Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — Might Have Known It. [ARTICLE]

Might Have Known It.

Mrs. Minks—Oh, I’ve just made the funniest discovery. You know my husband never would tell me what they do I at the secret society he is a member of. Mrs. Finks —Yes; mine won’t either. Mrs. Minks —Well, yesterday a big can of alcohol came addressed to him for the lodge. He is a past grand something or other and takes care of things. Well, I noticed him going up stairs with some of the alcohol, and when he got to his room I peeped through the ! keyhple, and what do you think I saw ? He had an alcohol lamp and was putiting salt on the wick, and it made the awfulest, ghastliest kind of a light. I was l 'positively scared, he looked so like a gobhn. I suppose they do that at their initiations. * Mrs. Finks—Did you ever! Well, I might have known they used alcohol. My husband always comes home smell- ■ ing of it;— Philadelphia Call. t Bp not ashamed of thy virtues; hoijar’s a good brooch to w<-ar in a j man’s hat at^airtimes.— Ben Jonson.