Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — A Costly Experiment [ARTICLE]

A Costly Experiment

“I vould like to know very much,” remarked Mose Schaumberg to Gilhooly, “if my brudder Sam was an honest man.” “I’ll tell you how to find out if he is honest or not,” responded Gilhooly. “Next time you go off on the train take him along to the depot, and just before the train leaves give him a ten-dollar bill and tell him to change it. If he comes back with the change, then he is presumably honest.” “But ven he don’t come pack?” “Then you lose your $lO, but you gain experience.” grashus! Did you supJose for a moment, Mishter Gilhooly, vas completely eaten oop mit morbid curiosity dot I risks a ten tollar pill?” “ You can try with a quarter. ” “Maybe so, but not mit a goot von.” —Texas Siftings. The withering and death of the bay tree were reckoned a. .prognostic of evil, both ip ancient and modern times, notion to which Shakspeare refers in Richard III.: *Ti« thought the king is dead; we will not star. The bay trees in our country are all withered.

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