Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Must Have Met a Bear. [ARTICLE]

Must Have Met a Bear.

“Hanner,” he said, as he got home from town, “(here was a feller in the post-office from . Philadelphia, and the way he talked was enough to raise my hair. He said corn was going to be awful short.” “Did he? But we never use any corn.” “He saict cotton was way behind,” “O, well; I can put off my quilting.” “And tobacco wasn’t two-thirds of a crop.” “Well, we don’t smoke or ehew.” “Bat he said beef and pork would be awfully high this fall.” “Did, eh ? Well, we can eat fish and kill a lamb once in a while.” “But,-Htraner, it’s awful to feel that everything has been knocked endways,” he protested. “There, there, Samuel,” she soothingly replied, “we've got two acres of buckwheat and four of tnrnips, and the Lord watches over the people in Pennsylvania as Well as elsewhere. We’ll dry a few more apples and pull through somehow.” —Wall Street News. During the tenth century persons accused of robbery were put to trial by a piece of barley bread, on which the mass had been said, and if they could not swallow it they were declared guuty. Sometimes a slice of cheese was added to the bread. The bread was to be uAleaevned barley, and the olieese made of ewes' milk in the month of May.