Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — EXCHANGE SIFTINGS. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE SIFTINGS.

▲n ill word—tick. ▲ postern gate—that of a crab. The carpenter is a plane sort of a fellow. ▲ chiropodist is at home in a cornbld. The disputed will is the rich man’s legacy. Board of Public Works—the man on the rock pile. Always comer to the scratch—a match, matrimonial or otherwise. A “straight flush”—the maiden’s bheek that is not painted. Going out w.th the tied—the wedding party leaving the church. The Poverty of lx>ndon’» Poor. Philadelphia News. . 1 The poverty of London’s poor is sfrikingly ehown by thefactth>ffwenty-twb thousand of the ‘ ‘deposit ora” in the National Penny Bank of that city have s jnounts of twenty-fi.se cents or hss to their credit. A savings bank account of twenty-five cents would be laughed at here, »