Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — A “Settler” for Mrs. X. [ARTICLE]

A “Settler” for Mrs. X.

The other day we overheard a table conversation substantially like this: “What, dear, you haven’t heard about it?” • ‘No, dearie, not a word." “Why, you see, Mrs. X (a very prominent lady) tried to get Mrs. Z’s (another prominent lady) cook away from her, and actually went to Mrs. Z’s house when Mrs. Z was away and offered the cook more money.” “My, my! What did Mrs. Z do about it?” “Well, the next time they met at a state dinner Mrs. Z didn’t notice her. Some one who sat between them said: “ ‘Mrs. Z, you know Mrs. X, do you not?’ “ ‘N-n-no,’ said Mrs. Z, ‘I beiievo not. She sometimes calls on my cook, I understand, but I believe we do not exchange—those courtesies. Waiter, another of the breadsticks, please.’ ” Washington Post. . George Johnson, of Utica, paid $1,20? for a trotting horse, and he hadn’t owned him a week when a rat frightened him so that he jumped and broke a leg. Tennyson, Darwin, Gladstone, Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe and Lord Houghton were born in the year 1809.