Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — Tired Turks. [ARTICLE]

Tired Turks.

The Turks who are on exhibition at the World’s Fair do not have a surfeit of the luxurious ease of which their nation is proverbially fond. They are employed most of the time carrying people about in palanquins, and sometimes the burden proves onerous. One who, with a companion, was thus transporting a corpulent woman was heard to murmt r: -Accursed am I, and I kick my bones - for the day that I first her.rd of Columbus.” !