Found in the Lowell Sun,| 1888-09-08

Job maintained that he was tried in every
possible way. .but then Job lived and died
before the fountain pen was invented.—

Yet again this is another little joke at the quirky fountain pens of the 1880's. The fountain pens of this time worked, but not well and not all the time. They needed a lot of extra care and cleaning to keep them going.