Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — Humorous Fancies. [ARTICLE]

Humorous Fancies.

There are some things a dwarf can’t do, but he can catch just as big a cold as a giant. - Don’t heap coals of fire upon your enemy’s head. Remember that coal is $6 a ton. Economy is wealth. How would you like to see all of your thoughts for a single day in print? A fireman is one of the few men who can always keep cool no matter how much he becomes heated. The pedagogue keeps school untilthe heated term comes on and then he keeps cool some where else. It is perfectly safe to kiss a maiden when she drops her eyes. Thenceforth she is of necessity blind. A man may be very great and very good, and then not attract half the attention that a captured horse-thief does. □ The difference between the soldier and the ballet-girl is that the soldier gets his living by feats of arms and the ballet-girl by feats of legs. A Jersey writer that flies buzzing around the human countenance pro-' duce hay fever. This is a theory to be sneezed at.