Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — No Cause for Alarm. [ARTICLE]

No Cause for Alarm.

The English H is the father of countless jokes. We borrow one of the youngest from an exchange. A pew-opener in England greatly astonished a group of women who were constructing evergreen mottoes and wreaths for a Christmas celebration by announcing that she had found “a stray hen a-laylng in the pulpit.” Their excitement was calmed when she produced a large green N which had strayed from some text or legend. The natives of Palestine have a ket-tle-drum, the body being made of pottery and the head covered with parchment It Is provided with a cord and is borne in festal processions.