Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1899 — Editing a Smooth-bore. [ARTICLE]

Editing a Smooth-bore.

A traveling man at Hotel McCuaig was telling the other evening of an experience he had on the main street of Rensselaer last fall. He said he was picking his* way along the side of the street when he noticed, as he thought a good hat in the middle of the street. He went to pick it np and was snrpiised to find a man’s head under it. The man was into mad up to his ears, but the real surprise was to come, when be offered the man his assistance and he answered, “I’m all right: I’m on horseback.” — Monticello Journal. The above is a very old fake that has done service a thousand times in a thousand different places. It may be paralleled however by an actual occurence in Monticello a few months ago. A stranger was toiling his weary way across one of the main streets, and seeing a block of basswood sticking up above the muddy surface, he stepped on it a-moment to take a breath, when the block began to shake, and a voice from below croaked out: “Getoff from my head, up there” “Who are you and what are you doing down there,” said the astonished stranger? “I am the editor of the Monticello Journal,” came np the answer, “and I am getting ammunition for my next issue of the Smooth-bore.”