Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1890 — LOVE AND ALLIANCE. [ARTICLE]

LOVE AND ALLIANCE.

J THE ESBEXTIAL COXOITIOK. Bostonian. ‘ ; •. '-;T “Young woman,” said the evangel - ! |bt> “do you feel that your life ia a sues “Yes," she replied, “I am engaged.'' ; HE TDXBLED. *T[ like rhiranttni” the loffr «t : d. "For It begirt where nature stop*.” Hi* twee. heart answered him, “I think I like it too; but not <o drink. The main attraction is, 'it pops. ” - , Philadelphia Press i :— 2 :— ;— l __ t -77 KOT BIS BETTER HALF. Boston Herald. Customer (banding back a mutilated ooiaV -1-want a better half. zr Salesgirl (abstractedly). Oh. sir, 1 thank you. but I'm engaged to George Robbins.

HOT CLOSELY &LLIED, Hear York Sun. “Is Deborrah related to Charley Henderson? ’ “Yes. She is bis sister by a refusal of marriage.” A bio catcii . Side by aide near a babbling brook. L__ W h rods .d reel in the biUfatipring weather; He not w*tchln« hia line aud book; She not caring for trout or wheiber She filled her bask t: but when sc night They homeward went, luck had surdy found "■ ; . : her. F or she with her b-ot—and ecea ao bright— Had cap.uied a huudrcd-and-sixtr poundei! Berkith.re News. CRUEL THOUGHTLESSNESS, Kcw York World. A lovesick New York youth in tlic stillness of night start d to serenade: Wilder the wrong window; “I war. idered b-i-i the brubkaide (cling, clang, boo), I wanJered b-i-i the iniT”— and the sash was gently raised with a crush, and a deep bass voice yelled out; “I vish as you fall into yo r brook off your brookside and trown yourself in dose mill, odow I plow my vissil and call a polizeidiener.” It VU cruel of her to bavo changed her room without letting him know. —r-

•WAITING. 17b; stands that woman there to-nifht •Festh the lnouu orb'a silver sheen, With an anxious light in yet young eyes And hope In her eager mien? Are her thoughts above with the winking stars? Coca the moon flit her heart with awe? Ah. no. she's wilting there now for the son 01 her father and mother-in-law. YOU GREEN FOOD. ‘ Where are you g. ing, my on tty nmid?” ‘‘To milt old brindle. sir.” she said. “May 1 go, too. iny pretty maid?” ••The cow might cat you, Ur,” she said. A BRIEF WEDDING. Atlanta Const! tl. n. A certain Georgia editor, who is also a real estate agent, a building :;nd loan association director, an attorney at law, clerk of the town council and pastor of the village church, was recently asked to marry a couple. He was in a great hurry, and the couple surprised him in the m'dale of a heavy editorial on the tariff. “Time is money," said he, without looking up from his work. “Do you want her?" The man said yes. “And do you want him?" The girl stammered an affirmative. “Man and wife." cried the editor. • One dollar. Bring me a load of wood for it—one-third pine, balance oak."