Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1879 — The Carriage Trick. [ARTICLE]

The Carriage Trick.

A certain builder of carriages made a practice of keeping a carriage on hand to palm off on the executors of deceased noblemen. It was a costly vehicle, handsomely fitted up. As soon as the death of a nobleman occurred, the carriage was decorated with the arms of the deceased in the best style of herald painting. With this preparation a letter was dispatched to the executors, respectfully inquiring when it would be convenient to remove tTie carriage which had been built according to the orders of his Lordship. It had been some time ready to be taken away, and the price was £l9O, or some such sum'. This unpleasant announcement usually led to a compromise. The carriage not being wanted, a sum of money was paid by the executors to take it off their hands.* This was precisely what was anticipated. The carriage was. now ready for a fresh start in plundering. The armorial arms were obliterated; and the panels were prepared to receive the heraldic blazonry of the next nobleman on whose executors the same trick could be played/off. Very clever this; but, like all rogueries, it was at length found out, and a loss of reputation ensued, What becamo of the’ carnage that had undergone so manv transformations wo know not. — Chambers'. Journal. Water containing animal matter is a deadly poison. By this cholera, typhoid fever and epidemic diseases are caused, . - -lowa State Register. ,