Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — Joshua’s Spoon. [ARTICLE]

Joshua’s Spoon.

Abraham and Jeshua had been invited to a splendid dinner. It Was imjrossible for Jushua not to make capital out of such an opportunity; accordingly he managed to slip a silver spoon into his boot. Abraham was green with envy at Joshua’s success, for he had not even manipulated a saltspoon. But an idea struck him. “My frents,” he cried, “I vill show you some dricks. ” Taking up a spoon, he said, “You zee dees spoon?, Veil, itees gone," he cried, passing it up his sleeve. “You vill'find it in Joshua’s bood.” ■ It was found.— Neic York Life. Rely on your own judgment as far as possible. A man who has no idea of his own, but is perpetually running to others for advice, has no self within him, and is a mere element of a human being, borne about the world an insignificant cypher, unless he chances to fasten, by accidental cohesion, to some other floating and supplementary element by which die forms a species resembling a man.