Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — WIT AND HUMOR. [ARTICLE]

WIT AND HUMOR.

Chestnut burrs, like milliners, hav fall openings. * The Western railroads have not made a sweeping reduction in th rates for broom corn. Our devil has the conceit that ••plunger” is so called because h risks his money on divers horses.* Spreading rails and spreading blan ket mortages appear to be the mos prolific cause of railroad wrecks nowa days. The dignity of labor is all right, bu it is the dig night and day of labo that many people complain of.—Texa listings. A conscienceless tenant and a tram; with a ragged coat are very muci alike—they are each oblivious of th( back rent. Channel buoys are professiona “floaters.’ 1 -' This may account for s< many of them being found in the viu :inity of harbor bars.