Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — He Was Acquitted. [ARTICLE]

He Was Acquitted.

Lincoln Journal. __ 22 ' Judge—Prironer, you are charged with having brutally assaulted this man. “I admit it, your Honor, but there were extenuating circumstances.” “Of what nature?” r “Why, this man asked me ‘if a hen and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half how many—” “That will do. You are die charged.” All the world may be a stage, but the fare is not particularly cheap.