Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — The Long and Short of It. [ARTICLE]

The Long and Short of It.

Is in not an outrage upon the eternal fitness of things that we should call the biggest elephant in the world “Jumbo” and the smallest orchid that ever tried to hide its ugliness behind its name the “Chewhoopupangitontothe Yiungstekalamazoplolite Alabazm ?” It does not seem right.— Bob Burdette. Why do people who think secular music wicked, repeat psalms in a singsong manner ? Texas Siftings. v ■-