Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — Misconstructed. [ARTICLE]

Misconstructed.

,“Will yon walk or take a This?” asked an English landlady of a departing American guest, Who hadn’t been in the country long enough to know all the peculiarities of the native phraseology. “Well—really—yon are very kind,” said the guest, blushing to the roots of his hair, with a glance at the fall, rosy--1 coking and tempting lips of his hostess, “and if—it is—quite all the same to yon —I guess I’ll—l’ll take a ’bus.” And then the idiot sat patiently in the office for half an hour, and wondering why she didn’t come up and kiss him.— The Judge. The mignonette, which holds within its tiny heart a fragrance that should be known in every collection, is much more popular than many flowers of superior beauty. This little plant has drifted to ns from far Egypt, where, as some writer gracefully remarks, “it may have wafted sweet odors from the banks of tbe Nile to the infant Moses as he floated by in his ark of bulrushes.” 1 Carlyle says “laughter means sympathy.” This will bring comfort to the man who has inadvertently trodden on a banana peel.