Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1889 — SING HEY! THE MERRY COTTONTAILS. [ARTICLE]

SING HEY! THE MERRY COTTONTAILS.

A Pean of Rejoicing Over the Advent of the Rabbit Harvest. By John Oasky, Port Laureate of Nubbin Ridge. Rabbits young and rabbits old, Rabbits hot and rabbits cold. Rabbits ripe and rabbits green, Rabbits fat and rabbits lean. Rabbits tiiree and rabbits live, Rabbits dead and rabbits ’live. Rabbits breeding so like blazes, Their numbers double,packed in cases! Rabbits raw and rabbits cooked, Rabbits cashed and rabbits booked. Rabbits tougli and rabbits tender, Rabbits here are legal tender. Rabbits wild and rabbits woolly, Rabbits bad and rabbits bully, ' Rabbits crimped and rabbits curly,— Rabbits bought uy T. 11. HURLEY. Rabbits barreled and rabbits boxed, Rabbits shipped, and “that’s what knocks.” Rabbits slim and rabbits burly, Rabbits SOLD by T. 11. Hurley, Rabbits treed ancTrabbits logged, Rabbits clubbed and rabbits dogged. Rabbits trapped and rabbits shot, Rabbits lost and rabbits .got. Rabbits plump and rabbits lanky, Rabbits Duteby and rabbits Yankee. Rabbits late and rabbits early, BOUGHT and SOLD by T. H. Hurley. A Vestibule Train Wrecked. One of the Monon’s new vestibule trains met with a destructive accident, last Sunday, a half mile south of Frankfort. While running at 45 miles an hour, the rear trucks of the tender left the track, causing a disconnection of the air-brakes, and leaving the engineer powerless to check the speed until the train struck a trestle which is about three hundred feet in length. Here the baggage car and ohe coach left the track, and after plowing through ties and timbers for a few feet went rolling off and into the creek, a distance of 15 feet, demolishing them. The chair and dining car, although leaving the track, remained hanging to the trestle and were not badly damaged. Baggage-man C. E. Warren, of Indianapolis, was the only man in his car, and escaped with a few bruises and a sprained ankle. In the wrecked coachjwere four jiassengers. Mrs. F. A. Wunder, of Chicago, received an ugly gash oyer her right temple, the others were only slightly injured. The damage is estimated at $25,000 to the company. The bridge is an entire wreck and will necessitate a new one. MONEY! money— W. H. H. Graham loans mouey in sums of S3UO and upwards, on long time, at 6 to 7 per cent, interest.