Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — Which He Would Rather Have. [ARTICLE]

Which He Would Rather Have.

A Detroiter of liberal education has been greatly annoyed because his wife and other women are not better posted on history and other matters connected with the growth or welfare of the country. The other day he carried home a big history and handed it to his spouse with the remark: “There, Mary, I want you to commence git page one and see if you can't -learn something.” She agreed to become his pupil, and when he camd home to supper he found her reading away, hair down, slippers on, all the fires out but one, and no sign of supper. “ Why, how’s this?” he inquired; “are you sick?” “Sick! Mo.” “ Well, where’s my supper?” * “ I don’t know anything about your supper,” she replied as she settled back in her chair, “ but I can tell you all about the first discoveiy of Florida as straight as a string!” That history hasn’t .been opened since that evening.—Detroit Free Prems. —“ Neuralgia” is the charming name of a charming girl in Wales. Her mother found it on a medicine bottle and was captivated with its sweetness. So some young man is doomed to suffer neuralgia Of the heart. 1