Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — Hasn’t Taken It Off Yet. [ARTICLE]

Hasn’t Taken It Off Yet.

When a man gets the best of a bargain it is only natural that he should wish to remain in that happy frame of mind occasioned by the transaction. And it requires strategy—cool, subtle cunning—to wrest his gains, ill-gotton or otherwise, from his grasp or make him square the account. Honest, upright dealing hoodoos the under man as the following incident will show. Two old men have lived in the same neighborhood on the South side for fifteen years. One of the old men has been in the grocery business all that time and the other was his constant customer for years. But one day, how* ever, the customer, who is living on the interest of his money, came in and| ordered two pounds of cheese, which the grocer cut off. The lump weighed’ a trifle over two pounds and, as the grocer wrapped it up, he jokingly re» marked: 1 “Oh, ril just take that off the next 1 time.” This happened eight yean and; the customer hasn’t bdfen back since.— Chicago Times. The Queen loves dogs, and lots of) them. Recently about thirty of the, royal canines bi the royal kennels atl Windsor Castle were photographed. The animals are Pomeranians, collies, fox-terriers, and dachshunds.