Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — EXCHANGE SIFTINGS. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE SIFTINGS.

Cut and dried—hay. A dancing bear—the ballet. A bicycle wheel, like a worm, will turn when trod upon. Pittsburg Chronicle: A two-foot rule —never wear tight shoes. “Tips" are expected everywhere nowadays, even on billiard cues. Book-markers with slips of paper for comments on what is read is a new Boston wriaklo. A Maryland man with seven wives has been jailed. The law sometimes helps a man out of a very bad scrape.