Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1905 — Greatest of All Idiots. [ARTICLE]

Greatest of All Idiots.

See the Practical Joker. He is not much of a sight, but still he is worth looking at as a Curiosity, as a Study in Uncommon Cussedness. The Practical Joker is the offspring of asiuinity run to seed. He is what was Left Over after the rest of the world was created. There was a Slight Surplus, a mere fraction, not enough to make a Complete Man, so the Scraps were scraped up, pressed together and molded into a Practical Joker. The Job was not patented. Nobody thinks enough of the invention to patent it. You couldn’t sell Practical Jokers for 3 cents a bunch if you should stand out on the corner of Fifth and Morrison streets and spiel till your vocal cords got tied into double bow-knots. The public is aware of the Shell Game when it sees the layout. The Practical Joker is an Escaped Idiot from the Idiotville Asylum, but he is by no means a harmless idiot. AY hen recognized he should he roped forthwith and hauled back to his native and natural environment, the Padded Cell.—Portland Oregonian.