Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Should Try Another Route. [ARTICLE]

Should Try Another Route.

“How’s your headache to-day?” asked an Austin physician of one of his patients. “Bad as ever—worse, if anything,” was the unsatisfactory and lugubrious reply. “Did you bathe your head in brandy and water, as I directed ?” inquired the physician. ' “No, I tried to, but I couldn’t do it.” “Tried to! Why couldn’t you do it?” said the doctor with considerable surprise. > “I couldn’t get the brandy and water up higher than my mouth tq save my life. Now, you see-, if my mouth was pn top of my head, or if you should hang a bottle of brand/from the ceiling and contrive to tip it over me, it might work, but running on the old route froth the bottle to the top of my head, it is impossible for it to pass my mouth without stopping. 6ah’t you invent something of that kind?”— Texas Siftings. " • The winds of adversity sweep oyer our souls, and scatter their fairest bloMoms of hope. But the blossoms fall that we may bring forth much fruit —patience, faith, and love.