Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Another Wicked Invention. [ARTICLE]

Another Wicked Invention.

The latest thing the srqall boys is the “rooster can” If that’s what they call it The boy takes a spjee can, makes a small hole in the center of the bottom and draws through it a cord knotted at one end and plentifully coated with shoe makers’ wax or resin. Then he draws his hand along the waxed cord and the unearthly sound is the result. Near at h nd it sounds like the crowing of a cock, and at a distance like the frantic yelpihg of a dog, with intermediate variations resembling the progress of vivisection in a physician’s laboratory, the midnight discovery of a man under the bed by your servant girl, the screeching of an ungreased axle, the low mutterings of conspirators under the window, and the reheirsal of a surpliced choir. The in itruinent is really not new. It is a .revival, for the Arounder remembers i that they were in vogue as long ago as 1 when be used to wear his stockings out at the knees.