Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — Frankness. [ARTICLE]

Frankness.

Mistress—“ The coffee is so strong this morning that it’s absolutely bitter, Kathleen.” Maid—“ Yes, ma’am. Th’ placeman on this bate do be comphlanin* av th’ vakeness av it all winter, an’ durin’ th’ cowld wither cook is afther humorin’ th’ poor divil a bit"— Tul-Bils. Cakdinal de ItrcHEUEr, the famous prime minister of France during the reign of Louis £lll., died in 1042, after twenty years’ reign as the real head of the country, the King being little better than an imbecile. Womex always claim to be anxious to have as good husbands as possible, and yet we never attended a wedding where the bride married the best man. It is a mistake, young .man, when you think the girls just d ving after you. It is only you who are thoroughly in love with yourself. It was in the ninth century that a navy was organized by Alfred the Great. The Boston boy’s stomach is always in apple-pie order. —New Orleans Picayune .