Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — Stolen Sweets. [ARTICLE]

Stolen Sweets.

Brown—Why don’t you spread your umbrella? Coles—Well, to tell the truth, I’m afraid some one in the crowd will recognize it. Brown—Then why do you carry it? Coles—Afraid some one will call for at while I’m out;— Life. Thbkk American Presbyterian ministers were looking at the curiosities of the Vatican Museum in Borne. Standing before the sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus, one of them remarked. “How interesting to look upon the coffin of the grandfather of Scipio Africanus!” Just then a New York gentleman, whom the three had met in their hotel, came by, and overhearing the remark, said, “Yes, it must be particularly interesting to you, gentlemen, who are so familiar with Bible history.” — Editor'B Drawer, in Harper’s. ■ • J . ■ I _ ‘'