Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — Giving Himself Away. [ARTICLE]

Giving Himself Away.

Mose Schaumburg was as mad as a moist hen one day last week. In a voice that quivered with rage, he said to his clerk, Ike Silverstone: “Sit down dot desk at, and write a ledder vat I dictates dot Jake Oppenheimer at. Write: ’I have written to you. Who has not answered dot ledder ? Jake Oppenheimer. Who hash I dunned dime and again ? Jake Oppenheimer. Who has baid no attenshuns . to dose duns? Jake Oppenheimer? Have you got dot down, Mr. Silverstone ?” “I have dot down. ” “Den conglude: ‘Who vas a tam scoundrel?’ Have you got dot down ?* “I have dot down. ” “Den give det letter to me so I puts my nanfe to it. ” The clerk did so, and hence the conclusion of Mose’s ledder read: “Who vash a tam scoundrel ? Mose Shaumburg. ’’—Texas Sis tings. “Turman in the moon must have some wonderful powers of endurance,” said a lady to a professor of astronomy. “How so?” he asked. “Because,” she replied, “he is first quartered, then fulled, afterward halved; and where he resides between the intervals of ‘old’ and “new’ moon you scientific men have told us." .J?"’?.'".-