Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — A Philadelphia House. [ARTICLE]

A Philadelphia House.

If anybody in Danbury is ’looking out for lodgings in Philadelphia to be occupied during the centennial exhibition I would advise him to hunt up the place mentioned in the following advertisement, which 1 cut from a Philadelphia paper: The upper part of a house to let containing threfi rooms, a cellar, kitchen and a back yard. I recommend this place because I can imagine nothing more interesting thpn a cellar on the third floor and a back yard which can be reached only through the fourth-story window. I ain going round to see that house the next time I visit Philadelphia, so that I can grasp the phenomenon better. I suppose they have the garret about eighty feet below the front pavement. The only explanation of the mystery that occurs to me is, that somebody has turned the house upside down and it stood upon its roof, while the back yard, having adhered to tne foundation wall, remains suspended in the air. It is going to be very enter taining to the hired girls who have to hang out fhq wash on the under side of that yard. They had better practice for a while on the flying-trapeze. —Max Adder, in Danbury News. ought to have money to lend pretty soon. The dividends due in the month of November and payable in Boston foot up $3,059,342, of which $924,145 , is in gold. This is comfortable. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. —What’s the use of telling an old maid to “ husband” her resources?