Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — Persiflage. [ARTICLE]

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“It is easier to raise a beard than to raise a dime,” said a young Oil Citizen who has stopped shaving. “A fraud in silks,” is the startling head line in an exchange. Ah! went back on you did she?—Rockland Courier. “We wish,” says a Texas newspaper, “that a few of our citizens could be Sermited to live till they die a natural eatb, so as to show the world what a healthy country Texas really is.” The Bloomington Eye heads its list of births, marriages, and deaths; — “Hatched, Matched, aud Dispatched.” “Half a loaf is better than none,” as the corner loafer said to the policeman, when told to move on. “How dare you swear before me?” asked a man of his son, recently. “How did I know you wanted to swear first?” said the spoiled urchin. Letter from a boy spending his vacation in the country: “We dug a woodchuck out of his hole; it was a skunk; we slept in the barn that night.” A woman was told to “make oath” in a New Haven court. She blushingly said “Damm it,” and protested against the regor of legal necessity. Formerly here were foolish virgins who had no oil; but now they are the foolish virgins who are too free with the kerosene.—Puck. tTHE Philadelphia Press reports that he Rev. A. A. Wlllits is a good shot and tells this story about him: A Quaker who met him as he returned from the field with his game bag well filled, said to him in an admonitory ‘‘Friend Wlllits. It seems to me a bird has a right to live till its time bakcome to die.” The doctor replied: r you a ft d 1 ‘‘P B * perfectly, for I find that generally when I get my gun trained on a bird his time to die has come.”

Read! f “Wen Jorg Washington wuz at Vale For < hiz troopz wurln ned ov kiothing and liker. It wuz vere kold wether and fu ov them had shuz on ther set. But Jorg Washington's kurig never laid, and at last Kongress sent him supliz, and he catcht the eneme feur to Nu Jerze, and wipt him at the batel ov Trenton.” That’ll do beys. -Run out new and play.— Philadelphia Bulletin.