Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1901 — An Easy Way to Tell. [ARTICLE]

An Easy Way to Tell.

A gentleman who was once being taken over an Insane asylum asked an attendant how they knew when an idiot was considered to be sufficiently restored to sanity to be discharged. “Oh,” said the attendant, “It Is easily managed. We take them Into n yard where there are several troughs. We turn on the taps and then give the idiots buckets to ball out the water and empty the troughs. Many of them keeps * balling away while the taps keeps running, but them that Isn’t ldiqts stops the tap.”