Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — Darwinian Item. [ARTICLE]

Darwinian Item.

An Austin boy came" from school very much excited, and told his father that all human beings were descended from the apes, which made the old man so mad that he replied angrily: “That may be the case with you, but it ain’t with me, I can tell you that now, my son. The boy didn’t say anything, but when his mother came home he told her about it. —Texas Siftings. P Signs are taxed 5 cents per letter every year in Cuba, and the-ingenious Cuban does not put up a sign if he can help.it, or else paints on it an emblem, as a boot, a trunk, or a cigar, If words must be employed, it is not an uncommon practice to dash a daub of paint across the lettering, producing a legal obliteration, yet leaving an inscription that can still be deciphered.