Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1884 — Wanted to Feed a Dog. [ARTICLE]

Wanted to Feed a Dog.

Five minutes for refreshments was shouted by the brakeman, and as he knew the train always stopped at "that station for that purpose, he understood the meaning of the brakeman’s utterance and got out and proceeded to the counter. He gazed at the sandwiches, but they had evidently been made that day; he glanced at some cold beef, but it was evidently well cooked and healthy, so with the fowl and the bread and the pies. Even an apple turn-over didn’t appear to have been made over a week and hadn’t got the real dangerous look to it. “Nice railroad restaurant this is!” he growled. “What's tlie matter?” asked the proprietor. ' “Ain't you ashamed of your food ?” “No, sir; it’s fresh and wholesome; what are you growling about ?” “That’s what I’m growling about! I want to get something of the real rail-way-restaurant sort, to feed to a dog a man has got in the car there, so the brute will die.”— Boston Post. Would Pay More Attention Next Time. At a'marriage celebration the bride was requested to sign her name in the register at the sacristy. Excitement caused her fingers to tremble; she took the pen, signed and made an enormous ink-blot. 1 “Must Ido it over again ?” she blushingly asked her husband. “No, I guess that will do, but —” “Oh, don't scold me! I will pay more attention next time!”—Frenc/i Fun. The term, dude has a different meaning in different localities. In the Far West a dude is a man who mixes water with whisky. - _