Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1883 — The Brain-Food of Yale Boys. [ARTICLE]

The Brain-Food of Yale Boys.

One New Haven firm sells" 120,000 cigarettes a month to Yale College students, or, for -the ten months of the year that the “men” are in town, 1,200,000, at an average of a little more than half a cent apieoe—a total of about SB,OOO a year. The same firm receives $15,000 a year for soda and mineral waters sold to the students, and the monthly cigar account with the collegians reaches SSOO. And this is the record of but one firm. —Hartford Courant. In West Covington, Ky., Tommy Dodd married Emily Hale, when, because of an undue intimacy, he should have made Miss Welch his wife. Dodd’s mother went to church just as the bridal party were about to drive off, and stoned the carriage. The old lady swears she will kill her son for liis perfidy.