Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — A Cruel Joke. [ARTICLE]

A Cruel Joke.

The particulars of 'a' disgraceful 1 hoax perpetrated the other day at Alencon aregiven by a local-paper. A young clerk, in a notary’s office in that towfr took it iato his head to send a letter to tea SDQCh<backs in variour parts of the (country, whose addresses he had obtained 1 , requesting them to attend on a certain day at the

WffceMTttt tmptoyr *—■ Us y»fMftrfit atrwte named, when tbe first hunchback mode hi* appearanqe, tbe headof the flnH4va»Sm to be engaged* and W.wasgfbed W e A seat for a few minute*. The offat Hunchbacks then began to arrive to rapid succession. A second soon qntoced, .followed by a. third and a fourth. Tfaastyfaiahed clerk* could hardly keep theiroouartenancesas the four huntyihfttks glanced at each other suspiciously out tjf'ffre corners of the# eyes, and 'token, mg ftva--1 aoche of siic id Curt; hufrchbafikte descended on the office in a fatty* the powerfng. The clerks could not longer their gttfvity, and even tha-efitef clerk himself was quite unable to'criutrol his emotions. ; T]b% onlyaerioiis persons in the offle# 1 to^fo 1 the te» hobchbacks, who, seeing that there was a “ mystificattan r ” lost their Ajmpers, arid In stentorian Unusual noise,Bushed into tnqjfam and blinr at the top of, tfalftyolces, while the clerks were absolutely cfavulsi* with laughter. Paaoe being tofth dlfflcultv restored, the hunchbacks showed ffiele'tters they had received requesting tireir ptesence at the office. .‘Ttfft ooWryv with many qppiqgies, informed them that they SSSK&SmWHK!# covered would assuredly be dismissed. By latest accounts, fawpver, h 6 had%ot been detected, although 'the chief - clerk “ has suspicions. ''T-'PaUMall Gwtctte.

—You newer hear a woman sing\" I’m growing old,’! American, women never grow old. They are - oft J intimate' terms with Time, ana that susceptible veteran appears to find ♦*—l* ~1l l ‘] t " L that ha never moves- fast-enough to get out of their domphny: ’ J 10 J