Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — BRILLIANT BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

BRILLIANT BRIEFS.

The. snake excels the rest of the] world in dis ability to make both ends meet. - . ■ Fashions formales don’t change much; still there is always a new wrinkle in coat tails. It may sound paradoxical, but we can’t help remarking that fogs never would be mist. Education is a good thing when it does not directly unfit a man for working for a living. As autumn merges into winter the growing corn is supplanted by the growing chilblain. A man can be put dow-p on the lazy list when he claims that breathing all day is, work enough for any one. A man out In Kentucky has just found a heavy pot of gold. It is likely that he lifted it with three jacks. A sportsman wlio can’t bag anything else effir bag his trousers by crawling on his Hands and knees behind fences. Sympathy won’t pay our board bill.. Perhaps that’s why one’s friends often volunteer to lend vast quantities of it. Why is the letter u like a creamery as compared with a common dairy? Because it makes batter lpittpr. > ..y.O4J-kmrw.' It is said tliat a small hand ir.d;cates refinement, and yet we have Seen small hands, and heITT them, too, b’ thunder, .tliat brougi • Augnage anything but refined. When j ou see a iqan look at his watch and put it back 4,» his pocket, ask him the time, and in nine cases out of ten he can not tcli youTauvit he has"lboked~at’ it again.