Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1889 — They Want Mr. Wanamaker's Salary. [ARTICLE]

They Want Mr. Wanamaker's Salary.

Philadelphia Times. When the Times published last Sunday the incident relating to the Post-master-General drawing his first salary and hi* remark that he didn’t know what to do with the $577.78, it was read all over the country, and the result is that Mr. Wanamaker has received about! 00 letters asking for the money. A fire company in a remote town suggests that he give it the money to buy a fire engine. A woman wrote asking for the money to stait a building fund for a cburch.->A man wants the money for a school, and any quantity of families in “reduced circumstances” would like the Poetmaster-General to forward his first salary to them. A Natural Inquiry. “Are you the girl who was to come to our nouse as a nurse?” asked a fashionable Ijjdy, qf the healtby-l<M)kj«ff aW. sh* had j list entered the room. “I am, mq’am.” “I have examined year refereneea, and I find them satisfactory. You may begin next week.” . _ “But if ye plaze, ma’am, I’d like to ask yea wan question.” “What is it?” “Is it a baby a poog-dog that I'm to look afther?” . Oklamoma or Bust. A wagon passed through Kaasas City bearing the following inseri ptioa on its canvas covek; “Chintz-Baged in Illinois, Siooned in Newbraska, White-Capped in Indiana, Bald-Knobbed in Missouri, Prohibited in Kansas. “Oklahema or bust.”