Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — Light Diet. [ARTICLE]

Light Diet.

Mose Schaumburg and Ike Levison are rivals in Trade, but personally they are very friendly. Being in a good humor, Mose said to Levison: “Come home mit me and have dinners.” “I vas much opliged put I has choost had some dinners, Mose.” “Ish dot so?” “Ya, I has choost dined.” “I don’t believe dot?” “I have choost dined—upon my word of honor,” “Yell, den, come along and eat some more. Ven you has choost dined upon your vord of honor, you must be hungry, ash dot vash very light diet.” — Texas Siftings. To obtain money to carry on a war against the Indians, Gov. West, of South Carolina, in 1680, offered afirice for every Indian captive, and then sold all who were brought in to West Indian slave dealers, who again disposed of them profitably to West Indian planters. In her wars with Turkey between 1767 and 1774 Russia did not employ privateers. In the e'ghteenth century privateering had become an organized piracy, and almost every treaty attempted, but in vain, to restrain it.