Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1871 — Cutting off the Wrong Head. [ARTICLE]

Cutting off the Wrong Head.

An old farmer was out one fine day looking over his broad acres, with an ax on his shoulder, and a small dog at his heels. They espied a woodchuck. The dog gave chase and drove him into a stone wail, where action immediately commenced. The dog would draw the woodchuck partly out from the wall, and the woodchuck would take the dog back. The old gentleman’s sympathy getting high on the side of the dog, thought he would help him. So putting himself in position with ax above the dog, he waited lor the extraction *>f the woodchuck, when he would cut him down. So an opportunity offered, and the old man struck, but the woodchuck gathered up at the same time, took the dog in far enough to receive the blow, and the dog was killed on the spot. For years after, the old. gentleman in relating the story would always add.— “ And that dog don’t knp\y to-this day but what the woodchuck killed him.” The Chicago Silk House.— The largest American manufacturers of Sewing Silk and Machine Twist are Belling Bros, ift Co., the sales of whose wholesale houses at Chicago, New York and Cincinnati, extending throughout the Union, last year reached $750,000, the Chicago house, at 56 and 58 Wabash avenue, taking the lead. Purchasers should ask for Belding’a sewing £ilk, noted everywere for its superiority. John Y. Farwell & Co. have removed to their new store 106, 108, 110 and 112 Wabash avenue, Chicago, and are now opening the largest and most varied stock in the city.

Notwithstanding the Franco-Pruselan war has Interfered with the manufacture of kid gloves, the thorough acquaintance of John V. Farwell & Co. with the markets of Europe enables them to procure, at the lowest prices, kid gloves equal to any ever made jn Paris, which they now offer, in every variety, cheap to the trade. The Yodng Pilot (Chicago) for March Is fully up to the high standard of that new and successful magazine. The serial story, “My Uncle’s Watch,” is continued, the present Installment giving a fair example of William Everett's fascinating style. A poem, by Thomas Powell, “Picked Up Dinners” (not by*' 1 Willy Wisp”), and the other contributed papers, are possessed of more than ordinal y merit. The Young Pilot is admirably adapted for those who are neither very young nor very old, but nevertheless contains readingfor everybody, and is certain to meet with a continuation of the success it has Mready achieved, and which it has fairly earned, by the vain* of ita contents and the beauty of its appearance. •