Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — She Hit the Nail. [ARTICLE]

She Hit the Nail.

New York Sun. Mrs. Breezey (with hammer): “Well, I’ve hit the nail on the head at last Mr. Breezy: “Why do you put your finger in your mouth?” Mrs. Breezy. “That was the nail I .hit*” It is reported that in the last five years twenty-seven American girls have married Chinamen, and in only five cases have they lived with their yellow husbands beyond a few months. It has been prophesied that in .ten years’ time there will be more camphor trees than orange trees in Florida,and that the camphor producing industry in that state will become of great im pjrtance. Nearly thirty thousand violent or sudden deaths occur every year in England calling for inquests, twice as many as the number of Ge-mans killed in the Kranco-Gern -n war; and for every violent death there axe at least fifty accident*. — r: - . * ’