Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — D fining a Jag. [ARTICLE]

D fining a Jag.

Philadelphia Record. The “jag” was only recently introduced into literature by the poets of “Vagabond!a,” and now it has 1 been brought into law. Councilman Lane, of Boston, lias demanded the institution of an official test to decide the precise status of a “jag." A policeman should certainly be tech, nically correct in the charge which he enters against a prisoner on the station blotter. By the initiated there are recognized several types of the genus “jag"—the simmering | “jag,” the picturesque “jag," and 1 the plain, unvarnished “jag," which I differs very little from what the DelI awareans term “a load of peaches.” Councilman Lane proposes a spelling test for cases of suspected “jag.” The Record suggests the pronounciation of that charming phrase, “truly rural.” r To keep cut glass sparkling wash in warm soapsuds and rinse in hot, not boiling water. Stahd in a pan of sawdust until dry and polish with a piece of chamois. Don t think it , too much trouble—you will be well paid..