Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — An Attachable Coat-Tail. [ARTICLE]

An Attachable Coat-Tail.

A New York tailor named Boody has patented an invention that has at once endeared him to the heart of < every young man on the globe. This* boon to mankind is no less than a patent attachable coat-tail of the claw-hammer species. With this improvementjan ordinary Seymour bob-tail coat converted into~a full dress affair at a moment’s notice.' Most young men leave their dress coats in charge of their father’s brother for safe keeping and protection from moths, and even those who do het will appreciate the adyantage of always having a ball-room costume ready to be coupled on, as it were. To newspaper reporters Boody’s patent is simply invaluable, as enabling them to attend a fashionable wedding directly after a fire, and to take in a swell ball on the way back from a dogfight. The patentee is now running a factory on full time to supply the trade with his admirable conception, which he puts up in handsome and convenient boxes at the small price of 75 cents each. The social millenium will indeed have arrived when the young man of the period can start serenely out of an evening fully prepared for any emergency, knowing/that he has a clean handkerchief in his coat and his tail in his pocket.— San Francisco Post.

A Deputy Marshal went to arrest a moonshiner down in North Carolina. After announcing his business, the bld man* lav down on the floor and tol’d the officer he was 'ready to go, but he would have to carry him. He weighed 300 pounds. While the officer was gone for assistance the old man disappeared. A Southern man who during the height of the craze named his son Pinafore hopes he’ll die before the boy gets big enough to lick him.