Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — Solid Comfort. [ARTICLE]

Solid Comfort.

“Maria,” said Dovelop to his wife at the breakfast table, who was perfectly regardless of her looks, and thoroughly hardened to appearances, “you would be handsome if your face was clean.” “I don’t want to be handsome,” she said, shortly. “You don’t ?” he asked in surprise. “No, I’d rather take my solid comfort in a dirty face any day, than be a slave to appearances, as some people are!" she answered, wrathfully. —Carl Pretzel's Weekly. The convicts in Joliet Penitentiary make all the tobacco used in that large prison. A room is fitted np with presses and all necessary machinery for making plug tobacco, the best of raw material provided, and as the Warden is not required to pay any tax under the revenue laws, the convicts, nearly all of whom use the weed, are provided at cost. The re-ftenne tax on the amount used would be $2,500 per annum.— Chicago Tobacco World,