Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

“Julius, did you see the Catskill Mountains?” “No,” rtnlied Sambo, thoughtfully, “but I’ve seen the cats kill mice.” We speak of distancesas“stone's throw” or “five minutes walk,” but in lowa they »ay: “within the bawl of a-'inule.” In a recent divorce case in California the husband exhibited a broken arm, a tarn ear, a lame leg and thirteen scars to prove that his wife hadn't tried to make home happy. “You go to Shecaggo, hey?” said a gentleman from Germany. “Veil, you pe bretty garful about dat water dare. KF yon dond vant to ket seek, you trinks none of dat vater dill you ket used to him.” —Ho cluster Democrat. I am willing to rock the baby while wiminen folks are biting soap; I am ready to kut rags to work into rag carpets; they kan keep me hunting hens' eggs, or picking green kurrants; or I will even dip kandles or kore apples for anas, but I won’t churu. —Josh Bitlings. Thns talks an old farmer abont his boys: From sixteen to twenty they know more than I did; fit thirty they were grilling to hear what I had to say; and at thirtyfive they askej my advice, and I think wheu they are sixty they will acknowledge that the old man did know something. \