Show HUMORS OF RENT collecting seeming proof that stern gatherer of landlords tribute may be human after all AH A bostc tonian isn owning housea in a neighboring city received the following stately setter from the collector of 0 rents we publish it to show that a collector may be inexorable yet have a vein of humor in hs his iron constitution the letter was written in janu ary the soil pipe water pipes find and other apparatus in the cellar of the old homestead are in their usual lil hibernal bernal state frozen stiff so lemuel re reports portz and adds that he offered to contribute to bill 11 ton of coal for the furnace to generate a little warmth and partially overcome the deadly adly chill of that subterraneous space and dill tells me that lemuel is a cheerful liar itar and made no such offer and so I 1 tell both what ilat the other says find and I 1 leave I 1 c ave them to fig ficht lit it out impressing on them ho howler weNer that the rent be forthcoming just the same |