Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — Chips for the Children. [ARTICLE]

Chips for the Children.

Willie asked his mother Where the stars came from. Her reply was: “My son, Ido not know.” “Well, I do,” ho said; “the moon laid’em.” I A little boy was one day asked by a clergyman if he knew what an implicit, child-like faith was. He thought he did... Being asked to describe It, after this king a momen the said : “When my mother says a thing is so, I must believe it is 'so, if it ain’t so. A little girl visiting the country, and for the first time witnessed the operation of milking. Waching tj>e proceedings intently for a while, she inspected the cow minutely, and then launched this poser: “Where do they putit in?” A fashionable visitor thus addressed a little girl; “How do you do, my little dear?” Very well, I thank you.” she replred. The visitor then added: “Now, my dear, you must ask me how Ido ” The child honestly replied, I don’t want to know.” A little girl nbout four years old and a little boy about six had "been cautioned not to take away the nest egg; but one morning when they went for the eggs the girl took it and started forthe house. Her disapoi tried brothel followeed, crying: “Mother, mother, Busey’ got the egg the old hen meas ures by!” , The colored peoplo of Indiana are circulating a petition, asking the Goveroor to pardon William Nelson, colored, now confined ia the penitentiary . for marrying a whit ? woman. As the petition says, the law under which he is confined is utterly “at variance with the genius of eur free institutions.”