Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — A Local Boomer. [ARTICLE]

A Local Boomer.

Detroit Free Press. A well dressed man was walking along Jefferson avenue when a bool black tackled him. “Shine, sir?” asked the boy. “How much?” asked the gentleman, noticing that the youngster was a bright little fellow, who mighi prove interesting. “Ten cents.” “Isn’t that double price?* “You don’t live here do you? “No.” “That’s whqt I thought.” ’ “What difference does that make?’ “Five cents’ difference,” grinned the boy. “But you have no right to charge strangers more than olher people.” “That’s the rule of the business.’ ‘ What have you such a rule for?” “To incourage immergration.” The words came sq hard to the boy that the gentleman laughed al him. “How does it encourage immjgra tion?” he said. “Dead easy. You see, this is thi finest town on earth, and when a gent like you walks around with j ten-cent shine on his feet he feels sc good that he wants to buy the biggest horse and lot he can find ant settip down right away. See?" The gentleman saw—ten cents worth. A number of Paris policemen arc to visit London in order to studi the manner in which the street traf sic of the British metropoiiSTTs reg ulated. ~ ~ -q

One of thq absurdities of the timi is a dictionary of three or four hun dred pages, the size of a big thuml nail, inclosed in a case of aluminum silver or gold, and read by oceans o a magnifying lens let into the case