Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — The Utility of a Head. [ARTICLE]

The Utility of a Head.

London Answers. The master of one of our village schools was examining some boys on a piece of poetry which he had given them to prepare the night before. They all said it excellently except a small boy at the bottom of the class. On being asked to say his lesson, he said, “I can’t remember it, sir." Master(in rage)—Why, what’s your head for? Boy—To keep my collar on, sir. In China the rolling of tea leaves is done by hand, but in India and Ceylon the European planters pre fer to employ machinery for the pur pose.