Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — Strictly Business. [ARTICLE]

Strictly Business.

“The graspiu’est man I ever kfiowed.” said Uncle Jerry Peebles, “was an old chap named Snoopins. Somebody told him once that when he breathed he took in oxygen and gave out carbon. He spent a whole day tryin’ to find out which of them two gases cost the most if you have to buy ’em. He wanted to know whether he was mukin' or losin’ money when he breathed.—Chicago Tribune.