Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — Estson’s Close Call. [ARTICLE]

Estson’s Close Call.

Had the King of Italy monkeyed with Edison’s telephone instead of his phonograph the chances are that we should be t short on the count. Just imagine him calling up the royal hand organ grinder and hearing a woman five miles away shout, “Well, I tried it on last night and it is entirely too short in the basque.” And lima comes the roar of a butcher: “Caii’t fill that order ’smorning; wo're all out of pigs’ feet.”—Now: York Herald.