Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Rough on the Insects. [ARTICLE]

Rough on the Insects.

A gentleman of refinement and culture, probably an editor, put up at a San Antonio hotel. After he had been there a day or so the landlord asked him how he liked the place. “Hike the town and the people very much indeed, but I am troubled with insomnia.” “You don’t look like a drinking man,” responded the landlord, incredulously. “I mean that I can’t.sleep.” “Well, I know what will cure that, too—some chloral will put—you tn sleep.” “I’ve got a better plan than that. ” “What is it?” “Give the chloral to thd insects in your beds. They have insomnia worse than I have. I caught it from them ” Texas Siftings. As if in sorrow for having destroyed the golden age, the gods have given women, who can more than restore it.