Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1883 — He Tried ’Em. [ARTICLE]

He Tried ’Em.

Mr. Taukenphast sometimes Ws a very supercilious way. ‘ The other day he 'entered a grocery on Berry street and asked: “How are these apples; are fit for a hog to eat?” “Don’t know,-rm sure; try’em and see,” said the grocery muni— Hoosier. Henry Davis, of Grayson county, Texas, boasts that he never took a dose - of medicine in his life, never bought a a bushel com or a pound of meat; never was in court; never a watch; never owned or carried a-pistol, and never called his wife by name.