. [ARTICLE]

A Snake for Soap Grease.

Two years ago a negro man, near Columbus, killed a rattlesnake, and put it on the five in an oven to dry it for the grease. In his absence his little son, thinking the snake was an eel, ate some of it, ani has been having fits ever since. Walton (Gn.) News. It was Ik Marvel who said: “I have no faith in oats; they are a cold-blooded race; they tMethe politicians among domestic animals, they care little who is master, or what are the overturnings, so their pickings are secure; and what are their midnight caucuses but primary meetings?’/