Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — Not So Daft. [ARTICLE]

Not So Daft.

A poor man caled one day at a farmhouse while the good wife was dishing up a huge plate of dumplings. “I’ll bet thee a penny, mussus,” said he, “that I could eat thy dumplings, plate and all, for my dinner.” , “I’ll bet thee a penny thee can’t,” said the good wife. “I’ll bet thee I can,” again said Jock. “Then do It, Jock," said Mistress Hodge. Thus bidden, Jock threw his legs under the table, calmly devoured the contents of the plate, and, heaving a deep sigh, said: “Missus, I’ll hev to pay ’e the penny, after all, for I find that I can’t eat the plate.”—Pearson’s Weekly.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c. He Had Tasted It. “How do you nke thia soap?’ asked the barber, carefully depositing the brush in the patron’s mouth. “Some say it’s better than the last.” “That,* replied the customer, “is only a matter of taste.”—Philadelphia Tiecord. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is. an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.— N. W. Samuel; Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1900. The Mississippi River each year wash es away an alarming amount of shore, equal to ten square miles of territory 86 fee| ec PThirty minutes is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Sold by druggist*. It is frequently an excellent thing for the public to use • sponge on political slates. assssF The playwright is judged entirely by, tils act*.