Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Joke by Canada's Great Premier. [ARTICLE]

Joke by Canada's Great Premier.

Sir John Macdonald was at a reception In the West, and a bishop from Belgium was present As the party was being escorted a body of men inhighland costume, the foreign bishop, seeing the bare legs and .kilts, asked why these men were without, trousers. “It’s a local custom," gravely replied Sir John. “In some places people take off their hats as a mark of hofior todlstlnguished guests; here they they take off their trousers." "It’s hard to tell Just what the public wants," said the theater manager, with a sigh. "It hasn’t struck me that way,** replied the treasurer. “It seems painfully easy to me. In nine cases out or ten it wants its money back.”—-Wash-ington Star. The worst suspense in which the law can place a criminal is to hang him. j •... —. * W