Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — Warning to Pinchers. [ARTICLE]

Warning to Pinchers.

Court Circular. A dignitary of the church was dining out. Of the two ladies between whom he was seated the one on the right hand side was an intimate acquaintance, and noticing that her distinguished neighbor was silent and preoccupied said to him, sotto voce: “I am afraid you are not very well this evening; you do not seem in your usual spirits ” ‘‘Well,” said the dignitarv, “Pim in rather a nervous state of mind about my health, and have a sort of presentment that a serious illness is hanging over me. lam conscious of a peculiar numbness all over my right side, which seems to forbode an attack of paralysis.” His fair companion expressed her hope that such fears were ill founded. “Ah, no,” he replied, “I’m afraid there’s no doubt of ft, for I have been pinching my right leg all dinner time, and can elicit no responsive feeling whatever. The limb seems quite dead to ail feeling.” “Oh,” exolahmed the lady, briskly, and with an expression of intense relief on her face, “if that is all which troubles you, I think I can at once relieve your mind from anxiety, for the leg which you have been pinching all the evening is mine.”