Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — What the Gun Was Good For. [ARTICLE]

What the Gun Was Good For.

Texas SlftlLgs. _ ■ “Yes, gentlemen,” said one of the few yet unboycotted liars of the Bohemian Club, as he finished a snipe-shooting story, “that was the most remarkable gun I ever saw. Wouldn’t take a thousand dollars for it.” ’Tt’s nothing to a gun I used to own,” said the champion prevaricator, walking up just then, “It was simply impossible for a bird to get away from that gun. It made the closest and most regular pattern you ever saw. I traded it for a fifty-acre lot/ J “To Dr. Carver, eh?” said the Other finished equivocator, sarcastically. ■ •• “No, to Jimpson, the big wholesale druggist. He used it to shoot holes in porous plasters fifty at a And then nothing could be heard except the scratching of the other man’s pen as he wrote out his resignation.

“Mamma,” asked Tommie, with much interest, “don’t men go to heaven?” “Why, of course they do,” replied mamma.” . * “Well, I’ve seen a good many pictures of angels,” said Tommie, “and I never saw a man among them. They’re are all women.” The testimonials which the mail brings in every day run thus: “Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup cured the baby of croup.” “It cured me of a most distressing cough;” or “it cured my little boy of sore throat.” “We could not do without it.” No, Minerva, the range of vision is not equipped with signt drafts.