Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — A Mean Man. [ARTICLE]

A Mean Man.

Otis S. Richard, of Austin, is a very stingy man, and particularly to his wife. They were in Mose Scha.umburg’s store a few days ago, and Mrs. Richard hinted that she, wanted a blue silk dress, . , “Nonsense, blue doesn’t suit your complexion, at all.” “ Then I’ll take a green dress.” “Do you want to poison yourself? Don t you know that all these green dresses are poisonous?” t • “Then you pick me out a dress.” “That’s the trouble. You see I don’t like any other colors except blue and green.”— 'lejeaa. Siitlngs. In one of the Year Bcoks of the reign of Edward 11l- is reported a decision in yhich Judge Barnard maker this remark: “There is no man iu England who can rightly tell if a womah has reached her majority or not; for many women who are at* least 30 years old want to appear as but 16.” This was in 1377—more th an five centuries ago. A YOUNG, lady requested to be released from marriage engagement on the ground that when she contracted it she believed per lovejif was “ft duck,” but had since found him to be a goose.