Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — A Quick Poison. [ARTICLE]

A Quick Poison.

Jones—“ Talking about tobacco, I know a man who did not live three years > fter he began using it." Smith—“ Great SL Nicotine! You don’t say so?” Jones—r“lt is the solemn truth,- I knew him well.’* Smith, (throwing awgy his ftigar)— “Mercy ! How old was he when he commenced the use of the poisonous weed?” Jones—Ninetv-one.” Philadelphia Call. ' To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it another. If we look back to it, it should be as those who are running a race, only to press forward the faster and to leave the beatra •till further behind.— Colton.