Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — In the Depths. [ARTICLE]

In the Depths.

“Are the apples at the bottom of this barrel just as good as the ones on top ?” asked the customer, suspiciously. “Exspecked they are,” replied the farmer, “for I picked thid bar’l myself. ” And the suspicious customer, conquered by the truthful looking face, took three “bar’ls.”— B. J. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. Oxe hundred and five years ago Nicholas Thomas and Lucy Somes lived in Mt. Desert, Me., and wanted to be marriecL., There was no minister within thirty miles, and so they married themselves. On the town records, under date of 1780, is the cdntract which they drew up and signed—agreeing, in “the presence of God, the angels and these witnesses, to love, to cherish, and nourish, and to love, honor, and obey, as husband and wife, so long as God should continue their lives.” *.***■ Confidential advice, to either aer, on delicate di-eases. Boor 10-cents in stamps. Address. World's Lispen ary Medical Association, 663 Main St., Buffalo, S. T. " T * w * Wht is the world like i piano? Because it is full of sharps and flats.