Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1885 — Avoiding Danger. [ARTICLE]

Avoiding Danger.

An old lady read a paragraph in one of the papers describing how a grindstone burst in a saw-mill and killed four men. She happened to remember that there was a small grindstone down in her cellar, leaning against the wall; so she went out and got an accident insurance policy, and then, summoning her servant, and bolding a pie-board in front of her face, so that if the thing exploded her face would not be injured, had the same taken out into the road, where twenty-four pails of water were thrown over it, and a stick was stuck in the hole bearing a placard marked “Dangerous.” She says it is a mercy the whole house was not blown to pieces by the thing before this.— Wood dan Iron. l.’se the surest remedy for catarrh—Dr. Sage’s. Il ain’ alius de silent man dat’s de smartes’. De sheep doan make ez much fuss ez de dog, but he ain’ got nigh ez much scuse. —Plantation Philosophy.