Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — Spicy Siftings. [ARTICLE]

Spicy Siftings.

The orator who “waxed” Eloquent was arrested for assault and battery. When a physician has cured a singer of hoarseness he sends in a bill oi in-voice. Though some of our colleges are very old, they are still in possession of their faculties. Circumstances may make men, but one man isglt a circumstance to another, frequently. After being married and given in marri ige it becomes a question which shall be givin 1 in. The old Greek philosophers as actors didn’t draw well. One of the wisest o) them could only Plato small houses. Elderly classical husbands, to their wives, previous to visiting their barber: “Men about to die salute you.” A man arrested for stealing a helmet from the property room of a tbealei said he was only taking a knight cap before going to bed. A young negro in good health was worth about SI,OOO in the latter days of slavery.