Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1878 — One Cent on the Dollar. [ARTICLE]

One Cent on the Dollar.

As an illustration of the spirit of the times was the following little family scene, when a bright four-year-old little lady was imitating her elders by playing “making calls.” “Now, mamma, you be Mitheth Dones an’ I’ll be Mitheth Smith, an turn an mate you a tall.” Mamma—“Very well, Mrs. Smith, I’m glad to see you; how do you do, and how are the children?” Totty—“l’m twite well, I tank you, but the children has all dot the hoopin’ toss.” Mamma—“ I’m sorry to hear it. How many children have >ou, Mrs. Smith?” Tolly—“Ob, I has ten, an dey is a gate tyal to me wif my housekeepin’.” Mamma —“ They must be, indeed. But how does your husband, Mr. Smith, do?” Totty—“He’s very well, tank you: but he’s had bad bithnqss and he hath failed.” Mamma—“l’m sb sorry to hear that your husband has failed; "but you haven't lost everything, Mrs. Smith, lor j"Bee'Tou make—eaUs-in-yQHr-.Qwn' carriage.’’ Totty—“ Oh, yes. I teep my tarriage... We has paid one cent on a dollal and doze right on.”, The above is a fact. —Boston Commercial Bulletin.

—The Edenburg (Penn.) Herald relates a story about a commercial drummer from Pittsburgh, who, considerably under the influence of liquor, mistook his route and drove his team upon the trestle-work of the Edenburg, Summit & Clarion Railroad, supposing it to be the wagon load. The trestlebridge is sixty’feet up from the ground, and about the same length, but the horses made the crossing, feeling their way in the darkness, step by step, every foot striking a tie securely,. until the distance was traversed and they stood in safety on (he other side; ana just in the nick of time, too, as the night express came thundering by in five minuted after the team had left the track. .