Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — A Touching Incident. [ARTICLE]

A Touching Incident.

“Please, sir, can’t you do something to assist a poor man ?” asked a miserable looking, emaciated tramp of a portly Austin property owner. “What can I do for you?” —“Give me some of your cast-off clothes.” “But, man alite, they wouldn’t fit you.” “I think cast-off clothes would suit me very well. I’ve been cast off by society, myself.” “Can’t do it, my man. Times are so hard, and taxes are so high that I have to wear my cast-off clothes myself.” The tramp then made a business proposition to swap clothes, but upon the nabob hesitating, he withdrew it aud himself, and drifted across the street in the direction of a beer saloon. —Texas Silting*. _■ Anew kind of-cloth is being made in Lyons from the down of hens, ducks and geese. Seven hundred arid fifty grains of feathers make one square metre bjt «a light and very warm waterproof f cloth, which can be dyed in all shades. Women juriip at conclusions and generally hit it; men reason things out logically and generally mjss it