Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — Partial Success. [ARTICLE]

Partial Success.

Indianapolis Journal. “I thought I had hit on a great scheme not long ago,” said the fat man. “What was it?” asked the man with the straw-colored vest. ’’Why a feller down in the country had occasion to send me $35 by mail. Now, you know’ it is a well-known fact that money can be detected in an envelope by the smell. So I wrote to him to perfume the letter inorder that’the scent of the money could not be noticed. ” - *‘Um. How did it work?” “Oh. the letter got through all right, but the idiot addressed it to the house. And the letter being scented my wife opened it and only got sls out of the $35.”