Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — Sounds Funny to Hear- [ARTICLE]

Sounds Funny to Hear-

A young man who eats peas with his knife express wonder at the dexterity of a Chinaman with chos bticks. The father of six make fun of the father of one when he tells of the wonderful things it does and says. The gentleman who willingly war bles ballads at evening parties on the least provocation, criticise the raucui tones of his neighbor’s phonograph ' The youpg woman who wraps a rag around her finger so she won’t be asked to play commenting on the performance of those who are not sc full of tricks. A hen try to crow, a thin man sing a laughing tong, an old maid talk baby talk, an undertaker tell a joke, a farmer boy using slang for the first time, and a confirmed prevaricator trying to tell the truth. A man once asked Thackeray to lend him five shillings, which he would convert into £20,000. Asked how, he explained that he knew s young woman with £20,000 whom he knew would marry him if he asked her, but he had pawned his teeth, and wanted five shillings to redeem them, in order to propose effectively —T. P.’s Weekly.