Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — A Cruel Hoax. [ARTICLE]

A Cruel Hoax.

Virginia City Chronicle Last evening, just before sundown, a gentleman, who was sitting by his window north B street, casually remarked. * “There goes the woman that George Brown’s dead gone on.” His wife who was in the back room getting supper ready, dropped a plate on the floor, stumbled over the baby apd ran like a quarter-horse to the window with: “What? where? Tell me, quick!” The one with the long cloak—just at the corner.” Then the women at the window said in tones of disgust: “Why, that’s Brown’s wife.” “Yes. exactly,” remarked the brutal husbanc, quietly. Then the disappointed women went back and got supper ready, but her usual sweet disposition was soured for the evening.

Over 20,000 car loads of live and dressed poultry are carried in to New York City yearly, and 16,000,000 dozens of eggs go to the same market. According to the best estimates, the United States produces 9,000,000.000 of eggs annually. This is a nice little item for the consideration of those who call the chicken business —egg raising—a small thing. A common pin is a very little thing, but a paper of pins is worth setting a price on: while tne manufacture or pins, like the production of eggs, is an industry worth the attention of men of ability and h« investment of, capital. *"• *TV