Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — Burdette’s Fun. [ARTICLE]

Burdette’s Fun.

“What is that big iron thing full of holes?” asked Laura. “Locomotive boiler,” said Tom. Laura looked thoughtful. After a moment’s silence she asked: “Why do they boil locomotives?” Tom looked amazed: "To make ’em tender,” he said slowly. “Ah, Longjaw, up to your eyes in work, eh? What are you doing? Remodeling your lecture for next season ?” “Bless you, no; I’ve no time to do anythmg with the lecture. I’m just remodeling the press notices.* “Law Without Lawyers” is the title of a new book. That’s nothing strange. Lemonade without lemons has been an old thing ever since picnics were invented. Vesuvius furnishes an example of a volcano whose activity Aas been increasing instead of diminishing during the last 12,000 years. At the beginning of the Christian era the mountain’s “Brie's seemed to 'have been Tong burned ' out forever, and the eruption which buried Pompeii, and Herculaneum in the year of 79 was the first known. The next outbreak wan not until 1036, and thereafter several came at intervals of a century or more, but since 1731 the eruptions have been very numerous.