Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — Not a Grammarian. [ARTICLE]

Not a Grammarian.

Was.hir.gtßn Post. A certain Western Senator—whose name is not necessary for this story—had an apt illustration on his lip? the other day, and he would have given the Senate the benefit of it if he ho had not noticed Mr. Bland sitting on the Democratic side of the chamber. The Senator had been criticising the language of the seigniorage bill. Mr. Bland is the author of that bill and is from Missouri. “I wanted to tell the Senate,”,said this Western Senator, “of the story of two men who were discussing an article one of them had read. After one,man had criticised it pretty freely, he turned to the other and said: 'Are you a grammarian ?3 “ ‘Heavens, no,” was the reply. ‘I am a Missourian!' “I think that story would have been appropriate to the Bland bill,” said the Senator, but I really did not like to get it off while Mr. Bland was within the sound of my voice.”