Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1883 — Men Under the Razor. [ARTICLE]

Men Under the Razor.

Of all the types seen in barbers’ shops probably the man in a, hurry is the most multitudinous. He tears open the door, glares wildly around the room at the comfortably-filled chairs, mutters a gentle imprecation, and, with a degpaiing look, fires himself out into the street again. Or, if be is not in quite so much of a hurry, he hastily examines the stage at which each patron has arrived in the tonsfiriaj. process, compares his time with his plans, asks when his turn will oome as if he didn’t know that would be as soon as the chair was empty, and finally, after fidgeting around and making everybody miserable, he leaves the shop just before “next!” is called. The thin-skinned man is a tender little body and wants the barber to be “Ol so careful,” and to play lightly over his cuticle or he may break through. And the barber selects a delicate weapon, goes only “onceover” his victim, and when he swabs him with a towel drenched in bayrum, the thin-skinned man starts and shrinks like one who is dosed with a strong hair tonic on a shampooed scalp. The Man-with-a-Tough-Skin rarely deigns to reply to the inquiry: “Does the razor suit you?” He wants to be shaved as close as Shylock, “right up to the roots,” and his stubby beard yields slowly to the best steel and with disastrous effect upon its edge. He is dreaded by the most artistic shavers, but he does not belong to a small contingent and has to brf put up with. The bald-headed man does not cost an establishment much for hair oil, but the muscular energy expended in making the top of his cranium shine like a bil-liard-ball takes off the profits. The highest degree of polish is attained by a rotary motion of the right hand wrapped in a towel while the left hand holds the victim steady. Going aslieep in the barber’s chair is the favorite habit of apoplectic individuals who are not afraid of losing flesh or blood while the tonsorial artists scrape the soap off their faces. They will nod until there is imminent dsnger of a casual ear disappearing in their blissful ignorance of their environment, and yet the papers have not recently reported any coses of fat men getting their throats out in respectable barbers’ shops. There may have been such cases that have escaped the vigilance of the reporters, but probably they were few in number. A special Providence seems to wait on fat men in barbers’ shops when they sleepily shake their heads at the agile razor as it plays around their expansive countenances.—N. Y. Times. ,

The cold rainy weather is proving ruinous to the corn crop prospects. Barnum’s circus will exhibit in Chicago for ten days, beginning next Monday, June 4th. The Rocky Mountain Rural, is the name of a neat little weekly agricultural paper, which has just been established at Denver, Colorado. The business manager is Chas. Johnson, none other, we understand, than the editor of the departed “Jasper Republican.” Next Monday will be a notable day in Jasper county. The Circuit court, and the Commissioners’ Court, will convene that day, and the township trustees will meet and transact the very important business of electing a School Superintendent to succeed Mr. Nowels, whose term expires on that day. Attention is called to the Time table of the L., N-A. & C. railway in this week’s Republican. The Rensselaer time of both the south bound trains has been changed, to some extent, and the card for the Indianapolis Division is appended for the first time. An examination of the tables Bhows that passengers can now take the 10:58 train, in the forenoon, and reach Indianapolis at 7:45 p. m. the same day; and returning leave Indianapolis at 8:30 a. m., and arrive at Rensselaer at 5/47 in the evening. Removing the Dam. —The water was let out of the mill pond at 10 o’clock a. m. last Thursday. The work was performed by Mr. Trank Hengesbach, who took out the dam and gave a bonus of ten dollars, for the lumber that was in it. A section from the middle part of the dam, about fifty feet in length, was taken out first. The The heavy timber at the top of the dam was cut off at each end of the section and the rear braces sawed off, when the pressure of the water above forced the loose section downward. Tiie water rushed downward through the opening, thus made, with a force sufficient, tQ move rocks of several hundred pounds weight. In a very short time, comparatively speaking, the greater part of the water above the dam had run out through the opening, that in the raceway had . flowed backward, the water wheel in the mill had teased it revolutions, and “The old s’wimming hole,” had become a thing of the past.