Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1879 — Cheap Elocution. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Elocution.

Yesterday forenoon, while a Detroit Justice of the Peace sat warming his feet by the stove, and his nose by a cigar, a etrang,er entered and presently inquired: Judge, how much will you charge me to read over about fifteen lines of printed matter from a book I have?” * * Why, can’t you read them ?” replied His Honor. “ I can; but I want to hear how the lines sound when read aloud. I’ll give you a quarter to read them to me.” “ All right.” replied the Justice —“ I can’t earn two- shillings .any. quicker^’A woman opened the door at that moment, and the stranger put down the book on the desk r clasped her hand, and said: ! “ Begin at the pencil-mark there, and read slowly.” " 1 His Honor’s chin, dropped exactly eighteen inches by dry measure as he saw that ( the reading matter was the usual form of marriage; but he didn’t back down from his word. It was the cheapest marriage he ever attended, aHd he didn’t haSfbjoy the, dhuckles of bride as they weht out — Deljrgit Free Press. . *• , .*-«A POOBdefiv»ry—Leaving a paekoge_ at the wrong house. .—tew* 1 A , deader in shoos—The woman who keeps hens.