Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — A Good Reason Why. [ARTICLE]

A Good Reason Why.

Detroit Free Press. They had been talking of the sharp games played on innocent people 1 y sharp men, when Green looked np and said: ■ “Gentlemen, I don’t brag about my wife being sharper than a razor, but I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll write a note, sign it with my own name, and ask her to deliver my Sunday suit to bearer for repairs. You may ssnd it up to the house, and I’ll bat yon $5 she’ll be to sharp to let the clothes go.” “We’ll take that bet!” called two or three voices, and "there being , five of them they chipped in a dollar apiece. The note was written and signed and dispatched by a messenger boy. In half an hour he returned, empty-handed as to clothee,- but having a- B&te which read: —: “Come off the perch! All the clothes you have in the world are on yonr back!” “Gentlemen,” said the winner, as he pocketed the fiver, “let me recommend it to you as something which always wins, and as I must meet a man at 3 o’clock IwMlnow bid you good-day!” The engineers on the Belt railroad at Chattanooge, Tenn., have been voluntarily given an increase of 5 per cent, an hour, or 30 cents.