Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — His Experience with Sound. [ARTICLE]

His Experience with Sound.

The man with the piece of plaster across the bridge of his nose wasn’t going to say anything about It, but the young man on the opposite seat kept looking at him so steadily that he finally said: “Young man, do you know how fast sound travels?— ——_ ■

“No, sir,” was the reply. “Then you’d better git the figgers. Yesterday I called a man a liar. He was 200 feet away. I thought I’d have time to climb a fence before he could reach me, hut he was on to me with one on the nose before I could wink i„ree times. Sound, sir, travels at the rate of 2,000 feet a second, and don’t you never call a man a liar unless he’s at least a mile away and you’ve your runniu’ shoes on.” —Washington Post.