Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — The Unintelligent Hop vine. [ARTICLE]

The Unintelligent Hop vine.

These hops are a curious vine, by the way. I always supposed that a" hop vine and a baby knew how to creep without being taught. The baby may, butthe hop vine does not. It can't shin a pole any more than a codfish, unless it takes lessons. It is like a kitten; it doesn’t get its eyes open for some time? It comes up out of the hill and lies sprawling on the ground till it is taken by the nape of the neck, so to speak, and wound around the pole a few times, and then tied there. After that it wi 1 seem to catch on, and learn why it was put into the world, and will then shin up the pole like a little man. It is not half as intelligent as a bean.— Belfast (Me.) Journal. y A New York paper seriously doubts if a pretty woman ean be convicted of murder in the oourta of that city, no matter how strong the evidence against her. *■'