Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — Thought He Knew. [ARTICLE]

Thought He Knew.

Of the stories of unsophisticated relatives on their first visit to their city cousins, and the mistakes they make, there is no end. The blunders of city visitors to the country are equally amusing, but do not so often get into print. ♦ Uncle Hiram, having accepted an invitation to spend the Christmas holidays in Chicago, had arrived. It was a bitterly cold morning, and Uncle Hiram, to whom the heating of a house byafurnaceln the basement was something entirely new, held his hands over the register in the floor, from which the heated air was coming up in gratifying volume. “Well,” he said, beaming with satisfaction, “it’s a wonder to me you get so much heat in a cold day like this, when everybody else is trying to keep his house warm!” “Why, where do you suppose it comes from, uncle?” asked his nephew. “Of course I don’t know exactly,” replied Uncle Hiram, “but I know how you get your water from the water works, and I’ve always had the idea that you got your fire from the fireworks.” —Youth’s Companion.