Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — SPARKS OF HUMOR. [ARTICLE]

SPARKS OF HUMOR.

The tailor? frequently has pressing business on hand. There is one good thing about a pig. He noses business. The tramp who begs for a drink naturally puts on a rye face. History of a strike in the coal regions: Mine, miner, minus. Texas Siftings; A colicky baby at night is athletic. It can raise the house. Man will give ten words to the , ex* pression of his joy, and fifty to lament his sorrows. The Western—railroads -have now made a sweeping reduction in the, rates for broom corn. In former times it took ten mills to make one cent. Now it takes hundreds, of pounds to make one mill. It is instinct that prompts a girl who knows nothing of the world to ■ ask to drive when you strike a lonely road. It is the man .who takes but one trip a year who passes down the main ‘street of a town with the largest valise in his hand.- —- It is estimated that some women carry forty or fifty miles of hair about their heads. Forty or fifty'mileswithout a switch is a good long distance or an air line.