Indiana Progress in Indiana, Pennsylvania

Anecdotes and Laughs from an Old Clubroom

A pack of short, humorous passages and sketches gather in this column, including a child’s bed time riddle about stars, a frontier insurance joke, a New York legislature election tale, a French widow’s quip on loss, a Boston photograph gag, a Dutch and French voting jab, Judge P's sharp retort, Sheridan’s barb about a knave, and Jerrold’s toast amid a raucous club brawl with spittoons called for two.