Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — OUR PLEASURE CLUB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT. Puck.

Dunham —I have come to collect this bill. Office Boy—Don’t yer see the sign up? Dunham—That’s been up every day this week. When do you take it down? Office Boy—Sundays an’ holidays. Bell Boy—Dere 1 s a young couple on de piazzy as wants you to send ’em some chairs. ” Clerk —Is it bright moonlight? Bell Boy —Nope; dark. Clerk —Take them this chair. MISAPPLIED PRACTICE. Juflge.

Buttons —No game to-day, sir? Doctor —No, James, I didn’t kill a thing. Buttons —There was nine patients here to-day. You might better 'ave stayed at home, sir. “How is it with you?” asked the editor of a subscriber who was dying in arrears. “All looks bright before me,” gasped the subserber. “I thought so,” said the editor, “in about ten minutes you’ll see the blaze.”

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. —Pope. “I got tired of riding home in crowded cars, sol bought a bicycle.” “So you are going to ride home on that hereafter?” “Well, I don’t know. I got it only yesterday, and last night I rode home in an ambulance.”

A CLOSE SHAVE. Perspiration is now getting the drop on us. Forged notes can always be properly classed among the gilt-edged paper in a bank. Customer—Don't this shoe look a little small? Hastv Clerk —No, indeed. How could it when it fits your foot exactly? “Smith’s business is going along like clockwork.’.' “Pooh, his place is in the hands of a receiver." “That’s it, oeing wound up."