Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — The Mystery Solved. [ARTICLE]

The Mystery Solved.

“Too bad I bad to go out to see that ticket-seller about tickets for next week,” he remarked to his wife as he settled himself down after a trip down stairs between acts. “The affair quite slipped my mind as we came in. "Were you annoyed, my dear?” “Oh, no. I did not mind it in the least, thank you. I was quite busy working out a njental problem.” ■ “And what was that, love ?” “Why they call the front curtain the drop.” “I see. Did you succeed?’’ “Yes, I think I got the correct answer.”- ~. “And that was— —” “Because so many men go"out for a drop When it is down, my dear.”—Detroit Journal.