Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1875 — Young American Wonders. [ARTICLE]

Young American Wonders.

I wonder what makes papa tell such nice stories to visitors about his hiding his master’s rattan when he went to school, and about his running away from the schoolmistress when she was going to whip him, and then shut me up all day in a dark room I ecause I tried just once ot be as smart as lie was! Wonder what made papa say that wicked word when Betsey upset the ink all over his pajiers, and then slapped my ears because I said thf same thing w’hen my kite-string broke! Wonder why mamma told Bridget the other day to sgy she was not at home when Tommy Day’s mother called, and then puts me to bed without any supper everytime 1 tell a lie!. The celebrated Sutro tunnel in Nevada reached a length of exactly 10,000 feet JulyL