Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — Two Sayings from Cork. [ARTICLE]

Two Sayings from Cork.

A Cork, town councillor la credited with having thus spoken C “There" can pe no doubt of the virulence of this epidemic, for I know of people lying dead from it who never died before.” The same gentleman thus chivalrously defended a colleague: “I strongly.protest against this attack on my absent friend, for surely it is not right to hang a man behind his back.” You have all read of the “girl whose thin nostrils dilated,” but -did you ever see a girl’s nostrils dilate? There la no hfgher pral& for a friend than to say that be Is faithful.