Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — A LITTLE SPICE. [ARTICLE]

A LITTLE SPICE.

A fellow feeling that doesn’t make us wondrous kind—the pickpocket. Common motto for New Jeisey bank officials—Let us all learn to respect each other’s convictions. A young lady of Syracuse, N. Y., being asked the time last Sunday evening, replied: “Five minutes of Smith.” The Reno (Nev.) Gazette says there is in its office a pet crow that chews tabacco. A ease of quid pro crow, as it were. A story writer has finished a sketch called “Lifted Out of Herself," Probably the heroine went yachting and got seasick. Mr Dayton has been arrested in New York for stealing a volume of poems. It is supposed that he took them to read to his mother-in-law. “But my dear children, why do you carry that open umbrelly in this fine weather?” “Because when it rains we can never get it, mother takes it then.’ Fliegende Biatter. A henpecked husband read an account of an Illinois clergyman who dropped dead as he was about to unite a couple in marriage. “Ah,” he sighed, heavily, b “the minister who married Bailie and me postponed his death until after the ceremony.