Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — A Matter of Money. [ARTICLE]

A Matter of Money.

“My daughter will receive five thousand dollars on the day she marries you,” said an Austin father to a suitor for his daughter’s hand; “she will receive five hundred dollars and the rest from time to time, as my circumstances justify it.” “That’s all right, my dear sir,” replied the mercenary youth, “but hadn’t we better wait with the marrying until wet’ get everything together.”— •-Texas Siftings. In overhauling a railroad Bible, one of the editors of Texas Siftings accidentally discovered the origin of an alleged modern joke, in 11. Chronicles, Xvi., 12, 13: “And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great; yet in disease he aaught not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers. ” Ihis discovery is remarkable in an extraordinary particular. It not only gives historical information of great ' but makes it a matter of record flat a Texas editor has actually read tie BibleZ (People talk of the feelings dying oit as one gets older; but at present m|r experience is just the contrary. All tin serious relations of life become so mlch more real to me —pleasure seems soflight a thing, and sorrow and duty anl endurance so great. I find the lei st bit of real human life touch me in a ’ ay it never did when ! was young, r. - ieorge Eliot. -- ~ - . 5 1 'he poor hard-worked stenographer labors under one great .disadvantage no common to all writers for the presfi. Hois obliged to use a pen.